Battlestar Galactica getting rebooted (again) for NBS's streaming service

[Skipper]

There is a 0% chance of this happening. Perhaps some elements of black comedy but it will be a serious drama, in the way that Watchmen has some funny moments but isn’t a comedy. The subject matter and people involved with this reboot don’t do gags.

I really, really doubt that a reboot with the same premise (people who are escaping from a near-genocide and are chased by an implacable enemy who want their total Annihilation) could be light-hearted like, I don't know, the first seasons of Stargate. Not today. This subject looks a little too much like stories that happen and have happened in the real world and people might think that the authors are trying to diminish the real suffering that has happened in history.

 

[CaptainXaviOfEarth]

I really, really doubt that a reboot with the same premise (people who are escaping from a near-genocide and are chased by an implacable enemy who want their total Annihilation) could be light-hearted like, I don't know, the first seasons of Stargate. Not today. This subject looks a little too much like stories that happen and have happened in the real world and people might think that the authors are trying to diminish the real suffering that has happened in history.

Not to mention this will likely be a hard TV-MA series. Specifically (and this is a huge indication of who is/was attached to direct the pilot) Gangs of London levels of TV-MA. They won’t soil the show with The Orville type silliness.

 

[Mudd]

Pity - it might be less boring that way.

 

[The Wormhole]

the prequel series I gave up on during season one.

You mean Caprica? It only had one season.

 

[CaptainXaviOfEarth]

You mean Caprica? It only had one season.

It was released weirdly if I remember correctly.

 

[Marc]

It was released weirdly if I remember correctly.

Can't remember anything weird about the release but there were some other behind the scenes drama with Jane Epherson (sp?) being dumped as show runner half way through.

 

[Tosk]

I believe he's thinking of the fact that it had a mid-season hiatus, which the DVD release also duplicated by splitting the season into two releases.

 

[DigificWriter]

Like the second and fourth seasons of BSG, Caprica was split into two 'chapters' for both broadcast and home video release.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I think one of those (BSG) splits was because of a writers strike.

 

[Dar70]

You mean Caprica? It only had one season.

Yeah. The eps were so spread out i it felt like it was on for two. But I think I gave up on like episode three. I hope the new show doesn't paint themselves in a corner like the previous show.

 

[Marc]

I think one of those (BSG) splits was because of a writers strike.

that was in season 4 with "Sometimes a Great Notion" being the last episode before the writers strike shut everything down.

Looking at the wiki entry for Caprica, it had a six month break (March - October) between that occured between eps 10 and 11.

BSG had 3 month split in S2 (2.0 and 2.5) though wiki doesn't give a reason why.

 

[David cgc]

Midseason splits were common on Sci-Fi at the time (and still are today with many shows), and were frequently pretty long. The three month gap between "Pegasus" and "Resurrection Ship" is one of the few times the gap was around what it was "supposed" to be.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I think Sopranos (and HBO in general) was one of the first to popularize long mid-season (and main-season) breaks, with shorter overall seasons. Frustrating, to a degree, for people used to longer season runs up through the 90's, but the result (ideally), was a more well thought out and tightly-knit story with little or no time-wasting fluff padding.

 

[CaptainXaviOfEarth]

My box set for Caprica had 3 different DVD sets within it.

Feature length uncut pilot
Season 1 with two more versions of the pilot
Season 1.5 with some sort of fake "next on" for Season 2

That suggests a really sloppy release, but to be honest, I don't remember. Not a particularly memorable show. I can only recall the nun and a teenage girl in a cylon's body.

Edit: No, actually, I remember Season 1.5 being called Season 2 in most of Europe.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Like the second and fourth seasons of BSG, Caprica was split into two 'chapters' for both broadcast and home video release.

At least they fixed that with the BSG blu-ray releases.

 

[Skipper]

Not to mention this will likely be a hard TV-MA series. Specifically (and this is a huge indication of who is/was attached to direct the pilot) Gangs of London levels of TV-MA. They won’t soil the show with The Orville type silliness.

And even the Orville, when they portrayed an alternate universe where the Kaylons almost wiped out the human race, did a more serious and somber episode. Really, I don't know why people want a genocide as a subject for a rom-com. It's a little disturbing.

 

[137th Gebirg]

People tend to use humor to alleviate stressful situations. Can't think of anything really more stressful than a genocidal holocaust.

 

[Skipper]

People tend to use humor to alleviate stressful situations. Can't think of anything really more stressful than a genocidal holocaust.

People using humor, yes. People going to have fun on a Casino Planet when almost everyone died, no.

 

[137th Gebirg]

True.

 

[RandyS]

People using humor, yes. People going to have fun on a Casino Planet when almost everyone died, no.

The Ovions were eating the humans on that "Casino Planet". Why is that story point always ignored??