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Why do a Prequel?

posted 9 years ago by standrkm
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Why wouldn't it turn out like the Star Wars and Hobbit prequels? Why didn't they use the BSG momentum for Blood and Chrome? What were they thinking?!!

"the day I tried to live, I learned that I was alive"

[–] LondoMollari1 9 years ago

Good question and I think the only answer is that Moore and Eick took a creative risk and it failed. I don't think the failure was due to the show being a prequel but it was due to how much it deviated from BSG in tone and pacing. It was way too "talky".

[–] standrkm 9 years ago

I agree. To me they "rolled the hard six" and strayed from the already proven successful formula. I remember watching an episode far into the season and thinking to myself, "what have they gotten themselves into, they made this world too big!". With BSG they were in a flotilla surrounded by the darkness of space and now all of a sudden they're on a planet with essentially another planet behind a pair of glasses. It was just too much for anyone other than a BSG fan to ever catch on to. But mainly like with most prequels, it was way more talk than action.

"the day I tried to live, I learned that I was alive"

[–] Observer_2020 9 years ago

Blood and Chrome was a BSG prequel too.

The way BSG wrapped up, there wasn't really a good way to create a sequel. (SPOILERS below, for any newcomers to the BSG/Caprica universe)

It would have been impossible to create another space-based show with the same BSG characters because of the events of the series finale. If they did create a sequel, it would have been very low tech. Edward James Olmos said at one time that he had an idea for a BSG sequel, with some of the characters from the show, but he never mentioned any details. Unless they used a lot of flashbacks, they wouldn't be able to include space battles. (The one exception is if they did a story about the Centurions who went off into deep space. But obviously they couldn't write in a new attack and holocaust, because that wouldn't make any sense, given the connection to our time.)

[–] LondoMollari1 9 years ago

It's a real shame that Blood & Chrome wasn't picked up for a full series.