‘Battlestar: Blood and Chrome’ Getting Demoted Back To Webseries? Fraking Sad Face.

I was pretty goddamn excited about the prospect of a new Battlestar Galactica show hitting the various screens through which we now watch shit. Helmed by Michael Taylor, taking place during the first Cylon war. Yes, yes! No? After seeing initial footage, SyFy is thinking of returning it to its webisodes roots.

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That’s a possibility, according to AOL TV’s Maureen Ryan. Syfy is considering turning its latest  Battlestar Galactica  prequel,  Blood and Chrome, back into a webseries.

When  Blood and Chrome  was  originally commissioned, back in July 2010, the plan was for it to be a webseries of nine or ten episodes of around 10 minutes each, shot in greenscreen. Then, around the time Syfy pulled the plug on  Caprica, the network decided to air  Blood and Chrome  as a TV movie – and as a possible backdoor pilot that could lead to a new series.

Now Syfy has seen an early cut of the TV movie, without most of the visual effects completed – and they’re thinking of turning it back into a webseries, the network’s EVP Mark Stern  told Ryan. Stern said that a decision on Blood and Chrome’s release date was not imminent, and it was still a possibility that they would air it as a TV movie/backdoor pilot. But they’re seriously considering transforming it back into a series of webisodes. (It’s a bad sign that Syfy doesn’t automatically consider this production as worthy of TV-movie status as, say,  Killer Mountain. Or  Mega-Python Vs. Gatoroid. Etc. etc.)

I mean, if it sucks it sucks. Still. Frak. Devote my energy and time to it, don’t punish the child.