Caprica is canceled :(

Goodshape

Ah feck. I really liked the show!

Looks like they're waisting no time getting it off the air either. "removed from the schedule as of next Tuesday, November 2". They might show the remaining episodes next year.

Missed opportunity if you ask me. Some neat ideas in Caprica and I would have gladly watched on.

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/10/27/breaking-syfy-cancels-caprica/

Caprica is toast. Syfy has announced that the low-rated Battlestar Galactica prequel has been canceled.

“The remaining first run episodes of Caprica – airing Tuesdays at 10/9c – will be removed from the schedule as of next Tuesday, November 2,” said the network in a statement. “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, EVP of Original Programming at Syfy. “Unfortunately, despite its obvious quality, Caprica has not been able to build the audience necessary to justify a second season.”

Richard Dower

Honestly...this is no shock, once Blood & Chrome was green lit i knew the axe would come down + it's premiere pushed up from January.
But not broadcasting the final five eps. is utter BULLSH*TE!!!!!!!...know what?, i think they might not broadcast them at all and save them for the DVD sales!

jor el

What would be the point in even showing the episodes when they're going to go nowhere. We all knew this was coming, but I had thought that they would fit in an ending of some sort, that led into Blood and Chrome.

And this weeks episode was actually OK for a change.

wataru

fu*ksake!

No one likes weird TV it seems, they just want to watch stargate or two and a half men. People are stupid w*nkers. Battlestar people should of got behind this, its lore like even if it turned out to be **** you dont refuse it.

Fed up of cancellations.

Richard Dower

SGU is next for the axe, maybe not right away but it won't get a third...i expect SGU will see out it's initial 10 ep. run.

dead air

Sums up my thoughts at least:

http://io9.com/5675106/caprica-has-been-ripped-from-our-bleeding-fingers

Richard Dower

Lots are now speculating about them holding the five unaired eps. for the DVD...lo and behold, Universal is releasing the 1.5 DVD on Dec. 21st...ergo, we won't see the eps. on tv for awhile to milk the DVD sales....pathetic!

One good thing...we'll see a DVd rip and the eps. will be on the net pretty sharpish....watch the final five in one go :-)

Goodshape

Do they still show shows on TV? How quaint. :pac:

Getting it all in one go on Dec. 21st sounds OK to me tbh.

FreudianSlippers

I hate when they do this to shows. It seems the least they could do is allow for filming of a few more episodes to neatly wrap it up for those who actually were watching.

Oh well.

Volvagia

Sad news,

While it wasn't the best show in the world, it was different and interesting, and never really got a chance to get going.

I know know the logic behind the months gap mid season, but I don't think it helped the show.

Blah.

noodler

Volvagia wrote: »

Sad news,

While it wasn't the best show in the world, it was different and interesting, and never really got a chance to get going.

I know know the logic behind the months gap mid season, but I don't think it helped the show.

Blah.

I really liked how it was picking up in the second half of the season and am very disappointed by this.

It could only have gotten better once Cylons were being used more.

Tristram

One show that definitely deserved to be canceled!

Richard Dower

Tristram wrote: »

One show that definitely deserved to be canceled!

100% agree....it just was not that good overall.

wyrn

I was quite peeved by this and even moreso when I read that they aren't going to show the last 5 episodes. God dammit, SO not fair. I really liked the show and not to show some sort of ending is a kick in the gut. :mad:

noodler

Tristram wrote: »

One show that definitely deserved to be canceled!

One post that definitely deserved to be edited!

azezil

That's disappointing, I thought it was pretty good. Better than that Stargate Universe tripe ¬_¬

Stark

Just after the episode where it starts to pick itself up again. Typical. Also, I expected that there wouldn't be a second season but it's disappointing to see that they're also going to mess people around regarding the remaining eps.

These long mid season breaks are a really bad idea. I was itching for more Caprica after the last episode of last mid season aired but by the time the newest episodes came round, I had mostly lost interest. It's only the most recent episode that's resparked my interest and now they're going straight into another long break.

expectationlost

what happened to syfy its totally lost its bottle if it ever had any? i guess that network got popular and so every show has get huge ratings or its cancelled.

Tristram

noodler wrote: »

One post that definitely deserved to be edited!

You'd be wrong there I'm afraid! Better luck next time!

davej

I'm disappointed by this. While it certainly had its flaws, it was still better than 95% of the stuff that's out there.

It was a brave attempt to change the rules of the sci-fi genre..

davej

don ramo

Richard Dower wrote: »

SGU is next for the axe, maybe not right away but it won't get a third...i expect SGU will see out it's initial 10 ep. run.

20 ep run richard,

kinda disgusted it got cancelled, it would be great as said to film a few extra episodes leading into the BaC film, and maybe that leading into a new series, remember BaC has only been greenlit for a film,

Sherifu

While I enjoyed watching it i'm not too surprised or sad to see it go.

stevenmu

If cancelling this means they can put more resources behind something else (blood and chrome) then I'm all for it. Caprica had some potential, but I everytime I watch it I get the feeling that they don't really know what they're doing with it or where it's going. I was kind of getting into it before the break, but that destroyed it and when it came back it seemed like they were just wandering aimlessly again until the last episode.

edit: I really hate though that they seem to just be bringing it to a screeching halt without at least trying to bring some kind of closure to people who watched it this far.

Goodshape

Maybe they pulled the final five episodes so they could reshape them into something a little more final?

#wishfulthinking

RolandIRL

Final Five??? :rolleyes: are they trying to annoy me :mad:

kinda disappointed at this thought it had a lot of promise though it was poorly executed. needed a bit more action, cos no sci-fi fan would really go for a drama with little action.

Syferus

I think it was too much of an ask to expect enough of the people who liked BSG, which despite all its themes and character-centric activity was a show about a small band of humans being harried for their very surrival, to like a slow-paced show set in a semi-furturistic city.

The show itself was no abomination but as some have said this isn't much of a suprise. I think it lacked some luster but it never was enough to stop me wanting to watch the next episode, albeit it was more weeks at a time before I watched another episode than days and that's probably telling as to why it got cancelled.

Creative and the studio got too confident and Blood & Chrome probably should have been the prequel series from the begining. Better to try and fail than to not try at all, though.

It actually makes me want to catch up on the episodes I still haven't watched even more now that I know it's all we're getting.

The Corinthian

It was an interesting concept, with good actors, but as was suggested it meandered so much that people lost interest in where it wasn't going, and had nothing to keep people hooked while it wasn't getting there.

The first season of BSG wasn't all that different; it too meandered a fair bit and other than escaping the Cylons, it really wasn't specifically going anywhere until the last two episodes.

It's a problem with story arcs, I think, that can kill the series as a story arc cannot be rushed, but you still have to keep the people interested in-between the arc milestones with anything else you can muster up.

BSG was able to do this with space battles and, call a spade a spade, Tricia Helfer (as Jeri Ryan did on Voyager). It kept the ratings up long enough to get a few arc milestones in and hook people long term. That we had to wait until episode 13, in the second half of the season, for the appearance of the inevitable 'Inner Zoe' shows how slow it was - the equivalent 'Inner Six' was already around in the BSG pilot.

Caprica didn't have a sexy robot chick to keep the geeks watching. It had no space battles or space anything, for that matter, to entertain the scifi kids. Additionally it was nothing but story arc and self-contained stories in an episode that may have hooked new viewers didn't exist - indeed, if you started watching by episode three of four you would have given up pretty quickly in confusion.

It was an interesting concept, but it wasn't interesting enough for a series. There were too many, often pointless, dramatic scenes that you would fast forward through and very little plot development - nothing happened. And so people lost interest.

calex71

I think they did us a favor by pulling the remaining episodes. If there is no conclusion, then I don't want to waste time watching them.

It was actually starting to get going and I did like it but it was always slow and was always going to take a hell of a long time to get to any kind of war with cylons.

I think if it had been on when battlestar was still running it might have done the numbers

davej

calex71 wrote: »

It was actually starting to get going and I did like it but it was always slow and was always going to take a hell of a long time to get to any kind of war with cylons.

I think if it had been on when battlestar was still running it might have done the numbers

Essentially you are saying it was taking too long to get to the explosions. This reflects part of the problem right there. It seems a lot of people missed the point of the show. Admittedly, I don't think they had quite worked out where they were going with it, but it's clear they weren't trying to replicate BSG.

davej

calex71

davej wrote: »

Essentially you are saying it was taking too long to get to the explosions. This reflects part of the problem right there. It seems a lot of people missed the point of the show. Admittedly, I don't think they had quite worked out where they were going with it, but it's clear they weren't trying to replicate BSG.

davej

No not at all, I liked the show for what it was , and wasn't the explosions I wanted. It was taking far too long to progress past where they are at the moment. I wanted the cyclons to hurry up and be established so they could move on.

I think you are quite correct in thinking they hadn't really got it worked out.

noodler

Robots are the essential theme in BSG.

We all assumed robots had been created as soliders, slaves etc and eventuallt became self-aware and revolted.

Caprica had to try and be more than this and it tried so hard to make the path from Cylon production to war so much more convoluted than we had probably imagined in our heads.

In the end, and the last two episodes in particular, it wan't the Cylons on particular that were keeping me watching - it was Daniel's descent, company politics, religion (when it wasn't being completely overdone) and the mob that I mostly enjoyed.#

EDIT: I worry that Blood and Chrome will be too far on the other extreme (too much like that Spartacus series for example).

Goodshape

^^ True.

Caprica was best enjoyed when you forgot about BSG and what the Cylons became.

wataru

For some unknown reason the Episode Dirteaters is online but according to episode guides this should be after the next episode blowback which in turn should nt be available for another age due to the stupid time shift and cancellation. Confused... but im not complaining.

Goldstein

It was a massive failure in retrospect when you look at the fanbase they had access to after the close of BSG.

It was obvious after the pilot that the central plot (Teen girl stuck in robots body) was so alien from the mother-show, and sci-fi in general, as to completely alienate the majority of BSG fans. After that it didn't matter how many teen relationships they threw into the mix to attract the twilight-eske younger demographic, it was doomed.

jor el

Caprica was never SciFi, and shouldn't really have ever been on the SciFi channel. They could of course have made it more SciFi-esque, and have done that in the latest episodes, but it was far too late. Dawson's Creek in Space, without the space bit, was never going to go down well.

wataru

Pretty sure Dawsons Creek never had Mob Hits, suicide bombings, virtual sex clubs, cylons or digital afterlives but anyway...