Why such theft?
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RockinRickyRialto — 11 years ago(August 11, 2014 06:47 PM)
thunderokc, apparently.
The simple fact is, producers and stars have said multiple times that Farscape wouldn't have had its incredible level of production quality if not for the financial incentives of shooting in Australia at the time. Not only did keeping a manageable budget allow for so many incredible alien worlds, but also gave them the liberty to hire the talent who best fit the roles.
If it had been made in America, we might be looking at Farscape with Lorenzo Lamas.
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mpadpy — 10 years ago(May 28, 2015 02:06 AM)
Puppets win out over CGI everytime. You dont notice it unless they are compared side by side. Which they did in the last season. Although for things like talking and actions CGI feel smoother and more natural, the acting and feel for the show is much better with puppets. For the longest time I had no idea that pilot was a puppet, I think it was chewie in a costume working for some extra credits in between his star wars scenes.
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scubadivergeek — 10 years ago(September 05, 2015 02:16 PM)
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If it had been made in America, we might be looking at Farscape with Lorenzo Lamas. >>
With a bunch of worthless American bimbo actresses playing the female characters. Maybe you could have gotten Jessica Alba (who in 1999 wasn't nearly as famous as she is now) to playwho? Maybe Jool or Chiana, but everyone else would be played by chicks who barely have the requisite talents needed to be a Playboy centerfold.
(Oh, and I bring up Jessica Alba deliberately, because the first time I ever saw her was on the 90's version of Flipper, which was also shot in Australia, and on which both Lani Tupu and Virginia Hey both guested, and one of the other regulars on the show, Anja Coleby also guested on Farscapeprobably other actors and probably crew too overlapping between the two shows)
And I agree, Jim Henson Workshop puppetry beats anything you could do with a laptop. Period. The only people who think CGI would have looked better are those who are "too young to remember" Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, or any of the Ray Harryhausen movies. -
!!!deleted!!! (19664510) — 9 years ago(May 07, 2016 04:02 PM)
Why such theft?
There was no theft.
Farscape was suppose to be made in America.
No, it wasn'tand it's "supposed," not "suppose." Your sentence makes no sense.
Why did Australia take it?!
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snoho — 9 years ago(June 16, 2016 10:04 AM)
I can't imagine this show without Claudia Black. And they already had a ridiculously tight budget so filming in the US would've been disaster.
Plus it's not as if a lot of American productions aren't shot in other countries anyway. The X-Files was shot in Canada and the locations fitted the aesthetic of the show much more than LA did (where they moved to in Season 7 I think?). Farscape was about an American experiencing foreign cultures anyway so shooting in a different country was quite fitting (I think Ben Browder said this in one of his commentaries too).