Caprica First Episode

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By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (18)

“Caprica,” the “Battlestar Galactica” spin-off prequel, is slated for a January 22nd debut date. Well, second debut, which I guess makes it not a debut. They only showed the two hour pilot back in April on DVD, so since it wasn’t broadcast that makes this sort of a debut, sort of like being a technical virgin.

But not content to feed us a pilot and let us simmer for a year (ah, that must be where ABC got its “V” strategy), the SyFy Channel has released the pilot for free online. They insist that it is not the final cut of what will premiere on broadcast but it looks to be more or less what was on the DVD pilot, sans nudity, which there wasn’t an excessive amount of in the first place. So this is the Walmart version of the DVD, if you will.

Here’s the ninety minute pilot, and if you haven’t seen it, well, it beats working right? Our review of the pilot from April is here if you’re jonesing for a “Caprica” fix but can’t get away with 90 minutes of alt-tabbing every time your boss walks by.

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Srsly, how much do some of y'all spend on your cable bill every month? Just wondering, since it seems like 90% of the TV worth watching is on upper-tier/premium cable. Which I don't have.

Posted by: , at December 15, 2009 11:15 AM

SyPhi ain't upper tier/premium anything in my neck of the woods, it comes standard with the Weather Channel and USA

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 15, 2009 11:18 AM

Then I'm substandard, Slim. I'd have to go up a tier for anything more than C-SPAN II and WGN and Lifetime.

Maybe it's just fucking Comcast. Fucking cable monopolies.

Posted by: , at December 15, 2009 11:31 AM

"Then I'm substandard, Slim"

Well, you ARE unitesticular...

Just sayin.'

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 15, 2009 11:50 AM

,
TV is a large part of my entertainment package (some of the others being reading, being married [ha!], fathering, travelling, sports, movies, video games, thinking of funny shit, and banging), so I fork over a good chunk of change for DirecTV. I won't tell you how much because I think you'd go apoplectic on me. It costs about the same as Time Warner, but I hate cable companies so I switched. The dish holds up surprisingly well to vigorous squirrel humpings and only messes up during horrible, roof-rending storms.

Posted by: Kballs at December 15, 2009 11:54 AM

I'm over three figures Nutdaddy, but that's only because of seven movie channels and hi-def everything.

Posted by: admin at December 15, 2009 12:05 PM

On and I'm also looking forward to the series. I really enjoyed the pilot but please keep the nudity. It adds an artistic flare.

Posted by: admin at December 15, 2009 12:06 PM

I have comcast but pay less than $90 including broadband and I have the high def package plus HBO. You's gettin' ROBBED!

Posted by: TylerDFC at December 15, 2009 12:09 PM

Cannot wait.

Posted by: Cindy at December 15, 2009 12:38 PM

But it's over$100.00 Canadian TylerDFC so it's really only $90.00 of your boring money.

Posted by: admin at December 15, 2009 12:46 PM

You mean Canada folk don't use good old 'merican greenbacks? What the hell's this world comin' too?!

Posted by: TylerDFC at December 15, 2009 1:08 PM

By coincidence, the Comcast bill came today and with it a notice that the rates are going up. As of now we pay $15/month for what's called here "basic service." This includes two CBS affiliates, two NBC affiliates, an ABC affiliate, one PBS, two FOX, several channels that preach to us and/or try to sell us stuff 24/7, Versus, WGN, Weather, Lifetime, I think maybe E! and Golf and probably one or two more I've forgotten and must never watch.

As of 1/1/10, the price goes up to $15.44.

To get to the next level ("standard cable"), the going rate is $56.99 and the 1/1/10 rate is $58.64. I don't know whether that's cheap or expensive, I just know I remember that before we downgraded we frequently sat spinning 50 channels and found nothing to watch, and now we spin 20 channels with nothing on, so I look at this and think, "Holy crap, that's $500 a year more for ... what?"

Then come the tiers (with new price):

Digital Classic $14.95
Digital Preferred with 1 Premium $29.99
Digital Preferred with 2 premiums $39.99
Digital Preferred Plus with HBO and Starz ($39.99)
etc. etc. etc.

And I think ... wow, what am I supposed to do for beer money?

Anyhoo, that's what I'm looking at.

Posted by: , at December 15, 2009 2:04 PM

TCFKAB, I pay about that for "standard cable" with Time Warner, and I get all the pretties. I keep hoping they'll throw in IFC or Sundance, but I'm not holding my breath.
In short: I get SyFy and you should too.

Posted by: welldressed at December 15, 2009 2:40 PM

Fingers crossed we get it in Australia on some kind of reasonable time line. Looks better than the Plan which wasn't terrible by any means, but didn't really add up to more than a clip show weaved around fan-fic. BSG needs character intrigue to work.

Posted by: Squirrelgripper at December 15, 2009 3:57 PM

I just got my package reduced (Hey, just like Big Daddy! ZING!).

It is now $100 and change for the many channels I get and Internet. and here I haven't actually watched TV in weeks since I am always online.

I heard that in an interview one of the lady cast members of 'Caprica' described the show to the interviewer as "Caprica is just like Earth, only in space."

Just Wow. She'd better be hot.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at December 15, 2009 5:02 PM

I see what you did there.

And I laughed.

Posted by: , at December 15, 2009 9:18 PM

With a 360 and a decent torrents site you can watch whatever whenever. Fuck cable.

Posted by: Chugga at December 15, 2009 9:25 PM

Careful Big Daddy, don't pop a stitch.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at December 16, 2009 12:13 AM

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