Surprisingly, one of the Youtube comments sums up my feelings about the trailer perfectly (I had to clean up for grammar/spelling however).
Yeah, might have to pass on this one. These days you can always catch up later with netflix or a torrent if it turns out to be good.
It looks like a bad drama. Father loses daughter. Daughter comes back as a Cylon (??) and shit starts to happen. They make it look mysterious, but it looks more like a terrorist/murderer story than it does a Cylon pre-war story. I didn't like the excessive party shots in the trailer. I dunno. It's not doing it for me. The trailer didn't make it look like anything special. If anything, the show looked generic to me. ("You can see your daughter again!" Gawd, haven't we seen that before in, oh, I dunno, about a thousand shows?) I'll watch the series - can't judge a show by its trailer and all that. But IMO, that first trailer sucks and actually made me less interested in watching the show.
So they had human looking Cylons from the beginning? I wasn't interested in this show before, and now I'm confident that my original assessment was correct. I'll pass.
The skin jobs did come after the war. Zoe and Tamara are....different. You don't know the whole spoilerage. The cylons have never been fully aware of their own history. BSG has evidenced that.
As a geek male, I will watch this for the same reasons I watch BSG and T:SCC. Three words: Hot Robot Girlfriend. Always been my dream....*sigh*...
Interestingly, even though the movie clearly takes place in the future, it has a 1950s look, in which men wear suits and hats, for example. "We made a choice for it to feel retro," said producer Ron Moore. "Even though it's a completely different world [than BSG], we are looking back," he said. Fans will probably be sad to learn that, other than the presence of a young William Adama, the new movie will not contain any winky references to the BSG mythology. "Caprica is a different animal," said Moore. http://community.tvguide.com/blog-e.../Caprica-Battlestar-Galactica/800043570?imw=Y
The sad part is sci-fi almost never goes any further than that. All those dangling questions about the nature of intelligence, self-awareness, emotions and slavery are almost never touched.
True. (Though Ken McLeoud's novel "The Stone Cannal" did a bit.) Maybe this show will change that!? (One can hope...done right, it'd be damn compelling to me.)
I don't know if this is the same trailer as the one that was originally on YouTube, but I assume so: http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?clip=4&sub=specials Anyhow, I think it looks pretty sweet.
That's the one, Raoul. NBC Universal keeps pulling it off of youtube when it finds it, for copyright claims. My link shows a "video has been removed" message now. They missed one, though, if you search "Esai Morales, Battlestar prequel" at youtube. They'll find it eventually, but it's still there now. What I'm liking is that they didn't overboard with making Zoe some sexpot like the female skinjobs. I doubt she's a skinjob in the truest sense of the word, looking completely human on the inside, but the fact that she looks like barely more than a little girl adds to the sense of tragedy IMO. This young girl, who's experimenting putting her brain patters in an online matrix as a matter of research, this tiny little thing--what happens to her by random chance leads to humanity perishing. Sometimes fate can be a victim of chance, indeed. I love how Polly Walker says that line at the end of the trailer.
