Its no secret that we are big Battlestar Galactica fans here. The series had its good and bad, but I have taken in the whole thing with great appreciation for what SciFi on Television can really be about. Just a shame that there are such gaps between seasons. So will this article bring a glimmer of hope and wonderment towards the up coming half season that will conclude the journey?
Nope. This is all about what happened before Battlestar Galactica. Back home on Caprica. The rumoured prequel story has an official Green Light from SciFi Network.
“Caprica” will star Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker, and will be set 50 years prior to “Galactica’s” seminal attack on human civilization by those dreaded ‘droids the Cylons. The series will focus on the Earthlike planet of Caprica as two rival families deal with, among other topical issues, the broader implications of their society’s emerging artificial intelligence technology sector.
I am not sure how they will handle a BSG story without Cylons. Oh sure they have their “emerging artificial intelligence technology” thing, but they already made sentient robots who at that point in their history already grew beyond manufactured bots and got tired of being the slaves and long since buggered off. We saw what they were up to in secret and the Capricans didn’t know about it til it was too late.
The skin jobs infiltrated their society to co-ordinate the attack that killed billions, but they could never reveal that in Caprica. Maybe anyone who does figure out something is different about a specific person ends up dead or something. However if they did have say a hot blonde seductress manipulating her way into the family, I wouldn’t mind seeing Tricia Helfer slinking her way on screen some more.
