Having watched the pilot episode of “Caprica” (or, as we say at Gram Ponante Towers, Daggett Kennel, Viper Dock, and Resurrection Ship, “One Tree Galactica” or simply “The C.”), I was impressed by how much the pre-destruction Caprica resembled a Caucasian Zion from “The Matrix.”
Bored teenagers hack Holoband technology to create their own worlds of sex, drugs, and ultraviolence, leading monotheist terrorists to declare war on the heathens. Reductive? A teen soap opera? Unable to stand on its own merits? A poor cash-in on fans of “Battlestar Galactica”?
Perhaps, but “Caprica” at least has some actual frakking.
Before scientist and grieving father Eric Stoltz repurposes a line he delivered in “Mask” by declaring he wanted the sun to shine on his dead daughter’s face, he visits such a Second Lifely fleshpit, probably thinking he hasn’t had so much fun since the Jennifer Jason Leigh-in-the-poolhouse Day on the set of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”
“Caprica” debuts tomorrow (thanks to Fingal Powers for the advance screener).
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Caprica Six gets a ten
See also: “Caprica“
caucasian zion frakking. politically incorrect yum.
I liked it. Alot. Nyah.