The Caprica speculation/discussion thread

[FoolishPleasure]

It would be nice to have BSG and Caprica on one night, then SG1 and SGA on another night. I'd end up watching Skiffy more than just Friday nights.

[Albion]

I'll give it a look and may well end up pleasantly surprised, but I have to say that based purely on the article it sounds positively dreadful. And I have the very bad feeling that it will mean for BSG what Atlantis (partly) meant for SG1 - a huge drop in quality and people trying to work on two shows without extra time to do a good job on the original.

But...we'll see.

Albion

[Blue Banrigh]

I wonder if they'll use the same visual style as Battlestar Galactica, the hand held cameras, the same colour palette, etc.

[Mefusta]

And I have the very bad feeling that it will mean for BSG what Atlantis (partly) meant for SG1 - a huge drop in quality and people trying to work on two shows without extra time to do a good job on the original.

What are you talking about? Season 7 - during which Atlantis would have first been in production - was great, and Season 8 contained some of the best episodes SG1 has produced! I'd say there was a rise in quality from the point when Atlantis started production.

Although, it could be argued that having two shows can lower the quality in certain circumstances, an example of which being the number of somewhat craptacular Atlantis episodes [i'm looking at you, 'The Tower'! *shakes fist*] possibly due to the increased effort put into SG1 with their S9 shakeup [but should be alleviated by now]. But still, hardly damning evidence, eh?

Regarding Caprica, I for one look forward to it, and hope it'll be liiiiittle bit more light-hearted than what we've already seen out of RDM, thereby allowing him to take BSG into even darker territory, which is something we can all enjoy.

[Arative]

It would be nice to have BSG and Caprica on one night, then SG1 and SGA on another night. I'd end up watching Skiffy more than just Friday nights.

I would imagine that is part of the reasoning for moving BSG to October? Not that Caprica would premier this October but Sci-fi would have SG-1 and Atlantis for the Summer and Spring and then BSG and Caprica for the fall and then late spring, early summer after SG-1 ended its season in March. Year round quality programming would look attractive to advertisers!

[Cpn. Chris(tine) Bowman]

Meh...not very happy with the spin-off idea. It could be good, I wasn't exactly cheering for Atlantis and now... but a prequel sort of spin off? I don't know...we saw what happened with Enterprise...

I'd much rather they spent their money in making other new shows who, for all we know might be excellent if given a chance.

[sg1_david]

It's a bad idea. The new BSG is bad enough

[Nero]

It's a bad idea. The new BSG is bad enough

Yep its so bad its been a smash with Critics and won loads of awards and has fansite after fansite dedicated to it. And its so bad that it actually gone on longer than the Original has and is continuing to be Sci-Fi's highest rated show.
And its also so bad you come on to the Galactica forums, read a thread about the prequel to the new BSG series and post how bad its gonna be?

[Chricton]

So bad that it made AFI's top 10 list, jeez that's bad.

Bad bad bad.....

..wait...?

[Blue Banrigh]

After reading David Eick's latest interview is anybody else thinking that the Greystones might be the family that was leading the charge for AI/Cylon development?

[Major Zoidberg]

It would make sense, i wonder whether Adama's family will be the ones who are paranoid about computers, might be where the adama himself got the paranioa

[The Engineer]

I would imagine that is part of the reasoning for moving BSG to October? Not that Caprica would premier this October but Sci-fi would have SG-1 and Atlantis for the Summer and Spring and then BSG and Caprica for the fall and then late spring, early summer after SG-1 ended its season in March. Year round quality programming would look attractive to advertisers!

Assuming your supposition is correct, then Sci Fi Channel is looking for the right formula to increase their revenues from advertising and making almost the entire year profitable: in the summer we get Stargate and in the autumn and winter we get Battlestar; so it looks like the Sci Fi's intention is to keep the Stargates, and if this formula they are looking for works.... oh, boy, we would get 4 series a year from Sci Fi, 4 great series.

[The Engineer]

It would make sense, i wonder whether Adama's family will be the ones who are paranoid about computers, might be where the adama himself got the paranioa

I wonder if its not the other way arround.

[Blue Banrigh]

I wonder if its not the other way arround.

You mean Joseph Adama being on the payroll of the corporation behind the cylon technology?

[Major Zoidberg]

Which may also explain why bill adama joined the military to stop the cylons

wow such great stroy potential