File-sharers get an early taste of the Battlestar Galactica prequel.
Sci-fi fans still detoxing after the series finale of Battlestar Galactica have a treat in store this morning with news that a DVD copy of Caprica, the upcoming prequel to BSG, has leaked to BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere.
The DVD is due to be released on April 21st, both in physical form and as a digital download.
This two-hour pilot won’t actually air on the Sc-Fi Channel until 2010.
The drama stars Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker.
From the SCI FI Channel site:
Set 50 years before the events in BSG, Caprica follows two rival families–the Graystones and the Adamas–as they grow, compete and thrive in the vibrant world of the 12 Colonies, a society recognizably close to our own.
Enmeshed in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe to toe in a series that blends action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics.
Intriguing right?
So what happens in the pilot?
As the series begins, a startling development is about to occur–the creation of the first cybernetic lifeform node, or “Cylon”–the ability to marry artificial intelligence with mechanical bodies.
Joseph Adama (Esai Morales)–father of future Galactica commander William Adama (Sina Najafi)–is a renowned civil liberties lawyer and becomes an opponent of the experiments undertaken by the Graystones, led by a patriarch played by Eric Stoltz, who are owners of a large computer corporation that is spearheading the development of the Cylons.
I don’t know about you, but as a BSG fan I’ll definitely be checking this “frakin” one out.
BSG…yet another MISTAKE in re-making original and often better tv and/or movies!
The very same twitter fans and all fans of tv/movie remakes with ooh better special effects and ooh better looking women and ooh and ooh…imagine what they will be saying of BSG and the rest in 5, 10, or more years from now.
Better CGI for example, will never make up for superior, intelligent script writing, above average acting and actors and good direction. Prefer B-grade TV and movies, stick to the thousands of mindless video games.
The pilot shows that the series has a lot of directions it can take – all intriguing. Buy the DVD and check out the deleted scenes for some interesting twist!
Where as most people on twitter thought it was fantastic. So perhaps you are just a bitter minority.
@Tyndall
I concur. I haven’t seen the whole thing from start to finish, I skipped through it and saw bits and pieces, I got the impression it was a lot of boring, B-grade actors yapping about philosophical shit and making pompous asses out of themselves. Oh, and the girl gets put into a cylon body at the very end. :snooze:
I watched it, and found it to be fantastic… I thought the character work was great, particularly Joseph Adams/Adama… and Eric Stoltz as Greystone seemed to have a good edge and a twisted soul that makes his cylon creation understandable.
@Xavier…thus why I refuse to watch it. I figured it would be that way.
I saw the pilot. Quite possibly running for the worst tv show ever. Pathetic teeny bopper experience, i wish i could take my 1 hour and 32 minutes of my life back to wash the garbage bins and maybe mow my neighbours lawn.
One thing that stood out was the ridiculous racism towards “Taurans” who were in fact a hybrid of Mexicans/New Zealand Maori.
Man, this was an insult to BSG.
1/10. I gave that 1 because Graystone’s house looks pretty cool.
I just saw the pilot. All of my doubts for this series are extinguished in one fell swoop.
I don’t really care about this show. I have already seen the end of the last episode of BSG, so why would I want to know what went on before?
This kinda sounds like Star Trek “Enterprise” that was set BEFORE the original series took place. I know how bad THAT sucked also!
Probably won’t download or even WATCH this series. No point! I already know that it is going to be blown to bits in 50 years byu the cylons, so what is the point?
Maybe if it was about the caprica we see at the END of BSG where you were told they may have a different end other than the cylons blowing them up, I could understand watching it.
But this? Not really.
this happen to anew game to i saw in pretome tracker avilblr for download after 5days from release
even this series what happen