Blood & Chrome : News/Speculation/ General Discussion (Spoilers for Pilot)

[Graybrew1]

k no more than pre-teen then. there was @least 10 years difference between them in the series

Wow, they actors are only about 5 years apart in RL. I still don't think they were quite that far apart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James_Olmos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McDonnell

[Ian-S]

So the pilot will just be a one-off TVM? Any differences between it and the web series in terms of content?

a bit more flesh and swearing I'd expect, it was quiet obvious where they'd dubbed in the clanging of a spanner being dripped in an earlier episode to blank something out and the "love" scene was non-existent in the last one.

AFAIK this is the backdoor pilot, Syfy just decided not to push forward with it as a series after this was produced.

[SoulReaver]

Wow, they actors are only about 5 years apart in RL. I still don't think they were quite that far apart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James_Olmos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McDonnell

oh well. there's chronological age & there's biological age. I reckon she's a bit luckier than him

[BruTak]

CNN interview with David Eike and Luke Pasqualino - http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/30/sh...ies/index.html

[BruTak]

Not strictly speaking B&C related, but still connected to BSG.

There's a group of Swedish nutters who plan to run a BSG themed LARP event on a decommissioned Swedish Navy destroyer in March of next year.

http://www.celestra-larp.com/

I wish them the very best of luck with it.

[garhkal]

The full pilot will be launched on February. Why they are airing it as a webseries for now is beyond me.

I have heard 2 possibilities.

1) to check ahead of time what the fan base thinks, so they can make any changes needed
2) to gauge whether it will do well or not.

[Osiris]

So the last episodes are online! I was waiting for that cameo but it was too short...

[techs]

I am really enjoying this so far! I really hope that the SyFy airing pulls in some big numbers to make them reconsider their former decision and greenlight this to a series, never got into Caprica but loving this!

The very fact they aired it online was, imo, to make sure it doesn't get high ratings when they air it on Syfy. Many people will already have seen it on youtube. And they barely advertised it would be on youtube so the youtube numbers are going to be low.

Listen. Syfy does not want to make an expensive space based scifi show. They want to kill Blood and Chrome. I strongly suspect they only announced it because they had just cancelled SGU and Caprica and fans were in an uproar.

NOTHING in what Syfy has done over the last two years would lead anyone to think they are going to go back to being a real scifi based network. They are going with ghosts, reality and wrestling. They want to keep the old scifi fans but only at a very minimal cost. And a space based scifi series is out of the question.

[BruTak]

I'd like to think that Tech Sgt. Xander Toth is still out there, somewhere, waging his own personal one man war against the Cylon hordes.

[techs]

I'd like to think that Tech Sgt. Xander Toth is still out there, somewhere, waging his own personal one man war against the Cylon hordes.

Xander Toth
Lest We Forget

[P-90_177]

Not strictly speaking B&C related, but still connected to BSG.

There's a group of Swedish nutters who plan to run a BSG themed LARP event on a decommissioned Swedish Navy destroyer in March of next year.

http://www.celestra-larp.com/

I wish them the very best of luck with it.

That would be awesome!

[BruTak]

That would be awesome!

I was having a bit of a think about it, and reached the conclusion that there's no way in hell that you could pull it off in the UK. The Health and Safety police would be crawling up your backside as soon as you put in your proposal.

For a start, I can't think of any suitable ships. For a once proud seafaring nation, the UK seems dreadfully embarrassed by its maritime heritage.

You could maybe, maybe run something similar in a decommissioned military base. Set it on Cylon occupied Caprica or something.

[gkyun]

Final episode:

Am I the only one who finds this Adama a wee bit annoying? He's got a hot crush on the scientist chick and gets all swooned over by it while acting like he's the reasonable one for trusting so readily the cagey scientist who wouldn't even tell them anything. Then he acts all shocked and betrayed like OMG! when the truth came crashing down on him. I guess the commander of Galactica describes him best: a cocky SoB....

[Gen. Chris]

Final episode:

Am I the only one who finds this Adama a wee bit annoying? He's got a hot crush on the scientist chick and gets all swooned over by it while acting like he's the reasonable one for trusting so readily the cagey scientist who wouldn't even tell them anything. Then he acts all shocked and betrayed like OMG! when the truth came crashing down on him. I guess the commander of Galactica describes him best: a cocky SoB....

To be fair, though, this is the late teenage/early 20's Adama. Very different personality than the Adama that goes through the war and later becomes commander of the ship.

[Ian-S]

Yeah I was gonna say the same, I know I'm certainly very different now to what I was 25 years ago.

I didn't know someone was going to put their voice to something, so it was quiet a surprise to hear those words are you alive, but saying that, doesn't that ignore the "canon" established by Anders by him saying they created the skinjobs? (I'm thinking specifically that skinjob - I know she wasn't technically a skinjob but still, what are the chances the final five would choose the same voice a few years later).

TBH I'd have preferred to see Adama get introduced to Ty in the final scene instead of hearing her voice (even though that would break canon too).

All in quiet a good film that keeps within the BSG mythology, and I agree with gkyun, the motives behind this are quiet clear to see, they realised how much it would cost to produce a series like this solely on green screen and decided it was easier to do whatever they could to kill it rather than produce it. Shame.