Did y’all realize that despite SyFy’s pulling Caprica from it’s schedule the it’s been airing in Canada as normal?
I haven’t watched 4.16 (The Heavens Will Rise) yet, but 4.14 (Blockback and 4.15 (Dirteaters were pretty good. The latter had alot of info on Tauron and the Adamas. Poor Joseph he just became a man and had to turn around and mercy kill his father. Anyone else think that Sam’s going to discover that the Guatrau has been selling Cylons to the Heracs instead of giving them to the Tauron resistance?
It’s kinda a shame it’s cancelled. It’s just starting to get better and the tone of the show is different from the begining.
Well, I finally got around to watching 4.16 tonight (just in time for 4.17 to come out). It was a really good episode. I liked Clarice’s reaction as she realized she murder her wife for no reason. And I’m guessing Daniel’s attempts to build a humanoid Cylon will somehow turn into the genesis of the Cylons attempts to build biological humanoid models. I’ll try to watch this week’s sooner.
Very good. I’m guessing worse things have happened to holoband users (like burning to death because you can’t perceive the fire alarm). I knew that Zoe-R would activate at the last moment. I loved Ruth’s reaction after she killed that guy. It was a little odd that when they were making plans to flee off-world nobody even mentioned Sam’s husband. :dubious: It’s like the writers just forgot he existed. Maybe Ruth’s picking him on her way to get the tickets. Of course little William will survive (or he’ll die and Joseph will have a son with Evelyn and insist on recylcling the name). Maybe Cottle will be on duty at the ER again (though if it’s the same Sherman Cottle he’d 80 & still active-duty military in the miniseries).
And SyFy is planning to air the last 5 episodes, in a marathon, on Jan 4th.
My SO is of the opinion that Caprica was cancelled, at least in part, because of the ramifications of the notion of the monotheists as bad guys, and as terrorists; also perhaps because of a woman leading them, and the fact that she is devious and murderous.
Without getting into GD territory, I find his theory interesting, but I’m not sure what to think.
The show, to me, was so cool because of the badass robot, and the awesome game world. The scene where Zoe kicks ass on a bunch of opponents – in silver lamé tights to boot – was very cool. I loved seeing gamer girls depicted on television, because we’re not, at least not often.
The whole show was visually gorgeous; the plot, while it could be described as a space opera, was intelligent and certainly not too predictable. Honestly, in comparison to what else is on TV these days, I don’t really understand how it could miss.
What do you all think? Were the ratings that bad?
P.S. Ever notice how many really good science fiction shows lasted just two seasons? The original Star Trek, StarHunter, and Firefly, for instance?
Your boyfriend is stupid in this area. The ratings were absolutely horrible. The last aired episode pulled a staggeringly low .718, one of the lowest rated shows on television.
Don’t find his theory interesting. It’s lame and borderline conspiracy theorist. If this show was even a moderate hit(like BSG), it would have been renewed.
Firefly did not last two seasons. It didn’t even last one whole on.
Uh, neither did Caprica, by the way. It only had one season as well.
Well to be fair SyFy’s habit of chopping a 20 episode production season in half and airing it 6-12 months apart certainly makes it seem 2 short seasons.
SF is rattling off the last episodes directly opposite the season premiere of “v”. Seems they want the show not only dead, but buried.
The shame of it is that Moore and Eick had a great setting, a great general idea, and a built-in audience, but muffed it anyway. They didn’t bother to make the characters or their motivations credible or even interesting; instead the story lines just seemed (to me) forced and mechanical. They could have shown how actual human society would actually deal with the introduction of true artificial intelligence, and the rationalization of slave labor, but no - they went with this inane terrorism stuff and didn’t even bother to ground it. So how did this monotheist group get started? Why did it take hold? Why would its adherents adopt terrorism instead of evangelism? Why should viewers care about the stuff they showed instead? What questions of interest did they answer, or even raise?
Yes, just put this thing out of its misery. Please.
