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The end of Caprica
I've spent last few hours watching the last episodes of Caprica as they decided to show them all at once. I suppose it's good they were shown at all as the rating were pretty bad for the series. In fact it was easier for me to enjoy the action watched like this. It was after all one continuous story.
I think the problem with Caprica was that one - people knew how this ends, knew it ends badly and it is hard to get attached to characters we know are doomed. This already happened and all their struggles cannot change anything. Two - the most likable and awesome characters were those who, as was suggested, were to become cyclons. The cylons who were to genocide the Colonies and who were the bad guys of BSG. The show made one root for bad guys. I loved it but I can get why it could turn people off. This and the fact that all the humans were so damn despicable for most of the time.
I think that, and the lack of space battles, were the main causes leading to people loosing interest. There were of course some other things that bothered me more but from experience I know these are not the things that get shows canceled (quite the opposite actually). I wrote about the before so all I wanted to say is too bad as it just got better with that.
There were some things that I really liked in those episodes.
Cottle got a mention.
Lacy taking over the one god religion. I liked that the robots had enough of Zoe in their personality algorithm that they remembered Lacy is important.
Clarice was evil but also driven and badass. I enjoyed Zoe destroying her plan. I just wonder why she was not killed. Why Zoe lets her preach to the cylons. I wonder if that's a fate that Lacy devised for her. The penance from Blessed Mother. I wonder if Zoe attending the sermons means that means she got in touch with Lacy again.
The part I liked most was Amanda's story. It was underwhelming before but she really shined in this few last episodes. From the spy stuff to her shooting Sam and bonding back with Zoe. She pushed Daniel back into a human being and in her presence he became almost bearable. Of course even her fake avatar pawned Daniel. And then they stopped a massacre from happening together.
Zoe washer usual awesome self of course. I loved her and Tamara mansion in New Caprica City. Her power over the world - her parents were wrong she inside she was god. I was so glad when she saved her parents and then she put the end to Clarice's plan from the inside. As I said I enjoyed it but what she said is something i actually disliked most. Her statement that without death people would turn evil and hedonistic instantly. That VR heaven will be enough to cause mayhem. I'm always confused by statements like that. It's like people stating you can not be a good person without belief a god will punish you in afterlife if you'll do something bad now. And somehow the whole Europe didn't turn into hell on Earth despite all the atheist there (OMG 'there', I wrote 'there' without thinking. It's been almost a year). Games are not policed and you don't need to care when noone really suffers. It's not the same as what those STO people did. And immortality doesn't have to mean impunity.
Other things I didn't like:
Adama's story. Or rather it seemed so convoluted and yet so unimportant. I suppose that this is something that was to pay off later and we will never see it. At least we learned from it that Willie Adama was not Bill Adama. Well this explained the eye colour. And this William Adama never probably never learned about his sister the cylon.
The worst part was lack of any closure for Tamara. She was just shown there with Zoe for a second and we learned her uncle wanted to kill her. What the rest of her family though about that? What she thought? What she did when Zoe got a new body? Will never know I suppose (unless this is mentioned in any way in the new series but they'll probably want clean slate).
I liked those episodes. The ending was rushed but given the circumstances that was unavoidable. I liked the series as a whole but never felt truly passionate about it. I suppose I'd have liked it better if it wasn't connected to BSG in any way.
I think the problem with Caprica was that one - people knew how this ends, knew it ends badly and it is hard to get attached to characters we know are doomed. This already happened and all their struggles cannot change anything. Two - the most likable and awesome characters were those who, as was suggested, were to become cyclons. The cylons who were to genocide the Colonies and who were the bad guys of BSG. The show made one root for bad guys. I loved it but I can get why it could turn people off. This and the fact that all the humans were so damn despicable for most of the time.
I think that, and the lack of space battles, were the main causes leading to people loosing interest. There were of course some other things that bothered me more but from experience I know these are not the things that get shows canceled (quite the opposite actually). I wrote about the before so all I wanted to say is too bad as it just got better with that.
There were some things that I really liked in those episodes.
Cottle got a mention.
Lacy taking over the one god religion. I liked that the robots had enough of Zoe in their personality algorithm that they remembered Lacy is important.
Clarice was evil but also driven and badass. I enjoyed Zoe destroying her plan. I just wonder why she was not killed. Why Zoe lets her preach to the cylons. I wonder if that's a fate that Lacy devised for her. The penance from Blessed Mother. I wonder if Zoe attending the sermons means that means she got in touch with Lacy again.
The part I liked most was Amanda's story. It was underwhelming before but she really shined in this few last episodes. From the spy stuff to her shooting Sam and bonding back with Zoe. She pushed Daniel back into a human being and in her presence he became almost bearable. Of course even her fake avatar pawned Daniel. And then they stopped a massacre from happening together.
Zoe washer usual awesome self of course. I loved her and Tamara mansion in New Caprica City. Her power over the world - her parents were wrong she inside she was god. I was so glad when she saved her parents and then she put the end to Clarice's plan from the inside. As I said I enjoyed it but what she said is something i actually disliked most. Her statement that without death people would turn evil and hedonistic instantly. That VR heaven will be enough to cause mayhem. I'm always confused by statements like that. It's like people stating you can not be a good person without belief a god will punish you in afterlife if you'll do something bad now. And somehow the whole Europe didn't turn into hell on Earth despite all the atheist there (OMG 'there', I wrote 'there' without thinking. It's been almost a year). Games are not policed and you don't need to care when noone really suffers. It's not the same as what those STO people did. And immortality doesn't have to mean impunity.
Other things I didn't like:
Adama's story. Or rather it seemed so convoluted and yet so unimportant. I suppose that this is something that was to pay off later and we will never see it. At least we learned from it that Willie Adama was not Bill Adama. Well this explained the eye colour. And this William Adama never probably never learned about his sister the cylon.
The worst part was lack of any closure for Tamara. She was just shown there with Zoe for a second and we learned her uncle wanted to kill her. What the rest of her family though about that? What she thought? What she did when Zoe got a new body? Will never know I suppose (unless this is mentioned in any way in the new series but they'll probably want clean slate).
I liked those episodes. The ending was rushed but given the circumstances that was unavoidable. I liked the series as a whole but never felt truly passionate about it. I suppose I'd have liked it better if it wasn't connected to BSG in any way.