Battlestar Galactica

A lot of bad news has come with the writers’ strike, and even more rumors.  But this is one of the rumors we hope turns out to be true:  with fewer and fewer scripts available for development, Caprica may have an even better chance of coming to life.

Caprica is the prequel series to Battlestar Galactica, an idea designed to look at life on Caprica around the time that the original Cylons were being created.  Back then the Adamas were famous for being lawyers, not Admirals, and the humans had not yet realized the threat the Cylons would pose to their survival. 

It’s an interesting idea, and one that was met with strong enthusiasm from many fans when it was first announced.  But after two plus years with no additional information, and the announcement that Battlestar Galactica would end after only four seasons, many fans have assumed that Caprica is DOA even as Ron Moore insisted the idea was still a possibility for the future.

Now TVSquad and Ain’t It Cool News are reporting that it is an even better possibility than fans had realized.  With the writers’ strike leaving studios and networks with a lack of new ideas, they are looking around for the best of the ideas that are languishing in the stable.  Caprica is an obvious choice, with its built in fan base and potentially grand pedigree.

No word of how the premise of Caprica would work with the increasingly complex Cylon mythology that is being revealed in Battlestar Galactica’s final chapters.  The reimagined version of the show does not simply contemplated robots that turned on their creators, but a complex spiritual mythology in which that version of events is much too simple.  Presumably Caprica would need to take this spiritual mythology into account.

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