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> 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
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> As long as it doesn't become a BSG version of Century City...
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> We must change the way we live,
> or the climate will do it for us.
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However BSG version of DS9 would be totally awesome!
-- Ken from Chicago
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