Profound, profane or pedestrian

Just as I adjusted myself to its pace and focus, news that Caprica is cancelled! Damn it and I had just started to get interested in it too! I did think that with Battlestar Galactica : Blood and Chrome getting at least a provisional nod, it was unlikely that Caprica would survive too much longer.

I think that at least part of the issue is that Caprica is so different from the series that it spun off, that it fell between audiences. You probably wouldn't really watch Caprica unless you had watched Battlestar Galactica and yet if you had watched Battlestar Galactica, Caprica wasn't likely to be the kind of show that would appeal to you.

Just watched opening episodes of Warehouse 13, Caprica and The Event and I saw enough in each to want to watch them all again.

Caprica was definitely the pick of the bunch for me - I could feel BSG and Ron Moore's writing all over it which was all to the good. Warehouse 13 was definitely the quirky one of the bunch so, as long as it gets down to some substantive story telling soon, that'll be OK with me. The Event felt a bit like a Lost/FlashForward hybrid but interesting all the same. I don't really like the multiple flashback frame-within-a-frame thing so as long as they don't persist with that too much, I'll watch the next few episodes to see if I like it.

According to TVShowsOnDVD the release for the S1 R1 box set will be 5th October and it will have a very nice cover

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According to SyFy Portal, SciFi Channel has ordered two more scripts in addition to the already ordered pilot. It's not exactly a whole series order but it's certainly better than nothing!

Not sure about the "50's feel with high technology" idea but then who'd have thought some camp cheesy 80's space opera could have been turned into to the gritty, gutsy thing that is BSG today?