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New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced
An anonymous reader writes "The Sci-Fi Channel's hit series Battlestar Galactica may soon be joined by a 50-year-prior prequel series, called Caprica. To be co-exec produced by Ron Moore and David Eick, the new series will follow the tale of the creation of the Cylons."
So how long till they introduce klingons and upset people. Will fred flinston travel in time and end up there?
Will people curse the lame theme song, and then demand the series be saved later on?
And most importantly, who will be introduced as the newest Sci Fi hot chick.
At any rate, maybe this will be good, cause there is a lot to be explained
If it's anything like the "re-imagining" of this show, count me out. No idea why so many people fall for this show. The new BG is below par in just about every aspect of production. Bad casting choices, terrible acting, cheesy sets, barely acceptable lighting, herky-jerky camera work, exceedingly shallow politically correct plotlines and characters, not to mention the barely concealed pro-USA anti-terrorism propaganda agenda in the writing. The only thing this show has going for it is some nice CG effects, but those are usually cut together in such an amatuer, MTV-style fashion that the viewer never really gets a chance to become immersed in any of the shots. Sometimes episodes have no space battles or spaceflight of any kind, and the show devolves into nothing more than a soap opera on the bridge of a spaceship. If the original plan to do a continuation of the original series created by Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto had gone forward, the show, and subsequent spin-offs probably would have been very watchable and entertaining. As it is now, the show has no soul, because it's nothing more than a hijack of someone else's great concept.
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They destroyed the PREMISE of firestarter, and they did it with battlestar! The role of starbuck was BUILT for dirk benedict! And they STILL have a WOMAN playing his part! And the cylons were built by ALIENS! Caprica did NOT build them. The VERY FIRST episode of battlestar said that! So that channel plans to build a WHOLE SERIES on a LIE, etc...
It makes me doubt the documentaries even MORE than I did! Are THEY intentionally flawed for no reason ALSO? It is bad enough that biases, egos, and motives taint them. Are we now to doubt them even if no reason exists?
Steve