Pilot
- Episode aired Jan 22, 2010
- Not Rated
- 1h 33m
Caprica, 58 years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, are bound by a tragedy with unforeseen consequences, including the development of the C... Read allCaprica, 58 years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, are bound by a tragedy with unforeseen consequences, including the development of the Cylons.Caprica, 58 years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, are bound by a tragedy with unforeseen consequences, including the development of the Cylons.
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- TriviaThe V-club was filmed in the Orpheum Theatre, which is the same theater in Vancouver, Canada that served as the Kobol Opera house in Battlestar Galactica (2004).
- GoofsWhen Dr. Graystone first enters Zoe's room and finds Lacy, the bedroom door is open behind him with a metal hook at the top but nothing hanging on it. In the next scene the same door now has a large item that appears to be made up of green discs hanging on the hook.
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Joseph Adama: [Puts on the VR band] Baby? Baby?
Tamara Adama: Daddy?
Joseph Adama: Tammy? My Gods!
Tamara Adama: Daddy?
[Runs to and embraces Joseph]
Joseph Adama: My Gods.
[Tamara cries]
Joseph Adama: It's okay, baby. I'm right here.
Tamara Adama: I'm so scared.
Joseph Adama: I'm right here.
Tamara Adama: What is this place? What's going on?
Joseph Adama: It's okay.
Tamara Adama: I feel so strange.
Joseph Adama: I know, but, but you're fine.
Tamara Adama: [Starting to get hysterical] It's not fine. It's not fine. This is wrong. This is so wrong. No.
Joseph Adama: I know, I know, I know, but the important thing is we're together. We can be a family again.
Tamara Adama: I can't remember how I got here, and I can't remember where I was before now.
Joseph Adama: It's confusing. I know this is gonna take some time...
Tamara Adama: This isn't real. This doesn't feel real, Daddy. I don't feel real, I'm not real, this isn't real, it's not real!
Joseph Adama: No, baby, Willie misses you. I miss you. We can be a family together. We can be a family again. We...
Tamara Adama: My heart isn't beating.
Joseph Adama: I miss you.
Tamara Adama: Daddy, my heart isn't beating. Daddy, why isn't my heart beating? Why isn't my heart beating? Why isn't it?
[Joseph takes Tamara's wrist and can only shake his head, mouth agape, as he tries to feel a pulse that isn't there]
Joseph Adama: [Rips off the VR band and struggles to catch his breath] My baby.
Daniel Graystone: I know.
Joseph Adama: She couldn't feel her heart. She couldn't feel her heartbeat!
Daniel Graystone: She'll adjust. She's probably very confused by everything. It's only natural.
Joseph Adama: No! No, it's not natural. No, it's, it's wrong. It's an abomination!
- ConnectionsReferences National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
On the whole, the story of this pilot was good as a meticulous introduction, but stretched somewhat too thin for my liking. Maybe it's because I just finished the Daybreak episodes of BSG, which were so full of high speed info, both in your face and between the lines, that my head seemed to explode for a whole day after watching them. But even so, Caprica's pilot takes quite a long while to kick-start and really lets all information sink in slowly. Very gracious, but if you've seen existenz and the matrix, or even fight club, you will (too) easily follow. Nothing wrong with that, but after the hectic blood pumping style incorporated in Moore's previous work, I just suddenly feel bored for being able to keep up so easily. Feeling bored would not be a good thing I believe. I realise the show might want to delve deeper into an audience beyond the scifi crowd, or the dedicated BSG fans, but it's a fine line for those fans to be bored with science gimmicks they've seen a hundred times over, and overheating the brains of anybody upgrading from "Friends" or even "Frasier". As it is, so far so "ok", but nothing revolutionary is to be found in the plot, so it's up to characterisation to save the day. Fortunately, the two leads are good, especially Graytone, with Adama taking a bit of a back seat here. It'll be interesting to see how the two develop. I do hope the Twilight/Buffy feel surrounding the teens will be reduced somewhat. It's not very original and it probably falls flat for most adults.
The ending of the episode shows were the story can take us, which is tantalising, even though I'm not sure if it's ultimately worth the effort depending on the future pacing. So, the cylons, or cybernetic life-form nodes, yes yes, some seriously creative retrospect acronym creation went on here, is this what we all came for, or just a bait? Well, time will tell. How did the cylon centurions start their existence, how might they have achieved the monotheistic beliefs and rebellious nature that would ultimately bring about the first human- cylon war? If you want answers to these questions, stick around for possible revelations. I probably will, lured in as I am, but here's to hoping the presentation will become a little more exciting.
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- Jul 21, 2010
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