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I enjoyed Dexter season 1 so much I wanted to carry straight on and watch season 2, but I managed to talk myself out of that. Want to spin it out a bit. So I started watching Caprica instead. Spoilers for the first five eps behind cut, and for the end of BSG.
This really is a very odd series. First and foremost, despite Zoe Greystone being trapped in the centurion robot, and despite it being fairly clear to BSG-watchers that this technology will eventually lead to the Cylon resurrection ships, the world of Caprica just seems so different to the world of BSG. For one thing, this just doesn't look like a culture that is so advanced technologically that people routinely travel from planet to planet. It just doesn't. It just seems like a modern Western culture (specifically American) that's taken a step sidewards, futuristic more in the way of that recent Jake Gyllenhaal movie Source Code than, say, Star Trek with space ships etc, yet it's supposed to be set only 58 years before BSG.
That part of it really doesn't work at all. Possibly that, coupled with its talkiness and lack of space battles, explains why it was cancelled. Which is a pity, because I think I prefer it to BSG (jaded by the ending now, like so many other people, though ironically that ending works a bit better after having seen Caprica, because that BSG final scene of 'angels' Baltar and Six disappearing into modern day New York, seems, in retrospect like it could have been their avatars disappearing into a virtual city, like New Cap City).
The stuff about the virtual world is the most interesting part of the show so far - the episode where the avatar of Tamara Adama becomes a power in that world is the only one so far that was real, edge of the seat viewing. I find myself rather uninterested in the origins of the cult of the one god (though I did enjoy the one glimpse I've had so far of JM's character, and Polly Walker is always good to watch), because, as in BSG, I have no idea exactly what Ron D Moore is trying to say with it, and just when I think I have, he changes it (see the end of BSG again).
Aspects of the world-building are a little rocky too. I can't be the only one who finds they have that Tradition song from Fiddler on the Roof playing in their heads whenever we're shown anything Tauron-y, or possibly the theme music of The Godfather. And, while I do appreciate the writers trying to show a culture that has no hangups about homosexuality, I don't think it quite works for me because that culture looks so like ours, right down to the TV talk shows. Speaking of which, the Greystones' appearance on that talk show was one of the best scenes in the series so far, actually raising a few relevant RL points about how society handles (or more often doesn't handle) too much freedom.
Interesting show. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it.
I enjoyed Dexter season 1 so much I wanted to carry straight on and watch season 2, but I managed to talk myself out of that. Want to spin it out a bit. So I started watching Caprica instead. Spoilers for the first five eps behind cut, and for the end of BSG.
This really is a very odd series. First and foremost, despite Zoe Greystone being trapped in the centurion robot, and despite it being fairly clear to BSG-watchers that this technology will eventually lead to the Cylon resurrection ships, the world of Caprica just seems so different to the world of BSG. For one thing, this just doesn't look like a culture that is so advanced technologically that people routinely travel from planet to planet. It just doesn't. It just seems like a modern Western culture (specifically American) that's taken a step sidewards, futuristic more in the way of that recent Jake Gyllenhaal movie Source Code than, say, Star Trek with space ships etc, yet it's supposed to be set only 58 years before BSG.
That part of it really doesn't work at all. Possibly that, coupled with its talkiness and lack of space battles, explains why it was cancelled. Which is a pity, because I think I prefer it to BSG (jaded by the ending now, like so many other people, though ironically that ending works a bit better after having seen Caprica, because that BSG final scene of 'angels' Baltar and Six disappearing into modern day New York, seems, in retrospect like it could have been their avatars disappearing into a virtual city, like New Cap City).
The stuff about the virtual world is the most interesting part of the show so far - the episode where the avatar of Tamara Adama becomes a power in that world is the only one so far that was real, edge of the seat viewing. I find myself rather uninterested in the origins of the cult of the one god (though I did enjoy the one glimpse I've had so far of JM's character, and Polly Walker is always good to watch), because, as in BSG, I have no idea exactly what Ron D Moore is trying to say with it, and just when I think I have, he changes it (see the end of BSG again).
Aspects of the world-building are a little rocky too. I can't be the only one who finds they have that Tradition song from Fiddler on the Roof playing in their heads whenever we're shown anything Tauron-y, or possibly the theme music of The Godfather. And, while I do appreciate the writers trying to show a culture that has no hangups about homosexuality, I don't think it quite works for me because that culture looks so like ours, right down to the TV talk shows. Speaking of which, the Greystones' appearance on that talk show was one of the best scenes in the series so far, actually raising a few relevant RL points about how society handles (or more often doesn't handle) too much freedom.
Interesting show. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it.