Regarding the "production quality" of the TV commercial: it's been greatly compressed for easy downloading and video streaming over the web, which also greatly reduces quality. It's also *supposed* to look like a grassroots effort, not like the product of a Hollywood advertising agency.

Oh, and to look at the logical end-result of the ongoing argument, where the Skiffy Channel changes its slogan to "Where Bad TV and Movies Go To Die":

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article/327.html

I hate to say it, but buying ads, sending petitions, and doing any number of seemingly rational things to convince the Skiffy Channel to bring "Farscape" back won't do a damn bit of good. It's not just the fact that SCI FI would rather throw good money after bad to resurrect sloppy seconds that were cancelled after their parent stations finally gave up (look at the lineup of "Mystery Science Theater 3000", "Sliders", "Good vs. Evil", "Lexx", "The Outer Limits", and "Stargate SG-1", with "Withcblade" being the latest acquisition to the SCI FI Prime Wall of Shame), or that the current problems with "Farscape" ratings lie almost solely with programming idiots who wouldn't leave the show on one day and time. The fact is that the Channel is inundated with any number of geeks who have nothing better to do with their time than flood the Channel with petitions to bring back or relaunch something or another. After a while, the signal-to-noise ratio gets to be ridiculous, especially when you get just as many screaming fanatics making death threats because Skiffy won't get going on that "Battlestar Galactica" telemovie (insert Sideshow Bob groan here) as for "Farscape".

The solution? Convince another channel to take "Farscape" and run with it. I don't think it'll happen (I dealt with the slobs at USA Networks a few times when I worked on the Channel magazine, and you've never met such a gaggle of lazy slobs so cheap that they'd use both sides of the toilet paper), but it's better than continuing to antagonize a hierarchy that assumes that running the fiftieth rerun of "Waterworld" and "Wing Commander" is a reasonable and more affordable substitute.

I quite agree, I've seen way slicker fanfilms and "switch" parodies. ("Mac has great games, like Warcraft, and...Photoshop").

Also, it looked like the usual bunch of Star Wars lineup types. Not that I have anything against them, I'm a geek myself, but I'll be the first to admit that I'm not going to sway anyone using a visual medium. :)

(and before you Mac guys flame me, that quote above is from a parody at Drunk Gamers (here's the mirror), and a very funny one at that. And I own an iBook, so I'm just as guilty as anyone else.)

Not to diss the campaign, but damn, the production value on those commercials sucked!