BSG Prepares to Time-Travel

Not treading familiar ground? Aren't you the fellow who posted an article yesterday about Polly Walker being picked up for Caprica, and now we lear it will be about a clash between two powerful families? Might as well call it Romulus and get it over with.
Actually (and I say this as a fan of science fiction and BSG in particular), I don't think SciFi's problem is lack of ambition. It's an inability to execute well- almost all of their stuff is complete dreck. Did you see what they managed to do to Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea saga? And, in spite of being a fan of Neal McDonough from Band of Brothers, I could not bring myself to watch Tin Man (thank goodness). I was delighted with BSG, but I'm not expecting SciFi to necessarily repeat that success with any other concept.

Eureka fan here, definitely not offended. Eureka is a cool little show, but it is no BSG - not by a long shot.
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I wasn't very excited when I first heard about Caprica, I thought it sounded like a desperate attempt to continue the franchise past its expiration date, but the more I hear about what the show will be about, and what kind of issues it will be tackling, I'm getting more and more psyched. This could be really good. With the exception of Dollhouse, I'm not usually this excited about new shows before they air. It sounds like it has potential to be really interesting.

To be honest I don't get what people like about BSG. I don't find any of the characters on the show particularly likable and most of their social commentary is very thinly veiled and comes off like it was written by an irritating grad student trying to prove a point.

No intention of bashing people who like it (I know plenty of people that do), you're probably just seeing something in it that I don't. I preferred Stargate SG1 and Farscape, but I guess that's why I'm not a tv critic.

I wont watch a show on SciFi until they bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000! Although they kind of killed the show when it was on SciFi...

Not sure about Caprica. Part of what makes BSG so good is the desperation of their situation - i.e. humanity's last gasp, threat of extinction, human like robots who could kill or love you and possibly both. Remove that desperation, set it on a planet before the cylon wars and put in place a two family struggle dynamic, all you have is the Hatfield and McCoys in a star system far, far away.

That being said, I'm looking forward to it. Moore and Eick have done a good job with BSG so far - kooky religious stuff aside - so they've earned at least a few weeks on my DVR box.

I agree with Joe. BSG's strong point is the desperation of the humans. The logistics of the cylon mythology were always pretty shaky, (although I have to reserve complete judgment until it's all over). The whole needing-love-to-make-babies plot device, for example. From the Caprica trailer, it looks like they're focusing on a story that explores all the philosophical repercussions of all those sci-fi details. If so, they'd better have a set of concrete rules.

SciFi should just hire Josh Whedon to do whatever he feels like...