twister111 said:
Personally I didn't like Caprica. The story felt like a whole group of emo kids in a room cutting themselves because, mommy didn't get them a car they wanted. I mean mabye some episode cleared things up that I didn't see but, I watched the majority of it. From what I saw some kid with zero motavation blew up his girlfriend on the train and, the religous organization just kills... to kill. I mean was there some kind of oppresion I missed? Sure there was a bit of hate but, from what I've seen it was justified. The only two members I saw not be gung ho about killing people were Clarice and, Zoe. Even then the other members just wanted to kill them. It was a failed allagory for opposing religous beliefs. They wanted death at the hands of the seen by majority "bad" religous group but, didn't give us much of a reason to see their side. By making the majority of those within the organization killers who plant bombs everywhere it's hard to see their side of the issue.
Further, Joe's quest to see a digital file created by Daniel through a google search was just depressing and, suffered an anti-climatic end.
Plus, the v-world was poorely handled. I mean an underground, hacked, virtual reality has the following stupid rules. 1 you die once your blocked from re-entry. 2 you apparently have to hold a job in this thing. 3 it's too damn real. They go through this trouble creating this video game that's illegal so that the majority of it you're just sitting around looking at "guns" your holding for your "boss". Sure there's the sex part but, why the fuck would you stick around after that? Most people would realistically jack in go to the sex rooms. Then go back out into another game where they can kill and, be killed and, respawn. Then if they wanted to chat they'd go to a game where they can chat without getting blocked by some troll who decided to go on a shooting spree. Sex aside it didn't seem fun to be in at all.
Super genius kid story. Yeah an emo rich girl Wesley Crusher basically. Who we barely get to know before she's killed. In her few minutes of screentime she's a brat who doesn't at all appreciate the work her parents do to keep a roof over her head. I know it's not unrealistic but, my gripe about this is this character's death was the anchor for the entire series. It's the motavation for Zoe-A, Lacey, Daniel, damn near everyone. From what little was shown she's an unlikeable brat who just wanted to run away. I mean at least Wesley used his smarts to save the ship several times. Zoe? Oh, "I don't like my life despite being a healthy born rich person with intelligence and, several options available to me being a Caprican native. My life fucking sucks 'cause I believe in one God. Run away time!!!!"
I personally won't be an active part in getting Caprica back on the the air because, I didn't like it.
That said there were positives to the series. Good performances, well written dialogue overuse of "frack" aside, and gave Eric Stolz a paycheck. Apart from that I didn't like it. The pacing was poor and, too many story points were just dropped.
If anyone does want to save the series an apple send campaign is unlikely to work. You'd have to do something big. Get a few hundred fans and, a star of the series to go to a store with you and, buy the DVDs. Record it and, post it to Youtube to get it viral. The Subway campaign worked for Chuck. Want to save Caprica? Do something akin to that.
The teen characters were only in it for about a ninth of the screen time...you seem to be describing the pilot episode, where they feature more prominently because the MAGLEV bombing is a major plot point in the pilot and first few episodes.
It's clearly explained that the whole of Caprican society is so hideously jaded and apathetic (using technology to play out human sacrifice, crime, rape, robbery fantasies etc) that this horrifies a minority drawn from a broad cross section of their culture (the teens are teens because Sister Willow is using her position as a teacher to spot potential converts and get them primed to blow up stuff there are STO members of every age and class and they are only it when the plot demands it).
I can see the appeal of New Cap City in V-World (and Caprican society as a whole).
In V-World anything is possible and so it's boring as hell, in New Cap City there is virtual danger and the rules are not defined (you could get locked out of a game you are really enjoying) it has some of the freedom of V-World with some of the consequences of the real world. The mysterious designer of the game seems to have a bit of a God complex (though I'm sure it doesn't like being called that). It made me wonder if the God thing saw our reality in the same way that Capricans saw New Cap City.
The bulk of the plot concentrates around the adult characters as you say we hardly get to see Zoe-A because the character is redundant, Zoe-B is much more important as she has to break away from being just a faded photocopy of the dead girl and become herself.
When a series is split up like this one was first impressions probably count more than they normally would.