The Plan is a 2-hour movie about the BSG story from the Cylons' point of view. This Trailer Probe rates geek explosion content, reasons you will like it, and dork disengagement level, reasons you won't dig it.

The Plan

Geek explosion content: The Plan is a two-hour movie, written by Jane Espenson, who was very nice and funny with me and RevSF co-conspirator Shane Ivey a while back in an interview.

The movie shows the Cylon point of view. The trailer is a montage of clips with a narration of the famous BSG show opening about "There are many copies."

I realize my hypocrisy. I am not crazy about the prequel show Caprica, but I'm all-in for this. I like them Cylons.

Dork disengagement level: The teaser is a grand total of 30 seconds. I need more, because the human perspective on this thing stinks. More Cylon stuff, please.

"There are many copies." I did not know they were talking about different ways they plan to tell the same story.

After seeing the last episode, I would like for this story to make sense. That's a lot to ask, I know.

I bet in this movie there's a bunch more meta-cosmic horse-hockey with Baltar and Six.

So they are headed back to the well for the prequel. Now they're going back again for this.

They could do an an all-Helo point of view movie! Two solid hours with Apollo! They could keep the BSG thing going forever! It's brilliant, I tells ya.

Geek explosion level: 800,000 geek parts per million.

Caprica

Geek explosion content: The new series Caprica goes back, back into time, to show us how everything became miserable on Battlestar Galactica.

The pilot will be on DVD in April 2009. This trailer shows us that everything stinks then, too, but with fewer robots.

Esai Morales can wear the living hell out of a hat.

Dork disengagement level: This has a feeling of Star Wars Episode 1 about it. Except for, you know, all the silly-assedness.

I'm sure the show will be technically proficient. But I'm not feeling the love for the story yet. The trailer is dramatic and all, but I am not sold on finding out the beginning of stories I already know the end of.

Dead teenagers!

"It's an abomination!"

Wow, this looks like a laugh riot.

I am not saying that I need all my SF shows to be knee-slapping hee-larious. But dude, this is heavy.

Geek explosion level: 600,000 geek parts per million.