Its not a "monster of the week" show, and it can't continue to be that. If this show goes for the 3 or 4 seasons I expect it to, it needs to be good. I mean no insult to the writing team but a lot of what they're doing isn't that compelling OR suspenseful. Take a page from the Mad Men book of storytelling hire better writers. Ditch whats not working, which I believe to be mostly V-World. To me, if the show wants to live, it needs to do two things 1. Galactica didn't have a complete map for all the things it did RDM admitted he didn't know where to take Head Six and realized he wrote himself into a corner when he had Head Baltar show up in season 2. LOST had a much more detailed map than most (and the writers have admitted that they didn't always have everything planned out). I can't see them building to some kind of middle because I don't know what the middle would be.ĭollhouse had a week first season and only came together at the end of the first season. To me, all this show seems to have is an end. For Caprica, we pretty much know where the end will be: The First Cylon War (or the end of it it'd be really interesting to see the Final Five find the first Hybrid and the Cylons). I believe, just as I always have when it comes to story, that you may not always need a detailed map, but you need a beginning, a middle (or 2) and an end. I'll start by saying that when this show works, it really works, but its less than 25 percent of the time. I'll see how my mood is when the second half of the season begins, but right now I'm not sure "Caprica" is a show I need in my life. At the end of "End of the Line," though, I found myself not caring if Amanda managed to land in the river without breaking her neck, if Joseph will be able to kick his Amp addiction, who will win the war for the heart of STO, or any of the rest of it. Ideally, a cliffhanger is supposed to make the viewer so invested in what happens next that they'll have trouble waiting for the next episode (either in a week or, in this case, several months). (**) Though I would be very amused if Nestor were to somehow survive the car bombing, lose the use of his legs, and try out for the Caprica City wheelchair Pyramid team. And they didn't even have the courtesy to blow up Sister Clarice(**) when they had the chance to ditch a character who's not working. The whole hour felt like the writing staff needed to build to a series of cliffhangers and then worked backward to see how they could justify a lot of frantic explosions, shoot-outs and suicide attempts. Even if Daniel has decided to take the dog-shooting test as proof that Zoe's not in there, he still knows that the anomalies are the only thing that make the chip work, given that the chip did not work for Vergis. And the threat of Daniel erasing Zoe's personality from the chip made no sense. Other than Alessandra Torresani's work as Zoe, and the horrorshow scene where Zoe finally revealed herself to Philomon, then accidentally killed him in a moment of panic, there was very little to grab onto here in terms of compelling character or story moments. ![]() Wake me when Esai Morales and Eric Stoltz are going at it again, okay? But when it turned out to be his lovestruck secretary, deliberately manipulating events to keep Joseph and Tamara's avatar apart and to drive Joseph into her loving arms, I rolled my eyes and mentally checked out on that corner of the series, forever. After all, there were certain parts of recent episodes that might have proven interesting, depending on the payoff, like the identity of Joseph's mysterious guide through New Cap City. (*) The title has been alternately listed in some places as "End of Line," which was the Hybrid's catchphrase on "BSG," but my contact at Syfy insists that the official title adds the "the."īut "End of the Line" was just as uninspiring as the episodes leading up to it - if not moreso. (Case in point: the visit to the algae planet after a really tedious string of episodes midway through season three.) If there was one thing you could count on from Ron Moore and company on "Battlestar Galactica," it was that the cliffhanger episodes (either at mid-season or the end of seasons) tended to pack the strongest punch, even during stretches when the show overall was struggling. "Now, I finally feel like things are getting on the right track." -DanielI was disenchanted with the last several episodes of "Caprica," but I had hopes that "End of the Line"(*) would pull the series out of its stupor. A review of the "Caprica" mid-season finale coming up just as soon as I chop some veggies.
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