Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

riohibler Such outstanding production values and smart writing. Real shame this show didn't get to go further. It's still got more quality than most similar-genre shows that succeeded it.

SnoopyStyle It's 58 years before the fall on the planet Caprica. Zoe Graystone (Alessandra Torresani), Ben and Lacy Rand (Magda Apanowicz) are rebelling to follow monotheism. Zoe is on her way to join a monotheistic cult in Gemenon when Ben sets off a bomb on the train. Lacy has second thoughts and escapes the bombing. Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz) is a grieving parent along with Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) who lost his wife and daughter. Daniel is the head of a company looking to get a government contract to build new mechanical soldiers. He discovers that Zoe had created an Artificial Intelligence avatar in the virtual reality world Holloband created by him. While his mechanical soldiers are floundering, he inserts Zoe's avatar into one of the Cylons and it performs brilliantly. However he can't replicate the process. He offers Adama the same avatar for his daughter but Adama is horrified. Adama comes from Tauron which is a lower class gangster race. Sam Adama (Sasha Roiz) is his gangster brother. Lacy Rand is able to keep in contact with Zoe's avatar and discovers that the school's headmistress Clarice Willow (Polly Walker) is a cult member.This is a prequel to Battlestar Galactica. It keeps the dark murky morality but abandons the space military thrills. The change leaves the show struggling for pace. The look is a mashup of 50s, modern and sci-fi TV CGI. Somehow it doesn't really work like a dressed-up Canadian production. There are many difficulties that make it hard to invest in this world. It's tough to find a lead character to root for. The end point is predestined and not a good place as a destination. The story is almost all laid out with the pilot and there isn't much drama. While there are great sci-fi ideas, it doesn't make it compelling TV.

LauraXH I'm a big fan of sci-fi/fantasy/paranormal, and as a fan of both BSG and Buffy (a couple writers from Buffy worked on Caprica), I'd been looking forward to watching Caprica eventually. Finally got a chance for a TV show marathon this past weekend. As I expected based on BSG standards, the acting is absolutely fantastic. And the whole premise is great: SO, so much to play with about what makes someone real, about what we will (and won't) do for those we love, and of course the Cylon backstory. I also don't have other reviewers' objections about particular aspects being stronger or weaker than others: I liked the adult plot lines and the teenagers' ones, the V-world and the real world; I thought the religion angle was really interesting and compelling (& love how "monotheism" enables them to gesture toward zealotry without pointing the finger at "crazies over *there*.")But then I got up to the episode "Blowback" and realized that I'd started forwarding through scenes (and I don't usually do that) and just dreading more characters dying--especially significant characters dying, or insignificant characters dying in especially brutal ways (or, I suppose, just being brutalized and not necessarily killed).I'll admit that I'm ridiculously squeamish about violence, but it's not at all that Caprica is just "too violent." But while watching Caprica it was as if those guiding the show thought that they didn't have enough drama to work with, so they compensated by using "violence porn"--subplots whose sole purpose seemed to be creating suspense via the threat of terrible things happening to people. Which then means they also spend that time NOT developing the main plot or characters that are so intriguing. And unlike BSG, where you get flawed characters who can be really flawed and violent AND really heroic (sometimes at the same time), for me there wasn't enough good stuff to balance out the bad in Caprica. BSG is certainly grim, but the grimness & sense of dread is appropriate given the situation. In Caprica, the balance is off, and I realized that I was increasingly willing to forward through potentially violent moments even if I missed major plot points in doing so ... to the point where I finally realized that I should just "forward through" the whole rest of the series and miss the rest of the plot entirely--a.k.a., stop watching it.

TheNorwegianGuy First off, "Battlestar Galactica" is without doubt one of my favorite TV-shows. It is a true masterpiece. I just watched the whole thing, and when I learned that there also was a prequel, I was curious. I knew from earlier experiences that spin-offs often is weaker than the real thing, but still I got excited. And yes, "Caprica" is absolutely weaker than BSG, in every way. It isn't a completely disaster, and if you are a BSG fan like me, I advise you to somehow manage to get through it, because there are scenes in there that will get you excited. The problem, however, is that there aren't many of those scenes. I went through all the episodes for one reason; to learn about the making of the cylons. And as i mentioned, here and there I got what I wanted, but why the hell did they include all the other unnesessarities? Most of this show is about the "Holobands", which is electronic glasses that allows you to go into a public virtual world. I won't spoil the plot for any of you that want to watch it, but my point is; If these holobands was so popular that they were in this show, why weren't there crawling of them in BSG? I get it, they tried to make an original plot, but I don't feel that they really showed BSG enough respect. I didn't really believe that this happened before the original series. Also, the religion-aspect got way too much attention. It played an important role in BSG, but here it just felt...unnecessary to give it that much attention.One other problem I had with this show is that it felt targeted towards teenagers. Most of the time it felt like just another over-dramatized cheesy teenage show. That is sad, because what made BSG so fantastic, in my opinion, was that it wasn't cheesy, and that it was more targeted towards adults. In BSG the characters felt real, with realistic personalities, and you really cared about them when you got to know them. They also acted like people would do in different situations In "Caprica", there aren't many memorable characters like that. Also, the acting is on a much lower level. To be fair, I kind of liked the Adama brothers, and the actors that played them. They felt more developed than the rest, but that doesn't make up for the rest of the cast. Another thing that annoyed me was the recycling of some of the same actors that were in BSG. That should not happen in a TV show, prequel or not. It makes things confusing.It may seem like I hate everything about the show. If it had nothing to do with BSG, I would never watch it, but at least it gives some explanations about the past. That makes it worth watching if you're a hardcore BSG fan, even if most of it may bother you. Also, Bear MacCreary's soundtrack is great as always.I see that many people loved this show. Maybe what ruined it for me was that I constantly compared it with Battlestar Galactica. Maybe I would have enjoyed it too, if I hadn't seen the original series..i don't know. It's just a theory, but personally I will never watch it again, and will try to forget I watched it in the first place.