New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced

An anonymous reader writes "The Sci-Fi Channel's hit series Battlestar Galactica may soon be joined by a 50-year-prior prequel series, called Caprica. To be co-exec produced by Ron Moore and David Eick, the new series will follow the tale of the creation of the Cylons."

I for one

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new Cylon Overlords.

This is a follow as well

[gasmonso]

The original series started back in 1954 and was called Paprika.

http://religiousfreaks.com/ [religiousfreaks.com]

Honestly...

[TechnoGuyRob]

I'm not interested in a series whose name is an anagram of "I C A CRAP!"

Rejected names

[Ohreally_factor]

Boomer loves Chachi

Col. Tigh's Place

Laverne and Dualla

Caprica City 90210

A Different World

Law and Order: Special Cylon Unit

Another Pre-Series Possibility

[tiktok]

I was hoping it would be ADAMA: The College Years.

Maybe in one episode, Adama has the sorority girls from Caprica Caprica Caprica over for a game of Strip Pyramid.

You make a valid point...

[TCQuad]

I'm not interested in a series whose name is an anagram of "I C A CRAP!"

That may be a valid point, but I can't trust any comments by One Butch Orgy.

Re:If Ron Moore were to produce The Phone Book...

[Ohreally_factor]

You say that now, but you haven't seen the episode where Starbuck flies her viper over a tank full of Space Sharks.

Ooops! I forgot! SPOILER WARNING!! THE ABOVE IS A SPOILER!!! DON'T READ IT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEE THE EPISODE!!

First in a limited series

[ian_mackereth]

There are only twelve types of BG spinoffs.

Re:Honestly...

[CosmeticLobotamy]

And I think anyone objecting to a show about evil robots whose name is an anagram for "Cyborg tune ho" should be regarded with suspicion.

Re:First in a limited series

[ZachPruckowski]

There are only twelve types of BG spinoffs.

But there are many copies...

Re:Prequel?

[iminplaya]

And considering BSG started with the near total destruction of an entire civilization that looked pretty darn cool in its own right...

See? There ya go. You already know how the prequel is going to end :-)

Re:Prequel?

[Babbster]

Well, they clearly can't do a sequel, because the series isn't over yet.

I'll tell ya the real reason they can't do a sequel: Because as bad as anyone might have thought the original BSG was, Galactica 1980 was at least a hundred times worse. I don't think anyone could "reimagine" that into anything good. :)

Re:Hollywood's fascination with prequels

[McFadden]

What is it with Hollywood's fascination with prequels anyway?

Do you really need to a$k?

Re:Battlestar Galactica worse Sci-Fi show ever

[hords]

If it's anything like the "re-imagining" of this show, count me out. No idea why so many people fall for this show. The new BG is below par in just about every aspect of production....

Dad? I didn't know you read slashdot!

Re:First in a limited series

[xdc]

There are only twelve types of BG spinoffs.

But there are many copies...

And they have a plan.

Re:Battlestar Galactica worse Sci-Fi show ever

[MachDelta]

Why hello Dirk Benedict, I didn't know you had a Slashdot account.

I have a bad feeling about this...

[tm2b]

Maybe so - but if we find out that Dr. Zee and the superior Cylons from Galactic 1980 are fighting a temporal cold war, I'm outta here. Aw hell, that'd even bring the original BSG and the Moore version into the same "continuity"...

I hear that Berman & Braga are looking for jobs now, after all, and Moore worked with Berman on DS9... [Shudder]

Re:First in a limited series

[frosty_tsm]

There are only twelve types of BG spinoffs.

But there are many copies...

And they have a plan.

To have their own TV network. The Cylon Fiction Channel... (or Cy-Fi for short).

Re:First in a limited series

[Neoncow]

There are only twelve types of BG spinoffs.

But there are many copies...

And they have a plan.

dingding-da-dingding-da-ding

Re:Smart Sci-Fi vs Idiot Plots

[kfg]

Are we that impressed by apocalyptic stories and high technology that we ignore the whole reason we're watching the show?

Boobs?

KFG

Re:Another Pre-Series Possibility

[Ohreally_factor]

This could be a first: casting an actor with a severe acne problem. Seriously, have you seen Olmos's face?

Re:Prequel?

[daspriest]

I'm still waiting for the book before Genesis on the origin of God, It should make quite the prequel.

Re:Product Placement, Anyone?

[Ohreally_factor]

You think that BSG is bad? Did you see the Lord of the Rings? Product placement all over the place! Pipeweed this, pipeweed that. Sheeesh! It's a good thing not that many people saw Lord of the Rings, or we might be facing a sequel.

Re:Prequel?

[Anonymous Coward]

"What if God was only one of several omnipotent beings? And what if our Earth is only the latest in a long line of Their flawed creations?

"This Fall on Fox prepare to be on the edge of your seat as the creators of '24' and 'The X-Files' team up to bring you *drumbeats* 'PreGenesis'"

Re:Smart Sci-Fi vs Idiot Plots

[Ohreally_factor]

Every so often I read a slashdot comment that forces me to imagine it as if it were being spoken by the Comic Book Guy.

Re:Battlestar Galactica worse Sci-Fi show ever

[clickclickdrone]

That goes double for Boomer.

AT the same time too, ideally. Or maybe I could just it back and watch.

Re:Honestly...

[Anonymous Coward]

Careful, his name is also an anagram for goon butchery so if you're a member of the SA forums you might be in trouble for those comments!

Then again, it's also an anagram for young botcher so you might be safe after all.

Re:Rejected names

[wjcofkc]

A Different World

When I got to that one I nearly spit my coffee all over my iBook. Luckily, my old Win XP machine was beside my desk with it's side panels off.

SpaceThyme Continuum...

[TyFighter]

I have never been able to bring myself to watch a single BSG episode. Aside from SG-1 modern dramatic sci-fi shows make me roll my eyes in disgust. I have no idea what a Caprica is, but I immediately thought of a combination of capsaicin (the spicy chemical compound found in chile peppers) and of course paprika (your mom's favorite chile pepper seasoning). This show sounds delicious! *sigh* Another hardcore fan only space ship drama. I'll eat later.

Re:Prequel?

[Hal_Porter]

You realise that would be the end of Fox right?

Oh, sorry. I mean 'What a great idea for a series. I'm in the 35-40 age range with a $1M per year disposable income and I buy everything advertised on TV. I'd watch it, and so would all my rich friends'

Re:I have a bad feeling about this...

[tverbeek]

No, what would be really neat is to do a series focusong on Adama and Tigh, when they were in the Academy together. Roslin could be a hot Education major at the civilian college next door, and Zarek would be the wise-cracking troublemaker who's always this close to being expelled. It'd be great!

Galactica __80 Coming Soon?

[Carcass666]

In an interview [bearmccreary.com] series composer Bear McCreary said:

"Bear McCreary sees Battlestar Galactica's music as taking a more emtoional turn as it gets closer to the long-lost colony of Earth ."

So, for those of you who missed Galactica 1980, your chance will come! (a show so bad even SciFi Channel won't re-air it). It makes you wonder though, when they will turn up though.

Re:Don't hurt BSG

[Khaed]

Fox = Spawn Campers.

Figures... n00bs.

Re:Battlestar Galactica worse Sci-Fi show ever

[Deslock]

Dude, you're so right! The continuation script called for Boxy to be the main character replacing Adama as commander. I could see it now... Commander Boxy walking around the Galactica with that monkey-dog-robot in tow, just like Gene Hackman's dog in Crimson Tide [imdb.com]. So awesome!

BTW, for more amusing rants from old-school Galactica fans, check out Dirk Benedict's embarrassingly silly "Lost in Castration" [dirkbenedictcentral.com]. But the best has got to be the utterly asinine open letter that some moderators wrote to Ron Moore a while back. Enjoy:

"Give it a chance."

That was the oft -repeated mantra of the folks on the old Sci-Fi board. Give the new show a chance, don't pre-judge it; watch it, see what you think. So we did. We watched it and in the spirit of fairness, we matched words with deeds, here at Colonial Fleets, and created a completely separate but equal sub-forum, strictly for new show conversation. It seemed to be the right choice, at the time.

Since then, we have been educated to the mindset of the author that the offerings on this show, called Battlestar Galactica (2003), were to be a reflection of society and we were challenged to "think about it"; that there would be parallels to real-life events such as the Sept 11 attacks and told, by the author, to "make your own judgments as to what they say to you"; and that this new show would completely "re-invent" the sci-fi genre.

Well, we have thought about it and have spoken those thoughts on these forum pages, for much of the past 2 years. Ever since the new series came about, this fanbase has been in a tenuous place and Colonial Fleets was often a tension spring within the fanbase for allowing and even promoting, at times, discussion of the new series. Through that time, we made a concerted effort to separate the comments from the commentator and to keep the debates focused on the issue. Primarily, though, each of us has strived to employ our own personal standards of morality and decency when presenting these thoughts.

An example of these standards of decency and morality can be witnessed by the following remarks by our good friend, Malkyte, who very eloquently expressed the thoughts of many members, here and elsewhere:

"Throughout the many years of human existence, there has always been a line. A line that represented on one side, the best of human decency and morality, and on the other, the pure animalistic and monstrous evil that humans can be. This line has moved back and forth throughout those same years, and depending on individual experiences, it has always been in different places."

"Society in general has appeared to become more tolerant of rude and disrespectful behavior, to the point where it is celebrated when someone is deviant or rebellious. It's rather disheartening and disturbing at the same time. But our society more and more rewards liars, killers and celebrity deviants, who in some cases are only in the news because of the crap they do, and not for any talent they may possess."

We share those same concerns about society and can see, for ourselves, the truth in the remarks. In addition, we agree that the "line" has been shifting back and forth with a decided tilt toward the less than desirable aspect of human society. We also realize that the entertainment industry has "pushed the envelope as far as they could", only because we have allowed them to do so.

We have allowed the entertainment industry to tell us that it was "ok" to have a baby's neck snapped (the script originally called for Number Six to drive her finger through the baby's skull); it was "ok" to draw a parallel of sympathy toward the terrorists who carried out the Sept 11 attacks - in other words, we got what we deserved; but, the straw that snapped the proverbial camel's back was the use of rape as a military torture tool in the "Pegasus" episode.

We will NOT allow the entertai

Re:I was hoping for...

[typidemon]

omg bsg so ripped off the greeks! They had Pegasus too!

Re:You make a valid point...

[HTH NE1]

So says the Anus Wood Acronym.