Great story, great acting (certainly by the youngsters ), great camerawork, good production value, good writing. Just finished episode 8, and I totally love it.
It was a bad show that few people watched. No big mystery why it was cancelled.
sharetoo expensive to produce, not enough syndication pickups internationally.
comes down to excel and the numbers. didn't make them.
shame, great show really had potential to move sci fi on tv forward after bsg did so much.
I personally felt that there were too many differences from BSG, I understand they were trying to do something different, but when it's a prequel certain things should line up, or maybe have a similar feel at least. I also felt that the show took too long, the little flash forward at the end of the last episode showed everything I had been waiting for, but everything in the series didn't connect, so I think they waited too long to move things forward and lost fans. When you're doing a prequel to a much loved show you should give your fans little puzzles to weave together between the 2 shows to keep them connecting the dots. It almost seems as if they had an idea for another show, but the network wanted more BSG so they tried combining them, I think if they would have done this as an entirely different show viewers would have been more responsive, who knows they could have kept the BSG connection a secret and let the fans figure it out that it was a prequel, that could have been a cool surprise ...
shareWhen you're doing a prequel to a much loved show you should give your fans little puzzles to weave together between the 2 shows to keep them connecting the dots
I agree it was a good show, great production, acting etc. I just feel that they wasted time by not connecting the shows earlier, it was advertised as a prequel but they left a lot of the subplots that tied the shows together until the last minute, literally. That little flash forward to the things that would have happened felt a little petty to me, almost like they were saying 'thanks for watching, here's a taste of what would have happened had more people bothered watching the show!" it seemed petty, but at the same time gave a little closure, I don't know I have mixed feelings about it... I think they marketed the show wrong, it was heavily marketed as a prequel, but should have had a more generalized appeal, since the show felt nothing like BSG. I think their marketing excluded non BSG fans right away, maybe they could have survived longer on a more diverse fan base than just BSG fans who then tuned out when they found out the show was so different. Caprica had more of a video gamer universe feel, they lost the realness that BSG had, and over did the computerized special affects, there were very few scenes that weren't obviously CG. Heck even their new show Defiance has less CG than Caprica, I love all the makeup and scenery work they've done on Defiance.
shareI completely understand your point, and I agree. I wish I could spare more time for debating this - since English is not my native language, it takes some time to write decent sentences :) Thanks for sharing your opinion.
shareIt almost seems as if they had an idea for another show, but the network wanted more BSG so they tried combining them, I think if they would have done this as an entirely different show viewers would have been more responsive, who knows they could have kept the BSG connection a secret and let the fans figure it out that it was a prequel, that could have been a cool surprise ...
How can Helix be a lead-in to BSG when the events that occurred in BSG happened 150,000 years before the 21st century on Earth?
shareHow can Helix be a lead-in to BSG when the events that occurred in BSG happened 150,000 years before the 21st century on Earth?
The SW prequels may have been a creative failure but they certainly weren't a commercial failure. Caprica was the total opposite.
sharenahara7 wrote:
It almost seems as if they had an idea for another show, but the network wanted more BSG so they tried combining them, I think if they would have done this as an entirely different show viewers would have been more responsive, who knows they could have kept the BSG connection a secret and let the fans figure it out that it was a prequel, that could have been a cool surprise ...
According to an interview with IFmagazine, David Eick said that they had been contemplating a spinoff prequel series since Season 2 began and were tossing around ideas. About the same time, 24 writer Remi Aubuchon pitched a series that had a lot of similarities to the Cylon storyline. Realizing that they could not devote their full time to both Battlestar Galactica and a spinoff, Moore and Eick decided to merge with Auchubon, seeing it as an opportunity: "We took some of what we had and some of what he had ".share
Cool thanks for the info, that was what I was thinking had happened but have never heard that story before. I feel merging the 2 stories was a good idea, but went off track, if making a prequel they should have stayed in the BSG look and feel of the show, I had a hard time connecting it to BSG and I think that other viewers felt the same and ratings suffered because of it.
shareIt almost seems as if they had an idea for another show, but the network wanted more BSG so they tried combining them
Yeah, Virtuality was cancelled even before the pilot was aired. It's notable for starring the actor who plays Jamie Lannister on Game of Thrones.
shareYes, it's a shame, but I think it started out a bit slow, the pacing only picks up after episode 8 or so, and some of the initial storylines are a bit boring (i.e. Amanda seeing stuff, etc). Also this show is very different from BSG, so it probably didn't get a lot of support from the BSG fans (basically the same problem with SGU, they want a different theme but the fans just don't buy it).
shareproblem with SGU was mostly that all of the original fans had grown up by now, and SGU was just more hackneyed acting and storylines (as in Atlantis).. You can't inherit fans if you wait too long. Not sure the same thing applies to Caprica though, I found the first season pretty good, even if it was slower.
shareI loved Caprica and in some ways felt it was more interesting than BSG. I recommended it to a few people but they couldn't get into it.
I suspect the cultural/religious themes were not popular among the huge amount of conservatives/Christians in the US.
I'm very conservative and I count this among the best shows ever made. I don't appreciate the judgmental tone of that statement.
BTW, the people you recommended it to might not have the patience to appreciate a truly character driven story (which is what Caprica is IMO,) and good stories like that always take a while to develop.
"I do not like mixing up moralities and mathematics."
Churchill
I suspect the cultural/religious themes were not popular among the huge amount of conservatives/Christians in the US.
The left mocks the hypocrisy and self-pity of people who use claims about religion to excuse tyranny.
Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.
The left mocks the hypocrisy and self-pity of people who use claims about religion to excuse tyranny.
Oh how I love the chance to respond to you after Obergfell!
So someone who doesn't morally approve of gay weddings is oppressing you and your fellow believers? 35 thousand dollar fine. Yes, we people who believe in no state sponsored religion are totally holding you down.
We'd rather not participate = shutting our business down. Oh wait, you believe in equality, right?
We are all for tolerance of others and their beliefs! My ass, you hypocrite
I didn't dignify my last sentence with punctuation. Just like you don't dignify half of the US citizens. Thanks for proving all of my gay friends points.
Bigots like you will never rest until believers in free speech are silenced at the end of a barrel.
"I do not like mixing up moralities and mathematics."
Churchill
It is the left who is trying to drive all public expressions of faith from the public square. You owe it to yourself to educate yourself a bit more on the subject.