The show must go on...
Apr. 4th, 2010 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniDespite the break and an upcoming several-month long hiatus, the Capriverse still exists thanks to the Internet. Life goes on in the Twelve Colonies and the voices from Caprica still manage to reach us. Serge Graystone is still tweetering on Twitter and The Caprican continues to be updated as well.
It is different from the webisodes that BSG did. Even though they were broadcast on the Internet, websiodes were still BSG episodes. With the blogs, we get to know what happens behind the tv screen, or rather without the tv screen, and it gives a new layer to the concept of hypertext. I'm tempted to discourse on Caprica's narrative Dasein, but it's probably better not to bring on phenomenology right now.
Anyway our experience of Caprica feels like we're walking a garden of forking paths; having the Capriverse spread out through other media sounds as if we're living in a big Borgesian novel! I like that.
Media strategy -wise, it is interesting to see the web take over from television when a show isn't currently on for a long while. It's like some methadone or rather a never-ending teasing to fuel the addiction and prevent withdrawal; the web provides a relay to keep things going ––and keep the audience captive!––so the (geeky) viewers won't forget the show until it's time to tune in again...perhaps The Caprican and Serge's twitter were made for that purpose only.
But they can't keep this up without revealing too much until September, can they?
By the way one of the last entries on The Caprican blog reveals interesting tidbits.
Looks like that Nestor Willow is alive! I thought that he was in the car but according to The Caprican both Clarice and her husband were outside! So, unlike Cylo!Zoe, Lacy didn't kill anyone when activating the key-bomb.
Also, according to Serge Graystone is MIA and according to theThe Caprican, she hasn't been confirmed dead. Her body doesn't seem to have been found, so she might not be dead...
Speaking of Serge's twitter, I copied a few tweets I liked:
"The preceding is a very clever little poem that Daniel taught me. He said it would bring down the house.
"There once was a man from Kobol Who sat in a bucket of snobols His gonads got stuck They needed a truck To free him and now he's got nobols Daniel has always liked preparing food for Amanda. It was part of their courtship. RT @OSUBrit Why didn't you help Daniel prepare dinner? "The GDD are gone. Lab is empty. Daniel is silent. Amanda isn't home yet. I am cleaning. Need more bleach.
"The lab is a mess. I don't know where everyone is. All I can do is clean.
It is different from the webisodes that BSG did. Even though they were broadcast on the Internet, websiodes were still BSG episodes. With the blogs, we get to know what happens behind the tv screen, or rather without the tv screen, and it gives a new layer to the concept of hypertext. I'm tempted to discourse on Caprica's narrative Dasein, but it's probably better not to bring on phenomenology right now.
Anyway our experience of Caprica feels like we're walking a garden of forking paths; having the Capriverse spread out through other media sounds as if we're living in a big Borgesian novel! I like that.
Media strategy -wise, it is interesting to see the web take over from television when a show isn't currently on for a long while. It's like some methadone or rather a never-ending teasing to fuel the addiction and prevent withdrawal; the web provides a relay to keep things going ––and keep the audience captive!––so the (geeky) viewers won't forget the show until it's time to tune in again...perhaps The Caprican and Serge's twitter were made for that purpose only.
But they can't keep this up without revealing too much until September, can they?
By the way one of the last entries on The Caprican blog reveals interesting tidbits.
Looks like that Nestor Willow is alive! I thought that he was in the car but according to The Caprican both Clarice and her husband were outside! So, unlike Cylo!Zoe, Lacy didn't kill anyone when activating the key-bomb.
Also, according to Serge Graystone is MIA and according to theThe Caprican, she hasn't been confirmed dead. Her body doesn't seem to have been found, so she might not be dead...
Speaking of Serge's twitter, I copied a few tweets I liked:
"The preceding is a very clever little poem that Daniel taught me. He said it would bring down the house.
"There once was a man from Kobol Who sat in a bucket of snobols His gonads got stuck They needed a truck To free him and now he's got nobols Daniel has always liked preparing food for Amanda. It was part of their courtship. RT @OSUBrit Why didn't you help Daniel prepare dinner? "The GDD are gone. Lab is empty. Daniel is silent. Amanda isn't home yet. I am cleaning. Need more bleach.
"The lab is a mess. I don't know where everyone is. All I can do is clean.