Comments on: Caprica, Syfy’s Big Gamble, Takes It Up A Notch

By: Steven James Snyder

Steven James Snyder — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:30:30 +0000

Actually, I might not give away THAT many spoilers. Starting to write up my review right now, so I want to be careful about that.

Barb, obviously we agree that somtimes there’s too much going on. Too dense too quickly, to the point where some threads are all but forgotten for weeks on end. You shouldn’t end a show on a cliffhanger and then not even deal with that issue in the next episode…

The two things I want to say though: In next weekend’s cliffhanger, we get a much better sense of why some of these subplots matter, and where they’re heading. And during the biy NYC Syfy event, the producers basically admitted that they were a little too ambitious in the beginning, trying to fit too many threads into each and every episode, rather than digging in deep on what seemed most interesting in that chapter. So given that, I think we should now be seeing some tighter episodes, post-break…

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:03:01 +0000

I think you nailed it. The multiple layers were actually what alienated me in the first episode of the actual serial run (and the story-in-itself-opening-credits). The memories of a show that began so slowly and so contained as BSG did were fresh in my mind and not to compare was hard. BUT, Caprica is easily one of the best shows on air. It tackles all basic narratives known to mankind and the V-World is the manifestation of all the bad there is. A wonderful concept, to paraphrase the show: “a place where you can blow someone’s head off”, and yet you hurt no one. Or to take the other route, a man-made-heaven That BSG fans know is more like the tower of Babel.
That being said, it has some major problems. It doesn’t take it’s audience completely serious (or uses to many exposition transitions as fillers), it’s mid-rif episodes need a good trimming, and they ay just have put on a little much…

Writing that allows for such subtleties as the first episode’s sexual orientation side by the most masculine man ever, and that doesn’t heavily linger on the trinity speech, and guides us into a world so fantastically crafted, shouldn’t have to talk about Viagra, so blatantly that it rips you out of the story.

If you read this and haven’t watch it, you certainly should.

@Steven you’ll put the spoilers towards the end of Monday’s review…right? (c:

By: greenehawk

greenehawk — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:37:40 +0000

I hope it does get more time, though to be honest I can’t really say that I’ve loved the show. The BSG link is what keeps me coming back so I don’t miss when things might get interesting.

Reflecting on the show, I think the writers were perhaps too ambitious right out of the gate. There are so many subplots that were going right from the beginning; I don’t feel I had a chance to develop attachment to characters or care about their fate. Now that the show has been chugging along that is starting to change, though I still find some of the secondary characters to be the most interesting (Sam Adama & Virgis) despite less screen time.