As for Caprica, I loved it. It was very engaging, cerebral, and interesting. The characters were well fleshed out and interesting. The one thing I didn’t like about the finale was the death of Willie. It’s like they’re saying “Hey, you know all that character development we did for BSG Adama? Well frak you, that never happened.” All that character development with him going with his uncle to places and beating up the kids. Granted he didn’t get a whole lot, but still, it was annoying.

In the case of Caprica, and possibly Blood and Chrome, should it ever see the light of day, I believe the main problem is that the “make it up as you go” approach to screenwriting utilized on the rebooted BSG makes it very difficult to create cohesive prequels, since many of the things we saw on that series were so incongruous. The second problem is what I term the Lucas syndrome. It is easy to hint at a remarkable backstory and leave it up to the audience’s imagination to fill in the blank spots, but the more intriguing your undisclosed history is, the harder it will be to live up to expectation.

I solidly enjoyed BSG for two seasons, and became a bit disheartened after that, but never to the point that it became a deal breaker, but I’d rather see the writers go on to a new project than to dilute a very good show with a host of not fully thought out, or badly executed, spin offs.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/syfy-president-dave-howe-sets-220655

And i wonder how many people will remember that this project exists 1 and a half year after its original announcement and wothout sny promotion ( a webside, a trailer anything!) from syfy.

If they want to make this work, I think they should forgo the grand plot and make the small, intimate stories of life during wartime the show’s focus. There can still be smaller story arcs and mysteries, but they cannot be the show’s main hook. In fact, having something like a sci-fi Band of Brothers might work and be glorious, if done well.

I agree. I also can’t see what else can blood and chrome be besides battles, battle missions or perhaps an exploration of characters in time of war. There is simply nothing important and uknown in the first cylon war, something that we don’t allready know. I hope that the writers will surprise us but i can;t see it happen without adding something that will violate more or less the BSG cannon. But i hope i will be proven wrong.
And i believe that a miniseries (like outcasts or the new season of torchwood) would be better and more interesting rather than trying to drag it into a sreries for which there is,perhaps, no material.

I just didn’t get the operatic nature of the mid-season of Caprica. but that’s just me…the music was outstanding, but yeah, heavy-handed to =me.

@jammer — the creative forces behind Blood and Chrome are basically David Eick, Jonas Pate, and any other big names behind BSG. I think Ron Moore is there in spirit since he’s tied to a Sony(?) contract or something.

at this time I haven’t read anywhere online whether Jane Espenson is involved….let us hope that is a good thing.

I will watch “Blood and Chrome” with fingers crossed. Maybe the writers will suprise me again. I just do not see how this show will have any substance to it what-so-ever. We all got a chance to see the first cylon war in the flashbacks of BSG’s Razor. These sequences had action-o-plenty but were not compelling at all.

Here’s hoping I’m wrong.

“So say we all” (Sorry, that just fit)

As for reviews, who knows. Way too early to say.

Caprica was like a long experiment, they changed gears and reset plots so many times, all the while not really advancing anything to a satisfying conclusion. Until towards the end. I thought it finished great, with the exception of the V-world stuff, that went into the toilet the moment they turned New Cap city into a mountain retreat and hung out doing apparently nothing for 3 episodes. And the big final confrontation with Zoe and Clarice was stupid.

But then it made up for it with that coda, which had me cheering at the screen. I thought for sure this was a contingency plan if they were cancelled, but no, it was really a sign they were making one more giant plot reset and reformatting the series into what could have been something great by the looks of it.

The show deserved to be cancelled based on the material. But SyFy also gave it every handicap possible, for some reason. They are truly incompetant when it comes to scheduling.

Wish there was a way to see other colonies’ cultures and people. If Caprica is this amazing center of learning and the arts, the seat of politics and all that…there is very little of that on display.