[Cancelled] Caprica (Season 1)

[Southern Patriot]

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.

Most of your post was indecipherable, but I gather that you felt that the religious aspect of the show somehow took away from Galactica, but anyone who has ever actually paid attention while watching BSG would know that religion was a central division between the Cylons and the Colonials. Caprica helped to establish the reasons behind that division.

[Southern Patriot]

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

I don't find it all that far fetched at all. How many people today really think much about terrorist groups that were active in the 1960s? And if a new threat cropped up today, would you automatically associate it with one of those groups? And remember that Caprica (the show) was mainly focused on 3 of the 12 colonies, so the majority of people might not have even heard of the STO.

[Rappy Veteran]

it ends tonight! :(

[*RedBull*]

it ends tonight! :(

:woot: Let's hope so..

So say we all.

:p

[Southern Patriot]

it ends tonight! :(

Well, actually it ended over a month ago in Canada.

[Rappy Veteran]

Well, actually it ended over a month ago in Canada.

well yeah but technically for the rest of the Americas it ended last night :p

[Guest]

I didn't know it was still going :s

I think the last episode I saw ended in some kind of high speed chase. How many episodes were there after that? I thought that was the last one!

[Frylock86]

I didn't know it was still going :s

I think the last episode I saw ended in some kind of high speed chase. How many episodes were there after that? I thought that was the last one!

That's exactly what did it in. Syfy split the season up by almost a year, if not more. What you saw was the mid season finale!

Eitherway, I'm ****ed off this show got cancelled. Meanwhile, shows like "Jersey Shore" And all that other nonsense on TV today lives on...

[Southern Patriot]

Meanwhile, shows like "Jersey Shore" And all that other nonsense on TV today lives on...

Wanna know why? Money. "Reality" shows are cheap to produce, and the people that appear on them are no-name "actors" (if you can even give them that much credit) who get paid a fraction of what even a b-list actor (such as those that appear on most SyFy series) makes. Hell, some reality show stars probably get paid in an entire season what an actor on Caprica got for a single episode. And of course there are the production costs as well (lets face it, Jersy Shore or American Idol can probably spend less in TWO seasons than the special effects budget of a single episode of Stargate, BSG, or Caprica).

[Rappy Veteran]

Caprica star Eric Stoltz has suggested that Battlestar Galactica fans were not happy with the show.

The actor, who played Daniel Graystone in the recently axed spinoff, told Den of Geek that the association with Battlestar hurt the series.

"I don't think [the show] was what the majority of Battlestar fans wanted," he claimed. "It probably would've served us all better to have not even been connected to it."

Stoltz admitted that he had been anticipating the show's cancellation prior to Syfy's October announcement.

"The fear of cancellation was always hanging over us like the sword of Damacles," he said. "We'd gotten used to it. In a way it sort of fuelled us on."

He added: "I'm blisfully unaware of any [fan] reaction at all, but I'm always a little afraid for the future of anything out of the ordinary."

Stoltz also revealed that there are elements from the series that he would have liked to have changed.

"It's rare for a show to find itself in the first season," he suggested. "I'm sure we were off balance at times, and I'm sure I would change a few things if I had that power, but I've moved on."

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[Frylock86]

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I disagree. After all, it would have had a connection to Battlestar eitherway.

[pzykotic]

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.

Did you ever watch the original Battlestar Galactica? The entire series was inspired by the Mormon faith of the creator.

Here's a couple of things I've noticed:

BSG/LDS - Both have a chrorum or "council of the twelve" and both have a "first presidency"

BSG Originates on Kobol whereas God in Mormonism lives near a planet called "Kolob"

Names:

Cain, Adama, Sheeba and Lucifer.

[Southern Patriot]

I disagree. After all, it would have had a connection to Battlestar eitherway.

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure how he figured that the show could NOT be connected to BSG unless they completely changed the story. And just because he's "blissfully unaware" of any fan reaction doesn't mean that there isn't one. Just another case of an actor who is completely out of touch with reality.

[Frylock86]

Honestly, I think Caprica was just too smart for people. :/

[Southern Patriot]

Honestly, I think Caprica was just too smart for people. :/

Exactly. It required more than a few functioning brain cells, a little knowledge of religious history, and an attention span greater than 10 seconds. Unforunately, few American TV viewers (and even fewer network executives) meet these prerequisites.

[Rappy Veteran]

Honestly, I think Caprica was just too smart for people. :/

yeah that's the problem really it was to clever for its own good but I still rank it as one of my favourite series

[bolerodan]

well, I was a fan of those last episodes. Pretty disappointed they canned the series. Seems to be the pattern these days. It also looks like they did there best to tie up loose endings with the story in the remaining episodes. You will be missed Caprica.

[sc302 Veteran]

I wish the new bsg kept with the original bsg. I rather enjoyed the 70's original, as silly as it was.

[Southern Patriot]

I wish the new bsg kept with the original bsg. I rather enjoyed the 70's original, as silly as it was.

I watched both series recently, and I thought that the changes they made were for the most part good, and helped the story. Making Starbuck a female could have gone either way (if they wanted to do that, she really should have been more slutty rather than butch, but whatever), but the changes they did with Baltar were great.

[treemonster]

That's exactly what did it in. Syfy split the season up by almost a year, if not more. What you saw was the mid season finale!

Eitherway, I'm ****ed off this show got cancelled. Meanwhile, shows like "Jersey Shore" And all that other nonsense on TV today lives on...

seems to be this thing with sci fi shows to ruin their audiences by splitting them up so much. BSG handled it well enough but BSG was a rarity topped only by star trek TNG, and TNG had the benefit of no split seasons and airing on several channels even in the same region due to being syndicated.

Did you ever watch the original Battlestar Galactica? The entire series was inspired by the Mormon faith of the creator.

Here's a couple of things I've noticed:

BSG/LDS - Both have a chrorum or "council of the twelve" and both have a "first presidency"

BSG Originates on Kobol whereas God in Mormonism lives near a planet called "Kolob"

Names:

Cain, Adama, Sheeba and Lucifer.

yep, most people don't know. me knowing this it was interesting to see how they incorporated religion into BSG.

I watched both series recently, and I thought that the changes they made were for the most part good, and helped the story. Making Starbuck a female could have gone either way (if they wanted to do that, she really should have been more slutty rather than butch, but whatever), but the changes they did with Baltar were great.

i've only seen a few epsiodes of the original but they were just so... but it was interesting seeing different things from the original series transformed in the reimagined series. the ship of lights or w/e for instance translating into the final five for example, and

there's an epsiode in the original where starbuck dies and is brought back too, in the epsiode with the ship of lights iirc

anyone seen the original BSG special where they reach earth and it's the 80s? just so hilariously bad.

[Frylock86]

anyone seen the original BSG special where they reach earth and it's the 80s? just so hilariously bad.

I honestly think the original was just bad all around, yeah, they had some good ideas, but it was 70's TV. "Hey, we just lost our homes to a holocaust..... LET'S GO TO THE CASINO PLANET!" :laugh:

[sc302 Veteran]

Next....Buck Rogers Reboot

http://io9.com/5510124/buck-rogers-movie-will-play-it-straight-and-be-based-on-the-comic-strip

[Southern Patriot]

anyone seen the original BSG special where they reach earth and it's the 80s? just so hilariously bad.

It wasn't just a special, it was a full season of the series, called Galactica 1980. And yes, it was horrible, which is why I didn't even bother with watching it when I did my BSG marathon a few months back.

[kaffra]

Final five episodes were pretty good, but the first half was perhaps too slow.

[Rappy Veteran]

The final five episodes of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel, aired on Syfy back-to-back last Tuesday and we've got the ratings for them. Sadly for the cancelled series there was no last minute hurrah in terms of ratings - none of the final five episodes broke the million mark or really came close. So what are the ratings for the final five episodes? Well the 5th episode had 528,000 viewers. The fourth episode had 671,000 viewers with the third pulling in 703,000 viewers. The penultimate episode of Caprica saw a drop to 618,000 viewers while the finale pulled in 782,000 viewers - the prequel's best performance of the evening.