Caprica Series Review
Looking back on it, I’m not sure Caprica ever really had a chance. Many of Battlestar Galactica’s biggest fans were disappointed by the ending of the show, and not interested in seeing any more of that universe. People who had never seen Battlestar but who could have been interested in what Caprica was could have been scared away by the baggage that comes with being a prequel to an existing franchise. And there was that weird scheduling, too. The pilot episode was released as a DVD movie almost a year before the actual series premiered, and it may have given people who saw it a bad indication of what the show would be without anything to tell them otherwise for months. Then it went away after nine episodes for months, came back suddenly and almost without warning, and then was canceled after only four more episodes in October. The last episodes were pulled from SyFy’s schedule, a cable rarity, and won’t be seen until early in 2011, unless you live somewhere else or get the DVD. It was a show with a very limited audience that was hardly given an opportunity to cultivate a bigger one, and once SyFy felt they had a better bet with the upcoming Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, it was gone.
