Looks like SyFy is aiming to cash in on the still strong Battlestar Galactica fanbase.
The new series, Blood and Chrome, sits nicely between the immensely popular reboot of the cult classic BSG series and the still trying to find it’s foothold Caprica.
As they describe it:
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome takes place in the 10th year of the first Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, a sentient robotic race, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a brash rookie viper pilot enters the fray. Ensign William Adama, barely in his 20’s and a recent Academy graduate, finds himself assigned to the newest battlestar in the Colonial fleet… the Galactica. The talented but hot-headed risk-taker soon finds himself leading a dangerous top secret mission that, if successful, will turn the tide of the decade long war in favor of the desperate fleet.
Sounds like it could be a good, gritty, war story. Lots of action and a clear focus.
Which, of course, would put it well ahead of Caprica, which, just over halfway through its first season, it still hasn’t grabbed me (or a number of other people I know who were BSG fans). Thankfully, it seems it’s at least finally settled into a groove of some sort (kind of like the classic primetime soap Dynasy, except with proto-Cylons and other sci-fi trappings). It may still grow a solid following, the potential is there.
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