6.23.2009

CRAPRICA - TEEN ANGST BEHIND CYLON GOD

I finally saw Ron Moore's DVD-before-TV Caprica. Glad I didn't rush to see it. Egads, I can hardly watch the original Battlestar mini without thinking of what came later (Season 4 and the finale and now Caprica) to pollute such a great show. All the mystery, all the depth and complexity to the story and the characters of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica reduced to god did it and angels walk among us ... and now, it's all a teenage girl's virtual world. Blechhh

Caprica w
as pretty to look at - not to the level of Baltar's house in Battlestar - and there was some of the moodiness and alien-ness of Battlestar's Caprica representation but it was told to us more than shown and shown poorly (lame tattoos and ganster patois don't count for much).

So the Cylons were created by man: a sleazy defense contractor/computer genius downloads his dead daughter's self-coded avatar into his prototype combat robot so he
won't lose the contract, and this snooty, priveleged little smartypants is associated with a private school that thas faculty and students that have secret monotheistic beliefs.

Moore should rename the show All My Robots and put it on the Soap Opera Channel


2 comments:

Potiphar Breen said...

Gods, makes me want to run out and buy it the DVD stat, Radii! (not)

Any sexy scenes or #Six-ish eyecandy on display to make it otherwise worthwhile?

radii said...

on the DVD lots of gratuitous breasts flopping about in the "club" scene (which is used over and over) and the schoolmarm looks like an older, thicker Charlize Theron but no Six sexiness unless schoolgirls in uniform or arrogant fey schoolboys in uniform are your thing