Caprica – Can the robot close its eye?

Still happy with the show, but I must confess wanting to see Zoe stomp someone. Watching an early cylon is the most fascinating part for me. I’d like to see more. I’m sure they are getting there.

I know Little Bill is a long way from the Bill Adama we know and love. I’d also like to see the formation of the integrity we come to associate with Bill Adama. I’m sure that’s on it’s way as well. Perhaps we need to see him at this crossroad, and he could go the unsavory way until his natural inclination towards honor kicks in. Remember that question during his polygraph about stealing? (I think it was stealing) Perhaps he did not want to answer that for more than one reason.

Still chewing on the episode. I’m sure I’ll have more thoughts!

I have to disagree about the series losing momentum. I thought this episode progressed much faster than I expected, as I’m used to some of these storylines taking entire seasons to make any headway on in other shows. I was completely riveted, but I agree with the criticism about the series not being able to draw in new viewers. For me, though, this series is only about the human relationships, and making it more accessible would ruin the richness and depth of the narrative. We’re years away from a CyLoN revolt, so I don’t know what they could add organically besides Pyramid matches or stunt casting.

Between the family fights, Zoe’s secret religion, avatar work and boyfriend, the “suicide note,” and everything else, I can’t blame either of the Graystones for believing that Zoe knew about the bombing. My first thought was that Amanda blurted out what she did to subconsciously punish herself and her husband for failing to protect their daughter, from Ben Stark(e), from STO, or from herself. The logical part of her brain must have known how the fallout would affect her job at the hospital and Daniel’s company.

Zoe had uploaded many of her memories into the avatar, and was working on a realtime biofeedback connection, but we don’t know if the avatar knows exactly what happened on the train. She knows that Zoe had a grand plan for her on Geminon, but not exactly what it was, and is only trusting in what Zoe told her. There could have been other secrets not included in the memory sync.

I was watching Zoe during the sex scene. Her eye sweeps from one side of the other normally, and you can definitely tell that she restricts her range of vision to the side away from her parents.

For me, Zoe is the protagonist to whom my sympathies most tend. She thinks she has a good purpose and destiny, and it wouldn’t be right for her to go dark or murderous this soon.

Zoe said that she figured how to interface the robot with the holoband via a wireless connection. She’s smart enough to have figured out how to cobble together a new interface on the robot end to send her mind through the same way the holoband reads a human’s thoughts. And I figure her avatar is a brain, for all intents and purposes.

I think Clarice is hungry and ambitious for spiritual achievement and glory, but completely deluded. I doubt she had Head angels talking to her. The man in the virtual confession booth is most likely her STO cell’s only contact to the rest of the organization. I doubt it’s someone we’ve seen already, unless it’s Special Agent Duram.

Willy Adama basically has no upstanding moral role models. He thinks his uncle’s enforcer work is cool, and hasn’t seen the dark side of assault and murder yet. I’m still wondering if he knows how corrupt and complicit his father is in all this business yet, or if that’s the cause of the later break. It’s strange to think of Lee idolizing Joseph in later days.

Did everyone catch Luciana Carro (Kat) playing Greystone’s new PR flack, Pryah? As well as Teryl Rothery, whom I didn’t even see in the credits.