Caprica Mid-season One Thoughts

 

The last pre-break episode "End of Line" of Caprica season one aired last Friday, so hear are some thoughts on the show thus far:

• loved the resolution of the Tamara (Genevieve Buechner) sub-plot. That the moll who has been helping Joseph (Esai Morales) track down his daughter turned out to be his secretary was a twist I didn't see coming. Tamara shooting her invincible self then her father (thus de-rezzing him, or returning his consciousness to the real world, in Caprica parlance) to give him closure was genius. I can't wait to see how she figures in the Cylon mythos, if indeed she will.
• wasn't a fan of Lacy (Magda Apanowicz) saying "You don't have to do this," but when Barnabas (James Marsters) seemed to abort the assassination and instead handed the phone to Lacey I understood why. Could the writers have made the scene work out the way it did without having her parrot the cliché? Perhaps, but I'm not so sure they could, so I begrudgingly give it a pass.
• Philomon's (Alex Arsenault) murder was a dark scene but is in keeping with the creation-rises-up-against-creator theme that pervades the Battlestar-Caprica universe. Who knew that the first blow really did come from the Cylon side of the Colonial-Cylon family tree? Up until Philomon triggered the alarm I thought he was going to help Zoe-U87 escape.
• as the revelations kept coming in, I wasn't sure how Sister Clarice (Polly Walker) would survive the assassination attempt. Surely her character wouldn't really die since out of all the Soldiers of the One adherents she seemed to espouse a belief closest to the one Cylons eventually believed in come Battlestar Galactica-era. That the writers conjured up the scene where she and one of her husbands were drawn out of the car by Amanda's (attempted?) suicidal jump during the Barnabas-Lacey confrontation/detonation was brilliant.

I could go on and on, but suffice it to say I'm intrigued and satisfied with the way Caprica has lowly been building up this season. However, I'm somewhat worried that the more deliberate pace that they have been cultivating may not be drawing enough viewers to the show. Hopefully more people will come to enjoy the heady brand of television that the producers have committed to providing. Here's to the rest of Caprica season one and hopefully several seasons more after.

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