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I have seen a lot of premature conclusions being reached in the comments on this review. Zoe is the very first sentient AI, and she is “near perfect”. What makes it so hard to believe that the Cylon race will evolve over the next 58 years? Look at how cars, computers and mobile phones were in our world just 10 years ago, compared to today. All of these things have improved vastly to the point where they are almost not the same things they were back then, particularly in the case of cars, which are in general a lot bigger, a lot more powerful, yet comfier and much more economical. In most cases there is literally no comparison between a modern motor and its elderly siblings (compare the Peugeot 407 to the 406 and 405, or the latest BMW 6-series to its last incarnation).

Production line machines can assemble and paint these modern day behemoths a damn sight quicker than people could have built and finished off the smaller, lighter, boxier constructions of yesteryear.

Imagine what could happen with a sentient AI that was already at human level. How long would it really take a race of such beings to surpass our reactions, intelligence and innovation by a trillion times?

Anyway, I loved the way Caprica looks, its overly-flashy title sequence is growing on me (even if the blonde girl’s hair is blowing in a ridiculous ethereal, indoor wind which isn’t touching the character who stands with her), and although I am fairly disappointed with the theme music, the title logo itself is impressively bold.

I was really happy with the way this show integrates itself into the BSG universe almost instantly. On the other hand I found it consistently doom-and-gloomy, not just because it’s a tale of death, grief and obsession, but because we KNOW that everyone in the account will be dead within 60 years, rendering a lot of what happens in the series to be moot.

I will keep watching Caprica until I’ve had a proper chance to make my mind up about it. I am distinctly 50-50 at the moment.

One more thing: I fear the makers of Caprica are making the same mistake that most do when they make a prequel. They tend to force in elements that people already know and (hopefully) will find either interesting or fun. In this case it’s the name ‘Cylon’ and the fact that there had to be an Adama (Adams) in it.
Prequel are almost be definition contrived, because they simply have to end up at a certain point. I hope the strength of this series will be the drama and not so much the ‘history of Caprica before the fall’.

One thing’s for sure. I’ll have to wait a while to see it all. The pilot was released on dvd here mid march. Season 1 won’t be around on dvd before the end of the year. Hope it’s worth the wait (and the money).

That’s why I might have missed something important that explains my question. On the other hand: I don’t like the tendency to create overly complicated storylines á la Lost (season 5 = horror). Storylines in which something is said or happens (almost hidden) and not realy picked up again, but indeed ‘used’ to rationalise something that for some reason needs to happen. I know the typical BSG-fan likes things unexplained (like what the frack realy happened to Starbuck at the end of S3 and the very end), I simply don’t. It seems to me like a cheap way to cut corners.
I can imagine that the explenation I seek are in season 4, maybe even in the ramblings of Anders.
What I (maybe falsely) remember from S4 in fact, is that ‘earth’ (spoiler alert) was destroyed thousands of years before. And that the Five have been around for a very long time.

To sum it up: BSG in seasons 1 and 2 was my kind of show all the way. Seasons 3 and 4 were overly philosophical and complicated in structure, but not bad per se. The result is that I remember more from S1+S2 than from S3+S4. Hence my problem.

But here comes my biggest and maybe only issue: are we to believe that we go from this situation to the denouncement of the Cylons, to the Cylons+ (‘They evolved’) as we know them from BSG, to a scorched ‘earth’ and back to the attack on Caprica in just 56 years*. And you can take off a few years off of that, because (possible spoiler) Tigh is a long time friend of Bill Adama after the dramatic events on ‘earth’ (sorry, people, my BSG-lingo is not that good). The speed of evolution in robotics that this suggests, is unbelievable to me. It would practically mean that they go from no realy good working mechanical robot (like the pseudo-butler) to the Cylonmodels we know from BSG. To me that’s the biggest hurdle.

Somebody please give me a plausible explanation (I’m realy hoping I missed something in BSG), so I can pick up the rest of the series once it goes to dvd/bd here in Belgium. I know it’s worth it, I just can’t take the hurdle yet.

* The subtitles in Dutch say (translated back to English): Caprica, 56 years before the fall.

The episodes since the pilot have been a bit hit or miss. I haven’t caught all of them, although a friend of mine DVR’d them all, so I intend to do a little marathon next weekend with him. We’ll see what I think, but I’m not happy as I could be. Still, what great sci-fi show ever starts off as well as BSG? We’ve been a little spolied, I say.

Those books — “Price of the Phoenix” and “Fate of the Phoenix” — were very controversial among Trek fans, first of all for being borderline-slash, and secondly for being something of a tangent from what most people considered the regular Trek universe. Ron Moore has name-checked the authors, Sandra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, so he may well have read those novels.

Also, Patton Oswalt is going to be on the show’s third episode (and I believe a recurring character), so perhaps he will inject some humor into the proceedings.

The immortal adolescents thing kind of makes sense given Cavil’s actions in the series. Committing genocide just to prove a point to his “parents” sounds like something an all powerful teenager would do.

I find the father – daughter fixation positively creepy /incestuous.
I find the virtual nightclub scenes lame in an over-the-top kind of way (is that really what people find alluring.)
Zoe reminds me strongly of Wesley Crusher – one of my least favorite plot devices in Star Trek.
I could do without the heavy handed mafia violence.

I actually found the source of the cylons one true god to be kind of disappointing.

Are the cylons of BSG really immortal adolescents?

Bummer

Brendan: The placement of this review on the blog shouldn’t imply anything, either for or against, my plans/non-plans for Caprica the series (although based on previous posts and comments, there should be enough pieces for you to figure out my likely plans). That said, I will have another post with a detailed explanation in the next few days. Until then, I will remain enigmatically mysterious.

I’ll be watching. The ending, as you say, was more than enough of a hook. As the Zoebot awoke, you could almost here Angel Six proclaiming, “The first of God’s new generation.”