They canceled Farscape when it was 1st airing as it is. That is when I 1st realized Sci-Fi didn’t really care about science fiction. Now, SyFy doesn’t care AT ALL about science fiction.
While I agree with you calling “SyFy” the Science Fiction channel is a joke anymore... try to find something worth a damn on it.. its all horror or vampire movies or crap.. with the exception of course of hours and hours of Star Trek Enterprise (the crapfest of the Star Trek franchise) on.
However I don’t know if I disagree with the call to end FarScape.. don’t get me wrong this is a great Science Fiction Series, probably as seminal a series as any ever made, at least in the US. However, this was also a show, where if you missed an episode or two, you were completely lost... and if you were a new viewer trying to jump in in a later season, you could almost forget about it. This did hinder this show’s ability to draw audience in the later seasons. This constantly evolving plot, made for a great story, but it also hindered the viability of the show.
It was highly serialized, watching the episodes, in order mattered, you couldn’t miss or jump in the middle without getting confused.
I personally wish they hadn’t cancelled the show and had the final season instead of the movie to wrap it all up, but at least they did indeed wrap it all up.. which is better than most Sci Fi gets.
I understand the cancelling of this show, far more than I will EVER understand the cancelling of Firefly. You want to get upset about a network not giving a truly amazing Science Fiction program a chance, the decision to cancel this show will never ever make any sort of sense.