Caprica

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I'm warming up more and more to Caprica. I'm starting to like the Greystones a little better, as long as they're together. Daniel on his own doesn't do much for me, Amanda on her own doesn't do much for me, but I really like them as a unit.

Was amused at the Zoe-toaster having to watch her parents have sex.

The Adamas are the more interesting family to me now, especially watching the dual personality of Joseph Adama in his family and clearly not overly powerful yet in law. Willie... let's just say I do better if I don't think of him as Bill. I can't see Admiral Adama serving in a mob bar or gleefully skipping school.

Uncle Sam keeps winning my heart, though, even though he scares me. It's a neat juxtaposition, the cold-blooded way he carries out the mob stuff versus the very warm, tender relationship he has with his nephew. And we finally met Larry, who seems to be on the hippy side. Although the exchange "Why do you love me so desperately?" "Because I have issues," completely cracked me up. (Also made me want to have Hoshi and Gaeta say that around Adama, and then Adama realize later he should have seen more coming or something.)

The chick who played Kat in the series looked AMAZING here, very professional and elegant. It took me a minute to realize it was the same actress, and I mean that as a compliment.

Next week looks interesting, although I'm pretty sure that Amanda will survive it.

And how awesome is Lacey? I loved her tackling that guy and getting the STO stuff out of him.

Lacey and Sam are definitely the two characters pulling me in right now. I'm liking them a LOT.

So far, I'm enjoying it. Definitely.

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I'm glad Luciana Carro is getting on the show. She spent enough of D*Con talking about it (and awkwardly talking about her death in BSG). I hope they keep pulling in minor actors from BSG like I heard they were interested in- AJ said he had the offer but hadn't taken it yet (though I couldn't tell if he was like, 'no never again' or 'not now'.)

I guess I'm not really caught up, I'm actually watching bits of it at the moment and sort of out of sequence- I'm not so committed I feel the need to pour over every detail I guess. Daniel however is totally my type (he really reminds me of an older version of one of my original characters, or like my character's dad. *Though I can't see shipping or ficcing him or anything- I don't know much about his wife yet and I would feel weird shipping a middle-aged married man who seems happy.)

I feel too that I'm enjoying it more if I don't get all bent out of shape about canon. I'm trying anyway. The religious stuff is really pissing off my Baltar muse because he's like, 'that's mine! mine! shoo, you thieves!' which is actually sort of cute but...

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AJ on Caprica? Hmmm. While I can almost see him in the Adama clan, I don't know how that would work. With Luciana, they were really able to change her appearance, and Kat died in, what, Season 3? She'd been off the show for a long time. But the hairstyle made a huge difference in her physical appearance, which is something you can do better with women than men. AJ was on too recently, and too major of a role. He's still too much "Gaeta" for the audience, I would think.

Yeah- I'm trying not to think too hard about the religious stuff. I definitely find it's better if I don't think too hard at all, or just don't try to match the two canons up. RDM's clearly changed his mind a lot just going through BSG, so I shouldn't expect them to remotely match.

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I think they want to deliberately make comparisons between the two. Part of the "all of this has happened before and all of it will happen again" motif. I think they could do enough. Then again the instructor- Sister Clarice?- looks a lot like Admiral Cain to me and that's giving me strange almost flashbacks. I don't think they could use any of the real primary character actors again (Bill, Laura, Kara, Lee, Gaius, etc.) but I'd really love to see a bunch of other people back- I'm holding out in particular for Jeanne and Paulla's actresses at some point and maybe the guy that played Papa Thrace.

The larger the part in BSG, the smaller the part in Caprica I think, but I think it might be interesting for actor watch.

I almost wish they'd just called it something else. Though I'm still wondering if the virtual reality clubs or something might make for interesting fic fodder. (I'm also sort of amused that Caprican interior design aesthetics haven't changed much in what, 50 years?)

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Sam is my favorite so far, also. He seems to have very few illusions about who he is and what he does, which is always nice in a character. I like his gangster's sense of honor, too. I suspect his Heart Of Gold™ may prevent him from carrying out Joseph's order next episode...

Other than that, I'm in love with all the robots again. Serge should have his very own show, one where he scoots around the Graystone mansion while saying amusing things in his dry little robot voice. <3

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Yeah, I'm figuring that's going to happen. Which will only make me like Sam more. Although I expect Joseph will recant as well.

Serge is awesome. "And the crowd goes wild." hee!