Caprica

[Riggswolfe]

I am highly amused by what Zoe has started with that engineer guy in the last episode...

[palmer_eldritch]

Zoe's dumb grin is getting really annoying and I'd prefer it if they just had the robot being an intelligent robot. I'd also very much like to see a robot going on the rampage. If it's too soon in the plot for Zoe-bot to do that, maybe Daniel Graystone could make another cylon which malfunctions or something.

Seriously, I wonder if virtual Lacy Rand will become the second cylon, but will be an evil one. She's already getting a bit of a god complex. (and hopefully she'll smash some humans).

[Reg]

If you're looking for a simple good guy/evil robot show I suspect you're going to be disappointed.

[Tannhauser]

I like the gay mobster and the whole Tauron culture.  I also like "New Cap City".  Other than that I'm not too impressed.  It's such a soap opera.  I do hope they explore other world cultures and put some excitement in it.  I see what they're doing with the Old World vs. the New, blah blah blah but it's not that compelling.

[Abagadro]

Man, I really want to like this show. I dig Moore's ethic and a lot of the cast is appealing, but the show is really terrible. I hope they fix it in the second half. There is some really cool Gibsonian goodness available here if they get their shit together.

[Tannhauser]

[Yegolev]

Man, I really want to like this show. I dig Moore's ethic and a lot of the cast is appealing, but the show is really terrible.

We have the opposite problem where we simply don't find any of the characters to be likable.  The story might be OK but they started off dragging it out slowly without getting us hooked.  It's a series composed entirely of BSG filler episodes.

[Abagadro]

Man, I really want to like this show. I dig Moore's ethic and a lot of the cast is appealing, but the show is really terrible.

We have the opposite problem where we simply don't find any of the characters to be likable.  The story might be OK but they started off dragging it out slowly without getting us hooked.  It's a series composed entirely of BSG filler episodes.

I didn't say I liked the characters. I like some of the cast. They have misused most of them horribly.

[raydeen]

Season 1 part 2 is starting off better than I would have thought (or is it Season 2?). It's been at least 120 days...has everyone forgotten about the show? Am I the only one watching?

[Sir T]

Probably.

I was in town the other day and I saw the boxed set of this. It had some topless woman on the cover hiding her breasts with her arms. Obviously trying to get sales by advertising the interesting plot and fine acting, this one.

Ahh here it is...

[Tannhauser]

I've never seen a show with such an unlikeable cast of characters.  First, I'm glad they have gone off-world and are continuing the corporate espionage angles.  I am interested in the glimpse of life in the Twelve Colonies.  But the rest of the show is pretty tough sledding so far in S2.  Everyone is a stupid asshole and I don't even remember or care why Lacey is in the STO.  Adama has turned into a mob thug and his son is nowhere to be seen.  Only the cop is semi-likable, because he's right, he knows it and he is willing to risk his career on it.  Plus, so far, he's not morally compromised, a theme I'm getting really tired of.

[Tale]

Probably.

I was in town the other day and I saw the boxed set of this. It had some topless woman on the cover hiding her breasts with her arms. Obviously trying to get sales by advertising the interesting plot and fine acting, this one.

Ahh here it is...

Said topless woman is a schoolgirl, or was before her robot incarnation.

[Reg]

Well you know what they about those Monotheist girls.

[Ghambit]

Especially before they eat an apple.

[raydeen]

I'm liking S2 better than S1 so far. it's a bit edgier and grittier than the previous season. Seems a bit more serious. Or maybe I'm just into it because the only other shows holding my attention right now are Fringe and SG:U. (and just barely on SG:U - was all I could do to stay awake through Ep. 3).

[Musashi]

Wait.  They gave this piece of shit a second season?

[HaemishM]

Of course. And they are making a prequel to BSG following young Adama in the Cylon War.

[Samwise]

At least it hasn't gone full retard like BSG did.  Yet.  Or maybe it has and I haven't noticed... I tend to have it on in the background and drift in and out of what's going on.

[Mrbloodworth]

I watch it mostly for the interesting "society" of it all. I do enjoy the Greystone/Adoma story line though.

[Abagadro]

This isn't the second season. It is the second half of the first season.

[Tale]

I watch it mostly for the interesting "society" of it all.

i.e. The United States of America with some names and games changed.

[Abagadro]

SyFy shit-canned the series today and won't air the remaining episodes until they burn them off sometime next year.

[Ratman_tf]

Good. I feel bad for fans of the show, but goddamn, killer robots in space should not be this goddamn boring.

[Tale]

Mrs Graystone has been Mrs Sons of Anarchy Belfast Edition for many episodes, so this has seemed dead for a while.

[shiznitz]

but goddamn, killer robots in space should not be this goddamn boring.

That.

[Tannhauser]

Never seen a show with so many unlikeable characters.  Gone and unlamented.  Bring on the pew pew pew with BG: B&C.

[Teleku]

Yeah.......I kind of had hope for the show because I was hoping for a prequel showing how the cylons got made, their build up in society, the revolution, and then into the cylon wars.  That would have been cool.  What they did with it wasn't.  I guess I can blame it on Sci Fi not having the budget to do the things I want, but still...... so much wasted potential.  Ah well, I loved BSG, so I guess we'll see how the other projects turn out.

[Zaljerem]

It's really a shame how much they fumblefucked this show ... the last several episodes have been pretty good, in my opinion.

Reminds me of Star Trek: Enterprise, where it was too little too late by the time they started doing what they should have done all along.

[Margalis]

When I tried to watch this it seemed like WB teen drama. I don't get how it was Battlestar at all. It's like Dawson's Creek, guest staring a robot.

[Draegan]

Is this show better or worse than Star Gate Universe?

[Riggswolfe]

Is this show better or worse than Star Gate Universe?

They're very different shows. I'd say most viewers have said it is worse since it is cancelled and SG:U is still going AFAIK. SG:U has more action in it and sometimes tries to have some drama and, for my tastes, has more interesting characters. (Well, ok, Eli and Rush, but still, that's two!)

[Draegan]

Just looking for personal opinions.

I'm rewatching BSG right now.  I never watched the 2nd half of the last season so I started from the beginning and I just finished season 3.  I'm going to watch Razor next, then season 4, then the movie they made afterward.  Just wondering if Caprica is really worth watching, even if it's for "lore".

[Vaiti]

Not really. Unless you like Soap Opera. There isn't much cool tech sci-fi stuff going on. It isn't BSG related. Aside from some names.

[Cyrrex]

Yeah, it's pretty wank.  You're missing nothing, and possibly becoming a little dumber by watching it.

[Tale]

Just looking for personal opinions.

I'm rewatching BSG right now.  I never watched the 2nd half of the last season so I started from the beginning and I just finished season 3.  I'm going to watch Razor next, then season 4, then the movie they made afterward.  Just wondering if Caprica is really worth watching, even if it's for "lore".

I'd watch the pilot. It gives you some insight into possible influences on cylon thinking and where they got the "one god" thing. The series then proceeds into a soap opera involving the things set up by the pilot.