Topic: Caprica (Read 2105 times)

Mothra · « **on:** March 01, 2010, 06:47:45 PM »

Folks this show is seriously the tops.

I just finished the second episode and basically every reservation I had about this thing was wiped clean. This is ramping up to be one of the greats, so CHECK IT. If you're not sold by episode 2 I CAN'T HELP YOU. YOU ARE A SAD BROKEN HUSK OF A PERSON AND FUCK YOU

http://www.hulu.com/embed/nkGe7pq3mLChg4OlMCxOkg

I love everything about this right now.

EDIT: Holy shit Patton Oswald is the Caprican Conan O'Brien

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1 on:** March 01, 2010, 07:17:08 PM »

Who wasn't sold by halfway through the pilot? I'LL BEAT THEIR ASS

Seriously, Caprica is my new favorite show. I especially love that they use new technology in interesting ways, not just as though they are neat-looking versions of what we have today. I watched the most recent episode this evening and I swear, this show just gets better and better with each ep. This show should seriously NOT be so stupidly great. It's one of those that makes me wish I had found it after it had run its course, because I just want to sit and have a marathon viewing of it.

Check out my TOTALLY SWEET Caprica bracelet from my boyfriend. Supposedly it was because I'm math girl but really IT'S FROM CAPRICA OKAY. It is the best, just like this show.

Btw did I just totally miss that the Adamas were Tauron, or was that not stated in BSG

Niku · « **Reply #2 on:** March 01, 2010, 07:56:39 PM »

I watched the pilot, but have just been stockpiling the episodes since then to watch later. I guess I'm up to four unwatched so I should be jumping on this??

Mothra · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2010, 08:14:29 PM »

GET ON THIS

Episode 2 is seriously the bomb diggidy (uh granted in so much as men grappling with the sobering fallout of a suicide bombing in a corrupt socio-political allegorical landscape could be)

James Edward Smith · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2010, 08:29:43 PM »

I'm not super sold on it yet by which I mean I don't love it quite as much as I liked Galactica by this point in its running, but it's pretty solid.

Joseph Adama is the big problem for me. He doesn't do it for me, I really don't like his acting. I mean Galactica had its Sharon Valeri, but she wasn't this bad and she at least was a REALLY interesting character from a writing point of view. Plus, that show had a bigger cast and I can't name one fucking other person who wasn't stellar other than the white guy cylon who wasn't Leoben or Dean Stockwell and the black one and he was actually good in The Plan.

But Joseph is just annoying as fuck to me. It doesn't help that his brother out acts the shit out of him.

Pretty killer openning though, it's got Atia from Rome playing this sausy school nun right out of an H-manga who is in a sexy group marriage with a younger guy, drugs are legalized, and the actress who plays Zoey is really cool too.

Oh yeah, Patten Ozwald is a John Stewart, Conan O'Brien hodgpoge.

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #5 on:** March 02, 2010, 12:05:51 AM »

I first learned about Caprica from an adult products blog. Having never actually watched any Battlestar Galactica except for the first episode of the reboot a couple years back, I didn't expect I'd see any of this, either—but then Julie and I stumbled onto it on SyFy one night and decided to see what was up.

This show is kind of hard to jump into cold. It didn't help that the episode we saw wasn't the first one. At least I sort of knew that Cylons were bad and looked like people, and could relate that to Julie. We still weren't sure whether Cylon girl was a robot that projected a human appearance or only existed in a virtual space, or what. Also, the Adama housekeeper or grandmother or whatever is transparently, cheesily evil.

Eh. It was kind of interesting; I appreciated its approach to storytelling a lot more than something like Heroes, for example. But we're probably not going to go out of our way for this.

James Edward Smith · « **Reply #6 on:** March 02, 2010, 07:57:16 AM »

Cylons looking like humans is native to BSG not Caprica. Caprica takes place long before there were ever humanoid cylons.

Zoey on the show is an AI created by a human girl who died that was made to reflect her personality but is intrinsically her own person due to having different experiences and not actually being a perfect copy if you will. She is entirely virtual but at one point she was loaded into that robot body, the prototype cylon model. Cylons will continue to look like robots for a long time.

She can connect to the web from the robot body, which no one knows she inhabits yet except the school chum of the dead girl that created her. On the web she looks like her creator. Also, the show likes to present her to us the viewer as how she normally looks from time to time when she's in the robot body so that the actress can show the emotions she is having during the scene but this is symbolic, she does not look like a person in the real world, she is that big robot.

Also, there is nothing intrinsically bad about the cylons they are just a race of AI robots that will evetually end up fighting the humans after being oppressed for a long time and rebelling. This first leads to a conventional war, then an exodus of the cylons from the 12 colonies followed by an elaborate sneak attack many years later that unfortunately ends up almost genociding the humans. That event is the catalyst for BSG, Caprica happens before even the initial war.

Side Note:

Who else loved seeing those WW2 era Vipers?

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #7 on:** March 02, 2010, 08:07:57 AM »

Some of my girl friends have made it clear that you don't need to know BSG to watch Caprica. But you DO have to start from the beginning.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #8 on:** March 04, 2010, 08:32:31 PM »

After reading that blog Newbie linked to I was heartened to discover that I realized Sam was gay from a throwaway line in the second episode.

I love how the show has the same style and technique as BSG, but is totally different in tone and subject matter.

Mothra · « **Reply #9 on:** March 04, 2010, 09:01:45 PM »

There was this whole scene at the end of episode 2 where widdle addy sat down for dinner with Sam and his Lifetime Brodogg, all talking about being an item. I think they even kissed!

Clearly we're meant to be shocked to our senses by the casual hedonism and perversion gone mad in modern Caprica.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #10 on:** March 04, 2010, 09:03:21 PM »

Earlier in the episode while out with Willy he mentions that growing up he was flirting with the boys.

Mothra · « **Reply #11 on:** March 04, 2010, 09:11:17 PM »

Yeah, I actually rewinded the episode when I heard that cause I thought it was Joseph just casually mentioning to his son that he was nothing short of savagely, relentlessly gay

The two seem pretty interchangeable at this point (episode 3) but like Geo said, I'm starting to notice Sam more as he does his own thing.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #12 on:** March 05, 2010, 05:10:38 AM »

Quote from: Kabbage on March 04, 2010, 09:01:45 PM

Clearly we're meant to be shocked to our senses by the casual hedonism and perversion gone mad amongst the Taurons.

Mothra · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2010, 07:24:22 PM »

Loved the talk show episode. Great stuff, and I love how they're not afraid to have a sit-down every now and then about THE SOCIAL ISSUES OF THE FUTURE

"There's no consequences"

SCD · « **Reply #14 on:** March 27, 2010, 07:20:40 AM »

I just want to say that the future is so Vancouver..

If anyone's interested, the dance scene in episode 6 is at the UBC museum in Van, and yes the green and grey skies and grey water is an accurate representation of that part of the world...

Really good series, however. Really good series..

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2010, 06:39:57 PM »

So how good will this be to someone who hasn't watched BSG and probably won't?

Mothra · « **Reply #16 on:** March 28, 2010, 06:49:00 PM »

It's written to be completely stand-alone, so you're good.

It was actually another writer's idea for a series that got paired up with Ronald D. Moore (BSG's writer) after his show was coming to a close, who took the concept and tied it to the BSG universe. The connection's mostly cosmetic at this point, probably to better sell the series.

They keep it really close to the modern-day world - there isn't really any history you need to know. It's just New York a hundred years in the future.

Mothra · « **Reply #17 on:** March 28, 2010, 06:50:29 PM »

it will be good watch it it has robots

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #18 on:** March 28, 2010, 06:54:02 PM »

okay I will do this

SCD · « **Reply #19 on:** March 28, 2010, 09:18:50 PM »

There is a tie-in to theme from BSG, but I suspect you'll get more watching this first than the other.

Bongo, these guys seem to be able to tell a story pretty well. You won't regret what you see.

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