Posted on 11/17/2010 9:51:59 AM PST by pabianice
As many here know, SyFy's "Caprica" was unceremoniously pulled several weeks ago. Pulled so fast that there remain five unaired episodes. Pulled so fast that the cast first learned of it on the net.
What has been printed so far suggests that there were "script problems" that led the producers to pull it faster than a woman grabbing wedding dresses at a Filene's Basement Bride Sale. That the show had failed to find an audience. That the story arcs of monotheists being murdered by the state and a teenager's mind being inserted into a killer robot (noted as 'icky') were just too much for the audience.
The show had some very good acting and an inventive story line. Apparently, not enough to keep it from being blown-up in mid-season.
Web sources say the studio is now working an a second prequel to "Battlestar Galactrica," to show Adama in his academy days. Who knows what the real story might be.
So that’s why episode 14 & 15 are on the internet sites showing as ‘unknown’ for air dates.
It was getting very slow and boring - the first episodes were great but it just dragged out after that - but watching it on the net only took 42 minutes so I stuck with it...
The first two seasons of BSG had good, even electric moments of drama.
However they ran out of plot and dialog halfway through season 2. The scriptwriters started phoning it in. Nothing much was happening on screen and the dialog was rote.
The casting was good: I’m glad to see that many previously unknown actors from BSG have gone on to do other work.
Sci-fi? Just write something that shows Summer Glau beating the heck out of bad guys. That works...
Same here. I loved the alternate look at religion. (The Norm being a multi-deity ethos and the "Radical Religion" being monotheism.) And know that I am a believer in God and don't find a fictional story any threat to my beliefs.
Also I loved the take on "virtual reality" and how it figured into the rise of the "Cylons"...
Its sad that well written story with some very good actors didn't catch on but I've come to expect such. (Though I figured Caprica would get enough backing from those who loved the BG remake to see a few seasons at least. But I knew it wouldn't last much past that.)
I thought the "Zoe" Character and her Dad and Mom as well as the Adamas were excellent! I could have done without the Gay Brother Adama aspect (Not the character just that part of the personality) because now it seems cliche to have such in every damn show on TV. But it didn't annoy me the way "Glee" does with the "hit-you-over-the-head-with-Gayness-every-damn-episode" the producers have taken the show this year.
The show cancellation that really saddens me is "Rubicon" But, I knew almost from the first episode it was doomed. The script writers didn't rely on "bang-bang-shoot-em-up-naked-sex-and-foul-language" every episode and the characters were interesting yet weren't over the top in any way. They seemed like real people dealing with real situations and the slow build of tension was refreshing.
Oh well at least "The Walking Dead" got renewed for 13 episodes and looks to be one fine piece of writing and acting!
I liked BSG and hated Caprica. BSG had *some of what lovers of the genre would refer to as “hard” science, and lots of action, while Caprica was a soap opera with magic.
*Sure, BSG also had lots of “and then a miracle happens,” but it was still SCIENCE fiction and SPACE travel, which go together like Burns and Allen, or Chocolate and Peanut Butter.
Sci-Fi PING
Now you've done it. You mentioned Firefly and I have to spend time looking up Chinese curse words for the idiots at Fox.
This week on Castle Nathan Fillion's character rattled off a Chinese sentence. The detective with him asked him if he knew it because he studied abroad for a semester and he said "Nah, TV show I used to love."
Galactrica?
That is why Fillion is one of my all-time favorite actors. He likes to nudge the "fourth wall" with homages to "Firefly" and the show's fans. He is aces in my book and I have yet to see him in a show or movie wherein I disliked his character and acting!
“Maybe SyFy canceled Caprica because it has nothing to do with hunting ghosts or professional wrestling.”
I’m sensing SERIOUS budget problems at syfy. The shows keep getting cheaper and cheaper to make, and farther away from the sci-fi genre.
You mean it got worse?
Mrs. WBill likes the show. I watched it once with her last year, and had to get up and leave, it was so pathetic.
OTOH, SyFy rescued Stargate: SG-1 after SHO dumped it for a program about gay men.
Some of you guys sound like Libs...
If the show failed, it failed on its own merits or lack thereof, not because of rassli’ or Ghost Hunters...
Some of you guys sound like Libs...
If the show failed, it failed on its own merits or lack thereof, not because of rasslin’ or Ghost Hunters...
Good on them. Bridge Studios is where SG-1 and SG: Universe are filmed. Teamster gangsters have driven most movie-making out of the U.S. Bridge keeps making TV movies and providing work for thousands of actors and stage hands. Yes, the movies suck if you are over 14, but they are being made and broadcast. Unions are destroying every once-viable US industry.
I never could get into the show for a couple of reasons:
1. I want a show that shows the space fleet in action, it was just a land-lubber soap opera.
2.The first cylon was a teenage girl with severe daddy-issues. How unoriginal can you get? I think Robot Chicken has spoofed this general plot device about 4 or 5 times, it’s a source of laughter and switching the channel.
I LOVED BSG. But the name change to SyFy, the name Caprica, the promo’s, etc.... lead me to believe it was going to be a Days of Our Space Lives soap/drama. It’s like they took everything that I liked about BSG and removed it for Caprica.
Sadly, there are very few shows for me anymore on SyFy.
SG:U was a gamble that didn't pay off. Put 75 unlikeable, ugly people into a derelict ship and hope for ratings. The show is so poorly lighted that I think I'm getting macular degeneration every time I watch it. It is a drama without heroes -- good luck with that. The show makes the military and academia equally unlikeable -- a real feat. SG-1 had it all: writing, production, acting, directing. SG:U looks like punsihment being inflicted on the cast and crew. If they made several more SG-1 movies instead, I'd be very happy.
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