The word Eick... I mean... Ick comes to mind. However I thought Battlestar ws going to be dumb, so I'm going to keep an open mind
Martin wrote: > "Eick compared it to the feature film American Beauty, while Moore referenced > the TV soap opera Dallas." > > Martin is not liking *either* of those comparisons. Martin suspects that he > will be sorely disappointed by the resulting product. > > "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Caprica Very Different From Battlestar > http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=50670 > David Eick and Ronald D. Moore, executive producers of SCI FI Channel's > original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that their > upcoming prequel Caprica will be a markedly different series. > > Eick compared it to the feature film American Beauty, while Moore > referenced the TV soap opera Dallas. > > "Caprica is a story that Ron Moore and I concocted with [co-executive > producer] Remi Aubuchon, and we're casting as we speak," Moore said in > an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in > New York on March 18. "I'm very excited about that. If Battlestar > Galactica is Black Hawk Down, I would say that Caprica is American > Beauty. Caprica is all about the inner lives of the people on a planet > and how their personal relationships as well as their professional > relationships inform what will become the creation of the Cylons." > > Moore, a former Star Trek writer and producer, said that Caprica is not > a show along the lines of any Trek spinoff series. "It's a different > animal altogether," he said in a separate interview. "Unlike those > shows, which are all riffs on the same notion of what Star Trek was, > Caprica is really a completely different kind of genre. We're trying to > do something different." > > Instead of Galactica's action-adventure space-based war show, Caprica > will tell a story that takes place before any of the wars happened. > "This is really more of a sci-fi Dallas," Moore said. "It's a political > story, a family story. It's about the creation of the Cylons, and it's > about a company. It's planet-based. It's very character-oriented, very > serialized and very much about the characters. It's a whole different > genre, and that's what makes it exciting." > > Production will begin this spring on a two-hour backdoor pilot. Moore > said he will be "very involved" with the pilot, but stressed that it's > too soon to say whether he'd remain on board if SCI FI Channel gave the > green light for a weekly Caprica show. > > "If it goes to series, it kind of depends when that happens and what I'm > doing," he said. "We'll just wait and see." --Ian Spelling > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get > organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A > Country" > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
