Caprica, Episode 3

Episode 3: Reins of a Waterfall

• Who is that guy playing Baxter Sarno? He looks very familiar.
• Joseph's assistant is Dr. Fraiser from Stargate SG-1! Yay!
• Sister Clarisse is totally coming on to Lacey
• Kat is back (as the PR lady)!
• Why do they have a black and white TV in the police office? And why doesn't it have the corners cut off?
• Huzzah for a normal, on screen gay married couple.
• Did Joseph just ask Sam to murder Amanda Graystone?

So far, I still don't really care much about these characters, though I am somewhat interested to see where the story goes. Hopefully we get answers. The best possible ending I can imagine would be that this story ties in to the Final Five's arrival at the Twelve Colonies, and we get some more of their backstory (and of course, appearance) but somehow, I doubt that.

Caprica, Episode 2

Episode 2: Rebirth

• When I started watching the episode, I thought "I don't really care", but I soldiered through, and started to be taken back in to the BSG world a bit more as I watched.
• Lacey looks kind of like Kaylee from Firefly.
• Sister Clarice is so clearly trying to seduce Lacey.
• Lacey mentioned Saturday. This made me wonder, do all Colonial planets have seven day weeks, or is it just Caprica? It would surely not be possible for them all to use the same system because they would surely have different orbits and rotations.
• The title sequence is weird. I don't know if I like it yet.
• Is Zoe going to wear the same purple dress the whole series?
• Daniel plays the piano. More proof that he should be the basis for the Cylon model Seven, who should have been Kara Thrace's father, not some random Head Character.
• Polygamy on Caprica! Cool!
• Sam (Willy's uncle) is gay! Hopefully he doesn't suffer the same fate as the other two openly gay BSG characters (Admiral Cain and Felix Gaeta) and become evil then die.
• We saw Greek and Chinese writing in Little Tauron. I believe this is the first time we've seen other written languages than English in this universe. I guess English is meant to stand for Caprican, and perhaps these others stand for other Colonial languages.
• Willy making his father guilty about there being no family, after his uncle's advice was very sneaky.
• Cylon Zoe sitting on her bed and breaking it was obvious.
• I felt slightly patronised by the writers with how they beat it over our heads that Amanda realised what the infinity symbol meant and that Zoe was part of the STO.
• But then ending with Amanda's declaration of her belief that Zoe caused the explosion at the memorial was a good dramatic ending, despite its slight cringe-worthiness.

Caprica, Episode 1

Hello, and happy new year!

Welcome back to Galactica Watch, where now that I've finished watching and reviewing all the episodes of Battlestar Galactica, I will now move on to its prequel series, Caprica. Unlike with Battlestar, for which I reviewed two episodes every week, I will only do one a week for this series.

Episode 1: Pilot

• I thought the copy of Zoe that she saw down by the stage was going to be a Head Character.
• The Graystone's home looks very much like Gaius Baltar's house. Is it the same place?
• It was pretty cool to see Caprican public transport.
• The fashion looks kind of 1950s. It's probably the hats. I guess they did this to make it feel like this was in the 'past' relative to BSG, which mostly felt very much like the present.
• From Sam, we hear a language other than English being spoken in this universe. Also, is there supposed to be some meaning in the fact that Joseph's brother (therefore William Adama's uncle) is called Sam, like the Final Five, Sam Anders?
• Similarly, is there any relevance to the fact that Daniel Graystone shares the same first name with the eventual Number Seven?
• Willy Adams = William Adama, right?
• There are no flowers on Tauron! Wow!
• When Sam came in to kill the Minister, seeing his blood splatter on his glasses was a really nice (though gross) shot.
• The sister of Athena Academy is clearly evil. Unfortunately, if I'm right, this just propagates the science-fiction convention that evil characters always have British accents.
• Zoe in a Cylon body saying "daddy" was weird!
• It was lovely to notice that the Adama family theme was used when Joseph was telling his son his real family's name.

Quotes

Daniel: "A difference that makes no difference is no difference."

The first Cylon: "Programme completed. By your command."

***

Overall, I liked this pilot. It did a nice job of building up this world that exists within the world we knew from BSG, while it didn't step on its toes too much. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes, but I'm not overly invested in it. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that I know there are only 18 episodes, and that it got cancelled after those 18, so there won't be any more.

So far, I just don't really care about or for these characters. After having built such an affection for and connection with several of the great characters from BSG, I don't think this show can compare, and characters are really the reason I watch shows like this. So, hopefully it will either show us something amazing about the build up to the First Cylon War, or will make these characters really interesting/relateable/odious/flawed really quickly!