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Posted on 01/18/2010 3:13:56 PM PST by KevinDavis
It likely will cost Syfy on premiere night Jan. 22, but there appears to be some tremendous interest in the "Battlestar Galactica" prequel series "Caprica."
Since releasing the entire pilot episode online several weeks back (and months after first releasing it on DVD), more than 1.5 million people have watched the "Caprica" pilot through the Internet or on DVD, according to trade publication Multichannel News. The episode has been offered through Syfy.com, Hulu, and other places.
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Caprica is on Hulu?
given how BAD the plot was with the reinvisioned BG, I think this is mere puffery to deal with the impeding low ratings.
James Marsters is supposed to be on it. Woo hooo.
not much action....not impressed....never could ‘see’ Caprica....any comments...it looks like it could be a story taking place on earth 20 or so years in the immediate future.....so why do the story on Caprica??
anyway I never watched it.
I was very disappointed with the original “remake” of BG. It went well for a few seasons...I was impressed...then they pulled an ending out of their @$$e$ for whatever reason....I guess they were rushed or stumped for an ending or whatever.....
So if we have the DVD its the same as what we’ll see on 1/22?
Yes, except it would be cut..
that sucks. We’ll have to watch it so we’ll feel as if we are contributing to ratings hoping they’ll do more than 18 episodes
That is my plan, plus I’m going to record it also..
Why record it though if you have it on DVD? As long as we watch it, the ratings count right?
They count DVR recordings also..
oh well we’ll have to DVR too then
“I was very disappointed with the original “remake” of BG. It went well for a few seasons...I was impressed...then they pulled an ending out of their @$$e$ for whatever reason....I guess they were rushed or stumped for an ending or whatever.....”
http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/articles-readarticle.php?nid=5
Starbuck: Lost in Castration
by Dirk Benedict
Once upon a time, in what used to be a far away land called Hollywood but is now a state of mind and everywhere, a young actor was handed a script and asked to bring to life a character called Starbuck. I am that actor. The script was called Battlestar Galactica.
Fortunately I was young, my imagination fertile and adrenal glands strong, because bringing Starbuck to life was over the dead imaginations of a lot of Network Executives. Every character trait I struggled to give him was met with vigourous resistance. A charming womaniser? The “Suits” (Network Executives) hated it. A cigar (fumerello) smoker? The Suits hated it. A reluctant hero who found humour in the bleakest of situations? The Suits hated it. All this
negative feedback convinced me I was on the right track.
Starbuck was meant to be a loveable rogue. It was best for the show, best for the character and the best that I could do. The Suits didn’t think so. “One more cigar and he’s fired,”they told Glen Larson, the creator of the show. “We want Starbuck to appeal to the female audience for crying out loud!” You see, the Suits knew women were turned off by men who smoked cigars. Especially young men. (How they “knew” this was never revealed.) And they didn’t stop there. “If Dirk doesn’t quit playing every scene with a girl like he wants to get her in bed, he’s fired!” This was, well, it was blatant heterosexuality. Treating women like “sex objects”. I thought it was flirting. Never mind. They wouldn’t have it.
Witness the “re-imagined” Battlestar Galactica. It’s bleak,
miserable, despairing, angry and confused. Which is to say, it reflects, in microcosm, the complete change in the politics and mores of today’s world as opposed to the world of yesterday. The world of Lorne Greene (Adama) and Fred Astaire (Starbuck’s Poppa), and Dirk Benedict (Starbuck). I would guess Lorne is glad he’s in that Big Bonanza in the sky and well out of it. Starbuck, alas, has not been
so lucky. He’s not been left to pass quietly into that trivial world of cancelled TV characters.
“Re-imagining”, they call it. “un-imagining” is more accurate. To take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that a television show based on hope, spiritual faith, and family is unimagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and
family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens (Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy our civilisation. One would assume. Indeed, let us not say who are he guys and who are
the bad. That is being “judgemental”. And that kind of (simplistic) thinking went out with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne and, well the original Battlestar Galactica.
In the bleak and miserable, “re-imagined” world of Battlestar Galactica, things are never that simple. Maybe the Cylons are not evil and alien but in fact enlightened and evolved? Let us not judge them so harshly. Maybe it is they who deserve to live and Adama, and his human ilk who deserves to die? And what a way to go! For the re-
imagined terrorists (Cylons) are not mechanical robots void of soul, of sexuality, but rather humanoid six-foot-tall former lingerie models who f**k you to death. (Poor old Starbuck, you were imagined to early. Think of the fun you could have had `fighting’ with these thong-clad aliens! In the spirit of such soft-core sci-fi porn I think a more re-imaginative title would have been F**cked by A Cylon.
(Apologies to Touched by An Angel.)
One thing is certain. In the new un-imagined, re-imagined world of Battlestar Galactica everything is female driven. The male characters, from Adama on down, are confused, weak, and wracked with indecision while the female characters are decisive, bold, angry as hell, puffing cigars (gasp) and not about to take it any more.
What to do, wondered the Re-imaginators? Keep him as he was, with a twinkle in his eye, a stogie in his mouth, a girl in every galaxy? This could not be. He would stick out like, well like a jock strap in a drawer of thongs. Starbuck refused to be re-imagined. It became the Great Dilemma. How to have your Starbuck and delete him too?
Starbuck would go the way of most men in today’s
society. Starbuck would become “Stardoe”. What the Suits of
yesteryear had been incapable of doing to Starbuck 25 years ago was accomplished quicker than you can say orchiectomy. Much quicker. As in, “Frak! Gonads Gone!” And the word went out to all the Suits in all the smoke-free offices throughout the land of Un-imagination, “Starbuck is dead. Long live Stardoe!”
And if you don’t enjoy the show, or the hamburger and coke, it’s not the fault of those re-imaginative technocrats that brought them to you. It is your fault. You and your individual instincts, tastes, judgement. Your refusal to let go of the memory of the show that once was. You just don’t know what is good for you. But stay tuned. After
another 13 episodes (and millions of dollar of marketing), you will see the light. You, your instincts, your judgement, are wrong. McDonald’s is the best hamburger on the planet, Coca-Cola the best drink. Stardoe is the best Viper Pilot in the Galaxy. And Battlestar Galactica, contrary to what your memory tells you, never existed
before the Re-imagination of 2003.
Well that sucks. I paid for Caprica from iTunes.
I’m watching the 2003-2009 (calendar time) version of BSG in two months right now (pity the poor souls who tried to follow it for over five frackin’ years). Anyways, I HATE the female and male role swaps as your article mentions. Watching Stardoe smoke cigars and beat up males sucks. So she was abused as a child and had every finger broken (if the Cylon Dr is to be believed). That is the reason by the metrosexuals suits we are supposed to believe I guess for her ‘tough’ character.
I watched Caprica pilot (2009) after Season 1 (2004) for background on the Cylon origin (beauty of time shifting a 50 hour series movie). Looks like all the fundamentalist violence must be laid at the feet of only the monotheistic religions (Christian or Muslim are the only candidates I can think of). Gets quite sickening hearing the Cylons refer to the “one true god’ and the humans referring to pantheism over and over while praying to their Lords of Kobol. That must be why the humans deserve to die-they worship many gods and the good Cylon worship just one god (part of the avatar programming from the 16-yr old girl in Caprica pilot). All quite a stew of no right or wrong and no moral absolutes. Must make the hollywierd types feel quite good about themselves. “Aren’t we the clever ones?”
Saw Caprica about a month ago. More suicide bombers are the good guys. Plot too forever to really kick in. First 20 minutes are “WTF” until it tells you. Only good part was the last maybe 10 minutes. Could have cut a bunch of crap out and did a 45 minute single episode instead of a 90 minute snore.
“The Plan” was pretty bad.
I never want to see Dean Stockwell again.
I’m a big Dirk fan.
Reading that a few years back really turned me off to the new BSG.
I totally gave up on it and never even bothered at all with the last season.
from what i read since it seems missing that last season was a good idea.
I did watch “The Plan” the other night and thought it was ok.
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