Caprica canceled
POSTED BY: whozit
UPDATED: Monday, January 31, 2011 05:51
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I still don't understand why SyFy couldn't air the last five eps as planned even if they didn't intend to renew it.
They are going to air them, just in January, when they were originally scheduled, before they pushed things up to October.
Yeah, I know that, but I meant why couldn't they have continued showing it on Tuesdays for the next five weeks. November is sweeps month for most of the major networks, but for SyFy they aren't running anything so special that they can expect any better ratings than Caprica would have got. There have been several other series the past few years (Flash Gordon and Painkiller Jane come to mind) that they allowed to air all of the produced episodes in order even though they had already made the decision not to renew. Just five more eps of Caprica...would that have been so hard to do?
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If the ratings are low enough, even running reruns of some crap like Ghost Hunters is more profitable. Thus, bump.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by Storymark:
If the ratings are low enough, even running reruns of some crap like Ghost Hunters is more profitable. Thus, bump.
You're no fun. Stop bringing logic into this argument.
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Lol. Sorry.
I find applying a bit of the business logic takes out some of the sting of losing a cool show, but I realize that doesn't work for everyone.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I'm really sad to see this show go. 
I was just getting real excited with it when they started showing more of Teryl Rothery. 
Dr. Janet Frasier is my wife in my fantasies.
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Great end of the series, tied up all the loose ends...for a change.
But why play all epps on the same day?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caprica_episodes [spoilers]
hulu.com/caprica
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Probably just to get them out of the way, to air higher rated junk in it's place. Also, doing it as a marathon makes it an event for fans, making them more likely to watch en masse.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Probably just to get them out of the way, to air higher rated junk in it's place. Also, doing it as a marathon makes it an event for fans, making them more likely to watch en masse.
But one episode got lost in DVR Hell, so now I must watch it hunched over Hulu. I'm only allowed to watch video on HughesNet sat between 2-7am, or service is throttled to 1kbs.
4 hours was too much marathon for me.
Great animation. I think I'll be taking a class on that this summer. I'm trying to take a class in Adobe After Effects this semester. Frakkin classes now cost $500 each, plus software!
False-flag explosive demolition to blame a patsy is now a common script in Hollywood. Thanks to Operation Northwoods. Maybe Predictive Programming will backfire on the STO, er, NWO?
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Hello,
Chris, it was good of you to apologize. My ego sometimes gets in the way of me doing that. You are an example to us all.
I enjoyed Caprica. More as I continued to watch it. It wasn't always what we consider an 'exciting' show but it had good drama, sufficient action, character development, and it studied morality in a satisfying way.
Moreover, like BSG before it, it had quality.
Some people doubtless did not care for its specific qualities, but I don't think there are many who would argue against it being a quality show. One had the impression while watching it that it had been crafted by people who really cared. It felt like art to me.
I am a Trekkie, but in remembering some Trek episodes, I recall that some of them did seem thrown-together without much thought. Writing was sometimes very lazy. Acting was sometimes cringeworthy. The best Trek is art. The worst Trek was... lamentable.
But the quality of BSG and Caprica (two very different kinds of show) were both very high to me. Yes, the shows had low points and high points, but they never faltered in what I consider to be a catastrophic way. I felt that every frame was put together in a way that made it art.
Firefly also had Quality. Every frame oozed it.
Quality. That's what these shows had. That's something hard to find nowadays. I will miss it.
--Anthony
Assured by friends that the signal-to-noise ratio has improved on this forum, I have disabled web filtering.
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Easy EC, you know Chris likes to stir the pot every once and when.
But you're right, the show was a bit slowed-paced even for this Firefly Fan. There are some that would call our beloved show a bit "slow paced," but I digress.
In setting up the premise and overall dynamics, perhaps the writers could have moved things along. I agree that Eric Stoltz did his best work ever (he was fantastic as the mad scientist/father), I liked the girl (his daughter Zoe) and the brother Sam Adama. But the development of these characters was painfully slow, to me, and it distracted from the main theme (IMHO).
BTW the last 5 episodes were frakking awesome, and this, to me, is what could have been throughout the first season. There were times when they would introduce a storyline but then it would fizzle out and they would go in a new direction. The storyline with Amanda Graystone and her dead brother had me completely baffled, it went nowhere. What did it have to do with the rest of it. There was no connection (at least I didn't see it and I watched each show relgiously).
There was the storyline with Tamara Adama, which I really began to get into, faded. For several episodes - nothing. I was thoroughly disappointed. But I thought the whole religion aspect of the story was interesting and dynamic, subtlely commenting on our different belief systems and the morality of killing in "Gods" name. The battle between tech and non-tech modes of behavior, the soul, etc. The show entertained and made you think - What a concept! A show that actually makes you think - ahhh, sci-fi.
SGG
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