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Caprica: 7 Video Clips

Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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Just when you thought Battlestar Galactica was over, the Sci-Fi Channel has released seven clips from the prequel movie/series Caprica.

An astonishing breakthrough is taking shape on the planet Caprica. The rapidly evolving spheres of human and mechanical engineering have collided, along with the fates of two families. Joined by tragedy in an explosive instant of terror, two rival clans led by powerful patriarchs, Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) and Daniel Greystone (Eric Stoltz) duel in an era of questionable ethics, corporate machinations and unbridled personal ambition as the final war for humanity looms. The latest phenomenon from the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eick), set in a time over 50 years earlier, Caprica is entirely its own world - provocative, thrilling and startling relevant to our own.

So far, I’m not impressed. It seems like the typical cliched family drama set in the world of BSG, but set on an earth-like planet instead of a spaceship. It should be noted that I wasn’t immediately sucked in by the initial BSG miniseries, but went on to devour the first few seasons over the course of just a few days. You can watch the seven clips after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Caprica hits DVD on April 21st 2009.

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  • Here we take a look at this copy of what you have specific:gaia gold
  • Too bad there wasn't just 6 video clips.
  • "It seems like the typical cliched family drama set in the world of BSG, but set on an earth-like planet instead of a spaceship."

    that's *exactly* what they've been selling it as...without the 'clichéd' part of course :D
  • Vapor
    Calip 4? :)

    I will give Caprica a chance but I dont have my hopes up too high.
  • Donkey Punch
    Did you really expect anything but a cliche from BSG?

    > "I wasn’t immediately sucked in by the initial BSG miniseries, but went on to devour the first few seasons over the course of just a few days."

    I was the opposite. The miniseries was pretty good but the series sucked monkey nuts.
  • Yeah, this really doesnt look like it's going to fill my BSG void...
  • The technology seems so far ahead of what we've already seen in Battlestar Galactica, and it's supposed to take place 50 years before? I'm not buying it.
  • Pretty sure in the first season or in the mini-series, they explained that the Galactica was one of the oldest ships in the fleet. Hence, why it's tech isn't up to par with the newer things. Also, I do believe the survivors scrapped a ton of the modern tech due to paranoia of Cylons hijacking it.
  • Watching the clips out of order and out of context just doesn't make this seem very much fun. I'm excited to see Caprica but I'll hold mu judgment till the DVD release.
  • It could be a good mix. Just from a couple of the clips there seems to be alot more going on then just a family drama. Hopefully we'll start to see more characters and other subplots in the first couple of episodes.
  • yawwwwwwnnn
  • CupcakeHitman
    I agree with TheDaftPunk. This series takes place before the Galactica was even built, yet everything looks like it belongs on the Battlestar Pegasus.

    Then again, it could be that much of the civilian tech wasn't transferred over to the military/doesn't look the same.

    I'll have to wait and see
  • Jamie
    Amazing to read that an apparently experienced film/television watcher was not grabbed by the BSG mini-series but chowed down on season one and two, where episode by epsiode it became worse - was this the case with other reviewers, perhaps thats why it all went so wrong.
  • There are so many inconsistencies with the show that I just stopped trying to reconcile all of them after awhile. Considering where BSG ended up, it seemed clear that Ron Moore was flying by the seat of his pants the entire time. The guy can write great characters and relationships, but give him anything approaching a mythology and long arc to sustain, and he'll surely muff it up. I'd rather he work on a show that was more politics and people and less big ideas and big stories.
  • Yeah I'm with you on this Peter. Not sure about Caprica. It seems much more like an odd mixture of Seventh Heaven (family aspect) and the O.C (with the typical teenage angst sub plots). I'll just keep re-watching some BSG episodes until I hear something amazing about Caprica (which at the moment doesn't seem like it).
  • lol, 7th Heaven. I'd never thought I would hear that in the same paragraph about a sci-fi movie....
  • Comparatively, it looks more advanced than Pegasus tech.
  • I'm already missing BSG. Good thing Hulu has Old Episodes.
  • Is it me or is there a bit of a Galactica backlash?
    At any rate, these clips do very little to sell Caprica. It doesn't seem to be set in the same world, though I can accept the technology looking more sleek and advanced than on BSG as a result of this being set prior to the Cylon-war and the resulting technology-phobia (of a sort).
    Nor do you really get a flavour of this being a different world. Let alone a feeling of this being a colony of Kobol and all that that entails.

    Mainly though these clips don't really sell either family drama or good science fiction, it just seems like a strange mishmash so far. Where the family drama seems somewhat trivial in its scifi-setting and the science fiction elements seem aimless. Perhaps the pilot is quite good, but nothing so far seems to have shown its strengths.

    I'm curious though where they could go with the series.
  • Erik U
    After the cylons rebelled the humans regressed technologically somewhat in fear of it. Hence no computer networks in the mini series, and Baltar on tv asking to lift the bans on certain technology research.
  • Rob
    They don't work any more - can't use YouTube for stuff like this :(
  • fddg
    i was actually pleasantly surprised by how good the pilot episode was. I wanted to keep watching after it was over.
  • very nice film,i like this actor
  • Plot feels very much look forward to seeing the future know.
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