David wrote:
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http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=e1304fb7-b29d-4d3e-9873-d2230fcfc998
> 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
As long as it doesn't become a BSG version of Century City...
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