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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just got done watching Caprica ... ok that was weird.
Yes I think new BSG was very good for the first couple of seasons. I disagree with Dirk in that I think it had to be remodelled. Times and tastes change and a direct copy would always have been compared (and unfavorably at that) with the original. But after a while the unremitting darkness and cynicism of the series really began to get to me. It seemed that no matter how hard the “heroes” tried, no matter how they strived, or how clever they were, the cylons were always one step ahead. From that I soon came to realise that my affection for the show was solely based on the initial premises and the very different, very “realistic” type space battle scenes. From there I came to see how very female-orientated it really is - all emotions and “touchy-feely” and dodgy psychoanalysis. I’ve no problems with some strong female characters, but not at the expense of only weak male leads. So I stopped watching, and hey, I didn’t miss it at all. I never even saw the ending. Frankly, by the middle of season two I wasn’t bothered what happened to any of these characters. Did they ever find earth? I don’t know. I don’t care. Does it matter?
I haven’t seen a single promo for this show, but I’ll give it a shot. I loved the remade BSG. There are a LOT of haters on this site who hate the new one because....it’s new, I guess. Aside from “Lost,” there wasn’t a better show on TV by a long shot.
Agree with you. The BSG remake was awesome, literally the only thing on TV for over 10 yrs that got me to watch. Was it perfect, no, but nothing is. Razor, and The Plan were both really good, and added to the story and answered questions appropriately. The Dean Stockwell part at the end of The Plan was awesome, really explained that the Cylons, just like humans, eventually learned independant thought. One decided to murder an innocent little child because he was a threat to his Plan, the other version built the same way, spared the lives of many.
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