Caprica, The TV Series

Cereal_KillR

<div class="IPBDescription">Battlestar Galactica before BSG!</div>So I suppose that a number of you have enjoyed the new Battlestar Galactica series. That series being over, a spinoff called Caprica was created. The pilot was aired yesterday on the SciFi Channel in the US.

Caprica is focused on life in the Colonies (well, Caprica actually) before the Cylon Wars.


Anyway, for those who have loved BSG, check this out. For those who haven't seen BSG, it is accessible without watching BSG.
For those who have already watched the pilot; what did you think about it?

HAMMER22

I actually quite enjoyed it, their take on a future society seemed pretty interesting if quite conservative. As for the story it looks good but with the whole setting being before both cylon wars there won't be any space battles which is a major disappointment as I liked the grittyness of BSG's battles. :(

Also I didn't like the end at all <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>The girl becoming the first cylon prototype and doing the whole, omg I'm a machine and "Daddy" thing. Meh, didn't resonate with me at all. Also the fact the Dad made the other guys daughter come back to life too seemed a bit much, I got the impression the girl (argh what are the names) took a long time to perfect her copy.</span>

Overall not bad, might watch it but I'll definitely give it a few episodes more.

Caboose

I watched it, it was OK, I'll probably watch more of it. I actually just started watching BSG, I'm only a few episodes in, so watching the two shows simultaneously could either be interesting or confusing, we'll see.

Comprox

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Well, I thought that actually explained a lot of stuff about the original series. For example, <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>the fact that the Cylons worship one god in BSG, or the fact that they want to become human so much. It also explains why they are so good at making 'fake' humans act so much like real humans. It seemed cliched plot-wise, but explained a lot about how the Cylons were in BSG which I found very cool</span>. I'll watch it and see how it goes.

pSyk0mAn

Is this aired version any different to the sneak release like a year ago?

sherpa

I bought the entire series of BSG on DVD but it turned out it only went halfway through the final season.

Can someone use the spoiler text and tell me how the show finished off please :s

ZiGGY

<span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>you seriously don't wanna know sherpa, it's bad</span>

sherpa

Tell me!

Comprox

Sherpa, I am going to assume a few things about where you finished off. Stolen from wikipedia:

<span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>In the final episodes, a resurrected Kara Thrace leads the surviving humans and Cylons to a new planet which is clearly the Earth of present-day humanity, with the first colonists landing in Africa. Adama names their new home planet Earth, as a tribute to the "real" Earth of legend which had been originally sought by the survivors. The original Earth was revealed to have been a different planet entirely, one which, like Kobol, had become an uninhabitable wasteland as a consequence of a war waged by its own Cylon creations thousands of years before. The new Earth is found to be already inhabited by humans who are genetically compatible with the humans from the Galactica and the rest of the fleet, but who possess only the most meager beginnings of civilization. Human beings had apparently naturally evolved on both Earth and Kobol, the original home world of the twelve colonies. The surviving humans and humanoid Cylons decide to live on the new planet and discard all technology, destroying all of their spaceships by flying them into the Sun. Kara Thrace, apparently an "angel" since her purportedly fatal crash on the "Earth" of legend, disappears. The surviving Cylon Centurions are given possession of the remaining Cylon basestar and proceed to jump away from Earth, never to be heard from again.

The series finale concludes with an epilogue set "150,000 years later" in present day Times Square, as two "angels," in the form of Caprica Six and Gaius Baltar, muse on the origin and fate of present-day humankind, and on whether or not the cycle of violence between human and machine will repeat yet again. It is revealed that all present-day humans on Earth are descended from the half-human, half-Cylon girl named Hera, who lived out the remainder of her life in Africa 150,000 years ago, contemporaneous with Mitochondrial Eve. Consequently, the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is a myth of origin for modern Homo Sapiens, taking place in our collective pre-historic past rather than future history.</span>

sherpa

Thank you Comprox!

And that's a terrible ending for a good series :(

ZiGGY

probably would have been worse if you'd watched it for yourself; also there's plot missing from it since I believe mid season 4 is <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'> before the gaeta coup d'etat // sam becoming a ship control computer thing (lol) // rescuing hera from Cavil</span>

monopolowa

Yeah, comprox's description is all pretty much in the very last episode IIRC

Kouji_San

Meh, I still can't get over the fact they took away Starbucks didly and replaced it with a hooha! That and the disturbing lack of their real arch nemesis the Cylons, instead of these human Cylons (har har) in the new BG. This Caprica has real Cylons, or so I hear/read?


I'll be over there with the nostalgia peeps :P

puzl

There was a battlestar galactica remake? What kind of mental trauma could have wiped such a thing from my memory?

Tykjen

the show was good upto the 4th season then totally fell apart like a house of bricks. One big WTF.
Bryan Singer is gonna make his own BSG movie tho for the big screen, with some of the actors from the classic 70's BSG.
Caprica was an instant turn off for me, sad acting for a pilot.

ZiGGY

tbh I think alarm bells should ring when they start using Bob Dylan songs as plot themes <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>(and don't start going on about biblical connections ;p)</span>