Caprica was so boring. Nothing but a soap opera with some sci fi crap thrown in. Not a show I will be watching.

I disagree. While there were certainly points where Caprica dragged I think that had more do with this being an unedited version rather than any lack of great storytelling. There were some great scenes in Caprica and a lot of places for the series to really take off. That being said, I think this will be a hard sell for both BSG fans and new viewers. People have certain expectations of science fiction and even though those epectations are not always right, they can make or break a series.

To Polymer:
Yes, drama, what could be more boring? Then again, more than half of the BSG episodes were more dramatic than action-oriented, and people still watched. Yes, a lot complained loudly, but they should have just popped in their aging, worn copies of Power Rangers and had at it.
Look at the bright side: even if you hate the drama, there was tons of frontal nudity (and it WASN'T Edward James Olmos, thank God). And it still had a killer robot.
Killer robots and frontal nudity, what makes all sci-fi great.

I still haven't watched my DVD copy yet; I'm waiting to watch it with my mother, since she was a huge BSG fan. I'm so excited about this show, but I want Ron Moore to keep writing for it! I'd also love Mark Verheiden and Michael Angelli and (God forbid "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" gets cancelled) Toni Graphia to come back.

I absolutely ADORE good drama. I've watched a couple of films in a little cinema near where I live this past week: "Shall We Kiss?" (French) and "Cloud 9" (German; no reference to BSG!) and also rented "Elegy" on DVD and they were all about adultery and drama and romance and difficult relationships. They were all superior to anything J.J. Abrams can pull off or "Lost" or so much garbage on TV or in cinema.

It's what I loved about "Unfinished Business" and "Takin' a Break" and Kara and Lee's whole love quadrangle dynamic that really made what Lee said at the end of Season 3 about the attribution of guilt all that more meaningful. It's so sad that so man science fiction fans emphasize style and setting over substance; it's the same superficial reasoning and prejudice that so many non-science fiction fans haven't checked out BSG; it's also why J.J. Abrams can revamp Star Trek in his own superficial story-telling ways and it's still called "Star Trek" even though it bares little resemblance to it in all the substantial ways of themes explored and political insight. I've also been very impressed with what I've read/seen of that woman Aponowicz because she really seems to get it.

I'm just thankful Sci Fi granted Moore, Espenson, Taylor and company a 20 episode order of this. There's so little substance on the big or small screen that comments on our world with depth and political insight that I'm thrilled to get another chance, even if BSG didn't survive 5 seasons. Can't wait!

So far my favorite actor in Caprica is the young man who portrays the young Bill Adama. The otherwise reliable Esai Morales came across as a bit wooden and Eric Stoltz didn't possess the quirky personality usually associated with the Bill Gates or Steve Jobs type of computer nerd his character is clearly an homage to. I felt Zoe and her cohorts were bores who could have been played by just about any group of teenagers in any mall in America. They weren't terrible but they weren't interesting either. If I become a regular viewer of this series, it won't be to watch Zoe.

Oh and Muldfeld, how does your mom feel about nudity? The first scene is almost wall-to-wall nude women.

Hmm...I'm disappointed that more people of color weren't in the main cast. With the exception of Esai Morales and the young actor who plays Will Adama, all of the main actors on the show are white. There are no Asian- or African- or Native Americans at all. Why?

And there's the whole issue with Joseph Adama being a mob lawyer. Jeez. A dark-skinned immigrant involved with crime? Nope, I've never seen that on TV....

One thing that disappointed me with BSG was the lack of black men in significant roles as either lead actors or in guest roles. While there was the guest appearance by Carl Lumbly and the least used Cylon, Simon, played by Rick Worthy. Otherwise, Black men were just in the background of BSG. The same can be said of Asian men.

And, please don't give me any crap about race not mattering. It does. The only people who believe otherwise are people who are in the majority. (Why do gays want to see themselves represented on TV? Why did women cheer the portrayal of Starbuck as tough, sexy, smart, yet a messed up character?)

My mother's pretty open-minded. I just told her today how this German film I just saw last night "Cloud 9" had 65 + year old people having sex; you could even see the old, fat woman's pubic hair, and she and the two different men (at two different times) were climaxing. She didn't watch it with me, but I think she's probably more disturbed with sleaziness like "American Pie" than tastefully done stuff. Thanks for the heads up, Dr. Baltar; by the way, you're probably my favorite character of all time! :)

Also, Rafe, I guess part of the whole immigrant and identity politics theme is more powerful if the rest of the cast is white, so you really have Adama feeling insecure about his being different. You should know that Adama's brother is being made a regular cast member, according to IGN.

Rafe, the one place where the original BSG scores better than the new series was in casting black actors in prominent roles both the original Colonel Tigh and Boomer were black men.

As to race in the new series, I noticed the same things you did. However, I think the producers are trying to draw parallels between Caprica and the US with Taurans taking the place of racial minorities in the US and Monotheism taking the place of various bogeymen of the 20th Century including Islamic terrorists and Communists. Many minorities turned to crime in the US not because they wanted to but because they were marginalized by the majority. At the same time, that particular story line reminded me of some old gangster movie. It was the Godfather on another planet.

Dr Baltar,

Yes, immigrants to new countries who face discrimination often turn to crime to survive when legitimate work is denied them (recall the "No Dog, No Irish Allowed" signs that appeared throughout the U.S. in the 19th Century). The question is whether the show will have Taurans portrayed as non-criminals, also.

Moreover, I understand your point about race but it's a cop out for the producers to feature only whites as part of the native Capricans. The Taurans were both brown and white skinned (Joseph Adama/Esai Morales has brown skin and the actresses who portray his wife and mother-in-law are white)--just like many people from Latin America.

By featuring mainly white Capricans, the show only continues along the very old and current bias of most films and TV shows produced in North America that have mainly white casts with no or few people of color tossed in for window dressing.

Do you remember that in the original Star Trek, there was one episode that guest starred an African-American man as a scientist. That was the only episode centered around a black actor. BSG, 40 years later, only one episode centered on a black male guest star.

Obviously, BSG did a better job with women of color but it's kind of ironic since statistics show that in the real world, women of color are able to gain better footing in the corporate world than men of color. Apparently, women of color are perceived as less threatening.

I loved BSG but I was disappointed in how it handled race. Edward James Olmos wore blue contact lenses to make him seem more likely to be Jamie Bamber's father.

BSG was barely Science Fiction and Caprica will be no better. BSG was a fantasy with space ships instead of dragons. Everybody was an idiot. The producers seem to think that the way to make SF better is to add space ships to Desperate Housewives and remove the humor.

I watch almost all SF but BSG was idiots in space. Caprica will be idiots on a planet with robots.

Gotta make EVERYTHING about race, don't we.
Just can't watch a piece of fiction without throwing the race card around. How pathetic.

The only thing that bothered me is the time-line. Cylons were created only 48 years prior to the destruction of Caprica? To me, that's a very short time for them to evolve enough to look, and sometimes mimic, humans. let alone to develop the Resurrection Hub, and everything else they had.

Hopefully all that will be explained within the series.

Umm. Not a series, and two, yes, its explained, more or less. It ends with things stacked in a way where "someone" is going to pull the trigger, and you really aren't sure which of several confused, or just crazy, people are going to actually be the ones to do it, only.. you know someone will, because things arranged themselves in such a way that someone is going to light the fuse.

I think it was a good "here is how it started" show.

to Cinda: technology has a way of growing exponentially. If you look at our own technological process, we've gone from computers covering 1800 sq ft. to tiny, more powerful machines the size of paperback books in a mere 70 years! "Portable" music has gone from large, thick vinyl discs to digital bytes, and we have telephones the size of credit cards! We have robots performing jobs, and little programmed "pets" for our children!

What sort of creations will come to fruition in our future? Perhaps "cylons" of our own? If that happens, what will we do with the new race we create? Will we treat them as badly as we have treated the organic "races" that have occupied this planet since the dawn of mankind? I believe these are the questions that Caprica (and Ron Moore) will attempt to answer, or, at least present as questions for us to answer.

The previous comments confirm that science fiction can cover so many themes that all of us sci-fi fanatics are bound to be disappointed at one point or another. That Ron Moore, David Eick, and Jane Espenson have created a SECOND series that makes you think is nothing short of phenomenal. I watched the uncut DVD with my husband, a thoroughly pragmatic engineer who's not a huge sci-fi fan, and both of us enjoyed it. Any show is going to have its "draggy" moments, and that this uncut version played out as well as it did showcases the storytelling talent in it. So give the whole production team a break, guys. We're looking forward to more!

Okay; There was more a drama than straight sci-fi. However it is the pilot where we meet the main characters and learn who and what they are. There was an Asian-American; Greystone's assistant. As for it being forty years it was actually closer to sixty before the fall. The Cylon War ended some forty years before BSG. Of course the technology there is way more advanced than ours. Anyone notice the robo butler at Greystone's home?

Keep it up guys. And I will be watching it for Zoe. She's kind of cute

I loved it and I agree with NAVResRet. I really enjoyed getting more background on how the Cylons came to be and where their monotheism came from. Cylon projection presented in BSG makes total sense given the virtual world where the Cylon mind originated. I'm very excited about the series and am looking forward to more!

I think its goign the right way I hope that this becomes a series as soon as posibloe and they star showing it in the spanish scifi .
The story is good as is very interesting t

Looks like a holy war coming. Thought it was fun. Hoping for space battles and cyclon human relationships. It wasn't the first war so hopefully.

I loved Galactica and am looking forward to the story from the other side and the beginning.

I just watched Caprica last night for the first time. It struck me as far more profound than BSG (which I loved), because it deals with issues in our immediate future, that are already emerging all around us. The world of Caprica is 15 minutes from Now.

The first consumer-level Brain/Computer Interface headsets hit the market last year. (www.emotiv.com) and there are already several competitors. In two Moore Doublings (read: 2012), you will have full duplex, high fidelity Holoband-type headsets at the local Best Buy. The electronic paper, tennis referee, and household robots depicted already exist. My only criticism of Caprica was that so much was TOO Earth-like.

The clash between Spirituality and Technology that unfolds on Caprica is a mirror of our own emerging realization of the approaching Singularity. I hope that the new series reaches that climax before we do in real life. It will be awefully close.

Caprica seems to be great world. But, not being Earth, it should seem just a tad more 'alien'. Lose the "coffee" and "cherry pie", and only refer to foods that dont exist here. Their food should look different as well, as should the local animals and at least some of the vegetation.

At least 'Cigarette-Smoking Man' finally got what was coming to him.... :-)

I had the DVD copy before all of you and it was amazing. I cannot think of a better series. It plays perfectly to my age group. It is almost a take-off of Harry Potter. This is not to say it is bad, only to say what it is a kin to.`

I just watched the Caprica DVD. I really liked it alot, It is a little far fetched, but isn't that why we watch.
I miss BSG very much I was really upset when it ended. I thought the actors were excellent.