More details on "Caprica"
Slice of Sci-fi pulled out a nice non-spoiler section of Ron Moore's interview in SFX Magazine.
The newest issue of SFX Magazine has an interview with Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore in which he talks about his new series spinoff called “Caprica.”
In the exclusive interview Moore says, “It’s a different kind of show. More of a drama. It’s corporate intrigue and interfamily politics…there are rival companies that are trying to develop the same technology. The government plays a role in trying to sort of get certain military aspects of the technology in place. It’s all coloured by the fact that we know none of this is going to come to a good end. This is a doomsday scenario that we know is leading to something really, really bad, that you’re watching unfold before your eyes…
It sounds like they are really trying to position the show as an entirely different feel from the current BSG. I haven't made up my mind if that is a good or bad thing. One one side, if they make Capirca too similar, we will continually compare the two... if you make it too dissimilar, the positive association that we have won't carry over. It sounds like an interesting challenge... a very ambitious one for a show only in it's third season.
The world is running on Internet time these days though... things just move faster.. audiences expect more. Maybe we are witnessing the newest trend in entertainment: complete and total market saturation. Perhaps there will be a time when shows do not even take a season hiatus... they just go from one episode to the next, week after week alternating the cast between different parallel story-lines.
Sci Fi could have done that with Stargate SG1. They could have shown the normal Stargate for a few months, then while that crew was on break show Stargate Atlantis. Something like that might just work these days! We would never have to go a week without our favorite shows!
I like what he had to say about technology in the show, that sounds like a fun thing that we don't see too much of in BSG. I'm looking forward to the show more and more.
Posted by: Brett J. | June 04, 2006 at 09:38 PM
they just go from one episode to the next, week after week
aaaaaah. that's what i love about living in the UK. I cannot understand why US viewers put up with it. months sometimes between bits of seasons.
how on earth do you maintain an audience.
in the UK it just runs from start to finish one week after the next. fantastic.
Posted by: vincent formosa | June 05, 2006 at 04:33 AM
hmmmm... not I'm intrigued. cut-throat corporations bidding for contracts, and cutting any corners necessary to unlease the next genereration of technology... that will destroy their entire civilization.
Okay... thinking I might give this a chance.
Posted by: Aragorn | June 06, 2006 at 05:17 PM
Your comments sounds very Marshall McLuhan-esque (http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/mcluhanprojekt/hei%DFmedien2.htm). For example, McLuhan suggests that dictators can't come to power in a hot media environment because they die out quickly, like McCarthy.
The idea is that cold media makes things lasts longer...more saturation = hotter, so I guess if Moore and BSG are going the "hot" media route,they might burn quickly and brightly but not last long. Shame.
Posted by: John Beeler | June 10, 2006 at 04:58 PM
John - I guess in the end I am still a little confused what they are really going for. To me, these spin offs will really only appeal to people who are deeply involved in the show already. Sure there is a slight chance that with a different concentration (politics, intrigue, etc) they will attract another audience... but it is still BSG, it is still in the future... so I am not entirely sure.
As a fan of the show, I figure great! Bring on the universe for us to explore... but I just worry they are spreading themselves too thin. Although I can definitely understand their desire to strike while the fires are hot at Universal.
I guess we will just wait and see.
Posted by: Trapper Markelz | June 11, 2006 at 08:58 PM