Bingowings said:
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).
No, I'm describing what the entire thing felt to me. A bunch of emo kids is an analogy.
Bingowings said:
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.
Huh? I think you misread my post entirely. I used "Zoe-A" as short for "Zoe's Avatar". Also, "v-world" in reference to "new cap city" please re-read my post with that in mind.
GoodMusician said:
If SyFy can't afford it, they should shop around.
Won't happen. BSG and, Caprica respectfully are owned by Universal who owns Syfy. Glen A. Larson owns the movie production rights to BSG and, any subsequent spin-off. It's Universal who's putting an end to this series. Glen A. Larson has only wanted to do a continuation of TOS for about a decade. Ron Moore and, company are merely employees who own very little in the grand scheme of things. They are the ones likely to want to shop around to other networks but, it's like expecting JJ. Abrams to shop around for more Star Trek. So, unless fans of this series can prove it'll be profitable to continue the series it'll never be ressurected. It's not impossible though. If you're able to gather a mass of fans buying the DVDs at once, post it to Youtube or, otherwise draw attention to yourselves. That'll show them it's worth continuing. An apple send campaign just shows your willing to buy apples. Unless they litterally get more individually sent apples then Nielson ratings I doubt it'll make much of a difference.
All in all my biggest dissapointment with BSG and, Caprica is that in 2007 Ron Moore really had a better idea then what eventually came out into episodes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9op6PC03LRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-9NglSNG0
Ron Moore said:
I sort of developed this idea that the Cylons had as they and, their as their development grew, grown. Sort of you know their beings what it meant to be sentient and, self aware and, to be a thinking uh, person. They developed a theology. That they'd developed an idea in one true God. That spoke to them and, was a God of love. And that essentially in, in their view looked upon the Cylons as the next step in evolution. That their God had created Man. Man was a flawed creation. Man creates Cylon. Cylon is a perfect, more perfect creation. Then the Cylons need to destroy the old bad creation. To, to uh, fulfill God's plan and, that was essentially what the Cylons were about.
Cavil's parent issues, STO on Caprica before the Cylons go to war, even the final five backstory takes away from this. This idea he had in 2007 is far better in my oppinion then what we got. It sounds more like a plan too then what was eventually revealed.
