I went when I was really young. I think I mainly visited resorts and amusement parks.
Caprica
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Any other self-professed Caprica watchers here? This show in my opinion is knocking it out of the park as far as a good mix of drama, scify, and action… Hoping they get to more of the latter in “V-world” but otherwise I think I haven’t quite found a first season that was this engaging and fresh in a while. Reminds me of the excitement I had the first season of Heroes, even that one has gone to hell… I’m hoping they can keep this one out of the gutter.
GG
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I thought it started off a bit slow but it’s building a lot of momentum now. The whole “New Caprica City” angle helps fill in the “action gap”…RM and co. have created a world with all kinds of dramatic possibilities. Eric Stoltz is awesome…so far I’m not quite as impressed with the actress who plays his wife but we shall see.
It could easily go several seasons, but we’ll see if they keep the fan base…will old-school bsg fans keep watching, and will Caprica be able to attract a new generation of fans?
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Basically Caprica is Galactica 1980.
Its like 'hey we ran out of money making space battles and we don’t want to spend money on costumes either, so lets just make everything just like earth is now, but its not"
If you did that you might as well start calling it CSI: Caprica but give the red headed dude who loves to put on and take off the glasses for dramatic effect with designer sunglasses a Ricky Ricardo hat and you got Caprica.
If they made a poll with two choices:
- cylons in huge dreadnoughts and thousands of fighters exterminating the humans battlefleets and space battles
or
- Caprica as it is now
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At the head of the Cylons was none other than Imperious Leader seen here:
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Sorry Imp, sometimes I don’t care about flashy effects, if it makes up for it in good storyline. I think you don’t like it purely because you don’t like the genre, but that would be a different comparison altogether.
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@Guerrilla:
Any other self-professed Caprica watchers here? This show in my opinion is knocking it out of the park as far as a good mix of drama, scify, and action… Hoping they get to more of the latter in “V-world” but otherwise I think I haven’t quite found a first season that was this engaging and fresh in a while. Reminds me of the excitement I had the first season of Heroes, even that one has gone to hell… I’m hoping they can keep this one out of the gutter.
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What night and what channel is it on?
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Fridays at 9 PM on SyFy, or on Hulu at like 8 AM on Saturdays…
GG
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@Guerrilla:
Fridays at 9 PM on SyFy, or on Hulu at like 8 AM on Saturdays…
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I will try to remember to watch it next week.
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They have 5 trailing episodes on Hulu if you want to catch up on the general plot idea…
GG
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@Guerrilla:
They have 5 trailing episodes on Hulu if you want to catch up on the general plot idea…
GG
How many episodes have I missed and when will the trailing episodes be aired?
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9 Episodes have been aired…
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@Guerrilla:
9 Episodes have been aired…
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I checked my channel guide on DirecTV and I do not have Hulu. Which provider offers that channel?
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P.S. Be warned, it’s an evil plot to take over the world.
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P.S. Be warned, it’s an evil plot to take over the world.
Are there any other sites such as this where I might catch the first 3 episodes?
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I am a fan so far of Caprica. Lots of ideas there and interesting commentary. I just hope they don’t chicken out. They’ve been tackling questions of faith and identity and spirituality and ethics head on. I hope they don’t back off.
Paula Malcomson is a fine actress as Amanda Graystone. I think the problem is really that the character isn’t very likable at the moment (bear in mind I haven’t seen the Mar 19th episode yet.) She was terrific as Trixie in Deadwood. She is tough but keeps on the right side of the bitchy line.
It is a tough part she has as it really seems they’ve been writing a universe that is blind to gender roles as we define them. I don’t really detect a lot of what we would call chivalry in the Caprica verse. The women don’t seem deferred to for being women. But she is playing wife to the more powerful male. So she has to walk a strange line with the part between what we expect of the ‘wife’ and how the Caprica verse functions with not a lot of inspiration to draw from on how to do it.
So I think we get a lot more confused on how we’re supposed to view Amanda and on how we do in fact view her. I also think the writers are a bit at a loss as well. Amanda is in my view the most difficult part to play on that show.
Polly Walker as Sister Clarice is a very atypical female character. We are free to make decisions on our opinion of her as she is well outside the norm for most viewers. There is nothing that character most conform to in our experience (assuming multi-partner relationships are outside the commonplace) so we can simply react to the character and performance.
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I am a fan so far of Caprica. Lots of ideas there and interesting commentary. I just hope they don’t chicken out. They’ve been tackling questions of faith and identity and spirituality and ethics head on. I hope they don’t back off.
Paula Malcomson is a fine actress as Amanda Graystone. I think the problem is really that the character isn’t very likable at the moment (bear in mind I haven’t seen the Mar 19th episode yet.) She was terrific as Trixie in Deadwood. She is tough but keeps on the right side of the bitchy line.
Good post and true dat…I guess my problem is with Amanda’s character. It seemed pretty ridiculous when she publicly declared her daughter was a terrorist…even for someone in the depths of mourning…hard to believe. Now that Amanda is hanging out with Clarice, I’m sure we’ll find more things to dislike about her.
The cylon plot and the New Caprica City are what’s drawn me in, though naturally I don’t mind looking at Polly Walker and Zoe’s teenage friend.
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I guess my problem is with Amanda’s character. It seemed pretty ridiculous when she publicly declared her daughter was a terrorist…even for someone in the depths of mourning…hard to believe.
I had a problem with that as well. She was told/asked not to do it and informed of the likely consequences. And she is supposed to be an accomplished and rational woman in her own right yet she behaved with what I consider to be feminine petulance.
I guess the whole thing was necessary story contrivance of which there have been few and is the only real misstep so far but not all the way up to a stumble.
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My problem is that they show her to not have any empathy. Her “mourning” never contains any remorse for her daughter’s death, even though it was clearly shown she was hard on her. So maybe that is the proof that she is “logical” she totally believes she was completely right as a parent.
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I kind of liked that neither of them spent a lot of time recriminating themselves. They both miss her and seem sorry she is gone and would love to have her back but aren’t falling into that cliche ‘ohhh I’m a bad parent because my child was killed doing something questionable’ riff we see so often.
I find it very refreshing really. Way too often do we have to watch people beating themselves up over things they aren’t responsible for.
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