If you’re not watching the first season run of Caprica, then you are truly missing out on a great new TV show. Folks who want or expect it to be Battlestar Galactica — the beloved series for which Caprica is a prequel to — will for the most part be disappointed, but for anyone open to a new kind of show set in that world, it’s really starting to stand up on its own two man-made legs.
Due to the undying popularity of Galactica and the growing popularity of Caprica, not to mention the spinoff movies that have been produced so far, it comes as no surprise that SyFy has a desire to create yet another spinoff series, and is exploring any possible options that there may be with Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore (and probably David Eick).
SyFy’s Executive VP of Development, Mark Stern, had this to say:
We’re looking for other ways to spin off Battlestar beyond Caprica.
That world is so rich. We’re sitting down with (executive producer) Ron Moore and his team. It would not necessarily be a traditional series.
Now, I’m not sure what he means by it not being traditional, but the main mystery here has to be where they could go with it.
Caprica is set 50 years prior to BSG, so you basically either bring everyone back and continue from where they left off, OR, they could probably make a decent series that takes the characters of Galactica and tells their story before the Cylons wiped out humanity.
I fully understand the reasoning behind ending the show when they did to fortify their story, but I’ll take what I can get here…especially if it brings back the cast from BSG, whom I miss dearly.
I suppose they could go to a completely different ship, or a completely different part of that world with all new characters and their stories, but to be honest — and this is just one fan speaking — I don’t have all that much desire to keep meeting new characters. I’d rather just keep getting direct-to-DVD movies that allow me to hang out with the old cast, if given a choice.
What part of the Battlestar Galactica timeline would you like to see a new spinoff series take place?
[Source: THR]
Re Caprica –
Why not explore the other colonies? Serious – Cap is starting to go that way anyway, why not follow some of the other characters who came from, say, Gemnon or whatnot and follow them like they’re doing to the Capricans? Or do like a ST gig and go back to the formation of the 12 colonies – I mean, the society had to come from Somewhere, after all – they’re COLONIES. Colonies of what, or who?
There’s the even better one – what society DID the 12 colonies come from – and while we’re following this little pie slice, what happened to the home world that sent out the original colonists? How did they even FIND the 12 worlds to colonize? What caused the socio-economic development of the colonies, that made Cap the de-facto capital, and worlds like Tauron an agrarian planet?
There’s a HUGE backstory in there, you just have to develop and mine it!
The 12 Colonies are the twelve colonies of Kobul. Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica is pretty centered around Kobul, and the origin of humanities 12 (13 if including Earth) colonies. Most of the histroy HAS been explained, however i think the only interesting part of the BSG universe would be the First Cylon War. Also it would be a great way to promote Caprica seeing as the events in Caprica presumably lead to the first Cylon war.
I’m all for the BSG cast coming back I think there are ways that it could continue. Cabal could have had resurrection ship somewhere else smaller tucked away knowing that he might have to slip away. Evil geniuses do that sorta thing, Also and the best part Boomer could come back and completely reform.
That’s BSG I’d watch.
I just can’t get into Caprica. It’s violating to much canon and it’s too much like a daytime soap.
how about battlestar galactica during the first cylon war. that would be cool to check out.
there were about 5.000 people left on new caprica after the exodus
or rescue
they were left without the resources of the fleet and the cylons
i would really love to know what became of them
I think more DVD movies from the series timeline are a great idea. Barring this, I would like to see the run up to the fall of the 12 colonies. I think seeing more of the Cylons preparation for the attack, and the viewpoint of the Colonials (especially things like Novacek’s ill fated stealth star flight in Hero) would be a great story line.
As Mark Stern says: it is such a rich world with so many story possibilities. I’m just glad that Moore and Eick are involved.
I’d like to see Caprica or new spin off series to explore Kobol, and the first humanoid cylons. I’d like to know what becomes of the red stripe centurions. Do they make their way back to old Earth and pick D’Anna up, and make her their leader? (She’s amazing in Spartacus btw). What actually became of the original Earth centurions, given that they destroyed their humanoid cylon creators. Where did they go? Did D’Anna manage to reawaken some of the old centurions? How long do humanoid cylons actually live for anyway?
The Old Testament describes people living for 900 years, and the Sumerian civilization describes their ‘gods’ the Anunnaki (Those who from heaven to earth came) as not only having created man in their image and likeness, but as living for hundreds of thousands of years. (Almost every story in the Old Testament comes from the Sumerians 3500-6000 BC). Those people that hate the BSG ending and the religious overtones, obviously haven’t read anything by Zecharia Sitchin or Erich Von Daniken yet. God and the gods were beings from Nibiru, the 10th planet in the solar system, and beyond, with technology that to primitive humans, even bronze age humans, was supernatural in appearance.
Anyway. One thing that Caprica sorely needs are humanoid cylons. Not the v-world avatars, but the humanoid cylon robots. It also needs to pick up the pace, and become an action adventure series, not simply a slow-as-the Sopranos affair. Yawn, Tony Soprano in bath robe waddles over to the fridge, finds the owange juice is finished, shouts where’s da owange juice…yawn…(who gives a giant frack?) Caprica needs politics, double dealing, and treachery. It needs some interplanetary action, just to give us some space-based action. It needs to explain where the significant seven cylons came from. Their DNA came from the final five, but what about their personalities? Obviously, their personalities were once housed inside centurion bodies, and by implication, were before that, avatars in the V-world. Which means that the significant seven were actually real people at one point. If Caprica can’t have humanoid cylons, couldn’t we still have Leoben, Six, Boomer etc in their original human form, before their minds are somehow copied into centurion bodies?
Will we ever see aliens in the BSG universe? Will we ever discover who or what exactly God, the Angels / Head characters and the Gods are? Are they aliens? Super-cylons? The avatars created on Kobol? Or are they an intelligence billions of years older than anything humans or cylons have seen before?
One other thing I’d like to see change in Caprica. The music. Bear McCreary is a genius, but despite the fact that he now has a full orchestra to play with, the classical feel to the music, the lack of percussion and ethnic instruments is a real loss. Surely a burgeoning city is a cultural center,with lots of different influences. The music is great, but like the writing and the performances, doesn’t quite have the grit or depth yet that BSG had. If Battlestar Galactica is a spicy taco, Caprica is a watery salad. I know from her tweets how Jane Espenson loves food, so I thought I’d throw in a food metaphor :) Is it a deliberate attempt to make a BSG-set series palatable enough for network tv, and watery enough to last for 7 or 8 seasons?
Dillon: “most of the history has been explained”. Actually very little of Kobol’s history, or first Earth’s history has been explained, beyond the fact that the 13 tribes were forced to leave Kobol, 12 of them finding the 12 planets, and 13th tribe leave the system altogether and discovering the original Earth.
No explanation has been given as to who or what the ‘gods’ were that lived alongside the humans and cylons on Kobol before it fell. No explanation for where they went. FYI, Kobol is an anagram of Kolob, which according to the controversial Mormon church is the home world of God (Glen A Larson, like George Lucas, was brought up Mormon). The Mormon Church was established in the 1830 by Joseph Smith, a modern self proclaimed prophet. The Church had a millitary wing in the 1830s, leading to a small war, and has been criticised for advocating having more than one partner, homophobia, and racism. The Chuch has changed with the times, somewhat though, and there are many African American members of the Mormon Church, though they seem to be blissfully ignorant about their Church’s racist past. Go figure. The other odd thing, is that with recent discoveries and translations of ancient texts by Zecharia Sitchin, the idea of humanity living alongside divine beings, a planet of God and his divine attendants, of humanity evolving towards being Gods themselves, all have striking similarities to the ancient Sumerians accounts of the Anunnaki, a similarity that the Mormon Church dismisses, even though almost every story in the Old Testament originated in the Sumerian civilization (later becoming the Babylonian and Assyrian civlizations).
Ok so here is my Idea I agree that a Kobol story needs to be told or even a pre-Kobol story. I say pre because when the fleet arrive on earth they find a “primitive human” race living there. This would also help to explain some of the current gaps in the fossil record here on current earth. ie the “gods” come to earth and discover humanity in an early form evolve them and take those evolved to Kobol harmony in sues. until the humans mentally evolve and turn on the “gods” for allowing Hephaestus to create the automatons (cylons) both centurion and human form. war breaks out on Kobol the Automatons (cylons) flee Kobol in the early days of the war in fear that the humans will destroy them. the remaining 12 tribes remain and battle until the planet is all but destroyed save the city of the Gods. as the 12 tribes depart a final insult to the gods themselves they bombard the planet (possibly with nukes) and make way for the colonies. a small battle group is sent to earth to finish what was started in the war and plants the seed of descent between the human form and centurion cylons. thus earth is destroyed. upon reaching the colonies it is decided to not be space faring to protect the sovereignty of the individual colonies. that lasts for 500 years until the discovery of Tylium. and we know the rest….fast forward 1500 years give or take a decade or two we have just ended the first Cylon war a paranoid group of military leaders on each of the 12 worlds decide that the loss of 15 billion people in the first war was a tragedy what if the Cyclons come back? so they put a plan in place to protect humanity from extinction (much the way the super-powers did here in the cold war years) and build protected bunkers manned and supported at all times by the minimum number of people to be able to repopulate the planets should a new war break out. the stations would be carefully selected and the personnel would form the building blocks of the new colonies if (by earth DNA records) we are descended from approx 75,000 people about 75,000 years ago, then conceivably between 50,000 to 80,000 per colony would be sufficient to repopulate the colonies. given 150,000 years the populous of the colonies would be more then that of the pre-fall colonies.