Syfy has announced that it will not pick up Season 2 of its Battlestar Galactica spinoff / prequel Caprica. The final five (heh, final five) episodes of Season 1 have been rescheduled for 2011. The statement from Syfy:
The remaining first run episodes of Caprica—airing Tuesdays at 10/9c—will be removed from the schedule as of next Tuesday, November 2. These final five episodes of the season will be re-scheduled to air at a to be announced time in the first quarter of 2011, and will conclude the run of the series.
“We appreciate all the support that fans have shown for Caprica and are very proud of the producers, cast, writers and the rest of the amazing team that has been committed to this fine series,” said Mark Stern, Executive Vice President of Original Programming, Syfy and Co-Head of Content for Universal Cable Productions. “Unfortunately, despite its obvious quality, Caprica has not been able to build the audience necessary to justify a second season.”
I gave Caprica a go when it premiered earlier this year, but after about five episodes, it just wasn’t working for me. The look of the show was great and production value high, but the pace was slow and the biggest hook was an alternating POV from a Cylon and Alessandra Torresani’s Zoe Graystone avatar. When you’re coming off of one of the most highly regarded genre series ever, one that I thought ended about as perfectly as it could have, then the game has to be stepped up, and Caprica didn’t do it.
This comes on the heels of the news that the next BSG spinoff, Blood and Chrome, is a go for a pilot. B&C was announced earlier this year in The Chicago Tribune as an online series, before plans changed for the pilot. It’ll focus on the First Cylon War and the young Viper pilot, William Adama, who’s just been assigned to the newest Battlestar, Galactica. Exec producer Michael Taylor compared the tone of the show to The Hurt Locker in that Tribune piece, which sounds good to me.
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I think it's a real shame. The last episode really gave us a look at what it could have became. I don't care what anybody says, the sight of a cylon slaughtering an entire room of gangster was worth the slow-burn build-up. It could have gone to really interesting places…however, I can't wait for Blood and Chrome, so not as saddened as I would have been otherwise. Good on you David – the BSG finale was great. I have to wonder if the naysayers had paid any attention to the show from the start, considering their often OTT disregard for the finale.
Yeah, writing was on the wall when B&C was upgraded to a pilot. Real shame because despite some facinating themes and high concept stuff (Apotheosis – WOW, what a concept! What would a zealot do if they were gauranteed beyond the shadow of ANY doubt a place in heaven?) being tossed around, it seems like the producers and writers couldn't decide what the hell the show was ABOUT, and it just started meandering aimlessly after the break.
This is so sad. So very, very sad.
Yeah, it had a lot of potential, but I agree that it was just a mish-mash of ideas… some good, some not so good, that just didn't gel. I don't regret watching the show, but I doubt I'd ever watch again.
No use defending it really, it's over. It did start strong for me and set expectations for itself it never met. The character story of lawyer to gangster to virtual junky to tough guy is strange. It did have some interesting science fiction in between and I will miss it.
That one-sheet is arousing my young hormones…
The show was extremely mediocre. The only reason I had any interest in it at all was because of its connection to BSG, though it did show lots of potential. It was however obvious by the 4th episode (once the ratings dropped below a million) that it was definitely not coming back for a second season. At its best, its ratings were worse than BSG's at its worst.
@ Comment #3: You are awesome.
IMO, it is very difficult to create a successful TV series or Movie where the timeline precedes the original. Knowing how something ends takes away some of the "magic".
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