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BSG : Blood & Chrome

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  • #62
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,156 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Sad in the extreme.

    Webisodes of 2/3 mins each? Meh to be honest.

    Would actors really be bothered?


  • #63
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    if thats the case i have no interest in seeing it whatsoever. lame.


  • #64
    Volvagia
    Registered Users Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Volvagia


    While I was always excited about B&C, I was nervous that the shift towards action might make it much more one dimensional when compared with BSG and Caprica.

    I'm excited to watch the pilot, but the idea of a web series is even more of a turn off.

    What a pity.


  • #65
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    CONFIRMED, B&C is dead....but we'll probably see the pilot in the Summer: http://tvline.com/2012/03/21/battlestar-galactica-blood-chrome-syfy-passes/

    YT trailer link dead....this one works: http://www.buzzfeed.com/catesish/leaked-battlestar-galactica-blood-and-chrome-tr


  • #66
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    noodler wrote: »
    Webisodes of 2/3 mins each?
    Is there a source for this? I would have thought that they'd do full length, or at least 20/30 minute episodes.

    If they do that it could work really well. If they make it easy to watch, and in good quality, there'd be zero need for torrenting or using other streaming sites. With the popularity of BSG they could get some impressive numbers and possibly attract decent ad revenue. It's way past time someone launched a proper TV series on the web, and this could be the very show to do it, and do it right.


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  • #67
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I'll wait till it's released in full, and then watch it.


  • #68
    Tomk1
    Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Tomk1


    http://www.youtube.com/user/MachinimaPrime
    "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome Trailer" - New Machinima Prime Series
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj50xJhWdcM
    Published on Nov 5, 2012
    Quote: "Holy frak. Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome will FINALLY be released THIS FRIDAY on Machinima Prime. Follow young pilot William Adama in the First Cylon War and his first adventure aboard the Battlestar Galactica."

    From a post on IMDB "in ten 7-12 minute minisodes"


  • #69
    Volvagia
    Registered Users Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Volvagia


    Wow, I had completely forgotten about this.

    What is Machinima Prime, is if a premium / pay for service or is it free?

    Trailer seems ok, but the sheer amount of CGI puts me off and doesn't really get my hopes up.


  • #70
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,111 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Volvagia wrote: »
    Wow, I had completely forgotten about this.

    What is Machinima Prime, is if a premium / pay for service or is it free?

    Trailer seems ok, but the sheer amount of CGI puts me off and doesn't really get my hopes up.

    Machinima Prime is a Youtube channel similar to Vevo. It's free afaik, just subscribe to the Blood and Chrome promo video and the webisodes will appear on your page when they are published.

    As the series is only being broadcast on the web it was always going to be heavily CGI.


  • #71
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT79x4qM4FE


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdisGiivP9c


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  • #72
    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Enjoyed that!

    They seem to have gone for the JJ Abrams school of lens flare though. Censoring some of the language is annoying too. Bull and ass.

    Still, good stuff.


  • #73
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    i am going with the 1080p webrips on this one guys!


  • #74
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't see the point in ten-minute episodes, you barely sit down to watch them and they're already over. Will wait for the whole thing stitched together in Jan or whenever.


  • #75
    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    i am going with the 1080p webrips on this one guys!

    YouTube stream goes up to 1080p as it is. Looks great.


  • #76
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I watched both last night, while we dont know alot about the plot yet i think visually it looks superb. Almost all GCI, if not entirely green screen. The shot of Adama looking out the window and panning to the Galactica was astonishing.

    The detail, visually eye popping. While not exactly lens flare they do use extensive bright white lights for the laubch bay and other scenes, imo i think this is deliberate to reduce the green screen composite look, or because the CGI shotsmight not be great quality and thus this distraction distorts any visual imperfections.

    The white lights are overpowering and headache inducing imo, i assume the unrated Blu-ray will have some boobie shots in that shower scene + unbleeped cussing.....that French bird is something else though!

    I must Google her :-) ....its early days but i like what i see thus far.

    4.5/5


  • #77
    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    i assume the unrated Blu-ray will have some boobie shots in that shower scene

    Wouldn't be surprised. Couple of those shots looked a little tightly cropped, just above the boob. Was wondering if there's not an uncensored wider angle waiting for the Februrary release.

    The most annoying thing about that is that you've got to think about what else might be getting cut along with boobs and the naughty words. Didn't seem to make much of a difference though.


  • #78
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    They lumped episode 3+4 into one video this week....nearly 18 mins :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXCnuArj4b8


  • #79
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,156 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    They are releasing two a week for the next three weeks.


  • #80
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    noodler wrote: »
    They are releasing two a week for the next three weeks.

    Yup...much better that way :) - ep. 3/4 was great but next weeks Nov. 23rd looks to have an EPIC battle! :D

    So they had a fleet hiding and a mission on an ice planet, the CGI was fantastic...really high quality, cant wait to see them nuke it out next week!

    4/5


  • #81
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Secret Mission upon which ultimate victory depends...on an ice planet. Is this the lead up to the Razor flashback webisodes we saw during BSG back in '07...Husker rescuing human guinea pigs from the Cylon Skinjob development program. That was on an ice planet wasn't it???


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  • #82
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    um
    that was a bit of Kobayashi Maru scenario in the first ep, ignoring the virtual non-threat of radition


  • #83
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,111 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Episode 5 & 6:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ytt0Fp3To


  • #84
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,156 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    The amount of reoccurances from the main series is crazy!

    Narcho looked a carbon copy though - they could have given him a different role/look!

    Really enjoying this I have to say. on 720p on the laptop screen most of the scenes look amazing.


  • #85
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Yeah it's awesome. Kind of have to watch the old one by the time each new one is released just to keep up though !


  • #86
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,111 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Episode 7 & 8:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNHMfK65mnU


  • #87
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    :eek::eek::eek:

    Just discovered this existed and wathced ep 1.
    What is the deal with this anyhow ? Web only ? Movie coming ? what??

    Must. have. more. awesome.
    MOOOOOOAAARRRRREEEEEEEE :D


  • #88
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    opinion guy wrote: »
    Just discovered this existed and wathced ep 1.
    What is the deal with this anyhow ? Web only ? Movie coming ? what??
    Must. have. more. awesome.


    Yeah, kind of a runaway success with the viewing figures they are getting on YouTube.
    DVD with extra bits is out after Christmas as far as I know.
    Maybe the Scy-Fi channel are going to change their minds about a series ?


  • #89
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    TheUsual wrote: »
    Yeah, kind of a runaway success with the viewing figures they are getting on YouTube.
    DVD with extra bits is out after Christmas as far as I know.
    Maybe the Scy-Fi channel are going to change their minds about a series ?

    One can dream!!!!


  • #90
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    opinion guy wrote: »
    One can dream!!!!

    Well the response on YouTube has been amazing, and very positive.

    Depends if they have the cash for a mini-series.


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  • #91
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,661 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Just watched these and very impressed so far! This HAS to be greenlit for a full series!

    How many eps are there and what's the release schedule?


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