SCI FI Channel announced the development of Caprica, a spinoff prequel

[spshu]

SCI FI Announces Caprica

NEW YORK—SCI FI Channel announced the development of Caprica, a spinoff prequel of its hit Battlestar Galactica, in presentations to advertisers in New York on April 26. Caprica would come from Galactica executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, writer Remi Aubuchon (24) and NBC Universal Television Studio.

Caprica would take place more than half a century before the events that play out in Battlestar Galactica. The people of the Twelve Colonies are at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, but where high technology has changed the lives of virtually everyone for the better.

[BouncyCaitian]

I want farscape back...

[Tobian]

Reserving judgement yet. Not too big of a fan of Enterprise, but if they can capture the first Cylon war it could well be interesting !

[Tricky]

Rhetorical question for TV/Movie script writers and the Sci-Fi/Horror ones in general:

Does everything need a Prequel?

I mean it might be interesting, I'll give it that. And it might have some of the features that make BSG cool, but I really think Sci-Fi's money could be better spent elsewhere.

Rather than 'fleshing out the backstory', as every prequel writer says, give that poor starving english major a couple of extra bucks and another month and say "Ok, we want something more or less original." You'd be surprised at the results. I have heard some great tv pilots pitched (by us working class slobs here in ohio) over a pitcher of beer (strangely, sometimes we actuall see some of our ideas on the screen sometimes.....weird eh?), so I'm sure a professional could do the same without gloming onto someone else's movie.

sorry, a bit ranty there....need to go to my sports bar and have more beer....and talk about that show idea I had where a bunch of stangers are stranded on a mysterious island.....I call it "Misplaced".

[REG]

Rhetorical question for TV/Movie script writers and the Sci-Fi/Horror ones in general:

Does everything need a Prequel?

Well, one can argue that Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a prequel when the storyline matched with TNG "Reunification" episodes and Worf's namesake appeared as a counselor for Kirk and McCoy.

Heck, I don't mind seeing Kobol's Golden Age, just when they first developed the Cylons.

[Tricky]

Just keep in mind, those Cylons will be the 'classic' models from the 70's; in the BSG Mini, the officer at the 'embassy' between the colonies and the Cylon's territory was reviewing files about the cylons,and it showed the old models and old style raiders.

Although I don't know where the CGI model's come into place; I mean you could fudge things and have the original ones create them right after the war starts, as they try and purge the human's influence over their designs, but that might be pushing it a bit.