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Remember back a year or two ago when Battlestar Galactica was the darling of the airwaves, and everyone was praising it as the best scifi show to come out since... well, forever? Fans rejoiced when the producers said they were working on a new prequel series to be called Caprica, that would explore the days before the Cylon war, and would follow the family history of the Adamas and the creation of the Cylons. The SciFi Channel ultimately decided not to greenlight the project, citing monetary concerns. However, word is that the series may live and breathe at last, at least for two hours.
The pilot script for Caprica was handed in long ago, meaning it could be put into production while the writers strike, although they wouldn't be able to take it to series until something happens on that front. With television shows vanishing left and right, the Sci Fi Channel and other networks are opening up the filing cabinets and reconsidering options like this that they'd shelved before. NBC/Universal recently put in a call to Mark Stern, the VP at Sci Fi, and told him they want them to revisit the project, so you might get a pilot episode out of the mix, if nothing else.
Sort of like an interstellar version of The Waltons, the series would follow two different clans, The Adamas and the Greystones (who were behind the construction of the Cylons), and would be a family drama. Set fifty years in the BSG past, this means that Admiral Adama would be what, ten years old? We imagine there would have to be some sort of a rift between these two families to create some tension because without the gleaming silver robots, who would they be fighting? Probably each other, like the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Writers Strike May Revive Galactica Prequel?? [Ain't It Cool News]
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Would that mean a teenaged Tigh?
sweet!
@Nicolars: Nope, Tigh is a Cylon, an eternal Cylon, so he's always been old. At least I think that's how it works. If season 4 ever starts, maybe we'll find out.
What kills me is you know at some point someone had to say, BSG may be a great show, but instead of a spin off, lets redo Flash Gordon!
@Gyrus: He's one of the final 5 and the rules arn't the same for them. He and Adama have been friends for 40 years so he must be aging. My guess is the final 5 having been doing the circle of life thing forever and what we see are just this generations version of them...
@Gyrus: He was young in the flashbacks at the beginning of Season 2.
Oh, what if the newly self-discovered Cylons are based on family members of the Greystones? A fountain of youth type project of downloading your brain into a new body experiment?
Good point. I'd forgotten that. But on a tangent, does that mean the eternal 5 play a role in Caprica?
I think I'd rather just have SEASON FOUR GODDAMMIT
Ten-year-old Adama better have a moustache; not peach fuzz, but something that could plausibly spontaneously gain sentience and the ability to speak.
I'd watch that.
Jeesh, I'd rather see the main show go on a bit longer, as the characters are so strong. I would love to see them progress in time a bit more, like at the end of the second season. That was simply killer.
The only thing better (arguably) than watching back to back episodes of BSG til the wee arrs o' da morn is watching back to back episodes of Lost til the wee arrs o' da morn.
Nothing against the Caprica concept though, as long as they can keep the magic going.
Meh.
Am I the only one who finds the idea of a family vs family plotline contrived crap?
Carry BSG to a really excellent and well developed conclusion and end the series. End it and move on. Dignity & grace.
Create a great story, and leave it unmolested by lame sequels/prequels.
The alternative its to give Galactica the Star Trek III, V - VIII, ad nauseum, Alien III, Matrix II & III and Star Wars 1-III treatment. Pass. Please.
I wonder where the Admiral got all that acne? From a high school crush perhaps? :)
Edward James Olmos has been acne scarred for the last 30 years that he's been an actor. Look at Blade Runner. As far as BSG is concerned, only the classic is really BSG. This show is, at best, an afterbirth that should have been shelved and given to Richard Hatch for his Second Coming idea. Really.
I was hoping for BSG Babies... a show about all the main characters in diapers, and whacky day care situations... like Muppet babies, but with Cylons and cold hard stares....
Or perhaps... One Tree Cylon... Or Adamas Creek... Or the Cylon Wisperer...
They just need to re-use old scripts with Cylons.
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.
maybe it's best for everyone involved if this show just goes gently into that good night...
This is hilarious.
Just the other week this site and some people on it were ripping Trek for "mining its own past" - that was after 30 years! It looks like BSG can't even go 5 years without writing themselves into a box.
Seriously, this Caprica thing sounds savagely boring. WHO CARES? Prequels suck hard and I thought everyone knew that.
The problem with BSG is that it's never been very imaginative. They don't even consider themselves to be Sci-fi! They call themselves "fleshed out reality". Ugh. BSG you disgust me.
The human culture is just like ours. The political system is just like ours. The entertainment is just like ours. The technology situation is horribly contrived. They can jump faster than light but no one ever thought to invent a freakin' (oh excuse me -frakkin') LASER beam.
The whole 3rd season is just ripped off from current world events. Hey the plot it just writes itself when you don't have to actually think up anything new and you can just look around and take what happens in the news and drop it in the script.
But this is what we get for Sci-Fi these days. Sci-fi is supposed to be NEW ideas. Nobody writing for BSG has used their imagination in a long long time...
Caprica. Oh, please...
NOT AGAIN! WHY THE F*CK DOES EVERY DIRECTOR THINK THEY HVE TO MAKE PREQUELS?
*have (darn keyboard...)
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