BreakfastwithNick
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I couldn't find another thread here about the show, so I thought I'd start one.
Is anyone watching Caprica, and if so, what do you think? I, for one, am really enjoying it. It's good a different feel than BSG, which is good, and even though we all know where it's going in the long-run, it still stays immensely interesting in the moment.
Other thoughts?
Talcott
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I've been watching/enjoying it. Yeah, we know what's going to happen in the long run, but the same could be said for a WWII movie. Other than Bill Adama, we don't know what exactly will happen to any of the characters, and most of them would be naturally dead in 50 years anyway, so I don't think that lessens any drama in their stories.
I'm curious how far into the Cylon war they are going to get. I know that the series isn't so much a prequel as it is a series set in the past, but I think that Zoe-bot and Tamara both provide a lot more information about why the Cylons are. If, as the show seems to be working towards, Cylons are the virtual spirits of people who have died, that completely changes our perception of the non-skin-job Cylons. It's one thing for the robots to evolve intelligence and then rebel, it's another for them to have known humanity/freedom and then fight to get it back.
The Cylon/spirit/soul idea also makes a link to the larger themes of BSG. In fact, now that I think about it **SPOILER, if anyone is watching Caprica but hasn't seen BSG** that would go a long way to explaining what happened to Starbuck. For all of the "she's an angel" complaints, even that was never really explored. **/spoiler**
JimSweeney
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i've been watching on Hulu. i've never seen BSG so it's all new to me. it's a good frakin show!
Core_Models
Columbus
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Doing a marathon this weekend off and on. Up to the 4th episode, totally frakking hooked.
WildGooseCreative
2491 Summit St. Clintonville/Old North Columbus
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Just saw on the SyFy website that Caprica is returning Tuesday, October 5 - yay!
BreakfastwithNick
Clintonville
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Caprica's back tonight! 10 pm on SyFy. So geeked!
Core_Models
Columbus
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Really wanna watch the finale again before the new season. I am digging Stargate Universe too, but dammit with all the good TV loaded onto a couple of nights.
Talcott
Clintonville
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I really enjoyed last night’s episode. I had heard that the second season second half of the first season was going to have more action, but I’m glad that they aren’t letting up on the religion angle. The whole apotheosis idea both explains and rewrites the whole human/cylon conflict (again, assuming the show is going in the direction that I think it is), and I find the use of religion in the show much more interesting than the matrix New Cap City scenes (although I think they will play an important role down the road).
catnfiddle
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Bad news, folks. They're canceled.
JimSweeney
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speaking as someone who has never followed a TV series other than this one...whaa? they can just...do that? What about the time i invested? freaking chloe or zoe is still in the halo-world! we just saw the first cylon used in anger!
Talcott
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*sigh* I knew that was coming, but I thought they might at least let the rest of the episodes air. At least they were produced and should get a DVD release. Hopefully the writers knew this might happen and the season finale will work as a series finale.
JimSweeney wrote >>
speaking as someone who has never followed a TV series other than this one...whaa? they can just...do that? What about the time i invested? freaking chloe or zoe is still in the halo-world! we just saw the first cylon used in anger!
Welcome to the world of following interesting and complicated TV shows. Once in a while a show takes off, but we're usually lucky if we get a second season. At least Caprica was a good show and not painful to watch like the various Babylon 5 spin-offs. I wish it was given more time to grow, develop, and give us more resolution, but we got (or will get) 26 episodes of good TV, so I can't complain too much.
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http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/battlestar-blood-chrome/
A new Battlestar Galactica prequel will delve into the early years of William Adama, the military leader of the ragtag human fleet in the sci-fi series. Thankfully, it sounds like Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome might take the franchise back to the desperate battle between humans and Cylons that made Battlestar Galactica so gripping.
Core_Models
Columbus
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I loved season one of Caprica...hadn't started watching my saved season two episodes yet, and just deleted them.
Blood & Chrome sounds all kinds of awesome though.
Talcott
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Core_Models wrote >>
I loved season one of Caprica...hadn't started watching my saved season two episodes yet, and just deleted them.
Blood & Chrome sounds all kinds of awesome though.
I think it sounds neat, but BSG was always much more interesting to me for the way it explored politics and religion, the action elements were just a bonus. Caprica was pretty much all politics and religion, which is what I loved about it. I'm also willing to concede that that probably didn't help it build an audience ;-)
My hope is that the ideas that seemed to be building in Caprica are at least alluded to in Blood and Chrome. I don't know if this is the case, but Caprica definitely seems to be pointing to the idea that all of the original cylon centurions are based on avatars of dead (or maybe not yet dead) Capricans. I'm sure that most people in the fight don't know that, but that could make the Cylon side of things a lot more interesting than a bunch of robots standing around and shooting.
I wonder how (if) they'll work the final/original four five into this.
Core_Models
Columbus
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Really strange Tal, but I was discussing this today earlier with someone regarding Sons of Anarchy. They were put off a little by this season because of the lack of 100% riding a motorcycle and shooting guys all the time, and I am WAY into it because of character development and pacing. To me, that's like what I hope this is, action that is meaningful and fun. It advances the story in a real way AND makes me go "wow, that was badass".
BreakfastwithNick
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CANCELED?! DAMMIT! I thought it had a lot going for it. Like Talcott said, I appreciated that it wasn't really about all the battle scenes. Could have been a great complement series to BSG. Hopefully Blood & Chrome will do well.
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