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."

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Warning: Spoilers

[alnya]

Just in case you haven't seen the complete last series, there are some major spoilers in the linked article.

Re:Warning: Spoilers

[Ginger Unicorn]

FUCKING HELL. You go to the trouble of RTFAing before reading the comments, and it's too late to know that there is a MASSIVE SPOILER halfway though the article. I was sure i'd seen the entire 3rd season so it must be a 4th season spoiler.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

PUT A SPOILER WARNING IN THE FUCKING ARTICLE SUMMARY PLEASE! Everyone needs to tag this SPOILER in the meantime.

And, this series will explain

[Anonymous Coward]

How Starbuck became Darth Vader.

"Hillary's the final cylon."

[wiredog]

Thanks for the spoiler guys!

That explains so much...

Re:That's a mistake

[elrous0]

The "Enterprise" cancellation wasn't murder. It was a mercy killing.

Geeks Afraid of Religion

[Colonel Korn]

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.

Re:Geeks Afraid of Religion

[Xeth]

Except that religion was a part of it straight through the Kobol arc in the first and second seasons (which was, IMHO, one of the best parts of the series,and many people agree). No, the problem was that they just did a bunch of one-off episodes with no real resolution or consequences. E.g. (Season 3 spoilers follow): The return of Bulldog and revelations about corruption and warmongering in the admiralty. That went nowhere. The killing of Sagittarons? Swept under the rug and forgotten. The unhappiness and emerging classism in the fleet? 10 second resolution at the end, and not a peep since.

Re:The 1980's want their show back

[kalirion]

horribly written, poorly acted, comparatively dirt cheap shows like Atlantis

Dirt cheap? Do you know how much it costs to rent the same acre of forest for every single episode?

Re:Lets call it a "do over"`

[magarity]

and Starbuck dieing and coming back.
 
There wasn't a body - she just disappeared. So whether she was killed or not is left to your imagination. Maybe she fell into a trans-warp dimensional flux rift in spacetime or somesuch Star Trekish thing.
 
Also, remember the prophesy the priest revealed way back when they were still at Kobol: a renegade demon will lead the way to Earth. Has everyone just assumed that referred to a Sharon?
 
Personally, I'm still holding out for Ellen to be the final Cylon. She was too much of a mess otherwise.

Spoilers in the article!

[Millennium]

And in this post as well: Six kills Dumbledore.