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A Battlestar Galactica Prequel Series on the Way
kumasame writes "The Sci Fi Channel has announced it will create a prequel to Battlestar Galactica, as the series enters its final season. The two-hour pilot for the production, called Caprica, is expected to be shot in Vancouver this spring with shooting for the series to follow. The first episodes are expected to air this fall. In a Q&A session held yesterday, the creators and stars of the show revealed a number of tidbits of information about the new show and last season of BSG."
Just in case you haven't seen the complete last series, there are some major spoilers in the linked article.
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I tried to watch this series once. I never really got into it (though I dont watch too much tv). I do however have friends who are big into it. I think its great that there working on a 4th series. Hopefully it will be as good as the first 3... or at least as good as I am told the first 3 are.
The miniseries and first season of BSG was probably the best science fiction even made for television. But it has declined significantly in quality since then. I'm actually glad this is the last season of the show (since it allows them to give a definite conclusion to the series before it declines even more, and gives them a focus that they lacked in season 3). Making follow-up movies or series is a mistake, and it would only tarnish the name of a once-brilliant series.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
How Starbuck became Darth Vader.
That explains so much...
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It was also the first serious attempt to deal with 9-11 that anyone had done up to that point, and it was absolutely gut-wrenching. The idea of tying the premise of a fairly cheesy 70's TV series into 9-11 now seems so obvious, yet who would have thought of it at the time? There is no way you could have made this remake at any other time, or gave it that kind of brutal impact. The shot of those nuclear explosions blanketing Caprica left me just stunned. And seeing that Raptor lifting off and leaving Helo behind was heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time.
And, amazingly, it got even better in the first season.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
because the show jumped the shark in the third season killing off Starbuck only to show her coming back next season.
Really, I was enjoying the show very well until deep into the third we had four lead character singing that damn song and Starbuck dieing and coming back.
Caprica - subtitled "Oops, sorry 'bout that"
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Okay, so the 1980's redo and this show aren't exactly the same, but come on, if a land-based show failed the first time, why do it again?
For the same reason, when people ask me if I've watched the new Knight Rider, I reply, "No. I already saw Knight Rider 2000 and Viper"
I think that a lot of the backlash against BSG in the last season was the product of the discomfort a lot of us geeks have toward religion being mixed into our scifi. I think that BSG's main mistake, if I can call it that, is being off the air for so long between seasons. It really breaks up the narrative flow and serves to make us effectively forget what the cliffhangars from the previous season were.
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... you RTFA u find a spoiler in the article.... lol... Was it just me who read the title as Crapica?
Y'know, so we can get warned for spoilers and then choose not to read TFA.
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The should call it Deep Shark Nine. I think this is all about being able to go back to the "pretty" coiffured models and the sexy hijinks and away for the ragged, poorly bathed cylons.
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And in this post as well: Six kills Dumbledore.
I really hope they address the creation of the cylons or at least how they came to the conclusion that humans should be exterminated. I would find that plot intriguing. Also, the hiring of more leggy and busty actresses would help, too. ;-)
I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
I *knew* Hillary was a cylon!
The premise of the show was brilliant, the first season was great, and then I surmised that ALL of the characters might as well be Cylons. They weren't, but what if all the characters I enjoyed watching were? The show took on a new and less dramatic meaning, and I quit watching the show.
The "Who's a Cylon?" question just ran out of steam for me.
The Caprica series will most likely have guest appearances or more by the actors who played the Cylons, only this time you might assume they're the humans the Cylon models were based upon. I get that as part of the appeal. I wish 'em the best, as good SciFi that's _not_ been turned into a soap opera is hard to come by, as noticed here:
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/special-reports/other-reports/e3id1035c8742af5f4e733f9d304726b671
RedLasso has a video clip of last night's David Letterman's top ten (3/19/2008). It shows the ten cast members in their show outfits. Each one said a reason. Seen on SciFi. Here's the text version if you don't want to watch the video clip.
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If their goal was to create a parable based on 9-11 topics, then they did a really bad job at it or perhaps they changed their minds. If their goal was to drum up some hype from sources that would otherwise completely ignore a scifi show, well mission accomplished there.
We get to meet Bob Cylon.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Goatse isn't that bad. It's much less obnoxious than the Pain Series.
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It will be great to see the Galactica back in the days when it was shiny and new. The only lack of suspense here is that it will never be under true threat of destruction, since we know it survives 50 years into the future. Bit of a problem there in making a tight, edge of your seat, drama.
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It jumped the shark for me when they did the flash forward and Apollo donned the fat suit, Admiral Adama and Starbuck grew some extra hair, then in one or two episodes and 5 minutes on a treadmill and everyone was back to their normal appearance. It wasn't just the appearances, it just felt too contrived, too many characters behaved out of character to make that flash forward work. Tack on a bunch of really lame pointless standalone eps (boxing anyone?). Plus characters doing extraordinarily lame(traitorous) things without consequence (Helo sabotaging the bio weapon).
Zero to do with religion. As others have pointed out, religion was heavy from day one and IMO is a draw for those of us that like unfolding mythology.
In the first two seasons of BSG I told everyone it was the best show on TV. I don't even talk about it anymore. Hope it ends with ideas unlike waste of time that was season 3.
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what was the point of that?
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the article says it will follow two families, the Adamas and the Greystones.
who are the Greystones?
I'm excited as Hell for the BSG story to continue, but I'm worried that it'll just be a cheesy spin-off like Stargate Atlantis. Apparently I'm glad I didn't read the article before the comments
"misunderestimated me" comes to mind...
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fondled/caressed/gaw-gawed over/under the Cylon Raider Tyrol was figuring out? She was humming a nursery/lullaby-like tune. Maybe she was activating on another phase/level.
I hope not everyone is a Cylon, though. It could get messy if they all start acting like ass-swishy Kirk when Janice Lester body-jacked him. Imagine Adama filing his nails, and Sharon taking on a deep-toned voice...
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a damned disclaimer. Every era's populace has its hardier, take-no-bullshit-just-cuz-they're-in-power types. Should the Boston Tea Party be apologized for? Maybe not against the government, but definitely it should apologize to the indigenous peoples.
The French Resistance had its element. Hell, some might say David Koresh and Randy Weaver at some point stood up for "right", despite their ideological issues/failings. Heck, Harriet Tubman and others might have been labeled as terrorists.
As far as I'm concerned, Terrorism is the result when those controlling seats at the negotiating table flat out refuse to address the grievances of those marginalized.
We only have this "experiment", the USA, because multiple boatloads of our ancestors were to feeble, too feckless, to chickenshit to behead their own corrupt monarchy. Had they had the intestinal fortitude to say "ENOUGH, BITCH, you're THROUGH! DOWN WITH YOU!" then the world might be a different place. There might not have been slavery propagated to the North American continent. Chinese might have been spared the Boxer Rebellions. Japan might have been spared Commodore Perry, and might not have been spooked by the growing, threatening, looming USA. Vietnam might have not been colonized by the French. We could probably go on and on, but had the English/British embraced a little good ole domestic TERRORISM, a LOT of shit would likely never have happened for the worse.
Yeah, I know hindsight is 20/20.
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...they always seem to have better tech and more contemporary fashion than the time era that then follows?
Hopefully they can save their pennies and get a dolly for their camera, and maybe a steadycam, and do away with that trendy, cheesy, nauseautingly fake shakey-cam effect they used in the last series. I couldn't watch it because of that. Producers/Directors: It does *not* add to the realism, it's just distracting from the art you're supposed to be producing. Ten years from now, shakey-cam produced content will look dated and will *not* be timeless. Create better compelling content, don't just shake and zoom in and out to simulate what a human might see if they were there.
(A real person's brain synchronizes interpreting their vision with their head/eye movements, so looking around isn't disconcerting; a video of a fakey shakeyzoomcam does *not* achieve that realism, and it's *way* overused.)
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I like Josh Whedon's analogy (at least I think it was him) about BSG, that it's like they took a canvas high-top and made it into an Air Jordan.
BSG sucks big time. It has a very narrow focus, that of 11 of September of 2001. Star Trek - The Next Generation had a very wide focus, where terrorism was just one episode. Furthermore, BSG is not sci-fi. Just because it shows spaceships and explosions does not make it sci-fi. It's a soap opera disguised as sci-fi.
The original BSG is much more respectable, even if it's much cheesier. The original was simple entertainment for the family; it did not claim to have any connections with reality. And it was even more sci-fi than the new BSG because of its connection to Fon Daineken's 'chariots of the gods' that was so prevalent in the 70s. At least it excited the imagination about Humans having spread to the stars, about ancient civilizations etc. The new BSG does nothing at all from this perspective.
Wah? Starbuck is a woman? There were nuclear explosions on Caprica? Helo was left behind?
Way to ruin it for me, lameass!