@Curtmungus your honor of being more famous than me is quite deserved. I salute you.
Caprica
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Fridays at 9 PM on SyFy, or on Hulu at like 8 AM on Saturdays…
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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…
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@Guerrilla:
They have 5 trailing episodes on Hulu if you want to catch up on the general plot idea…
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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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