Battlestar Galactica: Blood And Chrome

Like many Battlestar Galactica fans I was a little pissed about how SyFy handled the BSG prequel Caprica and not pleased that the show was canceled..

I was a huge fan of the show as you probably guessed by my multiple posts about it, and was fascinated by its story arc.     It delved into the how and why the Cylons were created.  It was interesting seeing aspects of Colonial culture, Caprican and Tauron life, and even snapshots of events on Caprica, Gemenon and Tauron.

It gave us BSG fans more insight into the events and backstory that eventually would lead to the start of the First Cylon War and 40 years later the Second Cylon War that covers the events of the BSG series.

It also threw is a few curve balls as well such as the Willie Adama that was in the show wasn't the future Galactica commander. 



While Caprica is gone and the last five episodes of the first season were recently broadcast, the BSG universe lives on.    Production started yesterday in Vancouver on a two hour television pilot movie for SyFy called Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome.

The story takes place during the First Cylon war and will focus on a young cadet fresh out of the Academy by the name of William 'Husker' Adama..   Yep, the future commander of the very battlestar he was ending his career on at the time of the genocidal Cylon sneak attack that jumped off the Second Cylon War.


He will not be played by Nico Cortez, who portrayed him in the webisodes, but by Luke Pasqualino.

So I guess I can put my pissivity about Caprica being canceled on hold long enough to watch this pilot.


In BSG: Blood & Chrome Adama will be a twentysomething Viper pilot assigned to the brand new Galactica during the First Cylon War that is raging across the 12 Colonial worlds
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It will have one other character from the BSG Razor webisode flashbacks and a few new ones.   For you folks who were griping about the lack of space combat in Caprica, hello, it took place during a peacetime era in the colonies.

You space combat junkies will get to OD on it since we are talking about a show that will take place during the First Cylon War.

There's also talk that if it does well, SyFy will pick up BSG: Blood & Chrome as a series.

Let's just hope that if they do, SyFy does a much better job of promoting and broadcasting it than they did with Caprica.