I finally got to watching the Caprica pilot that has been sitting on my drive for most of the week after I ran out of drive to do useful things last night. It actually looks fairly promising, but it doesn’t grab and hold (a least for me) quite the same way the Galactica miniseries did.
***WARNING! SPOILERS! *****
The whole pilot had a very Idoru feel to it, with clever children/teens interacting and plotting in hacked parts of the Internet with virtual reality goggles. The uh… protagonist? Zoe Graystone even sort of reminds me of a composite of the Chia and Zona Rosa characters from Idoru. Smart girls doing daring things with technology is a good hook. The only downside to that premise is that it occasionally feels like one of those godawful shows about self-absorbed teens.
Like Galactica, it gets plenty of social commentary in the mix; there are lots of references to racism (apparently Tauron is a lot like Italy?) and one of the dominant themes is religious freedom; the primary conflict established so far is between the monotheist minority and the polytheist majority on Caprica.
aaand one last thought: Srsly? “The Cylons were created by man” sounded a lot better than “The Cylons were created by an angry dead girl and her deranged grieving father”
