"It was kind of important to David Eick and I that the show not be about just another Battlestar or yet another war series, but to really be different on a fundamental level to what Battlestar was," he says.

On the most recent episode of Caprica, we finally got an explanation as to why in the world did Amanda Graystone crucify her daughter Zoe in front of the whole (grieving) world. And the reason is, well, it just came out.

Also, Zoe has finally figured out a way to "live" in the avatar world, and she and Lacy find Tamara only to loser her immediately after. We also get the continuation of education from the point of view of uncle Sam.

As for the other Adama, Joseph sent Sam to take out Amanda after failing to find Tamara.

So is Caprica really off to concentrate more on character drama than on hardcore sci-fi? The short answer is yes, but then Moore insists that that was also the approach they had with Battlestar to begin with.

"We had always tried to pitch Battlestar to the audience as a character drama first, then a sci-fi drama second."

He adds that the point of the whole thing is to make it palatable to certain "segments of the audience" that put off with the "sci-fi trappings" of the show.

"The female audience for instance ... were held back by the hardware, but I always felt like science fiction could accommodate different kinds of storytelling that were character-oriented and more grounded, for lack of a better term.

"So we decided that this show would be very much based on a planet and character-oriented.  And the shorthand for that would be primetime soap."


Source: Los Angeles Times
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