Comments on: Battlestar Gallactica Caprica Trailer SUCKS

By: Matt Tyson

Matt Tyson — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:09:10 +0000

LT – don’t feel betrayed! You’re intelligent and analytical and these are your only crimes. This one-true-god plot-line is foundational to BSG v2 and Caprica. As you mentioned, we forgave the producers in serial fashion because we loved the characters. In effect, good politics triumphed over a bad and unsatisfying story from the beginning. Now face the truth – BSG v2 and Caprica are BLUE COLLAR angst through and through. It’s an IQ 100, tough-guy, “I-hate-technology-and-anything-else-I-can’t-understand” diatribe against modern society. The destruction of the colonies and subsequent return to devotion by the survivors, the reassertion of the military and its values, and an overall regression to a simpler life is a WISHFUL THOUGHT, not a tragic re-telling of our once beloved tale. In short, it’s sci-fi for the working-class produced by very talented people who understand, appreciate, and sympathize with the plight of blue-collar gorillas in a very complex society. BSG v2 flies in the face of traditional sci-fi which is visionary, imaginative, curious, and just plain escapist fun. One might even call BSG v2 an insult. Caprica is merely a more obvious expression of the same view. One who’s politics has NOT obscured a low-brow story told for a low-brow audience who’s point-of-view holds obvious sympathy with the producers.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:20:30 +0000

I’ve seen the Caprica pilot episode, and it is good.

Do not worry BSG fans, it is not merely Battlestar Dramatica – there is more to it.

Everything in the teaser trailer will make sense after you’ve seen it.

I loved it and cannot wait for more.

By: LT

LT — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:12:19 +0000

With Battlestar Galactica I saw a show with so much potential disintegrate before my very eyes. All the time I had invested into the characters and their storylines was betrayed at in the last two hours. I found the experience profoundly unsettling and it really made me angry. I – like so many others – had been played like suckers. The entire BSG franchise went down in flames in only two hours but we really should have seen it coming. All that one true god mumbo jumbo. We let it slide because we loved the characters so much. The writing was good and the actors were top-notch. We should have known we were going to get screwed.

But – even through all that – I was still hoping that Caprica would jettison the ridiculous “one god” story-line and make good on the promise of BSG.

In the end I couldn’t even make it through the first five minutes of Caprica. Wow. So bad. So unbelievably horrible. If this show makes it three weeks I’ll be surprised. Caprica is a horrible television show.

BSG’s original promise was subverted and ultimately destroyed by the overriding and ultimately retarded “god-has-a-plan-and-we-have-no-choice-in-the-matter-so-suck-it” arc and it’s plain to see that “Caprica” is a streaming pile of dung from the same dumb-ass mold. Caprica – to put it plainly – is tragically-flawed and ultimately doomed by the same cheap carnival mysticism that turned a powerhouse like BSG into a pathetic joke.

There will be some who just can’t reconcile the brilliance of the first few seasons of the new BSG with the terrible dissappointment of its finale. They have already invested themselves in Caprica – desperately hoping that it will somehow erase all the nagging doubts about how BSG ended. Those simple, powerful and unavoidable holes in the plot they never wanted to fully face.

Bottom line: Caprica is Craprica. An insult to our intelligence. A sci-fi high-school version of a teenage reality show. I would say I’m disappointed. But Ron Moore’s legendary incompetence has insulated me from further betrayals. They can’t hurt me anymore. I really believed in this new imagining of BSG. I fell for their BS. Hook. Line. And. Sinker.

But at least I’m not one of those sad creatures who keeps on defending the worst series finale since The Sopranos. Those guys are beneath my contempt. They remind of of Bush Republicans who took more than eight years to finally realize they bet on the wrong horse. They bet on some religious fanatic who led them down the wrong path and would never admit he made a single mistake.

The BSG writers blew it – big time. Watching the actors go through the motions of the acting out the last episode (knowing it was all a big pile of crap) was painful. For all of us. I’ll never buy into a religious mysticism God-has-a-friggin’-plan crap ever again.

And neither should you.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:34:37 +0000

They definitely should have based it on the first cylon war. That, and any show or movie with that red headed guy on it tends to suck ass, in my opinion.

By: Jahad

Jahad — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:06:21 +0000

who just dissed stargate…..i think sg1 and atlantis maybe universe can kick galactica’s butt anyday..i mean i have to agree the trailer looks to modern day ish set…it’s too 24/jake 2.0 ish.. im sorry but there’s that i actually agree with the guys…why couldnt they base this on the first cylon war…

By: Battlestar Galactica Caprica Coming to DVD on April 21 « Show Me SciFi

Battlestar Galactica Caprica Coming to DVD on April 21 « Show Me SciFi — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:02:06 +0000

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By: Battlestar Galactica Caprica on Hold till 2009 (or later) « Show Me SciFi

Battlestar Galactica Caprica on Hold till 2009 (or later) « Show Me SciFi — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:43:59 +0000

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By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:07:00 +0000

I think it looks great myself. Looking forward to any BG fix I can get!

By: Al

Al — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:52:23 +0000

What’s ridiculous about this trailer is that everything looks like a retro version of the US with modern technology. I find it hard to believe that a completely different civilization on a completely different planet is almost exactly the same as ours, except for tiny minor things like the tennis court and the handrails on the train. This looks like it belongs on Lifetime, not part of the might Battlestar Galactica.

By: Stoney

Stoney — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:56:12 +0000

I also do not agree with you….I tend to not agree with you most of the time This looks much better than any of those Stargate shows.

By: BK

BK — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:37:15 +0000

Don’t agree with you at all.

It looks great. Can’t wait to watch it.