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Comic-Con News: Caprica Gets (Another) Debut Date

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | July 24, 2009 | +

Maureen Ryan passes along the announcement from SyFy that the Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, will debut on Jan. 22, 2010. (God, just typing “2010″ looks like science fiction.) The two-hour pilot will air at 9 p.m. E.T., then the show will move into BSG’s 10 p.m. timeslot. 

Or you can watch the pilot now—since it was released on DVD earlier this year. The show, which is set before BSG’s Cylon genocide, has a lot to do with virtual reality and the ability to digitize and transfer consciousnesses to machines. So it has some thematic overlap with Dollhouse, as well as with BSG creator Ronald Moore’s Virtuality, whose pilot aired on Fox this summer but looks not to bemade into a series. I wonder how many Virtuality ideas will ultimately migrate to Caprica, assuming Fox doesn’t resurrect that show. 

Have any Tuned Inlanders watched Caprica, or are you waiting for January?

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  • anon76

    It seemed silly to me to watch the premier so long before the series actually airs. I’ll be waiting.

    I notice Maureen also had some small news on ‘The Plan’, which I am somewhat more interested in, owing to its use of the BSG cast.

  • http://www.bryancastaneda.com Bryan

    I watched Caprica a week ago and loved it. Stoltz and Morales are great as the heads of the warring families and I particularly enjoyed their take on the Frankenstein myth.

  • masurix

    My boyfriend and I watched Caprica last week. I liked it, he was lukewarm. He loved BSG, but he’s not a TV show fan. Well, at least not American TV shows. He’s a big fan of, of all things, Korean dramas that look Dawson’s Creek-esque to me. Anyway, I thought it was an interesting portrait of pre-fall excess, and maybe they were trying to say, “This genocide wasn’t so bad, look how corrupt society was!”

    The performances were really strong, but I’m wondering how much more there is to go from where the pilot ended. It stood pretty strongly on its own and you could really infer the route it took in the next 58 years. I’m not sure how they’ll change it up enough to keep it interesting and get past the predictability – or maybe it’s inevitability I’m talking about. i mean, you do know how it ends. I’ll watch it, of course, because I like Jane Espenson. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.

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