No really, WHAT. THE. FRACK.
They’re cancelling Caprica. You know, because TV networks routinely cancel smart, entertaining, ground-breaking shows. Remember Firefly? Remember Firefly when Nathan Fillion was naked in the desert? Wait, give me a moment to remember …
Sorry, couldn't find that naked-in-the-desert photo. This is the best I can do.
OK, so I don’t actually remember Firefly being cancelled since I didn’t actually see it when it was new; I didn’t see it until a couple of months ago. But I assure you, if I had watched it back in ’02-’03, I would have been just as upset about its cancellation as I am now about Caprica’s.
We've been cancelled? Are you fracking kidding?
Here’s a question: Why does Caprica get cancelled just as the second season was really heating up, while Dancing With the Stars goes on forever? And ever. And ever. Life is just not fair sometimes.
“We appreciate all the support that fans have shown for ‘Caprica’ and are very proud of the producers, cast, writers and the rest of the amazing team that has been committed to this fine series,” Mark Stern, executive vice president of original programming and co-head of content for Universal Cable Productions, said in a statement from the network. “Unfortunately, despite its obvious quality, ‘Caprica’ has not been able to build the audience necessary to justify a second season.”
Hellooooo? Second season’s already started, dude, could we at least see the rest of it?
No?
Alrighty, then. It’s time to get all activist-like. It’s time to protest this injustice. It’s time to stand up for geeks everywhere and let Syfy know what we think of this decision.
Now.
You can finish reading the latest issue of Brightest Day later. Put the comic book down and tell Stern we want Caprica back and we want it back before it’s actually gone. Or maybe tell him something that makes more sense.
You can e-mail him at mark.stern@nbcuni.com and ask him – nicely – to reconsider. Keeping Caprica in the Syfy lineup will make a whole bunch of geeks really, really happy.
So say we all.
Dear Mark Stern, WHAT were you thinking? Please don't cancel Caprica. Love, Zoe
You have me convinced, I’m drafting my e-mail right now. Waiting months to finish the series is just ridiculous.
How can they do this? Is SYFY getting away from what made them a success and heading to wrestling and reality shows? Sad…
No bucks; no Buck Rogers!
I agree with the sentiment… but this is/was the second half of season 1. So yeah there’s no season 2 coming and we don’t even get to finish season 1 now? My husband is super bummed. We had just finished BSG and were really excited about Caprica and I thought it was finally going somewhere. It’s like SyFy is taking notes from Fox or something!!!
Thanks for the correction. Now I can be mad there really IS no season 2.
Kathleen, your key words were “finally going somewhere”. Yeah, it looked like it finally was, but it was too little, too late. Yes BSG was great, but Caprica seemed to take whatever was NOT great from it and tried to make a show. Perhaps they could have injected a bit more action, and maybe just a TINY bit of humour. Not necessarily as much as Firefly, but something to break up the 100% angst.
The pulling of this show was so abrupt that, in conjunction with other recent news, I’ve concluded the show was pulled, not because of ratings, but because the last episode made clear political statements that were sympathetic to Palestine, via the analogy of the Torans to the Palestinian people. I am certain that some producer(s) got wind of this once it aired and would have none of it. The fact is, most of the top producers in Hollywood are Jewish, like it or not. And so this is what we get. My guess is that the final five episodes are being re-edited to remove all such reference which is why they are being delayed until 2011 (if aired at all).
Wow, I thought it was just because they had bad ratings!
Wow, too heavy for me…
I’m drafting my e-mail also. Very upset the pulled it.Seems that is what happens to all the good shows. Getting tired of it
I know, even the promise of a new BSG-related show isn’t cheering me up.
As a huge BSG fan, I had only seen the pilot episode of Caprica. By that point, I had decided to watch less TV. But I am keeping up with Stargate Universe online. Your post has me intrigued now, though, and want to go back and check Caprica out. What does anyone think about the news about Blood & Chrome? It sounds, well, bloodier. :-/
Let’s face it, it’s going to hard for anything to match up to BSG. sigh.
Caprica went one way; sounds like Blood and Chrome is going another. I am looking forward to seeing what they do with it.
Meanwhile I am consoling myself with The Walking Dead.
To answer your question, about why reality shows go on forever (and ever, and ever) while quality programming gets yanked… it’s cost of production.
It costs next to nothing to produce a reality show, like Dancing with Stars, or a game show, like Wheel of Fortune. A show like “Caprica” costs a lot to produce.
You’ll see it over and over again. The highest quality shows are almost always the first on the block as a function of the fact that they are high quality.