The SciFi Channel just released the first trailer for the upcoming Caprica. The show, at least from the trailer, threw me for a loop. It looks remarkably different, visually anyhow, than it’s predecessor Battlestar Galactica. Looks like Ron Moore is interested in telling a science-fiction family drama that will somehow lead into the show every geek loves. It’s almost pastoral in a way, like a scifi Rockwell painting.
There will be baggage with this show, simply because of the greatness of Battlestar. Still, the premise about two families who bond over a tragedy and help create the first Cylon model looks like it will raise some fascinating questions and moral dilemmas. We all know by now how this story turns out, well, those that watch Battlestar do anyway.
Joseph Adama (Admiral Bill Adama’s father) uses his dead daughter to build the first Cylon. That’s some heavy shit right there.
According to this interview show creator Ron Moore gave with the Chicago Tribune, “Caprica” is set 51 years before the events of “Battlestar Galactica.” According to a March press release from Sci Fi, “’Caprica’ follows two rival families – the Greystones and the Adamas – as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the 12 Colonies. Enmeshed in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe.”
Moore also said during the interview that Caprica is, “shot very different, and I think I was particularly attracted to the idea of doing a science fiction piece that was not built on a foundation of action adventure. It wasn’t about Vipers and it wasn’t about the Cylons attacking every other week. It was really a character piece. It was really a drama, and you can infuse with a lot of political commentary and a lot of religious overtones and really dig into a people and a society and how and why it all came unglued.”
Thank the Gods we can all put the speculation to rest. I was getting worried that the new series Caprica might be all we got for a long, long while. It’s also possible that Caprica may just go to series that the backdoor pilot/movie will be folded into the first season. Essentially, the SciFi network has enough confidence in the show’s lasting appeal and quality to make a go of it. iF Magazine has more deets about the upcoming SciFi schedule.
Collider has a review of the pilot script for the upcoming Ron Moore helmed, Battlestar Galactica spin-off project Caprica. It’s a precursor to the super-awesome sci-fi show. We won’t give away the details here, but suffice it to say, the reviewer loved what he read. “Did you know that Dr. Frankenstein lives on in the world of Battlestar Gallactica?That is the ultimate story being told here.Someone angry at the universe defies the gods in an attempt to bring the dead back to life.There are always consequences.In this case, roughly fifty years later humanity barely hangs onto existence after attempted genocide by robots called Cylons.Still, isn’t some good father-daughter time worth that?”
Rhett Miller’s Old 97’s outfit has been on hiatus for quite some time, but the group released a new album this year and from what I’ve heard it’s quite good. The first single from the album, Blame it On Gravity, has now gotten the video treatment starring Caprica Six, aka Tricia Helfer.
Apparently when Helfer isn’t riding motorcycles with Katee Sackhoff, aka Starbuck, she’s taking some time to star in music videos.
What I love about the video for “Dance With Me” is the song has this sultry tango vibe to it and the director and band went all sci-fi geeky on us. Completely pulled the ole switcheroo.
So now we’ve got an uberfan of the show who’ll do just about anything to get a dance with Tricia Helfer and why not? She’s quite beautiful. Though I think I prefer Starbuck.
Randomly: I remember seeing a photo shoot a while ago of these two actresses wearing bikinis and sitting on motorcycles and at the time I thought that’s weird, but now not so much after reading the LA Times article. Does anyone know where I can find that photo shoot?
Io9 has some Season 4 spoilers for Battlestar Galactica. I haven’t watched yet, because I’m trying to stay strictly spoiler free. But if you click the picture below you can watch to you’re heart is content.
By James Furbush | December 18th, 2007 | 12:59 pm PST
The Colonial Ministry of Information has released a new poster to help you determine if someone or something is a Cylon or not. At only $19.95 that’s a steal to save a person’s life, perhaps your own. A few tips the poster offers includes: “Does their spine glow red when they get . . . excited?”
This 24″ x 36″ poster was created by Adam Levermore-Rich, who also created the Battlestar Galactica Propaganda poster series, which were designed to resemble art-deco posters from World War II. I personally prefer the propaganda posters, but this one is kinda cool too.
Take the jump to see the poster in all it’s glory. Via: Boing BoingMORE »
By James Furbush | November 29th, 2007 | 6:10 am PST
But anyone with half a pulse would tell you this would be the case. Sci Fi Channel aired the two-hour stand alone movie special on Thanksgiving Weekend and not only that but on Saturday at 9 p.m. Only true dorkis maximus’s like your truly and dedicated fans of the show stayed in to watch.
According to TV Week, the show “garnered a 0.8 rating among adults 18 to 49 and was seen by 1.7 million viewers.” I doubt this will have any impact on the final fourth season and amore accurate barometer for the show will probably be DVD sales, which comes out on Dec. 4.
I’ll cop to being a total geek and really the only reason I had cable installed in my apartment was so that I would be able to watch the final season of Sci-Fi’s Battlestar Galactica. There I said it. I don’t think I’m alone in this, though all my drinking buddies and close friends would certainly not hesitate to let me know how much of a dork I am.
Regardless, check out this clip for the new season. If you’re a fan you know what I’m talking about. If you’re not, well, what’s wrong with you?
Ah, the pleasures that Battlestar Galactica offers. Our love around here knows no boundaries, and chances are if you take pity on us long enough we’ll convert you to the pleasures this Sci-Fi channel offers. You laugh, but next thing you know you’ll be hooked.
Season 4 kicks off with a two-hour movie about the destroyed battlestar Pegasus. The movie follows the nasty Admiral Cain in the moments after the first Cylon invasion of Carpica. For all you fans out there the Pegasus, you’ll remember, became seperated from the rest of the fleet. The movie follows the events from the time of seperation until it met up again with the Galactica.
The promo doesn’t reveal much, but it does enough to get us jazzed about the upcoming season. Notice too, all the female soldiers on the Pegasus, word is they are all present at the behest of Admiral Cain … who may just like her female soldiers a little too much.
Seems like all the great shows are calling it quits or getting the axe. Whether it’s The Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars and to some degree Lost (thankfully we’ve got three more seasons with them) geeks everywhere can add one more show to the list.
Sci Fi channels cult classic and critical darling Battlestar Galactica will end after next season’s 22 episode run. It’ll kick off with a two-hour Pegassus flashback movie of sorts and will presumably end with the discovery of Earth. Intriguingly enough will be the running subplot of last season’s cliffhanger when it was discovered that The Cheif, Colonel Ty, Sam Anders and the new publicist for the President were all in fact Cylons.
Exec producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick issued a joint statement saying it was their decision to end the series.
“This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and, finally, an end,” producers said. “Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have been moving strongly toward that end, and we’ve decided to listen to those internal voices and conclude the show on our own terms.”
Producers promised to end the show “with a bang.”
Though it will be sadly missed around these parts, we’re in agreement that it’s always best to go out on creatively on top. Or with a bang. Either way.
The good news for David Eick is he’ll be taking over showrunning duties for NBC’s buzzed about Bionic Woman remake/update. Hopefully he’ll do for that show what he did for Battlestar Galactica. Check out NBC’s pilot preview. Which also happens to star Katie Sackoff (Starbuck) as the original bionic woman. Is it just us or is this a poorly put together preview. Seems like the sounds off or just not handled correctly?
So how bout Starbuck’s death last night? Pretty crazy, although we’re assuming that she’ll be back at some point either at the end of this season or by the beginning of season 4.0. The fine folks over at Chud have two interviews with Tricia Helfer and James Callis, otherwise known as Caprica Six and Gaius Balter respectively.
Now if you’re not a fan of the show then as Mr. T might say, “I pity the foo!” and highly recommend running out and renting Season 1. Watch it and if you’re not hooked or not down to see what happens to the Battlestar crew, then I won’t hold it against you.
The interviews, however, reveal little spoilers except that Tricia Helfer has a scene with Colonel Tigh in the Season 3.5 finale. And Callis studied the Saddam Hussein trial for Balter’s upcoming trial. Witness:
There was one comment Saddam said in his trial; somebody came up and said, ‘I saw it all. I was there in the village when you ordered your troops in and killed all of these people.’ And he sat there – I wanted to do this – and he took the measure of the man, and said, ‘Who told you to say this?’ I thought it was amazing because in that one thing he hadn’t denied, he hadn’t made an affirmative – it sets up more questions. I thought it was amazing! So I tried to bring some of that. You’re on trial for your life and it doesn’t look good, are you going to try to be a wind-up toy and keep everybody amused? No, the buck stops, and fuck off. I think Baltar in his trial… he knows what he’s done, and thinks everybody else does. It’s all over for him, and he’s not about to play Mr. Nice Gaius in that way.
Hopefully it’ll be as compelling as the Marxian battle between the Chief and Adama last week. By the by Helfer appeared in the February issue of Playboy for a glorious ten pages. If you don’t want to buy the article you can peep the photos over at IESB. Um, it’s not safe for work, but Helfer is incredibly hot.
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