Sunday, February 21, 2010

Caprica: Gravedancing


Call me crazy but was that episode made a bit more relevant by the Conan/Leno debacle over "The Tonight Show"?  I hated Baxter from the moment he made his first corny joke because Patton Oslwald did such a tremendous job channeling Jay for this character.  Heck, Sarno even rhymes with Leno.  Daniel's interview unfortunately gave Clarice the proof she was looking for on the existence of Zoe 2.0.  

That being said, not too much on the Zoe front this week.  Though we did get a dancing Cylon, which would have been tremendous if it we had seen the Cylon move the in the way Zoe was moving.  Instead it simply ran through the systems check motions while Zoe was imagining or possibly "projecting" dancing.  Philomon knows there is something more to this robot than everyone gives it credit for, I hope Zoe reaches out to him soon.

In the special effects not matching the plot line department, an explosion in the middle of the night was show actually happening in broad daylight.  Unless the sun never sets on Caprica City or the Global Defense people are seriously in need of better intel, this was a fairly significant snafu on the consistency front.

Joseph's mother-in-law is a hard woman.  The meat cleaving scene was intense and I get the feeling she will never forgive Joseph for not going through with the murder of Amanda Greystone.  Speaking of not murdering Amanda, Sam played his brother like a fiddle.  Sam knew that Joe would not go through with the hit but he wanted him to think it happened to make him feel the weight of the murder.  It worked, but if I was Sam I would have made him deal with that guilt a bit longer.

Clarice has at least one other student in the school making bombs, I wonder how many others she sent that message to.  While on the subject of the message, if Clarice can text with that fancy paper, why would the Adama brothers use cell phones for texting?  Is one technology significantly more expensive than the other?  Will Ron Moore and crew address that in a future episode?  Am I nit picking too much?

The group marriage dynamic of Clarice's household continued unfold a bit in this episode.  She is obviously keeping her STO activity out of her group home.  It would seem that her allegiance to STO trumps her allegiance to her husbands and wives.  Speaking of her family, it's only a matter of time before someone in that house figures out what is actually going on with her.  My money is on the young husband, I just wonder if he'll turn her in or join her cause.

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