{"id":178,"date":"2009-04-19T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:39:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:39:45","slug":"caprica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Caprica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finally got to watching the <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caprica_(TV_series)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caprica_(TV_series)\">Caprica<\/a> 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&#8217;t grab and hold (a least for me) quite the same way the Galactica miniseries did. <\/p>\n<p>***WARNING! SPOILERS! *****<\/p>\n<p>The whole pilot had a very <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idoru\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idoru\">Idoru<\/a> feel to it, with clever children\/teens interacting and plotting in hacked parts of the Internet with virtual reality goggles.  The uh&#8230; 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.    <\/p>\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n<p>aaand one last thought: Srsly? &#8220;The Cylons were created by man&#8221; sounded a lot better than &#8220;The Cylons were created by an angry dead girl and her deranged grieving father&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general","category-oldblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}