‘Caprica’ blogging: “The Reins of a Waterfall”

I'm wondering if the way the stained glass behind the Zoe Avatar formed a kind of halo when she was speaking with Lacy was intentional imagery or if I'm reading too much into that.

...obviously Sister Clarice, whom Zoe was apparently in the thrall of, ...

Actually I saw this episode and came away with the impression that "Sister" Clarice was not part of Zoe's STO prayer group. She knew of it, knew Zoe (and the kind of things she was doing..if not solid details) and decided to put the bits she knew into an attempt to influence Zoe's friends (Ben and Lacy).

I suspect that most of what she knows about Zoe's work came from Ben and not Zoe directly since Ben was Zoe's STO group's spiritual leader. But she is telling Lacy that Zoe trusted her in an attempt to gain trust by proxy.

What is funny for me as a European is the use of classic 50's and 60's European cars in the show.

I guess since most Americans have never been exposed to the Citroen DS and the Jaguar E type and their shapes are of (then) futuristic design this would work well for the US market.

For me though it is like the Hummer they used in the BSG Caprica episodes.

Caprica is my first foray into anything BSG related (I've never seen any BSG) so it's all completely new to me and I'm still the uncritical stage.

I have to say I'm really impressed with the world they've created on Caprica - it's very real and well realised. I like the way they casually drop things into the dialogue (like gangster Sam Adama being married to a man, which is about as far from the TV stereotype of a gay man as you can get) rather than beating you over the head with the difference.

I'm in agreement with C David Dent - I'm not sure that there was any particular collaboration or trust between Zoe and Sister Clarice. I don't know what a 'skin job from When This Happened Before is' but I'm very interested to see who she was talking to - are there different sects of the Soliders of the One, with different agendas?

I suspect that Tamara Adama (that reads much better with the American pronunciation of Tamara. . . )will also be downloaded into a robot body soon - if Zoe does get her Avatar to Gemenon, perhaps Sister Clarice will be trying to convert and use Tamara, instead?

Just thinking about my comment 'which is about as far from the TV stereotype of a gay man as you can get', and I am wondering whether the Caprican's would even have a word 'gay' - whether it would just be so completely accepted that it wasn't even worth noticing someone's (I've had a mental block on the word. . .begins with P?). We can live in hope that we'll get there outside fiction soon.

I suspect that Tamara Adama ... will also be downloaded into a robot body soon

Having been left to wander the dissolute virtual world lost and alone, I fear innocent young Tamara is in serious danger of being sacrificed to the god of the underworld.

If Zoe or Tamara die in the virtual world, do they "respawn" somewhere else like in a video game, or are they gone for good?

Actually, this may explain what Zoe was trying to get her avatar to do at the beginning of the pilot. It hasn't really been explained, but I'm assuming that when you kill a real person's avatar, they simply logout and log back in again completely restored. However, maybe Zoe's avatar does something more than just die, and so she was actually trying to prepare her avatar to submit to being sacrificed in order to bring about some great change.