Comments on: ‘Caprica’ on DVD: Does the pilot fill the ‘Battlestar’ void?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:48:51 +0000

When taking a lie detector test you sometimes start off with obvious questions to test the accuracy of the lie detector. Questions like is your name… Or do you live …. On bsg those questions might have been are you a cylon?

By: Abid

Abid — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:25:27 +0000

I thought the bit where Adama is undergoing a lie detector test was a bit crap. Basically, asking if he was a cylon, at that time period, is a ridiculous question, as they only found out that cylons looked like humans, in Season 1. As far as they were concerned, Cyclons were toasters. Correct me, if I am wrong.

By: Shea

Shea — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:12:16 +0000

The first 10 minutes I was like “What is this? This isn’t Battlestar Galatica and it doesn’t make sense”. But as soon as they really introduced the zoe character, it became amazing. I loved it and is definitly worthy of BSG

By: Dude

Dude — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:27:28 +0000

Eric and Crispy:
So don’t watch.

By: TimeLost

TimeLost — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:46:08 +0000

It was crap. Pure and simple soap. Junk. Wasted time. Without reason for existence.
Other than that, it sucked.

By: Leoben

Leoben — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:05:51 +0000

I bought the dvd, but have not yet watched it. Knowing the premise as I do(and every BSG devotee does), I am surprised that I have note heard any criticism of the plot as a retread of the DeNiro cloning thriller GODSEND (a couple lose their young son, and are convinced by a eugenicist to “clone” their son with – of course – disastrous consequences). BSG has a history of building expectations with their promos of upcoming episodes, only to subvert them with something even more interesting once you tune in. Perhaps this is one of those examples. However, the premise of replacing a lost loved one with a “proxy” (“golem” was an excellent choice of words in the above article) predates GODSEND and is hardly a unique or unexplored concept.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:02:54 +0000

It was better then I thought, I love it! can’t wait for the series…

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:51:16 +0000

I loved it. LOVED it. I’m sort of familiar with Battlestar, but not a big geek about it, but this was much more up my alley. LOVE Eric Stolz, Esai Morales, and the wife from Deadwood. Loved them. Looking forward to seeing more of this, bummed it won’t be till next year.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:52:38 +0000

Also, did anyone else think it was a bit messily edited in terms of the time frame? It was never clear how long each gap between scenes was supposed to represent. It would have been nice if there had been the odd ’2 months later’ or ’1 week later’ to make it a bit clearer.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:49:28 +0000

I agree that the racial connotations of Joseph Adama’s place in society was the most interesting facet of the story – and I was disappointed that they focussed so much on the AI aspect – something which I think was explored sufficiently in BSG and, besides, is not as much of an interesting ethical dilemma as Ronald D Moore seems to think it is. The whole problem with him finishing BSG as a foreshadowing of our present-day fascination with robotics is that BSG isn’t actually REAL. There’s no reason to suspect that robots will ever try and kill us and so the portent was a bit silly when the rest of the show had tried to ask questions about vert immediate real-world issues. I’d much rather they used the twelve colonies to explore political allegories and social problems rather than hammering away at this dull dull computer science stuff – although I did like the idea of the underground teen cyber clubs.