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by Kristin Veitch
Exclusive: Caprica Pilot Preview
Frak yeah! Not only is Battlestar Galactica back this Friday, but I've
just wrangled up some juicy scoop about the Caprica spinoff.
In case you haven't heard, Sci Fi has ordered a pilot called Caprica
from BSG creator Ronald D. Moore. It goes back in time to before the
creation of the Cylons for a look at life in the Colonies before,
well, everything blew up.
Caprica is the story of two families, the Graystones and the Adams
(better known to us now as the Adamas), and we'll be meeting the man
who fathered and grandfathered the goodness that is Bill and Lee Adama
(Edward James Olmos and Jamie Bamber). Interestingly, when I
interviewed Ronald D. Moore last year, Caprica's plotlines were not
directly tied to the characters we know from the current series. I
asked RDM if there might be any Thrace-Adama-Agathon-Roslin ancestors
in Caprica, and he told me, "Right now, there are no ancestors of
anybody in the pilot." Well, looks like that changed in the
intervening time, and thank goodness!
Read on to find out how the Graystones and the Adamas may have
inadvertently started the First Cylon War...
The Graystones include father Daniel, a computer genius; mother
Amanda, a brilliant surgeon and unfaithful wife; and their daughter,
Zoe, who is martyred to her boyfriend's religious fanaticism—but not
before she installs the rudimentary elements of her personality and
DNA into a machine, creating a digital twin of herself, Zoe-A.
After the human Zoe's death, Daniel uses these raw materials, some
stolen technology and his own grief to cobble together "a robotic
version of his dead daughter." This robot version, known as Zoe-R, is
a Cylonic Eve, the first of her kind. (Dun-dun-dun!)
And in this corner, ladies and gentlemen, meet Grandpapadama! As Adm.
Bill Adama once told us, his father, Joseph, was a great attorney of
his day, fighting for the civil rights of the Twelve Colonies'
downtrodden and marginalized. But that's not his whole story: Joseph
Adama's wife and daughter were also killed in that same suicide
bombing that took Zoe Graystone's life.
The two fathers, Daniel Graystone and Joseph Adama, work together on
replicating their children in cyborg form, but "Joseph is ethically
appalled by the robot version of his dead [daughter], Tamara, and
repents his actions." Those Adamas are all hardass conscience, aren't
they?
Still, the one happy result of the Adama family tragedy is that Joseph
and his young son, the 9-year-old Bill, grow closer to each other, and
Joseph begins to explain their family's story to his sad, somber
child. But will their bond prepare them for the havoc soon to be
wreaked by the rise of the Cylon nation?
So let's see: religious fanaticism, political intrigue, industrial
espionage, personal anguish, crazy robots. Check, check, check, check,
check. Sounds like a Battlestar Galactica spinoff to me! What do you
guys think?! Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, wait and see? Post your thoughts
in the comments.
—Additional re****ting by Korbi Ghosh and Jennifer Godwin
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