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Game Over

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (13)

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The new season of Caprica doesn’t start until January 2011, but here’s the teaser trailer preview. Thankfully, it looks like we’ll be spending less time in the Zoe’s virtual world and getting more into the beginnings of Cylon self-awareness. While the idea of a man driven to carry on a relationship with his dead daughter was intriguing at first, I found the execution flat out boring. But the groundwork had to be laid, and we can now move on to the more interesting history. Eric Stoltz and Esai Morales turn in solid performances as Daniel Graystone and Joseph Adama and it looks like some of the weaker characters (Amanda, Zoe, Tamara) will have less airtime, so that’s another plus. Hopefully Caprica will find its footing and evolve into a show worthy of its predecessor, Battlestar Galactica.







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Comments

Religion is the downfall of man? Wow,new concept.

Posted by: DeckOfficer!! at July 30, 2010 5:10 PM

No word on some virtual Zoe on Atia Cyrug action?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 30, 2010 5:12 PM

I wasn't crazy about AvZoe's deal until towards the end of the season and things started to get very very interesting. However, I do have a big of a soft-spot for Amanda.

And Tamara's whole deal in NewCapCity was fantastic, I thought.

Posted by: Brian at July 30, 2010 5:35 PM

Needs more Sam.

You know what I wish this show was? Just a show about life in the Colonies. Maybe the creation of the Cylons could be a subplot, but just a show about what the humans were like on Caprica and the other colonies. Maybe I'm alone, but I feel like that would be more compelling. To my mind, BSG was always best when it wasn't *about* the Cylons so much as it was about human guilt, fear, panic, resilience, and bravery.

Posted by: SavageCats at July 30, 2010 5:43 PM

"I do have a big of a soft-spot for Amanda..."

Amanda Greystone? Ugh worst character since Sue Ellen Ewing, needy, whiny, unstable, dependent, reckless and an alkie. All played in the most unflattering and unsympathetic way possible.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 30, 2010 6:00 PM

I kinda dig the Zoey character and the other teenage chick. The dad characters are OK, but grieving parents are usually sorta dull (as bad as that sounds to say).

I haven't seen one moment of BSG (yeah, I know...), but I still enjoyed this series. I thought the idea that the first robot (or whatever it is) is really a teenage girl was unique. And fucking frightening, if you've ever known (or been) a teenage girl.

Posted by: Slash at July 30, 2010 6:28 PM

Hmm.

hopefully it can do better then the first season did.

I'm more a BSG fan then Caprica, I only watched Caprica cause of the supposed "All star" ensemble cast.

Posted by: LordNinja at July 30, 2010 6:47 PM

Caprica picked up towards the end of Season 1, but I had to will myself at times to see much of the middle of it.

Part of the problem is "prequel-itis" i.e. we know where this story is headed. We know that the Cylons will be built and that the Colonies will use them until they develop their own consciousness. At which point, we'll get war between humanity and its metal offspring. We know this because we've been told it happened already.

And part of it was that, after BSG, I'm getting way too much talking and not enough toaster frakkin' action!

Posted by: Fredo at July 30, 2010 8:09 PM

There is never enough Trixie.

Posted by: Riles at July 30, 2010 9:36 PM

Amanda Greystone? Ugh worst character since Sue Ellen Ewing, needy, whiny, unstable, dependent, reckless and an alkie. All played in the most unflattering and unsympathetic way possible.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 30, 2010 6:00 PM

Slim, this is two days in a row I've agreed with you. I'm scared...

Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 30, 2010 9:40 PM

I am sort of a sci-fi geek and somehow never got around to watching BSG. (How I've seen Babylon 5 and not BSG is rather a mystery at this point.) So, happily/ strangely/interestingly I don't have many preconceptions about where this story is going and I haven't been inculcated with the mythic characterizations or histories of of the BSG universe.

What I have learned is purely through the reviews of Caprica a la "everyone knows the Cylons become sentient", etc.

I am looking forward to seeing how the story unravels (please for the love of GOD get rid of that Amanda Greystone character and more of Uncle Badass Adama) and my interest in piqued as far as following up with BSG.

Posted by: Hayden Tompkins at July 31, 2010 11:08 AM

Well, I just watched the last six (6?) episodes of Caprica, using some down-time to clear my DRV. It's about priorities, people.

Here's hoping the next round finds its motor, I'm kind of bored with the first season. This seems odd, since I like each of the sub-worlds.

- The Noir v-world where the goal is finding the goal, or maybe not. Interesting, even when we're following a teenage girl with super-powers. (Did Whedon ghost write some of this?)

- Clash of the industrial titans, with a dose of class / immigrant / culture conflict? Nice.

- Crazytime religions clashing, with a volatile mixture of true believers and spike-y exploiters. More, please.

- Dystopian, this tech is going to destroy us from within? I'm always up for a good dystopian tech story. So, now we learn that SomeTech(tm) was going to destroy us, before the toasters were going to destroy us. Multiple dooms for everyone! Yay!

- And we know that this is all leading to one of the best Frankenstein monsters ever.

Yet, Caprica doesn't quite work for me. BSG had the same barely related worldlets, and unconnected stories but somehow I clung to each episode.

What's missing? In Caprica, the ragtag, fugitive fleet meanders through time, worlds and fates, vs. jammed together into a common story. BSG hung all its excursions on a submarine story. That pressure is missing from Caprica.

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