Comments on: More Details About the BSG Prequel Caprica

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:07:44 +0000

Schadenfreude is a German term meaning “happiness at the misfortune of others.” Example: While watching warm and dry from inside, the feeling humans get watching people outside getting drenched while their umbrellas fly away in a windy storm.

Impressively close to the actual spelling of the word, but it doesn’t really make sense in the context of the post. Unless, of course, the poster would be thrilled if the show failed miserably.

By: stanton

stanton — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:19:14 +0000

schauden… what? Do I need to know the meaning of this word to enjoy Caprica… Hmm. Maybe it will get cancelled then.

By: ProgGrrl

ProgGrrl — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:43:06 +0000

I don’t understand why everyone’s so worried about the DALLAS reference. I doubt that RDM is saying it will be high camp like DALLAS. Also, don’t we BSG fans all enjoy the drama, the politics, the relationships, the science, that currently on BSG?

I love the Caprica flashbacks, the peeks back at the civilization that created the Cylons in the first place.

Sounds good to me. The amount of advance-schaudenfreude going on since the CAPRICA announcement is amazing to me.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:15:29 +0000

The reason BSG was good (My wife actually would watch it with me) was that it was a Sci-Fi drama, or maybe a better descriptor would be, it’s a drama set in a Sci-Fi world.

This Caprica prequel sounds like they’ve taken all of the Sci-Fi out of it.

There has to be a good balance of both and BSG does that.

Most of the time the Sci-Fi channel goes in one direction of all science fiction like, all of the giant monster movies they make that are crap. It now appears they are over correcting with this new drama.

Just because the setting is a different planet does not make it science fiction.