Caprica: Blowback

I cannot believe that the Syfy channel burned all five remaining episodes of Caprica in one marathon night. While this was not the best way for the series to go out, at least they aired the episodes. Thank the gods (or God depending which side you fall on) for DVR functionality.

That out of the way I would like to talk about this specific episode. The hostage scenes were unbelievably powerful. I could not believe Syfy allowed this show to get away executing young people fighting a religious war. In all honesty, I felt very uncomfortably with the scenes as a whole and hard a truly hard time watching.

They then divulged that it was simply the first of many training exercise Lacey and her crew will face in STO boot camp. It was not real so nobody died, all was good, at least for the people who did not fail the exercise. But those deaths were now going to be done off camera. Except it was not done off camera and the audience viewed the executions all over again. Powerful and painful stuff to watch, I can’t believe Syfy canceled this show.

Speaking of painful to watch, how in the worlds did Clarice Willow come to any kind of power within the STO? It is obvious she is willing to kill to achieve her goals, but Mar-Beth was a true believer, possibly more so than Clarice herself. How is she not suspicious of Amanda? I can’t believe cop with a grudge, whose name may be Jordan (I tried to remember this time) completely outplayed Clarice, his boss and possibly the entire STO. Of course the Willow home does now have Zoe’s pin which may in fact be the resurrection program so Clarice is not as dumb as I like to believe she is.

My only question is how in the worlds is Daniel going to come into possession of that pin again? Maybe Clarice will bring it to him in an effort to understand the data, I wouldn’t be surprised if what is on that pin is all Turonese to her. The program he created of his wife was horrendous compared to Zoe’s, however, a grieving family would pay boat loads for it. Daniel does not believe in good enough. Daniel might be a dead man by series end if the Ha’La’Tha has his way.

However, smart money is on the brothers Adama killing off the Ha’La’Tha and perhaps installing Sam as the new big boss. If Joseph hates Daniel for his daughter’s actions how could he let the Ha’La’Tha get away with arming the people who put Zoe up to the deed? Samuel’s moral code will eventually begin to weigh on Joseph, it has to. While Caprica depicts all characters in morally ambiguous shades of grey Joseph has completely gone to the dark side at this point and needs some kind of redemption because at this point I don’t want to believe he fathered Bill Adama.

I did not hate Amanda this week. In fact, I actually enjoyed her storyline a bit. She actually does hate Clarice and is willing to do what it takes to bring her to justice, unless it involves risking her own life. Well, baby steps are important. If this series lived past the first season I wonder if she’d make an impressive Ellen Tigh like transition.