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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."
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"
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
One other thing that I've been wondering about. If the Chief is a cylon, is his new wife a cylon? If not then they also have a cylon/human hybrid.
And also, who tipped off that there were 12 models?
But...
Remember how the cylons keep saying that all this has happened before? Maybe the cylons are trying to figure out what happened/ where they could have done better and this is all a cylon simulation. Everything. The cylons recreated people from the past (all cylon) programed to be those real people. So the entire series is a simulation of past events.
I gonna get so flamed for this...
Good point. This whole "they are among us" hysteria isn't just limited to 9-11.
People in general (especially teenagers) just tend to be self centered and
think that they are the only people since the beginning of time that have
ever "suffered" in the same way. As far as the WWII connection goes, there
were concentration camps set up in the US to deal with the whole "they are
among us" hysteria. Just ask George Takei.
We need a spoof where communist pod people start replacing Cylons...
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I think the unsettling part of BSG's dealings with religion lie in the context of the show. Religion on B5 never seemed as nefarious as is does on BSG. It was more of quirky thing, to give each race character. In BSG you have a full blown clash of the civilizations: monotheists versus heathens. That can get pretty touchy and hit a little too close to home. In many ways that makes the show more effective, because the religion aspect is a lot more touchy. In B5 you never got the feeling that the Vorlons and Shadows were fighting for their God's, or because of any real differences other than this ancient conflict between "good" and "evil", "chaos" and "order". With BSG I can't help but be a little creeped out when the cylons ramble on about God's will. B5 was a great show, but I think it dealt with religion and prophesy in a fundamentally different, and safer, way.
I've been thinking that since the mini-series. I can't wait until the end of this series to see if they rebuild Caprica again.
I'm hoping that the end-goal of the hypothetical simulation is to find earth. Lets say that maybe this series _does_ have a tie into the original series: The humans in the original series escaped and found earth, but only a few Cylons followed. Now, the Cylons don't know how to get to Earth, so they decide to make similar cylon-humans to try and do it for them (then fake-chase them to make them desire to reach Earth).
Yes, but then again, is this far from real life? Warmongering goes on, and the warmongers don't get punished. Ethnic cleansing gets swept under the rug. The inequity of classes goes ignored, unnoticed, and unresolved.
On the other hand, I think the series was at its best when it wasn't dealing with the Cylons and science-fiction sorts of things, but rather when it was dealing specifically with social problems within the fleet. I remember early on there was a conflict regarding a girl who wanted an abortion. Beyond our normal social conflicts about this, there was the additional complication that there are only 50,000 humans left in existence. They've done this sort of thing repeatedly, dealing with crime and the black market, terrorism, and other problems that really have nothing to do with robots pretending to be human.
This is what has made the show great, and it's exactly what good science fiction should do, i.e. depicting real-life (and often controversial) issues in a fantastic setting that allows for the audience to gain a new perspective. I think the more they stray from those sorts of episodes, the worse the show gets.