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By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (15)

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Blastr somehow managed to acquire some exclusive looks at concept art coming out of the new “Battlestar Galactica” project “Blood and Chrome.” I’m sure the fact that the website is owned by the SyFy channel doesn’t have the slightest thing to do with their incredible journalistic scoop. Oh come on, I link to them all the time, it’s true, but there’s something disingenuous about them plastering “Exclusive!” on an article when they’re part of the corporation’s PR arm to start with. I might not have gone to a fancy journalism school, and I might just write about moving pictures, but I’m pretty sure that Deep Throat is supposed to be a source, not a technique.

What? Of course I’m still going to link to the pictures. I have principles not morals. I’ll just bitch while I do it. And buy the Hollywood Cog a thumb drive for Christmas.

So the show is another prequel, except this time SyFy got the lawyers to make sure that the fine print included something along the lines of explosions and space ships. Of course they couldn’t just make it a sequel because Moore was quite explicit that it ended with no spaceships and a whole lot of cave man sex.

Very early concept art below, including a giant Cylon snake, a properly murderous robot, and apparently Hoth.

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(source: Blastr)









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Comments

Nerd boner!

Posted by: admin at December 21, 2010 10:18 AM

I'll wait for the next prequel where they show what Adama did between the ages of 17 and 19, which will basically cover the end of high school and a little bit of junior college.

Man that's gonna be sweet.

Posted by: Paul Southworth at December 21, 2010 10:41 AM

Count me in if they portray Starbuck's formative years...

Posted by: cinekat at December 21, 2010 10:59 AM

Concept art is usually cooler than the finished product. Of course, with Battlestar Galactica, that's a given.

Posted by: Todd at December 21, 2010 11:07 AM

I will watch the fuck out of this.

Posted by: Cindy at December 21, 2010 11:07 AM

I have trouble getting excited about a BSG show being proposed when they just killed a BSG show to make room for it.

Apparently conspiracies, religious cabals, cut-throat capitalism, the tauran mafia, a virtual kill world, and exploration of new modes of consciousness weren't enough to keep fans interested.

what they really want is more cowboys and indians.

Posted by: idleprimate at December 21, 2010 11:11 AM

I will watch this religiously. I will be pissed when they cancel it. I will own the DVDs with or without a proper closure to the series. SO SAY WE ALL.

Posted by: Paultera at December 21, 2010 11:14 AM

Meh! Battlestar Galactica...

Posted by: psy at December 21, 2010 11:21 AM

I will watch the fuck out of this.

The fuck shall indeed be watched out of this with mine own eyes.

Dumb SyFylytic fuckers best not cancel this one, either.
Some of us were invested in "Caprica."
I like me some 'splodeyness just as much as the next guy, but you don't need it in everything SciFi if you're doin' it right.

Posted by: Rykker at December 21, 2010 1:02 PM

TOASTER!

Posted by: DarthCorleone's Robotic Executioner at December 21, 2010 4:13 PM

Watching Caprica was like a labor of love. I loved BSG but all that religous BS and the virtual Zoe and the robot zoe was just rally annoying. I really like Eric Stoltz too, but I hated that bitch that played his wife. I just really didn't care at all. They took too long to get to the point, which they never got to make.

Posted by: daria at December 21, 2010 4:32 PM

give me Katee Sackhoff or fuck off.

Posted by: sailboat at December 21, 2010 5:14 PM

They always say Bill Adama...Bill Adama, but I think that means we get more Colonel Tigh too, right? And his crazy wife??

Posted by: John G. at December 22, 2010 3:41 AM

'Fraid no Tighs, considering the revelation in the final season of BSG.
If the show manages to stay on air long enough to have a proper finale, we might get a glimpse, but until then it'll be another Adamarama.

Posted by: WonderRabbit at January 12, 2011 7:22 AM

All this new information on Blood and Chrome is definitely appealing to those who are only vaguely familiar with BSG’s history and time line aspects. This show is only set to attract new people into the BSG franchise, and this is its primary purpose and secondarily to attract the already set fan base. They will use BSG/Caprica for basic history and character knowledge, but will not be staying true to the actual set history, of either.

The continuity issues are plenty and will eventually take such a turn that it will make both BSG and Caprica irrelevant to any of what it will contain, if it becomes a series. To read more on the continuity aspect as well as what David Eick has already stated about Blood and Chrome’s primary purpose. Also contained in this article is located a link to a much more indepth review on B&C (along with Star Trek’s reboot team, leading its new action format), by someone who has actually read the script, as well as a link to details as to why B&C was even created. Check out this site, to find out more:
http ://www.thoughts.com/CapricaNeedsSeason2/bsgs-continuity-and-what- actually-effects-it-with-caprica-and-blood-chrome

Posted by: Wayne Hurlburt at February 13, 2011 8:54 PM