As Caprica ends, what are your thoughts now overall?

Richard Dower

We're at the end, it would be nice if we could share some thoughts on the show, positive points would be welcome but of course the shows negative points should also be discussed.

A positive point was the production design was some of the best on tv!, the sets, costumes, and overall look on Caprica was stellar. I loved the retro 50's look with the modern styling of Greystone's home.

I think Zoe had some very unique clothing, for a teen she dressed rather smartly. Plenty of negatives to be sure, but lets give credit where credit is due

Stark

I thought it was unique and potentially brilliant. Sorry to see it go.

GSPfan

A complete failure. An overly complicated idea executed badly. So much was wrong from the start. After watching the last episode, I thought I'd understand more, but it has left me more confused.

Glad it's gone, but sad that it never came close to being good enough.

noodler

Little from Stark and a little from GPS.

No doubt it was overly complicated.

We all assumed (I think, correct me if I am wrong!) before Caprica aired that the Cylons simply were created as soldiers etc and became self-aware and then rebelled. The show obviously had to try and be alot more than this - it just couldn't quite manage it.

Stoltz was excellent though - best character by a mile.

The amount of BSH cameos was crazy, that Pegasus guy in the last episode, Kat, Duck, Connor, the bald guy from LDYB PT1, was probly more.

GSPfan

Quite a few Stargate personnel popped up in Caprica too. SyFy like to re-use actors thats for sure.

Volvagia

I thought it was very unique. As mentioned before the robots killing all the humans idea has been done many times before, but this show took it from a very different angle. While it didn't click, the fact that they tried something different is a positive for me.

Biggest negative was the complication. So many plots seemed to be discarded so quickly. The season as a whole did not come across as coherent as it should have.

Tamara / V-World plots changed their levels of importance. STO cells on Caprica and then shifting to the Old men in Robes on the windy planet then shifting to the training camp.

Overall I enjoyed it, despite it being frustrating at times. You could see how it could have been great but never found it's feet.

I know nothing about blood and chrome but from the name alone i'd imagine it's going to be a very different style to Caprica with much less thought provoking plots, and more, well, blood and chrome.

TonyD79

GSPfan wrote: »

Quite a few Stargate personnel popped up in Caprica too. SyFy like to re-use actors thats for sure.

There both filmed in Vancouver and this has allways been the case with other shows so not specific to just SyFy.

JohnK

I have to say I thought it was a bit crap to start with but towards the end it seriously picked up. Had it just been cancelled after the first maybe 5/6 episodes it wouldnt have bothered me but given the quality it showed right at the end I'm a bit annoyed now that we wont see any more. Its a shame really.

FreudianSlippers

I think the pacing of the story was the problem. It was too much of a teen drama in the first few episodes and it took too long to start telling the story.

Contrast that to BSG, where the story was told as the story went on through the characters, rather than kind of a "history lesson".

I think the final 5 episodes showed how with proper pacing and more interesting storylines, the show could have been on par with BSG.

silvine

I hate to say I told you so but.....http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055522192


Prequels just never work (e.g. Star Wars). They spend too much time trying to fit new pieces together that somehow tie in with what follows. I'm not sure Caprica added anything to the BSG mythos that wasn't already established beyond putting some names and faces to what we heard about in the previous series.

Agree Stoltz was the best character. I disliked Zoe, Amanda and the Adamana clan and the whole New Caprica thing was boring. The STO didn't get going until the very end either and I hated that Reverend Mother nonsense. There was way too many mini-plots that went nowhere or added little e.g. Spike from Buffy, the corrupt GDD guy.

That said I enjoyed the last three episodes, particularly the end of the last one with Cylons in every home.

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Keplar240B

Holoband 1.0


"All of this has happened before..."

Earth(this one) 150,000 ACH

nyarlothothep

Have you seen the new Atlas video? I simply cannot wait for the robot apocalypse!

Keplar240B

nyarlothothep wrote: »

Have you seen the new Atlas video? I simply cannot wait for the robot apocalypse!

You mean this? remands me of scene in caprica where the lab assistants mistreats the fraking toaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

Some Russian billionaire is trying to upload his brain to V-world

Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov seeks 'immortality' by uploading his brain to a computer
Itskov's 2045 Initiative wants to make it possible to live as an immortal holographic 'avatar' in the next three decades

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dmitry-itskov-2045-initiative-immortality-brain-uploading-a6930416.html

The Immortalist will be shown on BBC 2 at 8PM on Wednesday 16 March.

nyarlothothep

Aye yeah, the progress in robotics is cool. I really hope they make sentient military droids, and sentient droids for all other kinds of applications. That idea of downloading minds into a computer network is brilliant. I was talking to people once about the next phase of human evolution being a merger with machines. This would necessitate the 'extinction' of the human race in the long run but it wouldn't be so much extinction as continuation. They thought I was crazy but I think it would be awesome, imagine having superior vision, strength, stamina, dexterity, intelligence etc. This was after a conference talk about the dubious nature of such advancements. If I remember correctly it was about how internet popularity/cred could create class divides as human existence becomes increasingly digitised. So if we all existed digitally and were downvoted for our contributions/opinions by the collective we would be locked out or deleted. Also we would be under constant surveillance. So basically that would be a nightmare, but I imagine legislation would catch up, people would push back and there would be alternatives on the network, like outcast collectives, (I imagine some of them would turn to piracy/radis on other collectives).

Keplar240B

“I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more."

AMKC

Have to say I really enjoyed Caprica and was sad to see it end.