Caprica Cancelled

So, Caprica is cancelled. The quasi-mystical-virtual-reality-worrying-and-beards follow-up to Galactica is being replaced with something a bit more gutsy. Caprica was only really liked by people who spent their evenings ironing Team Jacob pillowcases while genuinely meaning to get beyond Chapter 1 of their copy Nietszche for Dummies. Blood and Chrome sounds a bit more.. you know... blood and chrome-y.


According to EW, Blood and Chrome was commissioned at a meeting at Comic-Con between an exec from SyFy and Caprica guru David Eick (no relation to the lizard guy). The conversation may have gone a bit like this:

EICK: "So, anyway, things are going great on Caprica..."


EXEC: "Uh-huh."


EICK: "Yeah, we've got a whole spiritual arc plotted out, a real journey of the mind..."


EXEC: "Right."


EICK: "Honestly, we are staring into the Frakking Abyss."


EXEC: "Sure you are."


EICK: "Mind you, the writing room has this idea for a show all about exploding spaceships and Cylons."


EXEC: "uh-hu... What?"


EICK: "Oh yeah, crazy isn't it? It's all zoom! zoom! pew! pew! pew! robots go smashy-smashy! kablooey! and I keep saying to them, guys, if you can really nail the true nature of the virutal soul by year three, then maybe, just maybe we'll do it as a web series."


There is a pause.


EICK: "Seriously, Caprica is a metaphysical allegory! It's Obama!"


EXEC: (mournful, quiet) "pew... pew... pew..."