At least it was better than Caprica!

>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^toferyu:
Talk abouty a shitty trailer !
Somebody thought editing meant splicing random .5 sec shots together one after the other.
Too bad.

You're right, but I still want to see the show based solely on the previous Battlestar Galactica series.
I actually watched, and sort of enjoyed Caprica- must have been the only one though. I feel that show was cancelled before it got its feet under it. Hopefully this new show will be the one that science fiction fans have been waiting for.


You're not alone in liking Caprica, I thought it was pretty darn good

I also think this one looks awesome too, despite the crappy epileptic trailer.

@Porksandwich I was really disappointed when they cancelled SGU, I was really in to it.

Caprica was OK, it could have been better. Syfy is just disappointing with how it handles it sci-fi stuff anymore. SGU got really good and they canned it anyway.

This show kind of sounds like they are trying to cash in on Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Oh I'm with you there, I'm such a big fan of BSG that this won't stop me from watching it :-)>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^toferyu:
Talk abouty a shitty trailer !
Somebody thought editing meant splicing random .5 sec shots together one after the other.
Too bad.

You're right, but I still want to see the show based solely on the previous Battlestar Galactica series.
I actually watched, and sort of enjoyed Caprica- must have been the only one though. I feel that show was cancelled before it got its feet under it. Hopefully this new show will be the one that science fiction fans have been waiting for.

>> ^toferyu:

Talk abouty a shitty trailer !
Somebody thought editing meant splicing random .5 sec shots together one after the other.
Too bad.


You're right, but I still want to see the show based solely on the previous Battlestar Galactica series.

I actually watched, and sort of enjoyed Caprica- must have been the only one though. I feel that show was cancelled before it got its feet under it. Hopefully this new show will be the one that science fiction fans have been waiting for.

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I think I've mentioned this before but religion in SF can be done really well. See Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow for an example of that. I don't think it's done well in BSG universe, however- so I'll agree with you locally- but not globally.>> ^Enzoblue:
Get your fucking religion out of my sci-fi. It's so damn disappointing. New worlds, incredibly jaw-dropping technological advances, and they're still swinging dead chickens over their heads and praying like third world idiots. These writers are such fucking cowards.

I will give it a go after It's had a few non canceled seasons, I hate falling in love only to have my heart broken. BSG didn't turn out to be as smart as I would have liked either in terms of the overall story arch, but it actually HAD an ending, which is more than almost any other show ever has and the overwhelmingly awesome individual episodes that were really quite common makes me think Caprica and anything else this team welds together will be just as unmissable.

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^I have to agree with on betrayal thing. I won't let myself get sucked into the new Caprica series - though it does look interesting ...

When I saw that Daybreak, part 1 began as a flashback on Caprica, that really excited me... it felt like it was going someplace interesting. But I came to find that the flashbacks were not in the original script, and it shows... they weren't particularly interesting or necessary. I had hoped they would tie into a revelation of some sort, that would have come together to mean something important towards the end of the episode. No dice.

Ultimately... I think the writers just wrote themselves into multiple corners, plain and simple. It's a pretty big fuck-up when you take such an amazing television series and just write stuff because it seems cool, without any plan or vision as to where it will lead, or how you're going to tie it up and explain it.

Kara being an angel? Bullshit. They painted themselves into a corner after they decided to "resurrect" her (or perhaps when they had her drawing the Eye of Jupiter throughout her childhood). Even so, couldn't they have done better? I saw someone suggest the idea that the resurrected Kara could actually be a clone, created from Kara's ovaries (from when Kara was in the Cylon hospital on Caprica). I don't like that idea just for the fact that it wouldn't truly be Kara, but it strikes me as a more interesting, more reasonable explanation. But perhaps it would've been best to not kill her in the first place.

Head Six and Baltar being angels? They painted themselves into that corner way back in season 1, when Shelly Godfrey showed up. I remember thinking, after watching that episode, "there's no way they're going to be able to adequately explain this." No surprise: I was right.

Kara being the harbinger of death? They'd been repeating that over and over again, but I didn't see it. Same with Hera being essential to the story. I didn't see either of those things. I've heard it theorized that the vast majority of the colonists would've died on Earth 2, and in that sense, Kara was a harbinger of death. And perhaps Hera being a hybrid made her and her descendants strong enough to survive in those conditions. Which I might actually accept, except that I didn't see any hints of either of those in the finale.

Those are the main ones, I guess. I'm sure I'll think of more.

^ I'm on the same wavelength as you. I could spend a couple pages flaying it to pieces, but I've enjoyed the show so much, I'll forgive the total deus ex machina ending that didn't answer hardly any questions.

Two nits I do want to pick. First is the issue of Greek mythology and Zodiac. Did the greeks find the Scrolls of Pithia, some 147,000 years after the Colonials landed? If not, why did they end up with their own version of the exact same frakkin pantheon as the Colonials, long, long, long, long after they must have died out?

Second, is agriculture. As much as the colonials seemed to want to give up technology, they all seemed to be talking about building subsistence farms and shacks. 150,000 years ago, that was a technological revolution larger than the printing press in terms of how it shaped human society. No, it's not the same as laying down a futuristic city in Tanzania 150,000 years ago, but our contemporary society would be some 140,000 years more advanced than it is today.

However, I think they're doing a similar thing to what Babylon 5 did when it ended -- wrapping up character plot, and giving us new major revelations that raise more questions than they answered. They both think they have a new series to slowly work out the rest of their plots (Crusade for B5, Caprica for BSG).

Based on the trailer for Caprica, it looks like the theme of God & Resurrection will be front and center, and since the elevator pitch for that series is that it's also about the genesis of the 50-years-ago branch of cylons, it has an opportunity to answer questions about the final 5, and why they kept saying "this has all happened before..."

All in all it was a good ending on the character front, though I was deeply saddened by their choice to have Roselyn die, and Starbuck vanish. I think they deserved happier endings.

Half of the last episode felt like a flashing neon sign saying "Come watch Caprica!"

McCreary recently offered a sneak peak of Caprica's theme: video

^Boooooring.

Forgive my bitterness, but I feel like BSG's jilted lover. The first season? The New Caprica occupation? All that sneaking around on Old Caprica? Admiral Kaine and the Pegasus? So many great times that we shared together, but now the mythology has become such a convoluted load of shaggy-dogged bullcrap. They've suspended disbelief so far past the breaking point that it's almost parody at this point. So many loose ends forgotten about. So many failed plot contrivances brushed under the carpet.

What did I do to deserve this BSG? I was always faithful to you. I even got chastised from my ISP from bittorrenting you! I want out of this loveless relationship, BSG! You promised me explosions, zero-G space battles and Machiavellian power struggles, but now all you can muster is warmed over soap opera drivel.

In fairness, I was multitasking while watching this last episode, and issy hasn't seen it yet, so I'll probably end up watching it again without divided attention.

Let's hope they knock the last few out of the park.

I must say that most of the last season was a big disappointment, but the season finale restored some of my hope. BSG is the only hour long TV show I will tor... er.. watch, so I guess only = greatest.

I really dug the conflict with the Pegasus and the provocative 'New Caprica' Episodes (except for Lee's stupid fat suit). I hope they can match those episodes and not get too wrapped up in new-agey mumbo-jumbo. When does the season launch?