Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined)

Bear Mc Creary is a genius. This one gets me every single time.

Don't forget these!

edited 5th Oct '12 10:14:01 AM by johnnyfog

Oh, right, oops. One vid per post.

Here's my favourite piece from the show. It's from the opera house at the end of Series 1.

Looks like we're getting a new series.

A Battlestar Galactica reboot will be airing on the new Peacock streaming service set to come out this spring.

Who is behind this Peacock thing? Because this is the first I've heard of it.

If it's Peacock? I'm assuming NBC.

Yeah, NBC. They've been hyping for a while, and I think we're supposed to get more concrete info on the service today.

I've been seeing the word reboot thrown around concerning this new series, and that it will based on the reimagined version, not the classic one. Not sure if this means it'll be a sequel/prequel/spinoff or an entirely different version of the story.

Really I'd prefer a series based around the Cylon War.

I don't feel like a series that premiered in 2004 and concluded in 2009 needs an update in 2020.

I don't know if that makes this better or worse.

Edited by Soble on Jan 16th 2020 at 1:36:48 AM

Part of the problem the franchise had was that the Sy Fy channel ordered two spinoffs and assured Universal they'd get full airings and advertising, but then jerked both of them around. Caprica only got one season and Blood and Chrome didn't even get that. The rumor is that after how badly Sy Fy treated Blood and Chrome (it wasn't that good, but like...saying it's going to be a TV pilot, then a standalone movie, then a webseries and continually changing it around and delaying it for no reason over and over...) Universal got sick of their faffing around with the franchise and yanked it away from them. But then ran into the problem of no one else being willing to air something like that.

I heard Caprica was really good though.

It was. Ending was a little weak, but still good. However, it didn't quite get the audience it was supposed to, which at the time was mostly chalked up to it being so different from BSG. As a spin-off it alienated people who weren't fans of BSG, and as an entirely different genre it alienated people who were fans of BSG.

I mean, the ending to BSG alienated fans of BSG, so...par for the course, really.

Syfy's a terrible channel in general, really. When they're not licensing science-fiction shows to air they're making really shitty TV movies, some of which are actual ripoffs of better films.

Their shows tend, on average, to be on the better side, and they're willing to be a little more experimental than a lot of other basic cable channels, but they have a serious problem with greenlighting stuff that's against their best interests. They want to mostly have shows that they, themselves own. Great, that makes sense, they get long-term revenue from it.

But then they greenlight stuff like the Expanse, and Krypton and Dark Matter, all of which are expensive (Dark Matter much less so, admittedly) and their revenue depends entirely on how many people watch the first run on their b-tier basic cable channel. Why do they do this? Most of their sudden cancellations in the past 5 years are related to this specific problem.