False Labor

What a frakking great episode !!!! I just loved it!

If Caprica is cancelled, it is really a shame !

I must watch it again now before I can write down any review.

It's probably too late but

It seems like Caprica has finally found its footing with" False Labor", or rather, has gone back to what it was in the pilot, to where it worked, to the family Sci-Fi drama it was supposed to be.

I still don't understand why some viewers expected Caprica to be like BSG given that the show was about a twelve world universe before the Cylon war. It couldn't be the same! And that is what is interesting. A spin-off that would basically use the BSG formula and repeat it would have no interest in my book! I'm afraid that it is precisely what they are going to do with their new pet project...

BSG was intriguing in the way it deals with what humanity and Cylons had become after the war, with what meant to be human when you were survivors on the run. Caprica is fascinating in the way it deals with a civilization that is about to fall, with the crimes and family issues that are at  the beginning of so many mythologies. It's pure Greek tragedy recreated on screen for us.

The writing is smart, the acting is great. I'm  a bit angry when I think of tv shows that aren't even as half good as Caprica yet are "easier" and therefore get much better ratings and will be renewed without any problem while this incredibly ambitious show is probably toasted.

I've always said that I could go without the STO/teenagers stuff and I'm saying it again. The show is great when it focuses on family. It's in its Greek roots. And there was so much going on in the last episode!

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