David and I just got finished watching the first part of the pilot episode, and we liked it a lot. Our stupid apartment complex removed our satellite dish last week, effectively canceling our dish network for us (bastards), so I don't have the first series episode, but I'll find it somewhere.
It really is beautifully filmed. Not only the use of color, but the use of light struck me - they gave the light such gorgeous qualities - I don't know if that's lighting, lenses, or both - sometimes it seemed as though they were building the sets out of light. The chapel in the virtual club springs to mind first of all.
I heard so much noise about how much it was going to suck, so I'm glad that it doesn't! The last part of BSG disappointed me a lot, so I didn't know what to think about Caprica, but it looks like it is going to be fascinating.
I just saw the 2 hour pilot tonight, and I am loving it so far. Makes me miss my Kara, but this more than satisfies my hunger for more of the Caprica world.
You know what I find sort of interesting? That facially and a little bit vocally, Eric Stoltz and Jamie Bamber are a bit similar.
I really like that we get to see this shiny yet flawed Caprica - it matches up with the glimpses we saw in BSG, but now we also get to see the seamy underbelly, and the roots of its destruction. It's fascinating and tragic.
Perhaps the ending of Battlestar Galactica faltered (I appreciated it, for what it's worth, and was far more content to muse on the ending's meaning conceptually than perhaps I would have done with some other ending), but I mean, it's weird to me that so many people are immediately dismissive of Caprica because of it, when Caprica has never been marketed as "BSG, but like, prequel!" It just hasn't been the case.
Jane Espenson is one of the writers for Caprica (from what I understand), which is a big reason I was excited about it to begin with.
Yeah, I have to admit, I had about zero interest in this, but all the positive word of mouth has finally got to me, and I've downloaded all the available episodes. Time to see if they grab me...
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It really is beautifully filmed. Not only the use of color, but the use of light struck me - they gave the light such gorgeous qualities - I don't know if that's lighting, lenses, or both - sometimes it seemed as though they were building the sets out of light. The chapel in the virtual club springs to mind first of all.
I heard so much noise about how much it was going to suck, so I'm glad that it doesn't! The last part of BSG disappointed me a lot, so I didn't know what to think about Caprica, but it looks like it is going to be fascinating.
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I really like that we get to see this shiny yet flawed Caprica - it matches up with the glimpses we saw in BSG, but now we also get to see the seamy underbelly, and the roots of its destruction. It's fascinating and tragic.
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I was so utterly let down and disappointed by the weak ending of BSG that I never even considered watching Caprica.
Not that I have time for another show right now, but maybe I'll archive them and catch up this summer.
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Jane Espenson is one of the writers for Caprica (from what I understand), which is a big reason I was excited about it to begin with.
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