In case you haven't seen a billboard lately, Caprica premieres tonight on Syfy. The pilot is quite good, and, as I explained in my review a couple months ago, some of the same religious questions that drove Battlestar Galactica are central to the story:
Hidden deep in the heart of the Caprica pilot is a "how the
leopard got its spots" tale—but for "leopard" read "Cylons," and for
"spots" read "monotheistic religion." If anything, the conflict between
monotheism and polytheism will be even...
Published on January 22, 2010 06:03