Today over at Obsessed With Film, I review the mid-season premiere of CAPRICA, Syfy's Battlestar Galactica prequel, brought to you by the designers of skintight trousers.
"Syfy's prequel to the venerated Battlestar Galactica remake was always going to face an uphill struggle. The notion of a prequel usually denotes there's been a narrative conclusion to a better storyline, so now the makers are trying to turn back-story into a narrative of its own. Sometimes prequels work, but usually they fail. Caprica failed to inherit the majority of BSG's audience when it debuted earlier this year; possibly because there's more family drama than military action, maybe because it feels less epic in scope, or perhaps because none of Caprica's characters are de facto heroes. And while that brings uncertainty and darkness to bear, you have to wonder if that's what audiences want to watch right now. There was ambiguity in BSG, too, but we started that show with a simple humans/good versus robots/evil premise, before things started to get complicated." Continue reading...
