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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] [QUOTE]the writers took a little too much faith in the intelligence and patience in their audience[/QUOTE]Yes either that or they had too much faith in their own ability to use religious/political/philosophical symbolism without drowning in heavyhanded pretentious fable about mankind's hubris. It's a tossup. Apart from that, you had the very basic narrative problem of having no benevolent party to sympathize with, unlike the Fleet in BSG. You had greedy business-scientists, the mafia, cabals of religious zealots, and confused teens. And an emotionally crippled robot who couldn't do anything cool (playing Counterstrike doesn't count). The last straw for me was the endless moping. No sex, affection or camaraderie, just moping, and scheming over tablescraps which we've already seen burn in the future. If they'd shown some of the Caprica we saw in the BSG Pilot, a little celebration of life now and then (instead of drab shades of grey), the show might've instilled some much-needed nostalgia in the audience. In BSG you could get happy when some people partied or made out. When you build a show around rich people with rich-people problems, a glass of wine or a funny ballgame becomes just as pointless and ordinary to you as it does to the rich people. Hence no carrots. If I may go off on a tangent, that's why Inception was a failure IMO. If you have gun battles all the time, with unlimited ammo and self-replenishing foes, they don't mean anything at all. If the entire plot is centered around a MacGuffin (the thought-implant), so that some smug guy in a suit could get back to his imaginary children, you have absolutely nothing, narrative-wise. Just masturbation, pretty ants running around in an antfarm, which is my view of Caprica. [QUOTE]Did you know that Brannon Braga is also involved in that show? I think he'll counteract any good that Spielberg brings. It's an over-wrought, poorly-conceived time travel series with high-concept action, airing on Fox; I'm not too hopeful.[/QUOTE]Well, maybe we'll be surprised. As with Blood&Chrome. Maybe Braga has switched to more fiber in his diet? So that everything goes where it's supposed to go. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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