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No, not necessarily. Ron Moore was only the show-runner for Caprica for the first few episodes, and handed over day-to-day control to Jane Espenson (who herself dropped out of the position in order to write more, so they brought in another guy whose name escapes me). I think when Caprica was in development, RDM was still hoping to get Virtuality off the ground, so he never intended to be in charge in a really hands-on fashion.]]> Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:53 AM Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:55 AM Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:56 AM Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:56 AM
Now, I'm not super-optimistic about a second season (and to be honest, I felt like the show fell off after episode five or so), but certainly SyFy clearly _wants_ to pick up the series but hasn't decided whether or not it's a good idea.]]> Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:06 PM Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:17 PM Thursday, March 11, 2010 08:00 AM Wednesday, March 10, 2010 03:54 PM Tuesday, February 9, 2010 10:14 AM Tuesday, February 9, 2010 10:16 AM
I think what the show probably needed to do was either have a strong through-line that can tie in the major characters (a la "33") or focus on a few of the characters (like the Adamas, or the Graystones) and really establish that dynamic for the audience (a la any number of Lost episodes). As it was, I felt like there were a lot of interesting parts to the episode, but I never really got a handle for what these different parts of the world were like.

(Graystone's a good example of that; it would be nice to have an episode that established the guy's worldview and where he's coming from, because you're right that he seems to have two sharply different sides to him, and it's not clear where the boundaries are there.)

The one aspect of the show that I'm really into right now is the Tauron mafia stuff; it's more familiar than the combination of grief and mad science or the heady AI stuff, and I thought that the scenes between little Bill Adama and his uncle really sold their relationship pretty well. I don't know about the child actor, but the potential pull between Joseph Adama and his brother with Bill in the middle is something that I'd like to see more of.]]> Sunday, January 31, 2010 02:15 PM Sunday, January 31, 2010 03:49 PM Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:02 AM Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:49 AM Sunday, January 24, 2010 09:42 PM