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Reader Jeb Winders tips me to a forthcoming pilot for a Battlestar Galactica prequel, called Caprica:
“Caprica” will be set more than 50 years prior to the events of “Battlestar Galactica” and focus on the lives of two families — the Adamas (ancestors of future Galactica commander William) and the Graystones. Humankind’s Twelve Colonies are at peace and on the verge of a technological breakthrough: the first Cylon.
As “Battlestar Galactica” is about a lot more than space battles, “Caprica” will be as much family drama as sci-fi tale. Remi Aubuchon (”The Lyon’s Den,” “24″) is writing the pilot script; “Galactica” veterans Ronald D. Moore and David Eick will executive produce it.
The good news is that Aubuchon seems to have done his 24 work on the second season, which I understand did not suck as badly as more recent ones. Lyon’s Den was cancelled after six episodes – I never heard of it. He appears to be neither especially celebrated or reviled. SciFi.Com itself promises that
Following the lives of two families, the Graystones and the Adamas (the family of William Adama, who will one day become the commander of the Battlestar Galactica), Caprica will weave together corporate intrigue, techno-action and sexual politics into television’s first science fiction family saga, the channel announced.
This could be good or it could suck, basically. No casting or other info yet. They seem to be still in the stage of trying to get advertisers to fund it.
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April 28, 2006 @ 6:27 am
BSG Prequel in the Works
Via the Sci Fi Wire: SCI FI Announces Caprica
SCI FI Channel announced the development of Caprica, a spinoff prequel of its hit Battlestar Galactica, in presentations to advertisers in New York on April 26. Caprica would come from Galactica executive…
Comment by Avram —
April 28, 2006 @ 3:17 pm
But will they explain the deepest mystery of the BSG universe: Why do they cut the corners off of all their paper?
Comment by Gary Farber —
April 28, 2006 @ 4:18 pm
Ah, I see you did get to this.
Comment by Gary Farber —
April 28, 2006 @ 4:22 pm
”Lyon’s Den was cancelled after six episodes – I never heard of it.”
Oh, and ”Lyon’s Den” got a ton of attention for being what Rob Lowe left West Wing for. It wasn’t horrible, but wasn’t enthralling, either. I didn’t miss it when it was cancelled. But I didn’t hate it when I watched it, either. (And I watch relatively little tv these days, too, especially since I don’t have cable.)
Comment by Austin Mike —
April 28, 2006 @ 4:28 pm
Corners off papers? Heck, that ain’t nothin’ compared to why they have bright lights on the insides of their helmets….
Comment by Camera Obscura —
April 28, 2006 @ 10:08 pm
Whimper. Say it ain’t so, U.O.
Didn’t nobody larn nuthin’ from B5?
Comment by Kevin J. Maroney —
May 2, 2006 @ 1:22 pm
Season Two was probably the best-written of the four seasons of 24 that I watched. It definitely had the most nuanced and intelligent handling of the whole ”ticking time-bomb” torture scenario, which is to say it mostly understood that torture per se is almost completely useless.