Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Battlestar Galactica to come back onto TV

Oh yes. You heard me right.

BSG is coming back. Now I know what all of us are thinking: "Why they hell are they doing that?! They ended the series perfectly, they didn't stretch the series out too long, or spontaneously forget where they were going with the series arc, or maroon the characters on some lame-ass island that is supposed to be a metaphor for purgatory. No, there was a plan, the Sci-Fi network tried to stretch out the series, but the creators wouldn't allow it.

"But Rizz," you can hear yourself saying. "Caprica sucked."

I know. And fear not. While Caprica was indeed created by the the same guy who created the original 2004 BSG series (Not the 1980s one), Caprica was set too far in the past, and was stuck on Caprica, limiting the story to the boring land parts that nobody cared to watch in BSG anyway.

Enter Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. Created by the same guy, Ronald D. Moore, B&C will take place during the First Cylon War, set ten years into the war. As the battle between humans and the Cylons rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a brash rookie viper pilot enters the fray. Ensign William Adama, barely in his 20s and a recent Academy graduate, finds himself assigned to the newest battlestar in the Colonial fleet… the Galactica. The talented but hot-headed risk-taker soon finds himself leading a dangerous top secret mission that, if successful, will turn the tide of the decade long war in favor of the desperate fleet.

I don't know about everyone else, but I think this shows potential. It takes things back to space, and more importantly, relates to characters everybody already knows and loves. You think people went to the Star Wars prequels to see Jar Jar? Or because they were good? No - people wanted to see the history of Owi-Wan and Darth Vader. Granted, that failed miserably, and it turns out their relationship was just one of whining and bitching at each other, constantly disobeying each other, and ultimately maiming each other, Obi Wan insists in A New Hope that Anakin "was a good friend." But I digress.

Barring George Lucas joining this project, I think that this series could have a lot of potential. The 2 hr pilot is greenlit, and they are rumored to start shooting in January or February 2011.

-Rizz

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