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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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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.
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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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