Re:We will see what an oracle isn’t and what I believe it is…
I wonder….. if i had a pass at Caprica, it might actually be off the dusty production shelf amongst other half-baked scripts and moving onward.
More than likely they want it as their follow up show once the ending is nigh for BSG but by then the interest might or might not be there.
They want less military, more family, like that Adama reminisce of his wife? And paint it over with gadgets, like a Lost Room or Eureka.
And humor, and light.
Good luck with that; like The Jetsons or the new Disney Robinsons but the sex with fleshbots that riddles the BSG universe.
The sci-fi channel is truly backwards in their understanding of what sci can be. it is the only medium that lends itself to our future; yet they pollute it with common denominator thinking like “most of our fans are ‘geeks; they like hot space babes and big shiny ships, and blowing up the enemy whether they be bugs, other species, or rogue humans that don’t think like the current what Federation or league of Planets.
Or by chance they bring in the infamous RDM, and his dark musings, which he cannot quite leave out of his writings. Like picking at and scratching a newly healed scar of painful introspective origin, he is not one to bring aboard for a network which is searching for brevity now and a wider mainstream acceptance.
Or may be they want his name, but not that constant lean toward darkness.
The used and user, “This has happened before and will again.”
I am hear to say that Caprica can be taken off the shelf and brushed off. i think that the narrowness of the Tarzans (I mean the Graystones) and the Adamas keeps this on hold.
I. mK, can see how to weave a story in which…. sure they have the main families, but can expand to include the other colonies, the backstory of most if not all current BSG characters and would last 3 and only three seasons.
isn’t that what a spin-off does, fills in a lot of blanks of a current show yet can go off in other ways. Sci-fi wants the tie-in to current recognizable BSG characters to draw in the rag tag fan base when BSG ends. It makes perfect sense.
may be even limiting to just Caprica is wrong. I’d do a standalone for every planet. Aerilon, Caprica, the whole thing, then, just like pulling a net tighter I’d go back around, explaining the connections.
The season 1 ending; the emergence of the Cylon revolt
Second season, each planet is drawn in with others into what’s going on there, how they deal with the darkening clouds of Cylon
dissatisfaction.
Last 2-3 eps pre-war with the end the “blast heard around the Colonies” heralding the 1st Cylon war.”
That was second season
Third season the war personified each planet has a contribution, and the Cylon defeat, then flight of the Cylons, and of course post-war loosening of the net during the Armistice.
The last eps deal with the foreshadowing of the attack on the Colonies, and Cylon back-story; something slightly touched on but not given in detail. This will probe it.