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slashfilm.com — A trailer for the Battlestar Galactica prequel television movie Caprica has been released online.

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  • TeKFX, on 07/22/2008, -42/+4From the makers of Battlestar Galactica. Not THE Battlestar Galactica. Garbage. Keep this stupid ***** off digg
    • rearlgrant, on 07/22/2008, -3/+15Since this is digg, I'll say this: Dumbest comment I've read on digg.
    • maxsunset, on 07/22/2008, -2/+3WTFS: watch the ***** show
  • BobMac, on 07/22/2008, -1/+85Not at all what I was expecting
    • antdude, on 07/22/2008, -2/+14Yeah, trailer didn't grab me. I will still check it out, but this is not looking good.
    • kooft, on 07/22/2008, -2/+7Unfortunately Caprica isn't going to be like current BSG is (i.e., with long story arcs that span entire seasons). One of Sci-Fi's gripes was that, even though BSG is an award winning show, it wasn't winning new viewers. Caprica is going to be a more topical show, similar to Stargate SG-1/SG-A or Star Trek. You can just jump in whenever and won't be too lost.
      • Stormwern, on 07/22/2008, -2/+9Quote? Since BSG was such a success and Caprica is looking to be alot cheaper, I'm pretty sure Ron Moore will get to do whatever he wants with this one.
      • bloodomen13, on 07/22/2008, -0/+27SciFi Channel has stated for years that they want their shows to be more episodic as opposed to operatic so that they can draw in viewers 'whenever'. But this also has the opposite effect in that viewers can 'leave' whenever.

        Give me a show where I have a vested interest in the character and story development... I won't miss an episode.

        The operatic complaint was cited as one of the reasons by the SciFi execs for the cancellation of Farscape. I was surprised that they allowed BSG to be so operatic.
      • drlha, on 07/22/2008, -11/+1bloodomen13: I don't think "operatic" is the word you're after.
      • spaceman84, on 07/22/2008, -7/+6And Stargate is utter *****. ***** McGuyver wandering around in the Canadian wilderness acting like a retard. Yeah, that was a great show.
      • jonsangster, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9According to Wikipedia (big note: it's marked [citation needed]):
        "According to a statement by Ron Moore in the Season 3 Companion book, the proposed Caprica prequel series will have a story-arc-heavy format like its predecessor; a large reason why the network is reluctant to greenlight the series is because story-arc-heavy series notoriously have difficulty in picking up new viewers, as compared to a series composed of mostly standalone episodes."
    • WriterSD, on 07/22/2008, -2/+7It's not what I was expecting either, but it looks amazing to me.
    • CColtManM, on 07/22/2008, -9/+1What were you expecting?

      Why so serious?
    • fadetoone, on 07/22/2008, -7/+1It's exactly what I was expecting, pure and utter boredom.
    • JKAL, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5Completely agree, but maybe for a different reason... is this a reboot of BSG? seriously, in the current series they are very shocked to find out that the Cylons look human, they really do not believe it, yet with this new Prequel, it was known a whole generation ago?
      Any one care to explain or point me to where to read up on this? I really would like to know, thanks.

      edit: Actually come to think of it, did the Cylons not evolve by them selves to look human? now they are saying humans did it?
  • Cossa, on 07/22/2008, -1/+60Blogspam.

    http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category= ...

    Looks interesting!!
    • rearlgrant, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3Thank you.
    • Fratz, on 07/22/2008, -0/+19Maybe I'm becoming a grumpy old man, but why the hell do I have to watch an ad (for Outback Steakhouse) just so I can watch an ad for a TV show?
      • SkippyDoorknob, on 07/22/2008, -2/+13That's part of the show. They have Outback Steakhouses on Caprica.
  • sanman, on 07/22/2008, -10/+2Zoe?
    She's not even hot
  • TGMD, on 07/22/2008, -1/+29Badass... I hope they explain cylon monotheism
    • Stormwern, on 07/22/2008, -0/+13I'm still hoping they'll explain that in BSG, still 10 episodes to go.
      • ptsuk, on 07/22/2008, -13/+4The cylons were created by Reptilian people not man.

        just one of the many things the new bsg gets it wrong.

        but honestly did you think they'd be done with the BSG franchise after this next season. Hell no. They're going to milk it for all its worth. Expect to have more characters be "hot" 20+ somethings in tight colonial gear or designer outfits and then make no sense for the first 30 episodes

        ;)
    • jonsangster, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4You do? Really?

      I always get bummed out when shows are explained to death.
    • thetron, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Also the sudden reason to walk around naked
    • NeoCortex, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2I'm hoping they explain why in Galactica everyone was surprised that there were human-looking Cyclons. Apparently they had ones exactly like them over 50 years prior.
      • boombye, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Maybe the only persons who knew were Joseph Adama and that Graystone guy.
  • weboptimist, on 07/22/2008, -1/+8I dunno. Not what I was expecting, either. I'll have to wait and see...
  • RavenRed, on 07/22/2008, -24/+1battlestar sucks though..
  • SuperWinner, on 07/22/2008, -15/+37Looks more boring than the last half of BSG season 3...
    • spaceman84, on 07/22/2008, -11/+4And more retarded than the current season.
    • Lososaurus, on 07/22/2008, -2/+17I think you mean the middle of season 3 because the beginning and Baltar's trial were awesome.
    • antoniuk, on 07/22/2008, -3/+7Complaining just to complain are we? Well do not worry, you are indeed special for not liking BSG.

      Now frak off skin job!
  • project46, on 07/22/2008, -6/+9I don't think I will be watching this on tv or downloading
  • damian7, on 07/22/2008, -11/+42Where's the sci-fi?

    I love BSG, but this looks like *****

    Can the writers/team just concentrate on the actual series...I know it's tempting to milk the show, look at how they're ruining Heroes...
    • ninetimes, on 07/22/2008, -1/+13The story is apparently about a guy who, after his daughter dies, decides to replace her with a robot. Sounds like SciFi to me.
      • DiggGeek24, on 07/22/2008, -0/+9Ronald D. More has said many times that "Caprica" will be a "Dallas" style show very little sci-fi it will be a family drama.
      • damian7, on 07/22/2008, -5/+9Sounds like ***** to me.

      • DiggGeek24, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1I agree "Caprica" will be like the teen drama on the CW except on another planet
      • SkippyDoorknob, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6Is the robot daughter named Vickie?
      • boombye, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1No it's Zoe. Not only Zoe, but Adama lost a daughter named Tamara too... They all die because of Zoe's bf Ben who's been brainwashed into radical monotheism.
    • DyceFreak, on 07/22/2008, -4/+2if the story gets too broken and twisted at the end to make any more money... they just start from the beginning.
      Remember Enterprise? Batman Begins?
      Isn't there an origins of Wolverine movie coming out soon?

      ***** ridiculous if you ask me... Damn you Star Wars...
    • greendelta, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1I think they've finished shooting almost everything for the remainder of season 4 of BSG by now, and the scripts have been done for months. In addition, it's far from a full overlap between the lead people responsible for the two, so I don't think there's much negative impact to the actual BSG series.
    • Xocide, on 07/23/2008, -3/+1Yes, it does look like *****.
  • dynamojoe, on 07/22/2008, -1/+71Spoiler alert: In a few decades, everyone dies.
    I hate prequels.
    • tomato3017, on 07/22/2008, -4/+15Spoiler Alert: The machines will betray them
      • ipoopy, on 07/22/2008, -1/+26and they have a plan
      • Adelhas, on 07/23/2008, -1/+7Eight are known, Three live in secret, One will be revealed.
  • DiggGeek24, on 07/22/2008, -0/+19Ronald D. More has said many times that "Caprica" will be a "Dallas" style show very little sci-fi

    Tone Of 'Caprica' Will Be More Like 'Dallas' Than 'Galactica
    http://www.syfyportal.com/news424840.html

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  • ekSD, on 07/22/2008, -2/+14I really wish they would focus on the last part of BSG so that it can come out sometime early 2009.

    How the hell can you start a show that is based on a show that's not finished, but might be finished.

    But not really.

    WTF SciFi?
    • DiggGeek24, on 07/22/2008, -4/+3"Caprica" takes place 60 years before BSG
      • ekSD, on 07/22/2008, -1/+4I was referring to SciFi splitting their manpower/resources/time and making a new series on something that's not even done yet.

        But yeah, a prequel sounds interesting, with cylons, guns, and explosions, but a family feud is just another romeo and juliet waiting to happen.
    • MrFunions, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Actually they finished shooting BSG. Too bad they won't air it until next year
    • REBELinBLUE, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Actually BSG is finished, they are in post production right now and there really is no reason that they can't show it in the autumn (for example when SGA breaks), but Sci-fi are holding it back to milk it.

      I'm hoping Sky One will show it sooner, as they had done for years with the second half of SGA and SG1 seasons, but I doubt it, given that Sci-fi kicked up a fuss when they ended up a few days ahead in the first half.
  • tomato3017, on 07/22/2008, -1/+11Anyone know when the last half of BSG season 4 is airing?
  • fleischner, on 07/22/2008, -5/+36Is it me, or did you think that without the name "Adama" being mentioned, it wouldn't have had *anything* to do with BSG at all?
    • Crashwithuhk, on 07/22/2008, -0/+17You know except for the fact that it's all about the creation of cylons and all...
      • hackiavelli, on 07/23/2008, -2/+4I'm pretty sure the Cylons are much older than the period Caprica takes place in (Battlestarwiki.org says they existed long before the 12 Colonies were even unified).
      • REBELinBLUE, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3Are you sure you aren't talking about the original BSG, where they were made by a race of reptiles also known as Cylons?

        In the re-imagined series the colonials created the Cylons whilst Bill Adama was a young boy (indeed the first Cylon is suppose to be based on his sister)

        I'm interested to see how they go from human form to walking 'toasters', especially considering everyone is shocked that the Cylons look like humans in BSG. My guess is that the colonials (or the few that know about, what I am assuming at first is, top secret research) decide that robots looking human like will make people uncomfortable or will just make them dangerous.

        I'm still not sure about Caprica myself but I'll watch at least the premiere to see how it goes.
    • RautenkranzMT, on 07/22/2008, -1/+4And don't forget that one of the main characters is Joseph Adama, Bill Adama's father.
  • CColtManM, on 07/22/2008, -4/+10Well, if you think about Deep Space Nine, or TNG for the most part, drama and character interactions were paramount over technology.

    This movie seems to follow that to a point as well as carrying similarities to a "Blade Runner" type movie where technology plays a character into itself.
    • DiggGeek24, on 07/22/2008, -4/+3Except Ronald D. More has said many times that "Caprica" will be a "Dallas" style show with very little sci-fi the show will be 95% shippers etc. 5% about the cylons.
    • spaceman84, on 07/22/2008, -8/+2Blade Runner? ***** you. This looks like garbage compared to Blade Runner.
      • CColtManM, on 07/22/2008, -1/+5You look like garbage. Learn to rebut.
      • Diggnabbit, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3Everything looks like garbage compared to Blade Runner. BSG looks like garbage compared to Blade Runner, and BSG is awesome.
  • matero5009, on 07/22/2008, -1/+18I bet Dwight Schrute is really excited
  • Kruse, on 07/22/2008, -1/+61Some pretty good sideboob action in there.
    • drlha, on 07/22/2008, -2/+28I'm pretty damn sure I saw nipple, so it goes beyond sideboob.
    • mojoel, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1"There's a good chance you'll see naked." - Tigh
  • therearenorules, on 07/22/2008, -1/+4wow, i'm watching the last two episodes of the fourth season right now
    • fuzzmeister, on 07/22/2008, -0/+12Those episodes were simply mindblowing. The wait for the 2nd half of the season is going to be annoying.
      • doctordbx, on 07/23/2008, -5/+0Yup. It blew my mind how you could take a pretty ***** cool show about a bunch or merciless robots who have all but wiped out humanity and look human, whilst the human race struggle to survive under the hand of the military, who really don't have much beyond a kickass battlestar and a bunch of old retarded vipers but great salt of the earth pilots... and turn it into a piece of ***** religious bog roll.
  • ckasprzak, on 07/22/2008, -2/+3Dunno, I'm in the middle on this one. Love the series but don't know if I could love this, but on the other hand this could pull me just like the 2003 series did.
    • DiggGeek24, on 07/22/2008, -7/+2Ronald D. More has said many times that "Caprica" will be a "Dallas" style show with very little sci-fi
      • tenio, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3yes, we know, this is like the 5th time someone posted that
      • REBELinBLUE, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Not "someone", it is DiggGeek24 posting it everytime ;)

        We get it already, shut up now!
  • cgibbo, on 07/22/2008, -2/+0wat? nerd sox.
  • Stormwern, on 07/22/2008, -0/+15To clarify, Caprica is not a prequel like Razor was. It's a drama series placed in the BSG universe entailing events referenced in BSG, but it has a completely new cast and it's not really sci-fi.
    • DiggGeek24, on 07/22/2008, -7/+0"Caprica" will be a "Dallas" style show with very little sci-fi
    • ronintetsuro, on 07/23/2008, -3/+2Right. All aboard the failboat. Destination?

      Sucktowne.
    • boombye, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Cool, don't mind an adult drama that takes place on another planet and is about corporate espionage and stuff like that..
  • kenedamick, on 07/22/2008, -7/+9Boooooorrrrrrrriiiiing.
  • Marlon, on 07/22/2008, -2/+9To whoever's knocking it -- WHATEVER, we'll *all* be watching and DLing the movie as soon as it hits

    @kruse the sideboob went way too fast
  • Unimatrix0, on 07/22/2008, -3/+7This is gonna tank big time. It's not science fiction (what's up Sci-Fi channel?), just a soap opera.

    On a side note: Because of the way the Sci-Fi channel has mis-handled BSG, more specifically, breaking some of the season in half, making us wait between seasons has really ticked me off. After waiting for 14 months for the start of season 4, we get half a season then have to wait another 8 months to get the last 10 episodes?!?! This practice has caused me to launch a personal boycott of the sci-fi channel. I wont watch ANY new shows on the sci-fi channel. I will wait until the shows complete their runs then come out on DVD.
    • 37RUSSK4N, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2Its not really just the sci-fi channel in particular , man.. Its all of syndicated TV. They seem to think this is totally what viewers want ( or will gladly put up with ) and exactly the reason i dont watch tv on tv. Commercials, season gaps, reruns - no thanks, chumps !
    • Zuggy, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2First that's not really a boycott, they still get your money just from the DVD's instead of from advertising. In fact they will make more money on the DVD sale then the few bucks that equate to your share of the advertising cost

      Second the reason the season got split was the writer's strike. Not just the fact that it happened but during the strike, Moore decided to redo the whole second half of the season.
      • REBELinBLUE, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Sci-fi had talked about splitting it up like this long before the writers strike, and even so the episodes are currently in post production and will be ready to start showing soon (in fact I suspect that they could start them now and the remaining episodes will be finished by the time they get to having to air them) so holding it back until January 2009 is just a way of milking it.
    • Taiyoryu, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Isn't having a choice great?

      I can't wait to see which network will figure out how to do a world-wide release, already dubbed/subbed if needed, as soon as it comes out of post-production. Sounds eerily familiar now doesn't it?
    • WebmastuhB, on 07/23/2008, -1/+0Good for you Unimatrix0. What these networks are doing is ridiculous. They should be punished for toying with their fans/customers.

      Besides most of the "new shows" on SciFi are total crap anyway. Although I never even watched it, my wife and I STILL make jokes about the "Manquito" commercial we once saw.
    • ronintetsuro, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Use the torrents, Luke...
  • Meursault, on 07/22/2008, -2/+4Big BSG fan, but have zero interest in this. I'm not a huge fan of prequels in general.
  • spaceman84, on 07/22/2008, -4/+3Esai Morales as Adama's father? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That guy is utterly terrible and exactly the same in everything he's ever been in. Sure the resemblance is there, but that is a truly awful choice for Joseph Adama.

    On the other hand, it does have Trixie from Deadwood...
    • hackiavelli, on 07/23/2008, -1/+4I thought he was good in Jericho.
  • RebornInFlames, on 07/22/2008, -12/+5Well since they managed to ruin BSG in season 3-4 after such a brilliant start, I'm not holding my breath on this one
  • timothycrash01, on 07/22/2008, -3/+2Eric Stoltz is a Daywalker! Avoid! Gingerkids are inherently evil, have no souls, and are unable to walk around during the day because of this.
  • psylence, on 07/22/2008, -6/+3All aboard the letdown express... Ugh.
  • sark666, on 07/22/2008, -1/+6I had no clue what this series was about, I thought it was the first cylon war. I thought we'd see the first war, and the beginnings/birth of the flesh cylons.

    I guess I applaud them for going in a new direction, it's not necessarily the direction I was hoping for. It seems like dressing a soap opera with BSG clothing.
    • boombye, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Cool part is it will involve mob like gangsters, corporate espionage, and still tackle the ethical questions of 'should we be tampering' with people's souls and stuff...It will still have that ai/robot element to it...
  • crc77, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1They would have been better off not trying to make it BG-related (where'd the S come from, people? Battlestar is one word!). I think it would be more likely to get an audience without being linked. At this rate the BG fans will say "no thanks" and non-BG fans will probably not even check it out.
    • WebmastuhB, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Yeah, but Battlestar is a concatenation of two words, so I can see it. B-S-G... Plus, BSG is common vernacular, so I use it. I don't see the point of using BG.
  • jordan1, on 07/22/2008, -0/+9my wife might like this
  • jedinate, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Too early to tell, but it could be good if they focus on whether or not the daughter is human/has a soul, which could lead to interesting thoughts regarding the current Cylons OR it could be crappy family drama, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
    • boombye, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Well it also has corporate espionage between Graystones and this dude Vargas from Tauran, and there's also mob like gangsters who Joseph Adam's associates with.
  • McKoKslarge, on 07/22/2008, -3/+2so say we all----frakin bsg nerds
  • aballrap, on 07/22/2008, -6/+1bears,beats,battlestar Galactica
  • DarkReign16, on 07/22/2008, -5/+3= / looks boring and uninteresting. And I'm a HUGE BSG fan.
  • IronChef69, on 07/22/2008, -5/+5That looked more like Craprica.
  • Diggnabbit, on 07/22/2008, -0/+9I don't know why everyone is SO negative about this. So it looks like it will have a little more emphasis on interpersonal drama than BSG (not that BSG doesn't make a lot of hay out of interpersonal drama). It still has fairly central sci-fi issues/characteristics (creating humanoid robots and all). Just because it's not all spaceships and FTL doesn't mean that it's going to suck.
    • boombye, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Yeah I totally love that it's also going to be about Gangsters that Joseph has to deal time to time, and Graystone's corporate espionage.
  • mosata, on 07/22/2008, -3/+4F*sck this. Stop screwing around and give us the last half of the season you already owe us. That was the cheapest move in the HISTORY of television. Please let someone leak the last couple of seasons before next year so we can pirate them and not have to be held hostage by SciFi. They did this to try to force sales of the DVDs since we all know that was the reason for the strike. If we don't buy them then we are hurting the writers and giving SciFi and the other networks more power. Too bad it takes them 6-10 months to finally release a DVD and you KNOW they are going to do that Season 4.5 garbage again to milk it even more. SciFi sucks, always has always will. After this it's back to making BS made for TV movies that look like all the effects were done in video toaster. Good riddance.
    • ronintetsuro, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2They did the same ***** with Razor. I saw it on the night it premiered and IMEMDIATELY after the movie was done, you know what the audience got? A COMMERCIAL for the Razor DVD with BONUS SCENES NOT INCLUDED IN THE MOVIE YOU JUST GOT DONE WATCHING. And then they gave us a teaser scene.

      What. The. *****?
    • boombye, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1You're so right. They're going to release Season 4 on dvd in two halves just like they did with Season 2 just so they can get more money out of the one season.
  • ChunkyLover36, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2From the makers of Battlestar Galactica comes Dramastar Galactica. Its all that and a whole lot less.
  • Xerodog, on 07/23/2008, -1/+11This trailer makes the current BSG even worse. In the first season of BSG they were surprised to find out that there were skin jobs. Yet this trailer shows one! If they existed 50 years ago in "Caprica", why would they be surprised in BSG?
    • asurroca, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3I don't see how putting someone's consciousness into a robot/clone is the same as robots evolving by themselves into skinjobs?
    • Archer007, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7Because they'll be secret and not disclosed to the public if even the military.
  • swaters210, on 07/23/2008, -2/+2I was going to say this looks like a trailer rehash using scenes from Bryan Singer's "Triangle" and it was a big "haha i get it" if you know what I mean, but after reading the comments, this looks like the real deal!? Looks cheaper than the BSG series even though I never really got into the series. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy some of the episodes and last season's finale which rocked!
  • futureisours, on 07/23/2008, -2/+3WTF is this crap? There are so many other projects that sci-fi can invest money in. How about bringing back Firefly, Jericho, hell maybe another Babylon 5 spin off series or Jeremiah. I can't believe this garbage! This belongs on CBS right after Big Brother.
    • tenio, on 07/23/2008, -2/+1i totally agree, i mean this barley even constitutes sci-fi
  • gpan, on 07/23/2008, -0/+8I'm disappointed that there appear to be no octagonal picture frames in the show. So much for attention-to-detail.
  • zrang, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1I wonder if Meredith Baxter or Valerie Bertinelli are gonna be in this...

    Hmm...
  • l4stgunslinger, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2I think that the best way to look at this is as a "side-plot" to BSG. Simply set in the BSG universe.

    But, if BSG's writers keep doing what they've kicked ass at, this will seriously rule.

    Dugg.
  • fingger, on 07/23/2008, -1/+5Caprica: BSG90210
  • quidpro, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2I'm so glad everyone who says "it's not science fiction" are people that have nothing to do with what science fiction can or should or would be.
    • boombye, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Most of these people think there's no sci fi in this show, when most of it revolves around Graystone's corporate espionage, creating a robot daughter based on an ai he finds, and some cloak and dagger stuff, also mobsters too. It'll be about legalities and ethics as well. Not much of a family show like these people seem to think, it will be about families, but these families are going thru some loss.
  • WhoWatches, on 07/23/2008, -5/+4I'm sorry but that just looks like bad British television.
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