[ale] OT: who's bought/seen Caprica?

[David W. Millians]

Sid Lane wrote:
> sooo...
> 
> this thread's about to hit its 40th reply and unless I've missed one 
> nobody else has seen and said they liked/hated it?

Hadn't seen it yet; have now. It's quite enjoyable, and gives you 
several 'aha' moments congruent to BSGv2. Obviously, with a pilot, they 
have to setup the action, and the characters, and for sci-fi arenas, the 
world, and so it can lack in terms of story. This one does pretty well 
for that tough problem. He's set up some interesting dilemmas for the 
future of the series, and the sociological underpinnings ought to be 
interesting.

A re-imagined BSGv2 doesn't have quite the same pilot hurdle, if you 
think about it. Here's this world, but you've sorta seen it before. 
Figure it out. Dollhouse shows the converse case. It's only now starting 
to hit its stride...

Sidebar, generic to avoid spoilers: I thought the 2nd language was sorta 
familiar, but didn't realize how classically familiar it was until 
almost the end of the pilot. Cute touch; shame I can't understand that 
language when it's spoken.

Does Ron Moore smoke? He certainly loves it when his characters do.

Net result: why is it going to be 2010 before we see the series? Maybe 
I'll have AT&T uverse and therefore SciFi/SyFy HD by then.

Oh yeah - no bluray version. Booooooooo!

And, the square cornered paper returns.