Timmythekid
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Plus I've never got the sense that SyFy really cares what people have been waiting for - just what will put butts on couches.
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robn1
Master Member
One would think those are the same thing :unsure
CB2001
Master Member
It's not. It's the difference between quantity and quality.
Noeland
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Timmythekid
Sr Member
Not by a long shot. What do people watch on SyFy? Ghost Hoarders? Some garbage about extra dimensional pawn shop deals? Demon Wrestling?
As much as we might like to think we have a voice, what nerds want isn't a massive chunk of the market, and that's the reality SyFy is dealing with. Networks, particularly if they don't care to try and actually hold to, you know, what their ****ing mandate tells them they are supposed to be, can put out less money and bring in more viewers by churning out pseudo-realty TV that doesn't require viewers pay much attention or even tune in week to week.
The great unwashed masses like Cake Boss. They like Ice Truckers. They like Pawn Stars, they like the Bachellor; throwaway entertainment and background noise which requires no emotional or intellectual investment from an audience. They DON'T like having to think about allegorical storytelling and shows where you must understand where charactes have been, and how the story has unfolded to know where you are week to week. Add in the fact that such storytelling is generally on more expensive productions, and by definition is hard to re-run and from an economic perspective you begin to see why the bean-counters are pulling the plug on stuff like BSG, Caprica (suck it, haters...that show was brilliant, had terrific performances, and explored facinating thematic stuff - sorry there), and B&C.
Rant over...
Kerr Avon
Master Member
What theme was being explored by an episode that spent the entire time having the girl help a guy rob an imaginary bank of imaginary money in an imaginary world?
Suck it, the show, well ... sucked. :lol
For the most part, yes. But shows like Lost, Walking Dead, 24 and X-files didn't seem to have problems getting viewers while having seasonal story arcs, or shows you had to watch in order.
Damrod
New Member
Good news, bad news "Battlestar Galactica" fans: That trailer for the planned "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome" prequel that hit the Interwebs earlier this week was exciting, but Syfy has confirmed that "Blood & Chrome" will live on as a digital series, not a TV show.
The series' pilot, which has already been filmed, will air as a two-hour movie on Syfy at a later date.
"Though the vision for 'Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome' has evolved over the course of the past year, our enthusiasm for this ambitious project has not waned," Syfy President of Original Content Mark Stern said in a statement. "We are actively pursuing it as was originally intended: a groundbreaking digital series that will launch to audiences beyond the scope of a television screen."
The action-packed trailer for "Blood & Chrome," which hit the Internet after the WonderCon gathering in Anaheim last weekend, excited fans, but was unauthorized by Syfy.
"Blood & Chrome," set in the 10th year of the First Cylon War, is also planned to shed light on the early war battle years of William Adama, the "BSG" leader played by Edward James Olmos in the 2004-2009 "BSG" remake on Syfy.
"Skins" actor Luke Pasqualino portrays Adama in "Blood & Chrome."
The series' pilot, which has already been filmed, will air as a two-hour movie on Syfy at a later date.
"Though the vision for 'Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome' has evolved over the course of the past year, our enthusiasm for this ambitious project has not waned," Syfy President of Original Content Mark Stern said in a statement. "We are actively pursuing it as was originally intended: a groundbreaking digital series that will launch to audiences beyond the scope of a television screen."
The action-packed trailer for "Blood & Chrome," which hit the Internet after the WonderCon gathering in Anaheim last weekend, excited fans, but was unauthorized by Syfy.
"Blood & Chrome," set in the 10th year of the First Cylon War, is also planned to shed light on the early war battle years of William Adama, the "BSG" leader played by Edward James Olmos in the 2004-2009 "BSG" remake on Syfy.
"Skins" actor Luke Pasqualino portrays Adama in "Blood & Chrome."
epilepticsquirl
Sr Member
I'm fine with a web based series, there are a couple of indie shows that I like to watch on a weekly basis that are surprisingly well made. They just need to pick a format and stick with it, the fans will follow!
Old news. This was posted and discussed earlier in this thread. Not sure why you're posting it a month later as if it's new news.
The Wook
Timmythekid
Sr Member
Are you just being facetious? The plot is just the plot, it's a vehicle for talking about what the story is, but it's not the story. The entire story and the thrust of Caprica was "what makes a life a life, and not just a colelction of 1's and 0's?". Every single week that's where the show went, whether through the exploration of V-World (where you had personalities, some of which were artificial, some of which were real, some of which were affectations of real people, but all of which were indistinguishable from organic life), or the development of the Cylon as a robot playing host to the digital version of one of those artificial lives. On top of that the coincidental story of how religious belief and a desire to do right can be perverted into fanaticism and violence was setting up what we saw in BSG, and why the colonials were so dedicated to honoring a pantheistic worldview.
Now, you may have found it too slow moving, not liked the plot they chose to tell the story, or otherwise not enjoyed the show - that's all perfectly valid, and pleanty of people agreed with you. But to claim that there was nothing thematically going on in Caprica is more than a little disingenious.
I'm guessing what Kerr was saying was that there was nothing thematically *of interest* going on in Caprica.
I concur, Caprica was certainly anathema to my tastes.
The Wook
epilepticsquirl
Sr Member
It's coming sooner rather than later. :cool
'Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome' being released online Friday | Inside TV | EW.com
"Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome Trailer" - Series Premieres 11/9/12 - YouTube
'Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome' being released online Friday | Inside TV | EW.com
"Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome Trailer" - Series Premieres 11/9/12 - YouTube
CB2001
Master Member
Kinda wish it was coming to TV, but at least its something than nothing.
CB2001
Master Member
I'll believe it when I see it (for the TV and DVD release bits).
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