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The full Caprica/Battlestar: The Plan panel from Comic-Con

We've got the complete hourlong panel on Caprica and Battlestar Galactica: The Plan from last week's Comic-Con, and you can watch it only here on SCI FI Wire.

The panel features executive producers Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson, as well as Caprica star Esai Morales (Joseph Adama) and Battlestar Galactica: The Plan director and star Edward James Olmos.

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By Grraargh at 5:01 AM ON 07/29/09

Thanks for posting this folks!

By Jack0 at 8:30 AM ON 07/29/09

What a waste of perfectly good bandwidth

By Muldfeld at 12:56 PM ON 07/29/09

Thanks so much to whomever filmed it and whomever posted it. That was great; so much nicer than just reading summaries. The host was the best I've seen -- certainly much better than the pretense of "regular Joe" in which Kevin Smith annoyingly engages -- by asking intelligent questions. I looked her up and was shocked to find out she played the somewhat catatonic Sabrina on 2 episodes of DS9; what a shift!

I especially loved the seriousness of Olmos and Morales and that their passion showed as well as Morales' concern for ethnic representation; so often, to gain success, people are taught to soft-pedal their identity and political concerns and it was nice to see an artists being honest. All this was especially nice because far too often people feel they have to make jokes and act superficial, so some real passion was very welcome!

I'm very happy to hear that Olmos helped essentially rewrite "The Plan" because it just shows that the best stories have directors who get heavily involved; Olmos can only have improved it, so I'm even more excited than I was. I hope everyone buys the "The Plan" on DVD so that Universal will make its money and we can get more; this isn't a time to be cheapskates and just DVR or download. Don't let BSG die!

Kudos to Ron Moore's sentiment on the criminal actions of the Emmys that continue to reward crap like Lost and especially Grey's Anatomy and Boston Legal with their shamelessly commercial, formulaic stories and mediocre acting; I watched Boston Legal a few times recently to see if the Emmys were right and it was so awful and cheap and the acting was so cliche. Suffice it to say, the Emmys are prejudiced and in contempt of not recognizing the great art they claim to.

One last worrisome note, though, was Espenson's desire to turn Caprica into Buffy. Look, I enjoyed Buffy because The X-Files had just ended and there was nothing to watch in 2002, and I caught up on that show and Angel and bought all the DVDs. However, I seriously hope Caprica won't try for those over-the-top and forced moments of humor because that will ruin it. I fear this because Baltar's behavior in "The Hub" was out of character and just silly. On dramatic terms, Buffy was far too forced in its melodrama and quite exploitative in its supposed exploration of teen angst, which often felt milked to death and repetitive; it was only occasionally touching. BSG's exploration of the painful side of love was brilliant, however, and Jane Espenson's writing of The Chief's grieving in "Escape Velocity" was phenomenal, so here's hoping Caprica will turn out more like that. Still, I'd feel a lot safer if Mark Verheiden returned full-time, as well as Michael Angeli, Jeff Vlaming, and the great Toni Graphia! The brilliant sense of restraint and vision of Michael Rymer would be great, too.


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