[Cancelled] Caprica (Season 1)

[Rappy Veteran]

This is hands-down my favourite show of 2010, loving the story unravelling each week - is it wrong to find all the women in it hot though? Aren't they like, 16?

Also just noticed that the guy who plays Bill Adama's dad was in Burn Notice as a shop-keeper...

they are 18+ your safe :p

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anyone else finding this show incredibly slow...

i get bored after about 20mins of an episode and start doing something else, hope it gets a bit more exciting soon :D

[Rappy Veteran]

anyone else finding this show incredibly slow...

i get bored after about 20mins of an episode and start doing something else, hope it gets a bit more exciting soon :D

its slow but for a reason they want to drag it out over seasons and not be like episode 1 story, episode 2 cylons turn, episode 3 battles :shifty:

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its slow but for a reason they want to drag it out over seasons and not be like episode 1 story, episode 2 cylons turn, episode 3 battles :shifty:

ofc, long story arcs are great and everything.. but even BSG has episodic arcs to keep you hooked for that episode..

i will probs watch the first few again soon, have some holiday coming up

[Rappy Veteran]

yeah the thing is they called it a "soap opera" when it started so its alot like a corrie or eastenders

We are supposed to get info on final five very soon so that's going to be cool

[_kane81]

Well that last episode, just made Caprica seem worth watching!!! It's been pretty slow and uninteresting until Neo Tamara appeared!

[OfF3nSiV3]

it angers me that people say that the show is slow or boring

for once, a scifi show has character development and it takes several "boring" episodes to do so

what do you expect? cylon battles every episode?

[thefonz]

Not once when I've been watching it have I thought its too slow and we're not getting enough information. The beauty of it, I find at least, is the interplay and pure character acting we're seeing. The whole thing is incredibly slick and well put together (even the sketchy cgi at times!) and what with the downright haunting music from Bear McCreary its just everything works.

I think we're so used to shows accelerating at breakneck speed and we're expecting the same but like you say OfF3nSiV3 - the show isnt about battles, the damn thing is a soap opera in the BSG universe and thats what makes it so freaking good.

18! Woo! ;)

[ThePitt]

you mean the night sky?

OfF3nSiV3 and Evolution nope, I mean, when they are in the (virtual) bank and you see all the constellations on the floor. They had different names but the symbols are the same.

[Rappy Veteran]

Has Caprica Season Two Been Given The Green Light?

After such a Lengthy commissioning process, and a slightly shaky start, a second helping of Batlestar Galactica spin-off Caprica was not necessarily a given. But fans that were expecting to be singing "Cylon, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight!" at the end of season one can breathe a sigh of relief: Caprica will definitely be returning to our screens.

While the Syfy channel are still remaining tight-lipped about season two's prospects, the show?s critical plaudits have been a delightful surprise. So much so, that they?ve already begun hiring staff for season two behind the scenes, according to a source working on the production. They told us that that they've been booked to start work at the end of the year, which should tie into a Jan 2011 air date.

Far from the bleak action-heavy Battlestar prequel most might have expected, Caprica is blazing its own path. Essentially a domestic drama with intergalactic scope, the show focuses on two families who have a crucial role to play in the Cylon uprising and the destruction of the 12 colonies - The Greystones and the Adamas. After a terrorist explosion claims the daughters of both families, industrialist Daniel Greystone pushes his Cylon technology to a level where he can bring his daughter back from the dead, but at what cost to the future of humanity?

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[Tartan]

I do hope they stick with this show, there is so much lore they could explore. I hope they lead it up right into the start of the original BSG.

Of course the new shows have a ton of glaring errors, and you have to suspend a sense of disbelief a lot of the times, accepting the parallel development paths of Earth etc, rather than say "hey how come they have a car that was made here?" or "why do they the same furniture?" etc. If you can learn to ignore that kinda thing, then the actual stories are very good.

I just hope they up the pace a little more, because they do need to tie in more with the original BSG in order to attract viewers, even die hard fans.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I was somewhat on the fence with this show but the last episode has vanquished my doubts.

[Rappy Veteran]

[ThePitt]

yet another filler episode. I remember when this happend time to time with BSG but NEVER on the 1st season. The show is slow by definition. And dont get to the point, where all the BSG viewers want to see. Ok, its about 50 years before the attack and stuff, but nothing seems to be heading to where it should. Too much "emotionals" stuff involved that give us nothing. And Im waiting why the 12 colonies deserve to be wiped out. 12 planets... Thats a lot of people... and we are walking in cicles with this bunch of nothing and their virtual/terrorist/corrupts lifes.

Something really bothers/annoys me on this show. And is that everyone is smoking. Almost the WHOLE show. I dont know if the cigarettes companies has a deal with the show or what but its a constant on every single episode. (now even the kid is smoking!. In the laboratory!)

[Hupp]

i found myself fast forwarding through parts of this show its just too slow and pointless some times. next weeks episode looks worth it though.

[Rappy Veteran]

I liked the episode, Zoe looked adorable with glasses :wub:

[thefonz]

I'm fascinated by this show - its by far my favourite of 2010 sofar. I think what I like so much about it (ASIDE FROM THE BOOTEH) and awesome character acting, is that while watching it I have a knowing smile in my mind because look at it this way:

we know the cylons are going to become public knowledge

we know they will kill everyone

we know graysone is ultimately doomed

we know adama grows up to be the strong leader his father never is

we know zoe and lacey and the rest are ultimately pointless since none of them are mentioned in BSG

Sure you might look at those things as bad - and I'd normally agree with you but for this i'll make an exception because its fascinating seeing how Ronald Moore is planning the buildups. You gotta trust the almighty Moore - he knows what he's doing.

[Rob2687]

I think this show is doing fine. It's showing us the origins of the Cylon/human conflict, the Cylon consciousness, the Adama family, and ultimately humanity engineering it's own demise. In many ways the show reflects our own modern society (just as BSG did but in a different way) which looks as if it's bursting with promise and technology for a brighter future with no sign of letting up yet there seems to be many deep rooted issues simmering beneath the surface waiting to explode through (the v-world, tension between colonies). Ethnicity, in the case of this show is defined by which colony you're from is a huge theme on Caprica. It was a recurring theme in BSG but they never really explored this area too much.

The v-world gives a look into a depraved, degenerated society. It's the dark side of things which I think we will see a lot of elements which could become a core part of the origin for the Cylon mind/personality. Perhaps Zoe's desire to become human again will seed the desire in the centurions to build skin jobs. In BSG as the skin jobs were initially introduced the skin jobs were simply a way to infiltrate the colonies but surely there was more to it than that. Also in BSG we saw that the skin jobs had the ability to project a virtual environment to which they could escape, use to create a virtual world in the Basestars, etc. On a number of occasions Six uses projection to bring Baltar into a virtual environment no doubt this was derived from the holoband tech. The U87s are pretty much brain dead without a conciousness like Zoe in it. Something is inhibiting the MCP from holding a sentient mind or something. Once they over come this suddenly all the u87s have minds of their own. As an escape from their toilet scrubbing, bolt tightening, assembly line jobs they plug into the v-world. The V-world corrupts u87 minds and it's gg for the 12 colonies.

The cylons disappeared for 40 some odd years after the war. We assumed they spent this time building skin jobs but perhaps there was more to it. It was revealed near the end of BSG that the centurions had inhibitor chips to prevent higher brain function. Could this be related with the inability to transfer Zoe's program to other u87s? Perhaps during the time they disappeared there was also a little Cylon civil action happening which ultimately led to the reintroduction or perhaps variation of the original flaw which inhibited full fledged consciousness.

In the midst of all this we are also seeing the young William Adama witnessing from the sidelines the lead up to final days of the 12 colonies as it unfolds and the people who shape foundations of his future when he turns into the great Edward Olmos. =D

I haven't seen The Plan yet so some stuff may be wrong and most of it is just speculation and thinking out loud but my point is the BSG universe has a lot to be explored from both human and cylon sides. Of course we know a lot how things are going to turn out but I want them to take their time to unfold all of the history behind it. It'd be a shame to rush through for the sake of getting to the ultimate pew pew laser boom Cylon war.

[Rappy Veteran]

Czech websites are giving the following titles and airdates for the season's final episodes:

* Unvanquished - September 17

* Retribution - September 24

* Things We Lock Away - October 1

* False Labor

* Blowback

* The Dirteaters

* The Heavens Will Rise

* Here Be Dragons

* Apotheosis - season finale

And fans are speculating that Tamara will become a Cylon at some point ? and maybe that's what Leoben meant when he said Adama is a Cylon? (Seems very iffy to me.)

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[philcruicks]

Caprica is awesome, so glad second season has the green light, and i still dont understand why people are sayin its slow, just cause its not as action orientated as BSG, it was never meant to be from the start they said it was going to be about the people, Graystone and Adama, i'm not expecting any massive battles for a while.

Loving Neo Tamara! going to be interesting to see how they develop her role over the season.

And fans are speculating that Tamara will become a Cylon at some point — and maybe that's what Leoben meant when he said Adama is a Cylon? (Seems very iffy to me.)

possible, she is bassically just a computer program...no reason why she couldn't be downloaded to a blank cylon....but I think she's got a lot more to do in V world before she comes back to caprica in a cylon.

[Rappy Veteran]

Caprica - Episode 1.07 - The Imperfections of Memory - Promotional Photos

[08993]

Really enjoying this series, and I've not seen any bsg yet.

Is nice to watch a coherent storyline for a change that is obviously bound by history, albeit a history I don't know.

[Rappy Veteran]

wow that last episode was awesome for many reasons 1 The viper's hearing them again took me back to BSG! 2 "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again!" and 3 he motherfrakkin knows!

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

The ending caught me by surprise. I thought he was going to say some like "Who are you?" Awesome episode indeed.

[mad_onion]

Yep, it's a great mix of scifi and drama. IMO the drama is far more compelling then it ever was in BSG. It definitely started a bit slow but I'm very glad I hung on.

If people are watching it just to see Cylons kill people then you might as well stop watching now. Same for people already fastforwarding through, once you're that bored with it I think it's clear that it isn't for you. I remember I tried to do that with Heroes but I gave up with it pretty quickly.