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Maybe I've missed something but is there a reason Zoe hasn't gone "Dad, I'm in here!" which you know would be kind of the most realistic thing to happen.

Well, if they were human that was.

Last time he found her he ripped her out of the virtual world and stuck her in isolation in his lab so he could study her.  I doubt that she trusts him right now.

She said it herself: "What little control I have is only because nobody knows I'm in here"

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

Plus I think she's still trying to fulfill whatever mission or political/religious agenda the real Zoe had before she died.

 

Yeah but given how easy it would be for them to pull the one model apart for tests, I'd be shouting "DAD IN HERE. DONT STRIP ME APART"

True, but she seems to now be able to slip back into the network, 'v-club' or whatever.

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

I don't think she can actually transfer herself, though. She's still in the robot, using the VR the same way a human does.

>>She's still in the robot, using the VR the same way a human does.<<

Different interface, but yeah, you're right, she needs a computer terminal or something I guess.

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

For "in-universe" immersion fun: http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/

I've been enjoying those a lot!

They had me a couple of weeks ago with the headline, "Libran Needs a New Pyramid Team, Statim!"

I studied Latin for 6 years so this provides a great deal of nerd satisfaction for me. :)

(I'm also following Serge on Twitter http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone )

 

Wasn't Greystone's PR person Kat from BSG?

I was home sick yesterday and watched all of these. I am in. I really like it. And I don't find myself relating eveything to BSG except maybe when Bill is on screen. I do think we might eventually get into the creation of the five later on in the series though. But for now, if they are wanting to run the show focusing on the family drama - they are succeeding for me.

I don't think Sam will kill Greyston's wife... maybe he will try but won't be able to go through with it. Either that or Robot Zoe saves her mom.

>>I do think we might eventually get into the creation of the five later on in the series though.<<

The five were not created, the five were born.  It was their arrival at the colonies during the first Cylon war and their promise to help with creating the "skin job" models (after leaving the nuked 'earth') that stopped the war and resulted in the 40 year peace prior to the events of the mini-series.

I imagine that if they wanted to take the story there, they could show the five arriving as the epilogue of the series finale, but other than that I can't see them figuring into the story.

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

Oh, and "Robot Zoe Saves Her Mom" sounds like it should be a show on Nickelodeon. :)

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

I'm betting that Sam won't do it. Just going by the look on his face when Joseph asked him, I think the show might be going down the road of Joe being a lawyer who has a dark side and Sam being the mobster with the heart of gold.

That being said, Sam vs. Robot Zoe would be awesome!

 

I like that I can watch it and not think of BSG.

Though I did think of it when Daniel was playing the piano, because Starbuck's father played the piano, and the missing Cylon's name was Daniel and it all would have tied together nicely had the producers not already told us that it doesn't. :/

 

Given that the backstory of the Five was told as a barely coherent infodump, and that the producers clearly wanted to focus on other things, I doubt they would hesitate to flush the whole thing if they thought it would help Caprica.

Say what you will about Ron Moore -- and I say a lot -- but he holds true to the writer's dictum that sometime you have to kill your babies. He pulled the plug on the entire second half of season 3 midway through, and came very close to making it look seamless.

Mind you, I still have fifty bucks that says we see Phantom Baltar and Six by the midway break of season 2 at the latest.

Well sure they could change the story anytime they like.  I just don't think we're going to see the 5.

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

I clearly smoked too much pot in my 20s because I didn't remember that they were Born and not Made. I was thinking they were the first skinjobs that were made.

Thanks for the refresher.

>> I like that I can watch it and not think of BSG. <<

Me too!

<Though I did think of it when Daniel was playing the piano, because Starbuck's father played the piano, and the missing Cylon's name was Daniel and it all would have tied together nicely had the producers not already told us that it doesn't. :/>>

And he was playing the extended theme from the original BSG.

I wondered actually: We heard the Caprican national anthem at the C-Bucks game. And it very pointedly wasn't the Original BSG theme which was established in the miseries as the Caprican national anthem. When did it change?

Could it be a rights issue? OR MAYBE WE'RE IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

I mentioned in the post you responded to that Greystone was playing the original BSG theme on the piano in the last ep of Caprica.

D'oh!!!!

I thought it was just a colonial anthem/song they were playing at the ceremony in the 2003 miniseries but not necessarily the official Caprican anthem. It could be like a "God Bless America" vs. "America the Beautiful" type situation.

 

Neither of those are anthems. though.  :)  They're just patriotic songs.  The Star-Spangled Banner is the anthem.

In both Caprica and BSG they specified anthem.

I wasn't actually using anthem to mean "The National Anthem" but rather "type of song" like one would say "ballad" or "hymn" etc.

At any rate, I didn't recall in BSG that they said that was the anthem. And honestly, it doesn't really matter to me. I'm sure there's some adequate no-prize explanation like "after the colonies untied under one government, they picked a new colonial anthem" but honestly "the writers changed their mind" works fine for me too. :)

 

Established in the mini-series as the Colonial national anthem. Post-federalization era.

I believe the original Galactica theme is the Colonial Anthem, rather than the anthem of Caprica.  That's how the Galactica wiki refers to it anyway.   So it's the anthem for the united Twelve Colonies that aren't united yet in Caprica.

Ok, this impressed me.

An explanation of Sam's Tauron tattoos.