I tortured myself and watched all of Caprica on the weekend.

[Farscape One]

Agreed. VERY frustrating there was a 9 month gap. Didn't even bother showing repeats. How do you expect an audience to stick around with that kind of lack of airplay? (SciFi did a similar thing to season 4 of FARSCAPE. It's why their argument of 'never getting more viewers than the core fan audience' is bs.)


At the end, when they were producing the last episode or two, I have a feeling they did.

It's one thing to show a potential scene for next season, but they were showing things that looked like the end path for the characters... 5 years later, if I remember right. That tells me they wanted to at least show their endgame knowing it was likely the only way they could get it out at the time.

 

[Saul]

Daniel Graystone is the First Hybrid.

I totally called it.

What about the other Daniel? The first human Cylon.

It's one thing to show a potential scene for next season, but they were showing things that looked like the end path for the characters... 5 years later,

Apparently that was all set up for season 2.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What about the other Daniel? The first human Cylon.

Daniel the Cylon was number seven.

In any case, that's a common enough name, I doubt this Daniel had anything to do with Graystone.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

My memory of the nuts and bolts of the show it pretty vague at this point since I only watched it when it came out and never since felt the impulse to attempt a rewatch.

Mostly I remember the first half of the season being the worst kind of serialised storytelling. The kind where each episode basically drip feeds one or two scenes per character per episode, complete with seemingly pointless, meandering plot threads. It was like someone just copied down the random pitch ideas on the the writers room whiteboard, without bothering to find a coherent way for them to fit together, let alone anything resembling a clear trajectory or logical endpoint to any of it. Just a succession of "wouldn't it be cool if" ideas stapled together and shoved into a script. So basically all of the worst aspects of the later seasons of BSG, without the strong engaging premise of the early seasons to at least give the dross some momentum.

So it was basically Heroes with proselytizing about human decadence?

One of the things that bugged me in BSG but was kicked into overdrive in Caprica was the obsession with “Creature comfort as moral
condemnation”. If they had done this by focusing on the implicit inequalities and exploitation that allows the comfort it could have worked and made sense. Instead they approach like technological advancement that makes lives more comfortable and pleasurable is an inherent sin. And it comes off with the sanctimonious tone the of rural religious conservatives who insist they and they alone are “Real Americans”. And the woman in DS9 who locked Sisko in a box.

They hold up the myth of simple pious living as the moral ideal and condemn humans to death for using technology to make their lives more comfortable.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So it was basically Heroes with proselytizing about human decadence?

One of the things that bugged me in BSG but was kicked into overdrive in Caprica was the obsession with “Creature comfort as moral
condemnation”. If they had done this by focusing on the implicit inequalities and exploitation that allows the comfort it could have worked and made sense. Instead they approach like technological advancement that makes lives more comfortable and pleasurable is an inherent sin. And it comes off with the sanctimonious tone the of rural religious conservatives who insist they and they alone are “Real Americans”. And the woman in DS9 who locked Sisko in a box.

They hold up the myth of simple pious living as the moral ideal and condemn humans to death for using technology to make their lives more comfortable.

Was that the bias of the shows creators though? It felt heavy handed