Why wasn't 'Caprica' a successful show?

i avoided bsg like the plague when it was running. tried to watch it recently because I had run out of literally anything else to watch, and its absolutely unbearable. i will never understand why it was ever popular.

Perfect phenotype

*hits pipe*
females are a huge meme

i miss slutfu. she was /ourgirl/.

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>hurr I use science words durrrrrr

How much of it did you watch? It really hits its stride later on in season 1 and by the midpoint of season 2.

A combination of bad things happened during the production of seasons 3 and 4 (interference from Sci-Fi channel forcing them to make more stand-alone episodes, writers strike) which made the show lose a bit of momentum towards the end.

Bear McCreary's soundtrack is still one of the best you'll find from a tv show
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i didn't really browse Yas Forums a decade ago, was there lots of Caprica/Alessandra Toressani threads?

Last season of BSG was a slog, basically killed any interest in Caprica for me and my friends.

>muh terrorists

HOL UP

We called her Slutfu and none of us got arrested breaking into her house.

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jane espensen was for the first half, and I think Remi Aubuchon for the second

They made the show to pander to women so it was bad. Look it up. The one thing SciFi liked about BSG was that it did a lot better with women than pretty much all their other shows at the time and it was instrumental in shaping what Caprica became.
It was also a double down on "God did it" instead of some natural progression where the Cylons evolved into something they weren't to begin with. Ron Moore and friends were 2 years down the rabbit hole of just doing non sequitur bullshit for cheap drama too so we got a real post modern masterpiece that ignores narrative and character so long as they thought for 2 seconds it would generate watercooler talk.

Caprica failed because RDM gave the showrunner seat to a shitty writer (Jane Espenson).

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It's hardly a big science word anymore.

Only reason I came in this thread. Good work Yas Forums

Because I didn't want a fucking intellectual cheaply made prequel about how the cylons were made.

I WANTED A SERIES SET DURING THE CYLON WAR.

THE.

FUCKING.

CYLON.

WAR.

Basically "Terminator" meets "Battlestar Galactica". This would have been a sure fire hit.

But instead I got some stupid girl eating an Apple and the show is called Caprica. WTF. I didn't ask for this shit.

They burned up any good will the audience had on this piece of trash show caprica. And when "Blood & Chrome" was made, they had no money left and the audience had moved on.

> prequel to an epic space opera with space battles
>it's a crime drama about a lawyer

Geez

>one of the main characters is a lawyer
>you never see him do lawyer stuff past the pilot
Putting a Whedonite as showrunner was a mistake.

this.

I have no idea what they were thinking.

It's even more annoying the only two high budget science fiction shows out now are woke as fuck.

Prequel have the problem of "unless they were planned out from the start, they're guaranteed to be bad, because their scope can't surpass the original work." If a prequel had a bigger scope than the original, but wasn't planned the original work would then make less sense. You'd ask "why didn't anyone ever mention X just happened?" Star Wars is probably the best example of a prequels done right (in concept, not execution) in that the original works were labeled 4, 5, and 6 and there was mention of a large war that explained how the empire came into power. They didn't just go back and decide to make it.

It was boring

lmao

She played Joker's Daughter on Batwoman.

It sounds like an italian dish.
>do you want-a some Mozzarella on your Caprica?

>1.3k subs
How sad

>the original works were labeled 4, 5, and 6
ANH was just "Star Wars" until ESB came out and the home video release of the original was altered with the sub title and chapter number.
Hell until the prequels came out everyone just referred to ANH as "star wars" and called the sequels empire or jedi.

prequels are only good if you subvert expectations of the viewer, such as hidden motives or the chain of events being actually not true in some way.

it sought to answer questions nobody wanted answers to, it also unnecessarily tried to tie everything together like the Adamas to the origins of the Cylons
the V-world stuff was all pretty cringey, and the show should've had pre-unification colonial space combat

and if you do it wrong it just looks like retconning everything so that the future stuff couldnt possibly have happened at all

see Enterprise

I like Enterprise more than any other Trek series lmaooo

This, it turned out Caprica was super fucking gay. It didn't really have a cohesive point to it, there was a bunch of garbage about some virtual world crap, then there was some AI crap.
It was all just boring as hell.

Did you watch? It was terrible.

would anyone watch a BSG sequel where near modern-Earth finds stuff like that excavated Raptor in the finale and ventures out into space back to the Colonies and stuff?
I think in the right hands it could be a pretty good setting for a show

Are you 12

This user sums it up pretty well

why are you such a dumb fag

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lol whatever happened to slutfu?

Which two shows? Star Trek?

Yes. Shit.

Too bad the right hands are no longer working as writers

>Prequels are an inherently bad concept because you know how it's all going to turn out
Prequels can work out well in certain cases such as to set up background character motivations and whatnot, but in this case you know that everybody fucking dies. Why would I want to watch a show when I know that all the characters are going to die in nuclear hellfire?

Imagine what she could have accomplished with the proper training.

maybe calling it "Caprica" was a dumb idea?

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Because it sounds like paprica?

Enterprise is a delight fuck you

I wonder if that’s why I liked caprica so much. At the time I watched it I had not seen bsg. The downside is I got the impression there was stuff they assumed you knew that i obviously didn’t, so I was a bit confused at times. I do think that’s an inherent flaw in prequels that you know what’s going to happen, so it limits things like surprise, suspense, twists etc, you know some of the characters are going to live, and you might know a couple are going to stay together, whatever. For this reason prequels should be made sparingly, but it’s still possible to make a good one. A good example of a way it can be done for instance is the Star Wars prequels(not saying it was done well or wasn’t, just saying the scenario was good for prequels) because it was enough in the past and enough characters were different you could still have suspense. Though come to think of it by the 3rd movie pretty much all the main characters you knew their fate, and actually you knew the empire would come about. You might be right about prequels.