QuoteNEW YORK – February 10, 2011 – Production has begun in Vancouver on Syfy's highly anticipated 2-hour pilot,Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the all-new chapter in the Battlestar Galactica saga. Universal Cable Productions will produce The Event with Syfy utilizing cutting edge CGI and virtual technology.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome takes place in the 10th year of the first Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a young, talented fighter pilot, William Adama (Luke Pasqualino), finds himself assigned to one of the most powerful Battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica. Full of ambition and in pursuit of the intense action that the Cylon war promises, Adama quickly find himself at odds with Coker (Ben Cotton), the battle-weary officer to whom he reports. With 47 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle just as much as Adama craves the start of it. Though they clash at first, the two men forge an unlikely bond when a routine mission turns dangerous and becomes a pivotal one for the desperate fleet.
Joining Pasqualino and Cotton in the cast is Lili Bordan, who will play Dr. Beka Kelly, a Ph.D. who worked for Graystone Industries that created the Cylon robots. Currently assigned to a secret military mission, Beka and Adama quickly establish a rapport.
From the award-winning producers of Battlestar Galactica, this new action-packed chapter of the BSG canon was written by Michael Taylor form a story by David Eick, Taylor and Bradley Thompson & David Weddle and directed by Jonas Pate. David Eick, Jonas Pate and Michael Taylor will serve as executive producers

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Looking forward to this, even though it was axed I liked Caprica but I think it suffered from a lack of direction, story progression and maybe that made it hard to watch for some, think the first Cylon war will give this more of a framework to work with and make for a more coherent story 

I think it could be sadly limited in its focus and end up running its course after a season or two but I still very much look forward to it.

Battlestar Galactica was the perfect blend of everything that makes a show stunning. It would be all too easy to lose oneself in the epic battles but fortunately they resisted the temptation to do action scenes too often and instead focused on charachter development and the charachters and narrative is where Battlestar really shined. It was perfect pure science fiction at its finest, moral musings about the human condition and an exploration of contemporary ideals and issues in a defamiliarised setting.

Caprica erred too much on the Science Fiction side of things and was almost entirely philosophical musings on the nature of humanity with very little action. I have a feeling Blood & Chrome will go in the opposite direction and be all about the conflict and space battles and leave little room for the science fiction and charachter development that made the remade Battlestar so stunning.

They have also cast an annoying little scrote from "Skins" as young Adama. Hopefully he's got the acting credentials to pull it out of the bad, if his performance is off then the whole thing will be ruined from the start. With such a young cast it runs the risk of becoming "Battlestar : The Teenage Years".

But all in all fingers crossed that it's another slice of spectacular heart wrenching science fiction/action adventure to enjoy.