I'm so grateful Sci Fi greenlighted Caprica; I was praying for it, what with an opportunity for more political insight that is obviously lacking from the US mainstream media -- evident in its total censoring of information that shows how Israeli state tools of violence were given a free pass and Palestinian "terrorism", which killed only 13 people versus Israeli murdering of well over 1,000 Palestinians, was condemned and cited as the cause of the conflict, when the real cause was the 18-month long blockade.

I'm so happy it will be a drama, but I don't know what I'll do without Lee Adama and especially Gaius Baltar, my two favorites. The trick to ratings won't be the wider sci fi audience which idiotically prefers "Heroes" and "Lost" to anything profound like BSG or The 4400. The goal of Sci Fi should be to get Mr. Moore on shows like Charlie Rose to really raise the profile of this so you reach beyond a sci fi audience to a more political crowd that appreciates really good drama. Otherwise, I fear we won't get more than a 1st season.

I really hope Mr. Moore saves a longer cut for "The Plan" for DVD. I was ecstatic when I found out Olmos was directing it, since he's done much better than Alcala did on Exodus and the awful Razor.

I just wish there were more TV movies coming, but maybe it's better to give Mr. Moore a breather until he's willing to write one himself, especially on Baltar!

PS Sci Fi Wire, could you please make it easier to read your encryption; I had to copy my earlier message and click refresh because I just couldn't read the last one.

I am curious about one thing though. How could the Cylons be created by humans during the Caprica timeline when there was a Cylon community on Earth that was destroyed two thousand years earlier?

Watching the last seasons of galactica, for me, has been like watching a train wreck that was filmed by a high speed camera. The first 2 seasons were really good, but the stories got worse and worse as the run went on. (What idiot commander would hand over a nuclear weapon to a civilian and NOT provide a 24 hour armed guard to prevent it's theft and misuse?!?! Jeez, they even have a man with a rifle guard each nuke on an aircraft carrier in the US Navy!!) Strangely enough, this seems to happen with most series that Mr. Moore worked with that I've seen. Enterprise was good when it started and got silly with the Xindii story arc. Bionic woman was pretty good, but died before it could get silly.
In summation, The original galactica didn't need a prequel series to explain it's back-story. It had weird writing and not as deep of character development, but their budget for the series was shoestring compared to the new series. The original series had to rely on being better story tellers and it's a skill I believe the current team does not use regularly ("ARGH!! This scene doesn't work!! Hey! I'll just throw in another space battle!!).

We found out the 13th tribe were surprise..suprise Cyclons. They traveled to the colonies and possibly upgraded the AI to the skinjobs we know now. As to tekteam's question, I believe its a process of reinventing the wheel. The current Cyclons were created by Man once again. The idea was somehow lost and thought to be new. But begs the question, if the Cyclons were created in the past and recreated in the present then why has nothing been written into their mythology about it?

Aren't there twelve gods for the twelve tribes? Also twelve models of Cylon? 13 if you include the lost colony or 13 Cylon models if you include the Centurions.

"It's all happened before" - it's been said more than once.

The original BSG dropped the bucket when they mangled the series heading into season two and removed the outer space enviornment. While I expect Caprica to not be as glaring a fault as that I have little hope of it replacing Galactica; it may be good, but it will be sometihn else. The brief tidbit I have seen (from the Plan), was underwhelming.

I've been watching the series since day 0ne, and with the new season starting, and the last-I will have to lament it's passing. It was a great idea to go along for the ride...Caprica will have a lot to live up to, and alas ...will most likely fall short.. but here's an interesting thought...What if all the people are CYLONS?

In the can means you guys trashed it and its not going to happen in the real world. Is that what you mean? Or does it mean you're done making it and are waiting to release it?

"In the can" normally means finished and ready for release, though in this case, I think Moore means that principal photography is complete and the movie is now in post-production with an eye to a later release.

bobanort
if you are going to trash the best thing on tv since the first adverts since sliced bread get your info right. Moore didn't have anything to do with Bionic David Eick produced that bad bad show. And he didnt touch enterprise either.

BSG is well written and the only bad things about it were when they tried to do stand alone episodes and thats only because they were told to as its easier to syndicate when you have that. But they stopped doing that. There isnt much space fighting anyway.

Re watch the show, look,learn listen and then try and write something better.

Ps ive never posted anything before anywhere but you just annoyed me too much.

Trebuken,
Interesting! So Starbuck is the 13 Cylon!

Hmmmmm... to add to bugsy5's idea..
if after 2-3 generations of cylons and humans mating u can't tell the difference...
( since you can hardly tell now) some, most or all of the 12 tribes would/could have been cylons . Now, after 3800 years that small trace of cylon is gone and it was the 5 from the 13th tribe that made these new 12 Colony Cylons stop the war 40-50 years earlier...and gave them the idea of making 7 new models.....
remember Helen said "reborn" not downloaded.. or cloned.. just a thought.

Too bad, Ron's bailing out on this gift from Sci Fi mid-way through the season and handing the reins over to Jane Espenson as show runner and executive producer. Huge mistake! There are far better writers like Michael Angeli, Michael Taylor, Mark Verheiden, and Toni Graphia. The only person(s) worse to pick than Ms. Espenson would be David Weddle and Bradley Thompson.

Why couldn't he get Ira Steven Behr. He showed a willingness to go to very sensitive places in Seasons 3 and 4 of The 4400 and was constantly censored. He should head Caprica; he's also got a much better, more subtle sense of humor.

I like Ms. Espenson, but her work has been inconsistent on the show. It's such a wasted opportunity for Ron Moore to waste time on crap like "The Thing" or some pilot Fox is gonna mess up or some movie Tom Cruise is too superficial to allow for any weight. Sci Fi will treat your creative ideas and political commentary with respect, Mr. Moore. Please reconsider!

Muldfeld, your comment perfectly fits; it's fiction. Leave the liberal agenda home and let us enjoy our BSG..

My question is, how much technology will be shown. No matter how BSG ends, given when this show is supposed to be set, I expect to see a lot of technology, especially AI - robots, smart computers, etc. BSG got away without it stating the Cyclons could hack their networks. They can't use that excuse here, so to keep the show honest, they'd better be willing to show a lot more technology in this series.

Well I, for one, love the deep and rich storytelling of BSG, but I absolutely loved the original Cylons in Razor (something special about Cylons "toasters" actually TALKING -- make the excuse that it was for the sake of their human masters) and hope that we don't get a whole lot of depressing human struggle episodes with only a paltry few showings of Cylons.

My hope for Caprica is that it will end with a big bang -- that being the First Cylon War.

I will feel supremely cheated if it just turns out to be a vehicle for exploring American Imperial Guilt with a cheap-out, non-SFX ending.