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Caprica, Flash Forward and Kings

Kings is supposed to premiere March 19. David is a strong story, and a very familiar story with lots of people. True, the weird ass this is our world but it's not our world is wide open to abuse (like how BSG uses it as an excuse for vicious nonsense,) but it can also be an emotional spacer, allowing different views of the familiar to be less shocking. The series can be metaphorical Jews bravely annihilating the Palestinian monster---a Big Lie, in other words. Or it can be---Bible characters seen as real people! That sort of thing needs an emotional spacer in a country like the US. We'll just have to see, won't we?

The PR release for Caprica quoted above is hopelessly stupid. The PR release is not the series, however.

My guess is the anti-Braga party line will be (before airing of course) that Flash Forward is just another time travel show.:lol:

PS Re the Sanctuary/SG-U/Caprica line up---Sanctuary is so nuts it's real fun to watch. I'm not hopeful for SG-U, since the good comedy writers for some reason want to write bad drama. Caprica? Those people might do sex in soap real well, if they can quit riding political hobby horses.
 
There's no time travel involved in "Flash Forward", unless they've significantly altered the premise. It's about being able to see future events, no interacting directly with them. Like a temporal telescope.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
Trent Roman said:
There's no time travel involved in "Flash Forward", unless they've significantly altered the premise. It's about being able to see future events, no interacting directly with them. Like a temporal telescope.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
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True---which is why the ":lol:."

The ones who don't see the future are those expected to die before the Magic Moment in the flash forwards. That little twist as I remember was interesting. The premise is novel and has possibilities. The rest depends on the execution.

FYI, another bbs I look at which aims to be perfectly hip and cool has already devised the just another time travel show label. Being so intent on being cutting edge, they are reliable sources for the SF/comics fan groupthink. Those guys rarely have an original thought since they're too busy trying to come up with original snark. They obey the hate Brannon Braga imperative.
 
A Clockwork Lim said:
Temis the Vorta said:
How can the Caprica robots be so sophisticated and yet the Cylons being anything more than dumb toasters is a shock to the Colonials decades later?

Ahhhhhh, I'll just watch it for the characters and forget the logic. Heroes is training me well. ;)
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The "toaster" models have an intelligence closer to that of a prehistoric man. They're intelligent and capable of feeling things (we see this in BSG a few times, most recently when Baltar was trying to sway one to his cause during the hostage bit), but they're not exactly brilliant tacticians, sophisticated philosophers, or able to blend in with humanity with ease. The "toasters" on BSG are simply an upgraded version of the ones the Colonials remember (ie, ones that resemble those from the original series). The "skinjobs" are something else entirely and nothing like what they remember, and that's what was shocking to the Colonists.

Though I'm sure seeing the new "toaster" models was mildly unexpected, too. Most of them probably had no idea the ones they remember could enhance themselves even that much.
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Even if they didn't know about the skinjobs, the Colonials must have some idea of the Cylon level of intelligence and sophistication. After all, they built, maintained and continued to man a diplomatic post/embassy with the sole purpose of meeting with the Cylons.
 
Silvercrest said:
A Clockwork Lim said:
Temis the Vorta said:
How can the Caprica robots be so sophisticated and yet the Cylons being anything more than dumb toasters is a shock to the Colonials decades later?

Ahhhhhh, I'll just watch it for the characters and forget the logic. Heroes is training me well. ;)
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The "toaster" models have an intelligence closer to that of a prehistoric man. They're intelligent and capable of feeling things (we see this in BSG a few times, most recently when Baltar was trying to sway one to his cause during the hostage bit), but they're not exactly brilliant tacticians, sophisticated philosophers, or able to blend in with humanity with ease. The "toasters" on BSG are simply an upgraded version of the ones the Colonials remember (ie, ones that resemble those from the original series). The "skinjobs" are something else entirely and nothing like what they remember, and that's what was shocking to the Colonists.

Though I'm sure seeing the new "toaster" models was mildly unexpected, too. Most of them probably had no idea the ones they remember could enhance themselves even that much.
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Even if they didn't know about the skinjobs, the Colonials must have some idea of the Cylon level of intelligence and sophistication. After all, they built, maintained and continued to man a diplomatic post/embassy with the sole purpose of meeting with the Cylons.
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I guess I just have more faith than you guys, but I don't see any plotholes yet. Why? Because the series isn't finished. The original poster would disagree, but the writers aren't idiots, they clearly know as much about the show that anyone who posts here does (and you would hope, far more than that) so if we're all watching and thinking: "hang on, how does this fit together?" the writers will have caught it months before we did. I just assume it'll all be addressed to fit together. If it doesn't, then I'll admit the writers screwed up, but I don't think they have, yet.
 
There's a story circulating that Joseph Fiennes and John Cho are negotiating for roles in Flash Forward.

Not in thread title, but about upcoming scifi series, in this case Dollhouse, a quote from a review----

A scene with a skeptical colleague addresses head-on a basic implausibility of the premise: why the hell does a billionaire need to turn to some kind of bizarre sci-fi brianwashing whorehouse to get the perfect date, or the perfect crime investigator, or the perfect whatever, when they can perfectly easily go out and hire one who hasn't had their personality wiped? His response: when you have everything, you want something more—more exotic, more perfect, more specific.
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That is exactly what seemed so bizarre to me about the whole idea of the series. The answer above is not convincing. We'll see.
 
All three of these shows have intrigued me since I first heard about them, although I'm alot more interested in Kings, and Caprica than Flash Forward. I'm really hoping they start releasing more information about Kings, because so far I haven't really heard anything more than just the baisic premise which is interesting. But as soon as I heard Ian McShane was playing the King character, I knew it would at least be worth keeping an eye on. I just wish I knew more about the Biblical David and Goliath story, because all I know about it is the baisic idea of a weak kid killing a big strong guy.
 
News---Sonia Walger (Penny from Lost) and Christine Woods are joining the Flash Forward pilot.
 
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