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TV Spotlight: Caprica

This is the ninth part of 14. Everyday for the next 2 weeks we’ll be looking at a new show to air this winter season. Returning lets you know when the first episode of this year will air. It might vary in your region, and will probably repeat. What it’s about gives a brief synopsis. Use that to decide if you should read on. Current season lets you know how much you’ve missed if you haven’t been watching. What’s happened so far is a spoilerific in detail summary for those looking to jump on board. Don’t read it if you want to watch the show from the beginning. Why you should be watching lets you know what I think. And finally the Final verdict tells you whether I think you should watch.

Caprica

Returning: January 22nd 2010

What it’s about: From the creators of Battlestar Galactica comes a show taking place 56 years before the cylons wipe out the colonies. It’s about terrorism, and artificial intelligence, and just showcasing life in the colonies.

Current Season: Starting Season 1

What’s happened so far: The pilot was released online. In it a girl named Zoe had created an artificial intelligence program that was going to turn heads. However she had problems with her family, and was running away on a train when a terrorist attack blew up the car she was in.

Esai Morales plays Joseph Adama, a lawyer and BSG’s Admiral Adama’s father. His wife and daughter are also killed in the bombing, and he ends up relating to Zoe's father over their shared grief.

Zoe’s father find’s her work and recognizes it as a way to see and be with his loved ones again. He takes his findings to Adama, who is at first shocked and appalled by the whole idea of it.