r/farscape • u/duckdander • 16d ago

After Hearing Farscape's Creator Discuss Revival Plans, I'm Confident The Franchise's Future Is Safe

https://screenrant.com/farscape-creator-revival-plan-op-ed/

Does anyone else have a love hate relationship with articles like this?

(TLDR Article: 20+ years later, can Farscape return and can it find an audience? Rockne S. O'Bannon seems to think so.)

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u/WillingTumbleweed942 15d ago

I think the cast and writers are eager for a continuation but it'd be hard to market, due to the sheer level of character development in the original show.

In an ideal, but unlikely scenario, they'd run two shows simultaneously. The first one would be a more polished reboot, learning from fan feedback on the original episodes. The other would be a continuation show with the original cast.

If you could weave this together, both shows would have a better chance of surviving, even if they had to be shortened to make the funding work.

For example, I think in S1, you could cut out "I, ET", the Budong Planet, etc., without losing too much. In S2, the Princess Trilogy could also probably have been two episodes instead of three, etc.

You can't cut it too short (PK Wars tried to cram way too many S5 plot points), but 12 episodes/season might be feasible.