You know you wanto to peek...

So Sci-Fi is already ready to cash in on the nerd-dom that Battlestar Galactica inspired. Their first offering to the already hungry masses – Caprica. A seemingly dark and gritty look at the origins of the Cynclon race from the perspective of its human creators, particularly two families who are directly responsible for these insidious machines. And wouldn’t you just know it? One of the families happens to be the Adamas…hmmm…it makes this nerd really stop for a second.

What does this mean to Battlestar’s current plotline?

Personally, I think that this trailer and this show demonstrate perfectly illustrate what I have thought for a long while (and I hate to shout it) but --- ADAMA IS A CYCLON.

Still doubting me?

Let’s look at the Caprica evidence.

1. Joe Adams (A.K.A. Joe Adama) has lost a dearly loved child and sanctifies the use of her memories to be implanted in a seemingly prefect mechanical copy.
-Adama has mentioned several times on BSG how much he and his father did not get along and this makes me wonder whether this was the real reason. His father’s negative criminal lawyer persona might inspire dislike, but not the total disregard of memory his son uses.

2. If Adama allowed this Dr. Greystone to use one child, what’s to stop him from using the man’s other child as an experimental control, possibly stealing memories or personality traits.
- Some bloggers on other sights (who I must credit) have hypothetically already broken down the personalities of all the known Cyclons and a major competent of each can be attributed back to Adama. It’s a farfetched theory, but one nonetheless.

3. Because it would make for the ultimate cosmic, karma joke.
- I mean come on! A father unwittingly begins the destruction of mankind out a perverted sense of love for his children. These surviving children, not knowing who or what they are, blend into society and become citizens. Nearly 40 years after their creation, they realize that they have not only been unwitting participants in the destructions of the human race, but they have been chasing and killing their own kind. Sounds like an angsty good time to me!

So far though, the trailer’s premise rather than its content is what has impressed me. It’s supposed to be dark and tragic and yet, it seems like the actors are trying too hard to put this across – they seem to be yelling in every scene “I made a terrible choice! Forgive me and humor me!” As far as style, it’s as far away from BSG as you can get and that might not be a bad thing…it shows a drastic different view of society and religion then what we see currently on BSG.

I’m just not totally convinced yet that this show can rise above its inherent soap-opera like clichéd potential and really tell a human story. I guess I’ll have to keep checking the trailer out and waiting.

Capricia may possible be shown as early as November or as late as December of 2008 based on whether SCI-FI decides to order more than the initial episodes it current has made, if not it will be a two part mini-series event.

Personally, I think they (SCI-FI) are giving BSG fans the carrot rather than the stick in terms of satisfaction. Keep us interested and speculating while you hoard the already finished final episodes and finale to yourselves until January.

It’s the law of supply and demand…and it works everywhere.