[Cancelled] Caprica (Season 1)

[Rappy Veteran]

True, but the ratings do mean that the show wasn't liked.

yeah appreciate that...but it had at least 700k fans weekly who were enjoying it but yeah ratings = $

[Rappy Veteran]

Angry viewers brought Jericho back on the air in 2007 by sending 20 tons of peanuts to CBS headquarters. Now distraught fans of Caprica are urging fellow loyalists to deluge Syfy execs with apples to protest the series? Wednesday cancellation.

The low-rated Battlestar Galactica prequel attracted about 1.3 million viewers when it returned for its Season 1.5 debut earlier this month. Among those who continued to tune in for the dark series was Rosemary Medrano, instigator of the Save Caprica campaign to keep the show on the air. After the show was canceled, Medrano came up with the apple stunt.

?The apple is iconic to us Caprica fans,? Medrano wrote on her blog. ?It is on basically every piece of advertising Syfy made. Buy a bag and mail them out to Steve Burke, Mark Stern and whomever else you can reach! Include a note with the STO symbol on it. I?m going to start preparing my packages tomorrow. Updates and pictures to come.?

A backlash over Caprica?s cancellation is brewing on other fronts as well. The fan-fueled Operation Airlock Facebook page urges ?an organized boycott of the SyFy network and their sponsors for the cancellation of Caprica.? Meanwhile, series actors Sasha Roiz and Alessandra Torresani have been using Twitter to rally the troops, citing a mention on CBS? Big Bang Theory and hyping the ‎#savecaprica tag.

?There?s been some serious mobilizing,? Roiz tweeted late Thursday. ?Beware the #CapricaArmy.?

?#apples #operationairlock #savecaprica #syfy #cylonarmy #capricaarmy bitches beware!!!!? chimed in Torresani.

While the viral uprising offers Caprica cultists a chance to vent, odds are slim that Syfy will have a change of heart. A Syfy spokesman told Wired.com that the network axed Caprica with reluctance.

?A decision like this is never an easy one and, believe me, we will miss this show as much as the fans,? the rep said. ?As [programming head] Mark [stern] said, we love the [battlestar Galactica] franchise, which is why we are looking to continue the story with Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome.?

The Caprica brouhaha raises a larger issue addressed by many Save Caprica campaigners: For a network bearing the name Syfy, there seems to be precious little hard-core science fiction on the channel.

Save Caprica champion Michael Ilasi, editor of RedEyeRogue, told Wired.com in an e-mail that ?the problem with the Syfy channel is it?s really not about sci-fi. It?s mostly B movies and horror films and bad sci-fi television shows and wrestling and ghost-hunting. Whatever sells.?

Lacking Battlestar Galactica?s lightning-in-a-bottle storytelling chemistry, Caprica failed to capture a broad-enough audience to satisfy the Syfy braintrust. Here?s hoping Blood & Chrome proves more successful at reintroducing serious science fiction to the Syfy network.

[Rappy Veteran]

:woot:

[Frylock86]

For those of you in the US upset over the cancellation NEED to Tweet tonight "@syfy" and "#SaveCaprica"! We need to make it trending!

[treemonster]

big fan of BSG but stopped watching caprica pilot 15 minutes in it was so bad. watched a few minutes of an episode while on vacation and it was just so terrible i had to change the channel. it's no wonder they canceled it.

[Guest]

Dunno if it's been mentioned yet but they're probably shifting all the resources that went into Caprica over to their new endeavour Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/108790/battlestar_galactica_blood_and_chrome_news.php

My opinion on the show is, it always felt like it was going to go somewhere and somehow failed every time. Totally anticlimactic.

It also felt slightly disjointed from anything in BSG. I mean, in BSG, the concept of one God was a massive new idea to everyone yet just (50?) years earlier, there was a terrorist group based on the whole notion? A massive plot hole imo.

BSG: B&C sounds like it will be BSG on steroids with any luck.

[Frylock86]

Dunno if it's been mentioned yet but they're probably shifting all the resources that went into Caprica over to their new endeavour Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/108790/battlestar_galactica_blood_and_chrome_news.php

It also felt slightly disjointed from anything in BSG. I mean, in BSG, the concept of one God was a massive new idea to everyone yet just (50?) years earlier, there was a terrorist group based on the whole notion? A massive plot hole imo.

Actually, it isn't. Why do you think the Cylons were always monotheistic?

[OfF3nSiV3]

caprica had so much potential with the creation of the cylons and the conflicts between the colonies, but instead they focused too much on the religion

i'm disappointed but i can't say i'll miss the show like i miss bsg

[Rappy Veteran]

I'll miss it because I believe it was on course to have a great season 1 finale and start to show the birth of the Cylons for what we know them to be

[Guest]

Actually, it isn't. Why do you think the Cylons were always monotheistic?

True, that aspect of the story line links up, but when everyone in BSG learns that the Cylons are monotheistic, it's a bit of a shock to everyone, and no one ever goes... "hey, that could somehow have been linked to that terrorist group just 50 years ago!"

Or even so much as "Isn't it a bit weird that there was a terrorist group 50 years ago that only believed in one god and the Cylons do? Bizarre!"

I think the writers of Caprica wanted fans of both shows to take a far too big leap of faith in this respect, that somehow, in just 50 years, everyone has forgotten about the Soldiers of the One

[Rappy Veteran]

the latest 2 episodes have been epic and I think Syfy jumped the gun here IMO but still its really awesome atm and the CGI awesome!

[ahhell]

big fan of BSG but stopped watching caprica pilot 15 minutes in it was so bad. watched a few minutes of an episode while on vacation and it was just so terrible i had to change the channel. it's no wonder they canceled it.

I totally agree. I managed to make it through a few episodes but it sure wasn't easy to do.

Terrible show.

[Rappy Veteran]

Amanda mentioned "Cottle" in this weeks episode as the doctor at the hospital...can't be the same one from BSG?

[cbosdell]

^ It could *possibly* be the same one but that would make Cottle ~80+ during BSG. So possible but a stretch.

[Rappy Veteran]

^ It could *possibly* be the same one but that would make Cottle ~80+ during BSG. So possible but a stretch.

yeah it could be that the family just worked as doctors

[Rappy Veteran]

The spectre of "Caprica" continues to hover after its cancellation, as word came Friday that the final episodes of the series will air in a five-hour block Jan. 4, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Syfy.

So we'll get to see "Blowback, "The Dirteaters," "The Heavens Will Rise," "Here Be Dragons" and "Apotheosis" -- episode titles according to IMDB -- and we'll hope that it brings some measure of closure to the show.

Fans didn't receive much closure from the network, though. Through a Save Caprica campaign, $2,350 was raised and 2,880 apples were sent to NBC Universal head honcho Steve Burke in an effort to keep the show on the air. Sometimes fan protest works; this time it didn't. The network went ahead and allowed the produce to be donated to City Harvest in the name of Syfy and NBC Universal.

Feeding stomachs, but no longer our imagination. Oh well, onward to "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome."

[Rappy Veteran]

[MR_Candyman]

I just can't see them finishing the story in 5 episodes. It's possible, but it would definitely feel rushed. They should have just given a 13 episode season to finish it off properly.

[Rappy Veteran]

I just can't see them finishing the story in 5 episodes. It's possible, but it would definitely feel rushed. They should have just given a 13 episode season to finish it off properly.

there's 2 episodes left and its building to a massive crescendo that I am sure won't be conclusive...I HOPE syfy just give them a 90 minute episode to film to finish it.

[Frylock86]

Wait a minute. What the frak? How did the Graystones create skin jobs? They came after the FF came to the Colonies during the first war.

[cbosdell]

Wait a minute. What the frak? How did the Graystones create skin jobs? They came after the FF came to the Colonies during the first war.

Zoe's new body wasn't a true skin-job. The difference is the one's the final five made were pretty much indistinguishable from human but this one just the way you can see the skin forming to her face as she sits up is enough to suggest hers is probably clearly not-human. No organs, lack of blood, aging, etc.

And since no-one else has said it...awesome finale. Makes me both happy it got a great ending and wistful for what could have been.

[Frylock86]

I hope Caprica gets the Blu Ray treatment. :(

[Rappy Veteran]

epic ending, it makes me mad that Syfy cancelled this show with an ending like that...the ultimate build up! frak you syfy frak you to the earth! :cool:

the twist was awesome as well! :D

[Rappy Veteran]

[ThePitt]

maybe and this is a BIG MAYBE the last 5 minutes of the WHOLE SHOW worth a lil. Yes the last 5 minutes of the last episode. All that religion crap finally is over but they couldnt take it away even in that last 5 minutes. All that bullcrap kill the show. And all that stupid and non sence drama, without any direction. Two big slaps across the face to any galactica fan. Finally you wont see people smoking like crazy, and they move that to the next level, doing the teenagers smoke. How sick was that. They should seriously ask themself to what target was this pointed because drama and religion wont be favorites topics to an 'adult' audience. And with that excuse, sell'em what the adult and corrupt people consume, aka cigarretes and ****.

A whole shame was this series, every second that was in the air, thats what it was, a shame.