Caprica wasn't flawless, it was not the best series I watch online(it's Breaking Bad!), but it's a quality show and there aren't many of them on tv.
As much as I've come to like Fringe, it doesn't provide the same food for thoughts.
The board meeting is a pivotal moment but I don't think that Daniel displaying his U-87 and commanding it to tear off its arm was exactly the same as Sam using the robot in "False Labor". Daniel didn't use the cylon to do his own work, he just showed his "baby" off to get what he wanted, to convince the board that his "creation" was the future. He was mostly behaving as a scientist and a business man. Besides there was that Pygmalion thing and the Father/daughter vibe that has nothing to do with the "relationship" Sam has with the cylon.
Sam is the first person to behave like a master-"consumer"; he did what human beings are going to do until the cylons rebel, make the sentient robots do what human beings used to do, that is their labor (as workers or as soldiers, and in Sam's case as assassin). It has begun.
Had there been Laws of Robotics, BSG could not have happened since it's precisely based on the Cylons rebelling and deciding to wipe the human race off.
I hope you'll get to see BSG even though Caprica is cancelled, because the show often puts the characters in line-crossing situations and thus tackles so many fascinating themes (genocide, torture, abortion, unions, terrorism,justice etc) in a such intelligent way.
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Date: 2010-10-30 10:46 am (UTC)As much as I've come to like Fringe, it doesn't provide the same food for thoughts.
The board meeting is a pivotal moment but I don't think that Daniel displaying his U-87 and commanding it to tear off its arm was exactly the same as Sam using the robot in "False Labor". Daniel didn't use the cylon to do his own work, he just showed his "baby" off to get what he wanted, to convince the board that his "creation" was the future. He was mostly behaving as a scientist and a business man. Besides there was that Pygmalion thing and the Father/daughter vibe that has nothing to do with the "relationship" Sam has with the cylon.
Sam is the first person to behave like a master-"consumer"; he did what human beings are going to do until the cylons rebel, make the sentient robots do what human beings used to do, that is their labor (as workers or as soldiers, and in Sam's case as assassin). It has begun.
Had there been Laws of Robotics, BSG could not have happened since it's precisely based on the Cylons rebelling and deciding to wipe the human race off.
I hope you'll get to see BSG even though Caprica is cancelled, because the show often puts the characters in line-crossing situations and thus tackles so many fascinating themes (genocide, torture, abortion, unions, terrorism,justice etc) in a such intelligent way.
Oh trésor, I will miss discussing all that stuff. :- (