Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome (release date) I would have posted this earlier if not for the error messages!

The board at SyFy all deserved to be abducted and anally probed (BY ALIENS FOR IRONY SAKE..phew!)

A good share of that 12 minutes are clips from Caprica and Galactica so yeah.

You missed out Dune when they didn't pick up the next books in the miniseries (the second one was great and pulled in more viewers if my admittedly flaky memory serves).

They didn't piss off the Whovians (BBC America prevented them showing more of that) and I don't think they had a chance to piss off the Star Wars fans.

I hope they explain how Husker became Husky.

In the Razor flashbacks he speaks with a perfect Bill Adama growl from the few bits I've seen of this William Adama Mk 4 he sounds like Hayden with a better director.

I hope they explain how Husker became Husky.

I had assumed it [the callsign] was because of the gravel / growl voice but in part one Coker referred to him as 'a husker' and Bill told him he's from Caprica. As for the Voice - I guess He eats Cylons for breakfast.

About to see the second part. I like it so far. Good fun seeing Galactica in her prime.

I was thinking he might get his larynx damaged in a Cylon strangle hold or something.

I loved Caprica (in some ways I preferred it to NuGalactica) and find it insulting to have it replaced with this.

Yeah it's a shame about the lack of HD release for the original series, I fondly remember going to see Saga Of A Star World at the Saturday morning film club with a packed lunch.

The Two Doctor Zee's should have had a spin off show of their own.

skyjedi2005 said:

I try to forget the last bad galatica prequel i'll pass on webisodes.

Hey at least the tv series is on blu ray. Unlike say the classic series which is nowhere to be found and was shot on film.

Maybe you should take a look before passing judgement. You might just find that it's the BSG prequel you wanted and didn't get with Caprica.

It's okay to not like Caprica, but it sounds like you are saying you wont like a new BSG show because you didn't like a show that had little to do with BSG. it wasn't meant to be Battlestar Galactica: Caprica.

Maybe you are forgetting a little something called Galactica 1980 - Now there was a follow-up series that soured the premise of the original.

Do you actually like the Original series? I liked it but I can't really see it making good money as a bluray release - unless it were some sort of super deluxe edition..

There have been BSG webseries in the past. After watching two episodes I can say that Blood and Chrome is already the most interesting of the lot.

Re:Razor - it seems like the actor there was purposely trying to imitate Eddie Olmos. Whereas here that isn't the case. There are a lot of years between the two characters where a lot can happen.

Yeah Sky, I'd give this a shot if I were you. They aren't actual webisodes (a gimmick I loathe!), it is the actual pilot episode of Blood and Chrome unceremoniously chopped up into short segments and delivered as webisodes.

If you liked the 2003 BSG series, then what I have seen of this so far feels very much in the same spirit. Of course, it is hard to tell this early on and with only a few fractions of the entire episode available to watch.

The Plan was largely a clip show but if you play it after Ellen escapes the Basestar it's actually a welcome recap and underlines how twisted Galactica Cavil is (after the finale it's utter bobbins).

Razor was also a bit clipshowish at times but it could stand on it's own better.

CP3S said:

They aren't actual webisodes (a gimmick I loathe!), it is the actual pilot episode of Blood and Chrome unceremoniously chopped up into short segments and delivered as webisodes.

Leia said:

I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain.

David Eick said:

This was originally developed as an online project. I feel like there’s a certain record to set straight, which was a little bit frustrating to me, a few months ago, when I saw the headlines that the Blood & Chrome project had somehow been rejected, or was a failed pilot, or wasn’t going to make it on the air. It was never intended to be a traditional pilot, so to speak, such that Syfy not picking it up in a traditional manner to an episodic series was some kind of a rejection or failure. It was always developed, at least from my point of view, as a project for an online environment. It was something that we built as a ten-part serial, kind of in the style of the 1930′s style movie serials, where you have ten minutes of story and a cliffhanger, followed by ten minutes of story and a cliffhanger. And then, after ten of those episodes, it would all resolve itself in a pre-act structure, as a whole movie. But, it was never any kind of rejection or failure that it didn’t wind up as another Syfy pilot.

I can recall when the plan [;)] for the series was first announced and it was laid out as David stated. SyFy started dicking around [pretty late in development - possibly even after completion] with various ideas. Then they put it on the shelf for a while, then finally went ahead with the original broadcast idea and released it online. I'm not sure if Machinima were involved early on or not. It's possible SyFy were going to host / air it themselves.

It actually seemed at first like it would be more in line with the previous BSG webisodes - low low budget, a few minutes apiece but B&C looks incredible.

Just watched Part four and can't wait for the next two. No idea why they are releasing 2 at a time, they officially announced that after the first 2 eps aired but if they'd stuck with one a week it would have ended right before the bluray release..

http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/battlestar-galactica-blood-and-chrome/23464/david-eick-sets-the-record-straight-on-battlestar-galactica-blood-and-chrome

Watched parts 5 and 6.

The abundance of parts BSG and Caprica actors is a bit distracting but otherwise it's pretty interesting.

mild spoiler..

again with the ice planet. always with the ice planet...

re: the plan. It would have been much more interesting to see the start of Cavil's plan rather than the failed end of it. I mean he kinda sabotaged himself at the end there.

Since they brought in the final five actors to lay in bathtubs full of slime they could surely have written something substantial for them - it would have been interesting to see their actual selves to contrast their programmed personalities within the colonial fleet.

there's a lot of ground they could have covered - the initial meeting, Cavil growing jealous of Daniel etc..even expanding upon the Razor flashbacks.