What I’m Watching: Caprica

Caprica: Season 1, Episode 4 “Gravedancing” (D+)

Most of the arcs on this show are getting less and less interesting as they become more and more preposterous, and the only one that still seems legitimately intriguing is given only a quick scene at the beginning and at the end of the episode. Sister Clarice’s involvement with the Soldiers of the One is that one somewhat bright plotline, but there’s nothing at this point about it to suggest it will be given any more emphasis, and the bumbling detectives will likely never stumble upon it because they’re too caught up with the Graystones. The writing on this show has now reached a point of being abysmal, and it’s really a problem. Amanda showing up and just parading out in front of the cameras to once again say something stupid is ridiculous. That woman, and her husband for that matter, needs to learn that admissions of guilt and personal conversations should not take place on live national television. Amanda is quickly becoming the worst character on this show who is so unbelievably annoying that she ranks, in my mind at least, higher than someone like Rita on “Dexter” as a character who needs to go ASAP. They had the chance to kill her, but of course Sam had to opt not to because he just wanted to “frak with” Joseph and prolong his agony. The mixture of tones does not work well at all, going from the comedy on the talk show one moment to the deathly serious drive with Sam and Amanda the next. The obnoxious tech guy taunting and dancing with the Cylon Zoe doesn’t make any sense either since he doesn’t know that she’s female, and the shots of Zoe dancing in her dress are comical rather than dramatically effective. The Adama matriarch did have a decent line, even though it was hardly in context with anything else: “you get the best things from enemies because they’re scared of you.” If only the show would try to focus on stuff like that instead of using cell phones for text messaging, a concept which has no place on this show or in the BSG universe.