# Caprica returns tonight, folks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131 "2010-10-05T15:58:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/1 "2010-10-05T15:58:06Z")
Yep, it’s back on with minimal excitement or promotion. I have a terrible feeling they are merely burning off these final episodes and will cancel it. It’s not amazing, but it is a pretty good show. [And here you can find a 5 minutes “recaprica” that goes over the key story points so far.](http://video.syfy.com/shows/caprica/promos_trailers_6/recaprica--caprica/v1250237) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/2 "2010-10-05T16:53:10Z")
I’m trying to decide whether I still actually give a frak about this show. There better be more Cylons this season than just the one. The recap also implied that the virtual Tamara Adama will return; that will also keep me interested. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/3 "2010-10-05T16:54:31Z")
Yay for shorter mid-season breaks! (lookin’ at you, too, **F/X** ) ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/4 "2010-10-05T20:31:10Z")
> [@thinksnow](#): > > Yay for shorter mid-season breaks! > > (lookin’ at you, too, **F/X** ) Or SyFy could just drop the pretext that it’s still the same season and admit it’s two 10 episode seasons instead of one 20 episode season. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/5 "2010-10-05T20:34:16Z")
I…I am not sure whether I care. Which is confusing; I’d watched and been interested, but for some reason just thought it was all over and cancelled. Huh. See what happens when you screw with the way television seasons were MEANT to be?! Every time you mess with a Sept-May viewing schedule, Aaron Spelling kills a series. (Or writes a new one, depending on your denomination) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/6 "2010-10-05T21:26:29Z")
Well, I’m looking forward to it. Alessandra Torresani, Polly Walker, and Magda Apanowicz are three pretty compelling reasons to keep watching a show. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/7 "2010-10-06T02:42:35Z")
It’s airing now and…it’s quite good, actually. They are not shifting between a zillion storylines and we really are getting deeper into what has happened in the 3 weeks between the last episode and this. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/8 "2010-10-06T02:54:53Z")
Um, this is a really good episode, actually. Zoe is a deadwalker, like Joe Adama’s daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/9 "2010-10-06T03:26:00Z")
Without this thread, I would have missed this, so thanks. I agree this was a strong episode. Shout out to da Bard with the “et tu” scene. OK, so he didn’t actually say et tu, but he shoulda. Thought the toaster gag was a little forced, though. Like Clarice being stunned that she won the blessing, but recovering in time to avoid wasting her blank check. Also really like the virtual heaven concept. No Young Admiral Adama this week. Hoping to see his dad redeem himself before this thing ends… ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/10 "2010-10-06T03:40:43Z")
I saw it on the channel but it turned out to be the last one from last season, so…I will find the new one and watch. Thanks for the heads up 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/11 "2010-10-06T10:52:12Z")
I was hoping we’d seen the last of Amanda Graystone’s weepy face, but alas that was not meant to be. Now I’m anticipating some hot PvP action between Zoe and Tamara. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/12 "2010-10-06T13:01:45Z")
I liked it (and I stopped watching Caprica around the 5th episode), but if RDM continues to pull on our heartstrings with more “Oh no, the terrorists are going to blow up cute 3 year olds”, I’ll be bowing out. What’s with Mother - is she just a useless figurehead in the religion? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/13 "2010-10-06T13:53:08Z")
Huh. I’d idly wondered whether this was ever going to be on again. I missed it last night, but can probably get it from my Comcast On Demand feature. I’ll give it a look. It does seem like the last episode was yonks ago, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/14 "2010-10-06T15:28:01Z")
I find that I like Daniel Greystone a lot more now that he has to deal with the mob to get back in business. He’s a more interesting character when he is desperate. Amanda Greystone? Ugh. They should have had her actually die, which would have been a real shocker. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/15 "2010-10-06T21:01:47Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I liked it (and I stopped watching Caprica around the 5th episode), but if RDM continues to pull on our heartstrings with more “Oh no, the terrorists are going to blow up cute 3 year olds”, I’ll be bowing out. > > What’s with Mother - is she just a useless figurehead in the religion? I don’t think so. She might prefer it to look like that, but I think she just let that high priest guy think he was going to kill Clarice then arranged his death. Which begs another question; why does everything have to be so Catholic? Colonial (or at least Caprican) polytheism has a Catholic flavour (right down to confessions), now this monotheistic _church_ (they actually used that word) has it’s own Vatican-meets-Potala Palace mountain fortress, a conclave, and a Holy [del]Father[/del] Mother in charge of it all. Then again it’s kinda hard to imagine how to have a Church-Militant that doesn’t look like the RCC. Still it does make me wonder what top al Qaeda meetings look like. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/16 "2010-10-06T21:12:51Z")
Any chance that Holy Mother is a previous iteration cylon skinjob? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/17 "2010-10-06T22:08:25Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Any chance that Holy Mother is a previous iteration cylon skinjob? Doubtful. She’d have to be a member of the 13 tribe that somehow arrived in the Colonies a decade or two ahead of the Final Five. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/18 "2010-10-06T23:55:30Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > > [@Munch](#): > > > > Any chance that Holy Mother is a previous iteration cylon skinjob? > > Doubtful. She’d have to be a member of the 13 tribe that somehow arrived in the Colonies a decade or two ahead of the Final Five. Wait…what? I thought the only skinjobs were the ones we saw in BSG, + the boxed “Daniel” who may or may not be Mr. Greystone… ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/19 "2010-10-07T00:25:45Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > > [@alphaboi867](#): > > > > Doubtful. She’d have to be a member of the 13 tribe that somehow arrived in the Colonies a decade or two ahead of the Final Five. > > Wait…what? I thought the only skinjobs were the ones we saw in BSG, + the boxed “Daniel” who may or may not be Mr. Greystone… The _entire_ 13th Tribe consisted of humanoid Cylons. After civilization on Kobol collapsed the 12 human tribes headed in one direction and settled the Colonies and the 13th, Cylon, tribe went in the other direction and settled “Earth”. Once they settled “Earth” they abandoned Resurrection if favour of sexual reproduction. Ellen, Saul, Galen, Sam, & Tory manged to rediscover Resurrection just in time for “Earth” to get nuked as a relust of an uprising of robotic Cylons against their humanoid Cylon masters. The 5 all died in the holocaust, resurrected onboard a ship with no FTL, and set off one a 1,000 yr journey to the Colonies at relatevisitic speeds. ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131/20 "2010-10-07T07:48:08Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > > [@alphaboi867](#): > > > > Doubtful. She’d have to be a member of the 13 tribe that somehow arrived in the Colonies a decade or two ahead of the Final Five. > > Wait…what? I thought the only skinjobs were the ones we saw in BSG, + the boxed “Daniel” who may or may not be Mr. Greystone… Battlestar Wiki has the speculation that the first hybrid might have been him. Could she be a member of the 13th Tribe. It’s unlikely. However, just because the 13th tribe was made of Cylons doesn’t mean they all left together. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caprica-returns-tonight-folks/556131.md?page=2)