Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series 297
It was recently announced that sci-fi remake series Battlestar Galactica is getting a whole new spinoff prequel series called "Caprica." Signed on for twenty hours worth of finished product, including a two-hour pilot, the new series is to be set 50 years prior to Battlestar Galactica, and will focus on two rival families, the Graystones and the Adamas. "Enmeshed in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics. 'Caprica' will deliver all of the passion, intrigue, political backbiting and family conflict in television's first science fiction family saga."
Not good... (Score:4, Insightful)
This probably should wait until George Lucas is dead, just to be safe.
Really? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:So... (Score:3, Insightful)
It'll be like "Dallas" or "Knot's Landing", but with spaceships? Wow!
No, that was V [wikipedia.org]
Late in the game (Score:5, Insightful)
Honestly, it's hard for me to drum up any interest in this at this point. The new BSG was one of my favorite TV shows of all time. It was truly amazing and I have loved it. HOWEVER, the Sci-fi channel has done almost everything in their power to crush my interest in the show. The between season and mid-season breaks since season 2 ended have just been utterly ridiculous. It's an exaggeration, but I swear it feels like I'm watching the last 2 seasons of this show at a rate of 3-4 episodes per year. I'll finish out what's left of the show at this point because I'm already embroiled. I'm not sure I want to endure getting involved in another series that Sci-fi controls though.
Personally, I'm far more interested in sticking with Terminator: TSCC so long as it maintains sufficient ratings to avoid cancellation. I only have room in my schedule to keep up with a few shows at a time anyways.
Re:Late in the game (Score:5, Insightful)
I agree. Too bad they can't turn over the show to HBO or Showtime and have them do it right.
Re:Remember 1980 (Score:3, Insightful)
And In Today's News... (Score:2, Insightful)
The Day The Earth Stood Still?
King Kong?
Star Wars XI:A New Source Of Revenue?
No, Battlestar Galactica: The Prequel.
pfft.
Re:"recently"?! Sure is. (Score:2, Insightful)
Apparently, Slash articles need to have pre-posting supplemental research/vetting/URL-add-ons before going into the wild:
http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/ [galacticawatercooler.com]
Then, it might have read:
"Previously-announced BSG-Prequel 'Caprica'green-lighted"
television's first science fiction family saga (Score:3, Insightful)
Lost in Space (also 1965) -- John Robinson, his wife and three kids.
Plenty of "families" in SF, depends how you define "saga", which on TV usually means "multi-generational soap opera". If so, not really a drawcard, I think.
Re:Remember 1980 (Score:4, Insightful)
Simple. Season 3 was good, and people are just whiners.
The show has, imnsho, been extremely high quality from start to finish. I never have understood, and probably never will understand, where people get this idea that the show has gone downhill.
New series? Let's finish the current one first... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Remember 1980 (Score:3, Insightful)
hulu has it:
http://www.hulu.com/galactica-1980 [hulu.com]
may you forget quickly and are able to heal.
Re:So... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:So... (Score:3, Insightful)
And, if The Register and its headline on this story can be believed, without spaceships either. And no hawt skinjob Cylons either. Why, exactly, would I watch this?
I totally agree. Really, who cares what happened 50 years before the current series? Back biting and family bullshit is why I stopped watching BSG. I want to see space ships, hints of 13th tribe, and cylons getting their ass kicked. I don't care if Tye drunk off his ass 90% of the time, apollo is fucking starbuck or his old man. And I really really don't give a rats ass about baltars love cult.
More spaceships, more ass kicking, and more story about earth. Fuck the rest.
Now if they did a series about the first cylon war, that might be worth my time.
this is the problem with spin-offs (Score:3, Insightful)
If you want to do a spin-off right, it should really have something to do with the original show. Now there have been exceptionally successful spin-offs, mostly American comedies. (I say successful in that they ran a long time, making no judgment on quality.) In fact, it's often surprising to find out which show they spun off from. Frasier came from Cheers, Jeffersons came from some other show that you wouldn't have thought of, Laverne and Shirley spun off of something else, Mork and Mindy was based on something else. But then there's also all of the really crappy spin-offs that simply could not stand on their own two feet, just like a band that works because of all of the members coming together and the solo acts never have that same magic after they split.
The thing that's always funny to see is when something is spun off in a completely nonsensical way. She-Ra was a spin-off of He-Man. What were they thinking? No boy worth his salt is going to play with a girl's toy and why would the girls want to play with something tied in to a boy's toy? And as far as this goes, we're taking a spaceships and robot scifi story and spinning it off into a soap opera? I mean yeah, there are some soapy elements to BSG already but this really does sound like Dallas in Space (except they never travel off-planet.)
I don't get it. The Paramount suits said they'd never do a show on a space station becuase that's like taking the wheels off the cart, you never go anywhere interesting and it would require a lot of contrivances to get interesting things to come to you. I think the more appropriate complaint would be setting a show in the Star Trek universe in a restaurant in a backwater town on Earth that doesn't get much traffic from offworlders. Yeah, look at this big neat universe we're not seeing!
Re:So... (Score:3, Insightful)
Why do fields of study have to proceed at the same relative paces we're familiar with? What is it about building robots and giant spaceships that necessitates a cure for cancer?
Re:So... (Score:4, Insightful)
I think a boy from one family and a boy from the other family would get more ratings from the shock value and resulting media frenzy.
If you want really high ratings, use a girl from one family and a girl from the other...