[Cancelled] Caprica (Season 1)

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The BSG prequel is definitely a more intimate story than BSG, explains producer David Eick:

It's more personal. It's how those very universal feelings that we all have, feeling ostracized from our families, feeling misunderstood by our loved ones, not feeling like our potential is being realized or appreciated, lead to these enormous sort of technological avalanches of discovery? and huge cultural shifts.

Producer and ex-showrunner Jane Espenson sums up the topics of the first season:

Robots, religion, sex, torture, late-night talk shows, murder, robot-abuse, virtual crime lords, virtual drugs, and robot-fondling.

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There are no Cylons, but Battlestar Galactica fans will find plenty that?s familiar about Syfy?s forthcoming prequel, Caprica (premiering Jan. 22).

?Caprica, like Battlestar Galactica, doesn?t treat the [sci-fi] genre like a toy department,? exec producer David Eick told reporters at Winter Press Tour. ?We take it seriously.?

Translation: The drama, starring Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Polly Walker, and Paula Malcomson, will be brimming with BSG?s trademark moral complexity. ?There are no stark good guys and bad guys,? said fellow e.p. Jane Espenson. ?Everyone has moral shadings and we can tell very complex stories as a result.?

On the flipside, Eick stressed that non-BSG loyalists will not be lost if they tune into Caprica. ?New viewers will find that there?s virtually no tether to BSG from a storytelling standpoint,? he maintained. ?Legitimately, the show stands on its own? It?s not called Battlestar Galactica: Caprica [for a reason].?

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HOLLYWOOD ? ?I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds,? says actress Alessandra Torresani, and she?s off to a good start. That?s her with the apple in the ubiquitous billboard (pictured below) for new science fiction series Caprica, which debuts Friday at 9 p.m. on Syfy.

In the compelling Battlestar Galactica prequel, set on the planet Caprica 58 years before BSG?s journey begins, Torresani plays the feisty, 16-year-old daughter of billionaire computer genius Daniel Graystone, maker of the world?s first Cylon.

Following Battestar Galactica?s groundbreaking achievements, Caprica is trafficking in high expectations. Happily, the show lives up to the hype.

Assembling a sturdy cast of veteran actors yoked to a complex storyline that mixes soap opera-style family dysfunction with heady excursions into technology and religion, Caprica co-creator Ronald D. Moore and his team hurl a wild card into the mix with the casting of Torresani, whose memories are downloaded into her father?s Cylon prototype in the show?s pilot episode. Torresani?s gutsy presence kicks the show into intense gear while introducing a fresh talent ready for fanboy consumption.

To explain the craft of acting like a Cylon, Torresani hit the ground running at a cafe in Studio City, California, showing up in a black tank top and tight gray jeans with shades propped on her jet-black bangs. Over a glass of iced tea and a vegetarian panini, the 22-year-old actress power-chatted about her zany coming-of-age gigs, her excitement about doing a show that appeals to introverted geeks, and her own computer genius of a father ? a Silicon Valley inventor who created a computer chip used by IBM.

Wired.com: Were you a fan of Battlestar Galactica before getting cast for Caprica?

Alessandra Torresani: I wasn?t really into sci-fi. When they asked me to read for Caprica, I?d had a tough day. I said no. Then I got the audition scenes and I went, ?Holy ****. I?m doing this!?

Wired.com: It took seven auditions, but you got the part. At that point did you go back and watch Battlestar?

Torresani: I didn?t want to watch Battlestar Galactica on purpose. I?m the first Cylon, right, so I wanted it to be from a 16-year-old girl?s perspective: How would she create a Cylon? How would she act? I didn?t want to mimic Tricia Helfer, I didn?t want to mimic Grace Park. They?re beyond fabulous but I still wanted to create a new kind of Cylon.

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Syfy's "Battlestar Galactica" spinoff "Caprica" got off to a weak start Friday night, drawing 1.6 million viewers. That's below the averages for "Battlestar" and "Stargate: Universe" on Fridays, and well below their premieres ("Universe" drew 2.4 million last fall).

Of course, most "Battlestar" fans interested in "Caprica" had probably already seen the first episode, since the pilot has been available on DVD and online. Syfy says that between Hulu, iTunes and Syfy.com, they've received about 2 million viewers pre-premiere. The second episode is always more telling than the first, and this time that goes double for "Caprica."

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Just watched the Aired Pilot episode, after watching the DVD twice. They changed quite a few things up, removed some nudity, added/redone some other scenes (pyramid game) but overall was the same.

I am worried that it's going to be a very boring drama show, cause all the cool ideas were in the pilot. Yet at the same time, they can do amazing things with this show.

To my previous post. All my worries are kinda gone when watching that trailer, they showed some awesome stuff. Though saying "this has all happened before, and will happen again" that early into the show, might rune it.

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I am seeing some irregularities with the show.

In the pilot, the DVD version, there was to scenes where they said how much data the human mind is. Which was 300MB. In the released version, the first time they said about 1TB of data, the second mention it was 300MB. Very weird.

In the second episode, they started using the name Adama. Which he only told his son that name.

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I agree that was strange with using Adama instead of Adams.

I think the Cylon Zoe is progressing too fast in this stage of the series, also I think I'd like to see more of William Adama progress as we know how the Cylons turn out

they don't change much other than creating human clones "Skin Jobs" and of course the first Cylon war, will this be covered in the later stages of Caprica?

I can see this show getting into some serious ratings trouble after season 1, my hope would be Ron Moore takes more creative control of the show,

like he did with BSG. It's still too early to tell. I'll keep watching throughout Season 1.

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I really love the CGI in this show and the opening sequence is amazing! great use of Bear McCreary again as well (Y)

@xpablo this series will take a long time to get to the first Cylon war and it has been said I think in this thread and on some of the tv sites that it wont get there because there's alot of ground to cover.

Overall though its been a year since seeing the Pilot! but I loved it and can't wait for more (Y)

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Agreed. Bear McCreary is my favourite composer and Ronald Moore knows how to use him. While realising it is only 2 episodes in and obviously far too early to decide properly on the storyline etc - gotta admit, it has me hooked.

Although they have introduced the cylons a bit too quickly and how the heck are they going to get from where they are to the first cylon war??

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I'm thinking they will end the series with beginning of the Cylon war.

When does the war begin anyways? According to the BSG wiki it ends 40 years before the fall so that leaves 18 years until the end of the war. Assuming the war lasts a few years plus a few years of Cylon slavery I guess they've got some time before the crap hits the fan.

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The opening of this second episode was great. And its a good series. But something annoys me and its the fact that a terminator like with the mind of a 15yo girl. I dont know. Its really annoying. (her hormones and her stupid like mind, its ok if she wasnt a terminator).

One of the things I like of this series is that the point of view of the society. Seems like they are at least one 'loop' forward in the stage/level we are now. They are like decadent and at the same time they are not or sometimes conservatives.

If they can ripoff that damn thing of the 15yo lil girl "living" in a terminator (of course they wont, and in the way the things are, this is just the beginning of what the cylons become and why) could be great.

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