A Battlestar Galactica Prequel Series on the Way

kumasame writes "The Sci Fi Channel has announced it will create a prequel to Battlestar Galactica, as the series enters its final season. The two-hour pilot for the production, called Caprica, is expected to be shot in Vancouver this spring with shooting for the series to follow. The first episodes are expected to air this fall. In a Q&A session held yesterday, the creators and stars of the show revealed a number of tidbits of information about the new show and last season of BSG."

Warning: Spoilers

[alnya]

Just in case you haven't seen the complete last series, there are some major spoilers in the linked article.

Re:One of the best series ever put on television

[elrous0]

If it wasn't blatantly obvious to you, even on the first viewing, then I can't help you. But there are tons of interviews with Ronald Moore and David Eick where they elaborate on this, if you really need them to draw you a picture. Here is a good quote from Moore that sums it up nicely:

Looking at it in a post-9/11 world, brings with it a different resonance than it did [in 1978]. It's a surprisingly dark premise. Twelve entire planets are wiped out in the pilot; entire civilizations destroyed and the survivors are on the run from the enemy. They're not heroically doing anything except trying to survive and hunting for a place called Earth... In the original version, where the characters are coming to peace, and in the version I want to tell where they are at peace, suddenly this bolt from the blue happens and it just shocks their collective psyche in a very profound way... What happens to the people in Galactica is what happened to us in September, but in several orders of magnitude larger. It's sort of like saying September 11th happens, but the only people who survive are the people inside the Twin Towers. So it feels like what we'll be able to do is play out the psychic and emotional reverberations of that kind of an apocalypse through the characters and through the series.

Re:Warning: Spoilers

[florescent_beige]

there is a MASSIVE SPOILER halfway though the article. I was sure i'd seen the entire 3rd season so it must be a 4th season spoiler.

Are you sure you have seen right to the very very end of the very very last episode of season 3?

There are no season 4 spoilers in TFA.

Re:That's a mistake

[electrictroy]

Well.

British citizens insist I say "series three" when discussing Doctor Who, or "series one" when discussing Torchwood. And that's fair because both are British shows. I respect that. ----- Therefore it seems reasonable that when discussing American or Canadian shows, you use the American/Canadian designations of "season".

Respect flows both ways.

Letterman's Top 10 Reason to Watch Last Season.

[antdude]

RedLasso [redlasso.com] has a video clip of last night's David Letterman's top ten (3/19/2008). It shows the ten cast members in their show outfits. Each one said a reason. Seen on SciFi. Here's the text version [cbs.com] if you don't want to watch the video clip.

Re:That's a mistake

[Hal_Porter]

Happy Days had an episode where Fonzie jumped over a shark in a tank of water for no apparent reason. It was so completely ridiculous that the phrase 'Jump the shark' has come to be shorthand for the point where a TV series is basically dead because the writers have run out of ideas.

Re:Warning: Spoilers

[Glsai]

I think there is, shortly after the spoiler that everyone is talking about. The second to last bullet point could be considered a spoiler if you read into it, could also be a red herring.

Re:Lets call it a "do over"`

[Boricle]

Just watched this on DVD last night.

You can definitely see the explosion and much shiny fireworks.

You can't see any debris

Immediately prior to the explosion, you can see her reaching down towards the ejector / emergency release handle.

Plenty of ambiguity.