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Seems we don't have a thread! I don't know if any of you are still watching it. I barely made it past the pilot, having very little interest in it whatsoever. The first couple episodes did very little to change that, though they did seem a little better than the pilot.
In the crusade scriptbook JMS mentions how "I could have done this 3 part movie to introduce the show but I feel that would have lost a lot of people" or something to that extent, and you know, between Caprica's pilot and Air for SGU, I feel like he's right about that. It's not good to launch people into a universe with stories that don't stand on their own.
That said - Caprica's really gotten interesting. It's still fairly slow, there's not a ton of action or anything (none of that senseless sex in the pilot so far) definitely a drama. I think the epsiode where Greystone went on the Leno-esque show piqued my interest a little bit, and last week when we saw the Adama girl in the holoband and they really developed the holoband and showed us what it was and what she could do there hooked me. That was really good sci-fi there, and I honestly want to see more of her and her coping with being a virtual person than anything else in the show.
This week was introducing an enemy, and it wasn't nearly as good as last week's which I think is for sure the best episode of the show...but I see how this will be setting up some long term plot which could be fun.
Other than the Adama girl though, I really don't like any of the characters, and this has been a symptom of TV lately. In the 90s and early 2000s we saw a development in writing - where the heroes were really just human, they had flaws just like the rest of us and they came out from time to time. Now it's gone a step further to the point where there *is* no one that you can really root for in any of these shows. And it's something I find in most TV now, which I can't stand. SGU has that same problem.
That's just my two cents. I think it's worth watching so far but definitely isn't the perfect show.
In the crusade scriptbook JMS mentions how "I could have done this 3 part movie to introduce the show but I feel that would have lost a lot of people" or something to that extent, and you know, between Caprica's pilot and Air for SGU, I feel like he's right about that. It's not good to launch people into a universe with stories that don't stand on their own.
That said - Caprica's really gotten interesting. It's still fairly slow, there's not a ton of action or anything (none of that senseless sex in the pilot so far) definitely a drama. I think the epsiode where Greystone went on the Leno-esque show piqued my interest a little bit, and last week when we saw the Adama girl in the holoband and they really developed the holoband and showed us what it was and what she could do there hooked me. That was really good sci-fi there, and I honestly want to see more of her and her coping with being a virtual person than anything else in the show.
This week was introducing an enemy, and it wasn't nearly as good as last week's which I think is for sure the best episode of the show...but I see how this will be setting up some long term plot which could be fun.
Other than the Adama girl though, I really don't like any of the characters, and this has been a symptom of TV lately. In the 90s and early 2000s we saw a development in writing - where the heroes were really just human, they had flaws just like the rest of us and they came out from time to time. Now it's gone a step further to the point where there *is* no one that you can really root for in any of these shows. And it's something I find in most TV now, which I can't stand. SGU has that same problem.
That's just my two cents. I think it's worth watching so far but definitely isn't the perfect show.
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