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All In With The Nuts
SyFy Greenlights 'Battlestar' Spinoff Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 22, 2010 @ 1:51pm PDT

SyFy is going back to the Battlestar Galactica well. After launching prequel Caprica, which is now airing the second part of its first season while awaiting word on a second-season pickup, the cable network has greenlighted a two-hour pilot for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome or BGBC how it will probably be known in the Battlestar fan universe. The pilot, about the young years of Ensign William Adama, hails from Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick and Universal Cable Prods. and will involve CGI and virtual technology. Here is more from the network's announcement:

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome takes place in the 10th year of the first Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, a sentient robotic race, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a brash rookie viper pilot enters the fray. Ensign William Adama, barely in his 20’s and a recent Academy graduate, finds himself assigned to the newest battlestar in the Colonial fleet… the Galactica. The talented but hot-headed risk-taker soon finds himself leading a dangerous top secret mission that, if successful, will turn the tide of the decade long war in favor of the desperate fleet. “The ‘Galactica’ universe as re-imagined by Ron Moore and David Eick is rich with possibilities and backstory,” said SyFy's Mark Stern. “We jumped at the chance to revisit the William Adama character and explore this exciting chapter in the BSG narrative which falls between the events of the original series and the prequel, ‘Caprica,’ currently airing on Syfy.”

“While maintaining the themes of politics, social propaganda, and the timeless question: what does it mean to be human? – ‘Blood & Chrome’ will also return us to the authentic, relentless depiction of combat and the agony and ecstasy of human-Cylon war, which was the hallmark of ‘Battlestar Galactica's’ early seasons,” said Eick. Michael Taylor wrote the teleplay from a story by Eick, Taylor and Bradley Thompson & David Weddle.
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Or is this old news?
 
News to me, but I do wonder if constantly revisiting is more like constantly watering down.

Coming soon
The period between Caprica and the war starting when the Cylons just start to say mean things.
 
I'm not a Battlestar Gallactica fan, didn't even like the original series from the 70's.

But if i were a fan i'd be wetting my panties right about now. :)
 
The Curse of Lucas strikes again. He curled up in the warm wampa guts that is his cash cow franchise and decided there were no other new stories worth telling.

20 years from now, will Peter Jackson still be raping Tolkein's corpse with a Christmas special?
 
None of these spinoffs are fascinating me. I'd rather just have the main series, which was awesome. I felt that told me everything I needed to know for that universe.
 
Glad over all, because I love the universe, but why are SyFy making another BSG spinoff when they can't even be arsed to properly show support and interest in the current one?

CG sets will be awesome, though. They'll be modular, like the real ones were, which means we should see some new areas of the ship (which will look like reconfigured old parts of the ship, but still cool)!
 
Wait wait wait...Adam's "barely in his twenties" in this show, so let's say he's 21. It's set during the tenth year of the war. So the war started when Adama was 11.

What age is Willie Adama in Caprica again?
 
Can someone explain the point of a prequel? We know how the story ends, because the original was just one giant spoiler. Sure, we get to see some new characters, and we may (or may not) care about them. However, every time we watch them go into battle, we'll always know, in the back of our minds, who wins.

Ugh... watching the genesis of the Cylons was much more interesting than watching what happens between the beginning and the end. Granted, it's just another chapter in the bible of canon that will soon encompass BSG (like trek), but as I said before, and as the latest BSG series drilled into our head toward the end, this has all been done before.
 
Well that's depressing. I mean, I wasn't expecting it to be that great (aside from the effects, which Doug Drexler has been saying are way beyond anything from BSG or Caprica), but I still liked the idea of there being another series to watch. What's the point of a web series? Barely anyone will see it, no matter how good it is. Look at The Sing Along Blog. That was great, and it did even spawn a book, but how many non-nerds have ever heard of it?

Syfy sucks.
 
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