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Caprica - Final Five Episode Review
Jan. 8th, 2011 06:31 pmBeen playing that game Echo Bazar - Fallen London and it's frustrating, every once and a while I'll get locked out of storylets or doing anything because I don't have enough fate to play.
Not a skill game so much as a marketing game.
Finished watching marathon of the remaining Caprica episodes today. Five in a row. Then discussed at length with Momster, who just called. That's what we do, critically analyze books, films and tv shows for hours over the phone. Also politics and family members. But mostly the former, because its safer. We both agreed - the Graystone family story was the only story thread that worked all the way through and was cohesive, the Adama/Tauron tale didn't work and felt like it was a separate story that had little to do with this one and belonged in an entirely different series - one with more time to develop, and the STO with Clarice Willow and Lacy was didatic, preachy and unambiguous. Not to mention a bit cliche. (How many times have we seen the evil religious terrorist cult tale told now? Seriously, this was handled a lot better by BattleStar Galatica actually.) If Caprica had stuck with just Zoe, Danial, and Amanda - in their pov and the Greek family tragedy, keeping everything else in the periphery - I think the series would have done a lot better. They got too ambitious and tried to do far too much. As a result they lost the audience and story-threads became difficult to follow or lacked coherence.
The thrill ride was the Graystones - who kept me on the edge of my seat, and the wrap-up of their storyline was quite ironic. Everything else...felt a bit cluttered with moments of potential greatness. As a result, the end felt rushed, because too much was going on, too many sub-plots, too much story for such a short space of time.
( spoilers - analysis in more detail )
Not a skill game so much as a marketing game.
Finished watching marathon of the remaining Caprica episodes today. Five in a row. Then discussed at length with Momster, who just called. That's what we do, critically analyze books, films and tv shows for hours over the phone. Also politics and family members. But mostly the former, because its safer. We both agreed - the Graystone family story was the only story thread that worked all the way through and was cohesive, the Adama/Tauron tale didn't work and felt like it was a separate story that had little to do with this one and belonged in an entirely different series - one with more time to develop, and the STO with Clarice Willow and Lacy was didatic, preachy and unambiguous. Not to mention a bit cliche. (How many times have we seen the evil religious terrorist cult tale told now? Seriously, this was handled a lot better by BattleStar Galatica actually.) If Caprica had stuck with just Zoe, Danial, and Amanda - in their pov and the Greek family tragedy, keeping everything else in the periphery - I think the series would have done a lot better. They got too ambitious and tried to do far too much. As a result they lost the audience and story-threads became difficult to follow or lacked coherence.
The thrill ride was the Graystones - who kept me on the edge of my seat, and the wrap-up of their storyline was quite ironic. Everything else...felt a bit cluttered with moments of potential greatness. As a result, the end felt rushed, because too much was going on, too many sub-plots, too much story for such a short space of time.
( spoilers - analysis in more detail )