Farscape

That was, uh-

Kind of reminded me of Moya from, uh, Farscape.

Yeah, well, we'll get into it.

No, so today, uh, so that was, uh, Johnny and Jeremy respectively, but again, this is the second to trilogy, so if you did not read the first one or listen to us talk about the first one, you gotta do that 'cause otherwise you're gonna be a little lost.

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Lando is stuck inside Moya from Farscape, uh, after like, you know, losing contact with the rest of the New Republic, uh, people that he was out there with, with Lobot, R2, and C-3PO.

He's yelling most of the time.

Like, I just weep for what our culture could have been had he not passed away.

The Overton window of accepting weird avant-garde strange art that our culture could have been, uh, you know, and how it could have evolved what the median person thinks is, you know, acceptable, interesting, uh, standard piece of entertainment, you know? Like, our, our world is so much dimmer because they stopped at fucking Farscape or whatever, you know? Not that they stopped.

They still make things, but you know what I mean.

Like, I don't think he was even involved in Farscape, but you, you know what I'm saying.

Like-

That was, that was, that was firmly a Brian Henson joint.

He just suddenly died.

Um, so the, the Henson family, you know, they try to move on.

And so many of my friends are like the top showrunners, like Rockne O'Bannon, who I'm partnered with on one of the shows.

He created Farscape and Defiance and Alienation and Sequest.

And most recently, he was executive producer on Evil.

And, you know, this is the guy that you want to say, okay, what do you want to create? Not some network executive, because this is the guy who's going to come up with something wonderful.

But you just extrapolate beyond that to tell a meaningful story.

And so it's not hard.

When I talked to Rockne O'Bannon, who created Farscape, and I said, let's create a show together.

He said, well, how do you want to do it? I said, okay, I'll generate some ideas, and then you can go down them and see what sparks for you, and we'll talk.

Yeah.

He's like, uh, I, I don't know, like Rigel from "Farscape" maybe.

Okay.

Sure.

He's got a Kickstarter campaign that he just started called The Showrunners Network.

This is a creator-owned production company bringing six original projects to audiences with collaborators like Rockne O'Bannon of Farscape.

And Mark Fergus, Chris Wyatt, Ian McCraig, Armin Shimmerman, of course, from Star Trek, and lots of other Star Trek alumni.

So really interesting conversation.

And so there's all these great shows that you never got to see.

So many of my friends are the creators of some of the shows that you did get to see, like The Expanse, or my friend Mark Ferguson, who was a showrunner on, well, he was the showrunner on The Expanse.

Rockne O'Bannon created Farscape, Defiance, Alien Nation, Sequest, you know most recently he was executive producer on evil um my friend my friend chris wyatt produced napoleon dynamite now he's a showrunner in television and it's sort of like okay and i know a ton of actors from shows i worked on like doug jones and uh bob picardo and james hong and francois chow from the expanse and on and on and on and uh and so i thought well let's just you know raise money pull it together start making tv shows and movies so the showrunners network is a slate of five two-hour science fiction pilots and one feature and we've created a repertory company of actors who appear in multiple roles in the different shows and so we got barbara bain who's from space 1999 and mission impossible she's 95 but she's still a pistol she's great wow and uh and so it gives me an opportunity to work with phenomenal actors and uh And my wife and I write and produce and direct together.

And it's just a dream come true.

It's just, but it really told good storyline.

And Farscape is another one that

I

keep thinking about of, like, Farscape could be wildly uneven, but when it was good, it was great.

And when it was fun, it was it was hysterically fun.

It was just like, are you they're doing what now? Like and doing some really wackadoo stuff.

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