Another spinoff?

TheIrishGrover

http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/03/syfy-three-inches-caprica-battlestar-.html#more

Syfy also is looking to continue its popular “Battlestar” franchise.

When asked about the chances of its modestly performing spinoff “Caprica” getting a renewal, Stern was bullish. He pointed to the show recently hitting a series high in the adult demographic using Live+7 ratings, drawing 1.6 million viewers and 913,000 adults 18-49.

“We have a lot of hope for that show,” Stern said. “The (DVR data) has been very promising and growing week after week. The ratings don't reflect the potential audience."

The network also is looking to order another “Battlestar”-related project. Details were slim, but Stern said the title would mark a return to the franchise’s space-opera roots.

“We’re looking for other ways to spin off ‘Battlestar’ beyond ‘Caprica,’” he said. “That world is so rich. We’re sitting down with (executive producer) Ron Moore and his team. It would not necessarily be a traditional series.”

With Syfy’s upfront scheduled for Tuesday, media buyers likely will receive added clarity on some of the network’s plans.

Until then, there’s one project that Stern adamantly refused to discuss, a title so infamous, the Syfy executive would not divulge any hints about its content.

My guess is that it'll be the first cylon war. That Caprica will end with the start of the war (if it gets that far) and that Galactica:Rise (or whatever) will be set during the last few years of the war (Can't remember how long it was supposed to have gone on for)

robeskimo

the first cylon war that would be awesome. A must see for everyone.

GSPfan

Nah you've got to believe the war will be part of Caprica. Surely.

If its another spin off then it may go back further in time to the time of Kobol. Or Earth 1.0.

Life began on Kobol where people lived with their Gods. They created the first evolution of Cylons, went to war, and had to leave that world. So they went out in to space and found the 12 planets. In the meantime a 13th "tribe" went in another direction and settled on Earth (The first Earth) which also created Cylons and went to war. So there is a lot more that can be done which is totally unrelated to the birth of Cylon on Caprica.

TheIrishGrover

GSPfan wrote: »

Nah you've got to believe the war will be part of Caprica. Surely.

If its another spin off then it may go back further in time to the time of Kobol. Or Earth 1.0.

Life began on Kobol where people lived with their Gods. They created the first evolution of Cylons, went to war, and had to leave that world. So they went out in to space and found the 12 planets. In the meantime a 13th "tribe" went in another direction and settled on Earth (The first Earth) which also created Cylons and went to war. So there is a lot more that can be done which is totally unrelated to the birth of Cylon on Caprica.

Nah, assuming Caprica goes it's full term, I reckon it'll just end with the begining of the war. The commissioning of Galactica and some kind of Cylon first strike.

GSPfan

Christ I hope not. I really like the idea of a pay off in later seasons with the war. Kinda like Deep Space Nine. I know its 4 years away or whatever in Caprica's timeline but BSG skipped a whole year when needed so ya never know.

kowloon

You never know what it might end up being. Could be set after BSG, in New York, a sitcom about a bunch of people who are friends.

Blazer

damn...I'm not holding out for 4 years of watching Caprica's mediocrity just to watch a cyclon war.
My bet is they'll cut it loose afte 2 seasons with a new show concentrating on the Cyclon/Human war.
You never know..Caprica might finish with a young Bill Adama starting at the academy.

don ramo

it would be class, to have the reasoning behind the war fleshed out on caprica for the next 4 years, showing the dawn of the cylons and there eventual rebellion, then start the war after season 4, melding one show into the other, just like a name change mid-series, so the first 4 seasons would be caprica and the second 4 would be C-WAR or whatever,

it doesnt make sense for a space war in a show named after a planet, so if you change the name after season 4 (or even season 3) to convey the move from plaet to space based i would allow a continus 7-8 seasons of one show,

syfy would have to break the mould to do this, sure stargate atlantis was the first originaly scripted show made by syfy that went past 4 seasons, the thing i like about syfy is the same thing i hate about it, they allows you tell a good story and will give you the time you need to tell it, but, you cant go past 4 seasons,

FreudianSlippers

My guess is that if the spinoff is going ahead, it will pick up towards the end of the First Cylon War. Perhaps something in this time zone (lifted from wikipedia page on William Adama):

During the later stages of the first Cylon War,[4] Adama was a gifted Viper pilot in the Colonial Fleet. On account of his gravelly voice, his aviator call sign was "Husker".[5] He became involved with a Raptor pilot named Jaycie McGavin.[6], when he was assigned to the Galactica. Arriving on the hangar deck for his first mission, he found McGavin had been gravely injured in combat when her Raptor's control console exploded in her face.[7] It was during this mission that he scored his first kills and for which he received a commendation.[8] Adama was aboard the Battlestar Galactica during the last week of the war when a Cylon boarding party attempted to kill the crew by depressurizing the ship. Adama later recalled that "two thousand men bought the farm."[4]

During a battle that took place on the last day of the First Cylon War, Adama became enraged by the destruction of the Battlestar Columbia and pursued two Cylon raiders into a planetary atmosphere.[9] His Viper was damaged in a collision and he was forced to eject.[10] Upon landing, he discovered what appeared to be a Cylon lab that was experimenting on human subjects.[11] Unable to rescue the humans still held captive in the lab, Adama watched helplessly as the Cylons evacuated the base. When he called Galactica for rescue, Adama found out that the war had ended with the signing of an armistice. With the end of hostilities, the Cylons carried away whatever they were developing unopposed.

After the war ended, Adama married his first wife Carolanne and fathered two sons with her: Zak and Lee.[12] Adama later relates to Captain Louanne "Kat" Katraine how, during both her pregnancies, Carolanne was convinced that she was carrying a daughter, and was surprised by the arrival of a son. Adama himself would have liked a daughter, saying that "three's a good round number".[13]

Adama's military career floundered after the war. Like many servicemen after the end of a conflict, he was discharged. He found himself serving on a commercial freighter on the Caprica-Tauron run, where he met a fellow former Viper pilot, Saul Tigh.[14] The pair forged a lasting friendship, and Adama arguably saved Tigh from his most self-destructive impulses.[4]
[edit] Return to the Fleet

During this period, Adama used his wife's family's connections in the Defense Council to get himself reinstated in the Colonial Fleet with a rank of Captain. Once he had been promoted to the rank of Major, he secured Tigh's reinstatement in the Fleet as well.[14] He later divorced Carolanne, who was in turn engaged to marry again at the time of the Cylons' devastation of the Twelve Colonies.[5]

As a Major, Adama served on the Battlestar Atlantia,[8] where he had an ongoing feud with the ship's landing signal officer that inspired a celebration of his thousandth landing.[12] He later served as the executive officer of the Battlestar Columbia, presumably as a Colonel, before earning his own command, the Battlestar Valkyrie. Adama brought his old friend, Saul Tigh, with him as his XO.[8] At some point during this phase of his career, Adama either served aboard or visited a Mercury class battlestar.[15]

Approximately three years before the Destruction of the Twelve Colonies, the Colonial Admiralty ordered then-Commander Adama and the Valkyrie to test the Cylons' military disposition with a covert (and illegal) surveillance mission across the Armistice Line. The Stealthstar reconnaissance craft was discovered by the Cylons and damaged; Adama ordered the Valkyrie's weapons batteries to shoot it down to prevent its capture. These events precipitated his transfer to the aging Battlestar Galactica as a graceful swan-song to his career before returning to haunt him three years later.

GSPfan

But sure we've seen all of Those Bill Adama moments in BSG and Razor Flashbacks. Don't know why or how they'd make a story out of that. Who knows?

Spazdarn

Don't think they've the budget for the war scenes, they said at the beginning it'll be more drama than sci fi...

Overheal

I dunno. I got 2 Episodes into Caprica and never got hooked.

All I can say is Im Glad they ended BSG on a high note. Other shows just flog a dead horse (like LOST, or Heroes) but BSG knew when to go and it didnt overstay its Welcome. And at least as part of Spinoffs, you can feel unburdened to Take them or leave them.

If they do a 2nd Spinoff I'd like it to reflect that I did not care for Caprica. So I mean, were they to do a spinoff related much more to the first cylon war than to melodrama? That would be awesome.

Eye of Orion

Yeah, I must admit I share a 50/50 opinion for Caprica aswell. Music, like all bear mc crearys is good, but they are doing the whole god thing again....

So zoe will attempt Annihilate mankind..... We were left thinking that Amanda had "bought the farm", and there is a big cylon driving about in a van, seems comical at times.
The whole Tauron culture is interesting though, shows a time when the colonies had a uniqueness to them, and did anyone notice that the house graystone has is the same one Baltar had?

FreudianSlippers

Eye of Orion wrote: »

Yeah, I must admit I share a 50/50 opinion for Caprica aswell. Music, like all bear mc crearys is good, but they are doing the whole god thing again....

So zoe will attempt Annihilate mankind..... We were left thinking that Amanda had "bought the farm", and there is a big cylon driving about in a van, seems comical at times.
The whole Tauron culture is interesting though, shows a time when the colonies had a uniqueness to them, and did anyone notice that the house graystone has is the same one Baltar had?

it's not the same house, but it does appear to be in the same place.
IMO Baltar will play into this series somehow. I'm not really sure what we were meant to think that he was/is at the end of BSG. One of the gods? Jesus?
I don't think we will actually see him in the show, but perhaps a relative?

As far as religion, it is a central theme of both Caprica and BSG because it is very important in the rise of the Cylons against humanity and the general split in humanity in the first place. Think about it, if it is really going to be the leadup in events to BSG then it's hardly like they could just ignore a main part of the series.

Eye of Orion

About the house, I cannot compare them exacty at, not near the hard drive, but it would be "cool" if it had belonged to graystone and then Baltar bought it, i.e. the home of capricas well known inventor etc. etc. would suit Baltar's Ego complex.

I take your point about end of BSG, it should have been cleared up a bit. especialliy when virtual baltar says "you know he/it does not like that name", who were they talking about if not god, RDM?!

Well Baltars father was a farmer on Aerlon, can't imagine seeing him tbh, but I do take your point.

FreudianSlippers

Eye of Orion wrote: »

About the house, I cannot compare them exacty at, not near the hard drive, but it would be "cool" if it had belonged to graystone and then Baltar bought it, i.e. the home of capricas well known inventor etc. etc. would suit Baltar's Ego complex.

I take your point about end of BSG, it should have been cleared up a bit. especialliy when virtual baltar says "you know he/it does not like that name", who were they talking about if not god, RDM?!

Well Baltars father was a farmer on Aerlon, can't imagine seeing him tbh, but I do take your point.

Well without knowing what Baltar actually is, can we be sure his father is a farmer on Aerlon? Remember Boomer and the other Cylons that thought they were humans all had families too (supposedly)

Eye of Orion

Well without knowing what Baltar actually is, can we be sure his father is a farmer on Aerlon? Remember Boomer and the other Cylons that thought they were humans all had families too (supposedly)

But we met Baltars father, unlike the others?

FreudianSlippers

Eye of Orion wrote: »

But we met Baltars father, unlike the others?

oh yeah... forgot about that!