The first regular episode of Caprica airs tonight. This feels more like a series premiere than last week’s (which has been available on DVD for nearly a year).
Did you see it in advance?
Very cool so far. I hope it doesn’t get canceled.
No, that description’s from my cable system’s TV guide. This is pretty good so far. I was wondering how they were going to handle the whole “trapped in a robot body” thing. Is it just me or did one of Sister Clarice’s husbands look like Hitler?
And Caprica does have airships cruising it’s skys! How cool is that? That thing flying over C-Buck Stadium looked more like a flying cruise ship than a Goodyear Blimp analouge.
Liked it a lot, might even love it as it develops.
I’m glad it has little to do with BSG. I actually wish “Willy” Adama wasn’t in the show.
Oh, it’s still going for a couple minutes.
Weird.
Mrs. Graystone almost got it right. The fallout is going to be pretty interesting what with her husband being one of the richest people in the 12 worlds and being in charge of very top secret projects for the Caprican military. Are they dropping they dropping Sr. Willow sublot from the pilot’s deleted scenes (Ben Stark appearing to her as an avatar) or saving it for future episodes? The group marriage was unexpected, but very interesting. I like the implication that she married one of her ex-students. I want to see more scenes with her.
Using real-world ethnicities to represent Colonial nationalities (colonialities?) is interesting. BSG didn’t really do that beyond the occasional use of different English accents. So the Taurons are Greeks (right down to the language and “Tauron school” and the Capricans are North Americans. And one colony is Chinese (probally several will be based on Asian cultures). At least this finally explains those French verbs on Roslin’s blackboard and the Chinese characters that poped up in BSG.
I just discovered the The Caprican.
I gave it a meh. Hasn’t hooked me into the series yet, but hasn’t been unwatchable, either.
One thing that helps is that so far, it’s better than it should be.
I mean, a BSG prequel? Featuring Joseph Adama? With a girl inside a robot body?
Then again, BSG was wayyyyyyyyy better than it should have been, considering it is a re-imagining of a lame show.
So, did I mishear, or did Uncle Guido mention that while Joseph was chasing girls (quite successfully), he was after guys? Was that in a “breaking their knees” sense, or a romantic sense?
By the way, why did they have that preview that showed us further into the very episode we were watching?
Weird.
I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I’m just starting the second season of BSG, but this show isn’t resonating with me yet. I hope it gets off the ground soon.
I gave it a “meh”. If it wasn’t BSG related, I’d probably drop it, but I’m willing to give it a few more episodes.
I hate, hate, hate that the Adamas are going to apparently be intimately involved in the creation of the Cylons. They should have just avoided having any characters common between the 2 series.
So does Cylon Zoe apparently has feelings for the technician that likes her - “Do I look male?”
He definitely said he was chatting with guys, and IMHO it was definitely in a romantic sense. I think he was saying that he had no luck, while his smooth brother was scoring left & right. Of course, I’m sure the show will get grief for making the sociopathic hit man be the main openly gay character.
I liked it, but didn’t love it. But, I liked it deeply.
While interesting, I kind of wonder where all this can go, in terms of the ‘premise’, i.e. that Zoe ends up becoming the cylons…
What I’m finding much more interesting is everything else - the interpersonal drama mixed with the subtle differences in their society. Although we know from BSG that they end up being our precursors in a sense, the series really feels more like an alternate universe story.
I love that the major political and ‘racial’ divisions are planetary, and to an extent, astrological or Olympian. I love that polytheism is the norm and monotheism is the underdog and possibly terrorist. I love that sexual orientation as fluid is the norm, and all manner of relationships are accepted, including the group marriage.
I liked the subtle moment where you see Little Billy use the lesson his Uncle taught him on his father.
I’m a little confused about the ‘keeping Tauron traditions’ thing though. Dad seems to be pushing some traditions on his son, but at the same time he changed his own last name and seems uncomfortable about it. Meanwhile the son thinks Tauron school is lame, and Tauron food is gross, but he loves going out with his Uncle and impressed by the family ‘business’…
I’m not finding the girl in a robot body stuff to be too exciting, but we’ll see where it goes. I have to wonder how Graystone would let the robot in his house after it bit off his assistant’s finger…
I did find the scene with Adama’s daughter avatar to be extremely chilling…
I am liking it a great deal.
I am less invested in what it ‘should’ be, though, than many might be, as I only saw about the last season and a half of BSG, and so am fuzzy on a lot of the history.
However, I didn’t expect to like Caprica at all, and my response after this last show was “Hrm…it doesn’t suck!” I was pleasantly surprised, and look forward to watching it.
I guess I thought the Taurons were Hispanics, by the way, since Edward James Olmos is. Isn’t he?
And Esai Morales?
Holy frak! Adama’s family is from the Planet of the Sicilians? No wonder you never go up against him when death is on the line.
I think I see where they’re going with the Cylons: apparently the ingredient that makes AI work is… souls? Will they get the necessary material from all the monotheists that will get put to death in the upcoming persecutions?
Mixed messages. Dad it revert to the Tauron form of his name at the end of the pilot when he gave Billy the speach about coming from a long line of proud Tauron pheasants. Meanwhile Grandma seems to be more consistant in her efforts to preserve the family’s Tauron heritage (like mocking Joeseph for going on about an afterlife “like a Caprican”.
According to the DVD version of “Razor”, Admiral Cain is a Tauron too. Which explains a lot.