Caprica TV series a keeper

I watched the premiere of Caprica, the TV series that debuted on January 22, 2010 on the Syfy and Space channels in the USA and Canada. It's a keeper. The show, filmed on location in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is the prequel to Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009 and 1978-1979) and is set 50 or so years before the near-total destruction of humanity by the Cylons. The series looks at two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, both living on the planet Caprica. Adama is from the planet Tauron which seems to have reputation for generating a host of nasty people. At the end of the first episode I could see how the backstory and some of the many questions that remained unanswered in the more recent Battlestar Galactica will be dealt with. Daniel Graystone's dead daughter Zoe, whom he resurrects as a Cylon, might just be the progenitor of the Cylon faction that believed in the One True God, whereas the Cylon he produced under a Caprica defense contract will likely become the source of the Cylon horde that almost destroyed humanity.

It was fun seeing the Vancouver landscape transformed through CGI into the urban center of Caprica. A couple of places I recognized were Library Square outside of which Daniel Graystone and Joseph Adama (William Adama's father) first meet and the Georgia Street side of the Vancouver Art Gallery, which used to be the Vancouver Courthouse.

The show will probably not sit well with those who believe in the One True God since it reverses what North American and other audiences hold most dear.