"Caprica" will be set more than 50 years prior to the events of "Battlestar Galactica" and focus on the lives of two families -- the Adamas (ancestors of future Galactica commander William) and the Graystones. Humankind's Twelve Colonies are at peace and on the verge of a technological breakthrough: the first Cylon.
As "Battlestar Galactica" is about a lot more than space battles, "Caprica" will be as much family drama as sci-fi tale. Remi Aubuchon ("The Lyon's Den," "24") is writing the pilot script; "Galactica" veterans Ronald D. Moore and David Eick will executive produce it.
I'm excited. Bet we see it January '07.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
LOL! Who in their right fucking minds decides that anything good can be somehow better with a fucking prequel?!?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Um. Huh?
How, in any case, would a prequel make Galactica better?
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Easy. We get to see REAL Cylons!
--Jonah
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
quote:LOL! Who in their right fucking minds decides that anything good can be somehow better with a fucking prequel?!?
1. George Lucas.
2. Rick Berman & Brannon Braga.
3. J. J. Abrams.
Or were you just being sarcastic?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
This is bizarre.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Also, isn't Adama at least 50+ years old? That's a pretty liberal definition of ancestor.
Also, what the?
Also, Battlestar Galactica is basically our society with a few tweaks dropped into an extreme sf situation. Remove the situation and you've got. . . ? Dallas with octagonal paper?
(Bottom line: More of a favorite thing is great, but the potential dilution of a favorite thing is scary.)
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dukhat:
quote:LOL! Who in their right fucking minds decides that anything good can be somehow better with a fucking prequel?!?
3. J. J. Abrams.
Or were you just being sarcastic?
Wasn't that one debunked?
And are you seriously saying that the other two were in their "right fucking minds" ?
Posted by CoffeeAddictMike (Member # 144) on :
Isn't JJ still looking at a TOS movie? Granted it might be about Robert April but stil...
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
quote:Wasn't that one debunked?
I don't know..was it?
quote:And are you seriously saying that the other two were in their "right fucking minds"?
In the case of Lucas, absolutely. He knew he was going to do this from day one, and he made quite a bit of money from it.
In the case of B&B, sort of. Not having an original thought in their heads, they decided to do a prequel since it worked out so well with George (my speculation). It didn't work out so well with them, though. However, the IDEA of doing a prequel to the Star Trek universe was an inherently good one, if done correctly and with a careful, thought-out plan. Since neither one of those qualities applied to Enterprise, it failed.
quote:Isn't JJ still looking at a TOS movie? Granted it might be about Robert April but still...
I'll bet you ten bucks that if you asked JJ who Robert April was, he'd look at you funny and say, "Robert who?"
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
But let's divert such talk back where it belongs and concentrate on whatever the heck is going on here.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
But let's divert such talk back where it belongs and concentrate on whatever the heck is going on here.
Tits and Beer.
Persumably Starbuck's, that is
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I have no desire to see Dirk Benedict's tits. I might, however, drink some of his beer.
Posted by CoffeeAddictMike (Member # 144) on :
quote:I have no desire to see Dirk Benedict's tits. I might, however, drink some of his beer.
There are so many things wrong with that that even I can't even begin to start.
And yes... he might not know Robert April...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Or who Gene Roddenberry was for all we know...
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
Bzzzt. No, but why Caprica? It's all the shit I hate about that show now without all those cool space battles and unrelenting apocalypse machines marching around ventilating their human oppressors. Now they can really focus on people not communicating and being really shitty to one another such that the terror--ahem--cylons feel completely vindicated in their nefarious plans. Wee! Of course I was pretty skeptical about Angel at first, and I wound up liking that quite a bit.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Why not make the prequel about the cyclon-human war? Why about two families? Is there a feud between the two? This seems kinda Dune-ish.
Posted by Treknophile (Member # 1869) on :
We have the good news, and the bad news...
The good news is that my local film industry gets more work - and you will all be treated to views of the world's most beautiful city (Vancouver, BC) - as well as Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. (Used for most of Caprica in the pilot (you also saw much the same buildings in various Stargate SG1 and Atlantis episodes).
The bad news is that - in my opinion - the creation of a prequel signals the beginning of desperation on the part of the writers and producers; they're running out of fresh ideas (not that that has stopped most television sf these days).
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
I didn't know you were in Vancouver. Cool. Mind if I come up to visit sometime? It's a daunting enough city that I've never really felt comfortable exploring, and actually knowing someone who lives there would definitely help.
--Jonah
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Andrew, that says a lot.
Well, with the lack of ideas they feel they need to do something, prequels.
It is so much easier to do that than to come up with something original.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Er...I just dont understand how they can be out of ideas so soon!
Have they already used up all the original series' plotlines? I'm waiting for Count Iblis to show up- by the standards of the current BSG, he could be a human on one of the other ships that starts making trouble, and they could lean towards either cylon connections (a hybrid?) or whatever, without doing the whole "devil" stuff of the OS.
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