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ok, six episodes in and i'm loving caprica...
and no, i'm not talking about loving the anime-esque transhumanist plot and the deeply afflicted, tortured characters...
i'm talking about caprica. the city/world the production team have built.
it feels like the blue print these people could provide to magrathea would be flawless...
from the cgi city-scapes of the industrial sectors, skylines from the living quarters and the realistic street level shots of the districts.... the clean white sterile bright lighting of the scientific labs/offices to the dark and yellow shadowplay in the back rooms of the bars and the slums. the distinct feel that they manage to bring across makes this other world feel as real as one can, though the television screen.
and, for a sci-fi series, i feel a great respect for this. with so many different series out there, right now, that qualify for the sci-fi/syfy label, you either need to be in outer-space, jumping from planet to planet, or fighting threats on earth (possibly in the distant future).
even stargate atlantis, which had an entire city, didn't have the changes in architecture from suburb to suburb that caprica has to play with. the city was a location, with no real life to it. a sterile puzzle to be figured out.
but this is another world. with another culture, similar to ours, but different. the recreations of the pyramid(aka triad) games, the money, the slightly different social mores (tattooing), all these combine to create the tapestry that makes the stories being told that much more enthralling. the nuances that makes it, for my values, a true sci-fi tale. a place i want to go to walk the streets and breath in the culture and eat the food and play tourist for a week....
the fiend
mind you, i've not seen avatar yet, but i've always liked cities more...
and no, i'm not talking about loving the anime-esque transhumanist plot and the deeply afflicted, tortured characters...
i'm talking about caprica. the city/world the production team have built.
it feels like the blue print these people could provide to magrathea would be flawless...
from the cgi city-scapes of the industrial sectors, skylines from the living quarters and the realistic street level shots of the districts.... the clean white sterile bright lighting of the scientific labs/offices to the dark and yellow shadowplay in the back rooms of the bars and the slums. the distinct feel that they manage to bring across makes this other world feel as real as one can, though the television screen.
and, for a sci-fi series, i feel a great respect for this. with so many different series out there, right now, that qualify for the sci-fi/syfy label, you either need to be in outer-space, jumping from planet to planet, or fighting threats on earth (possibly in the distant future).
even stargate atlantis, which had an entire city, didn't have the changes in architecture from suburb to suburb that caprica has to play with. the city was a location, with no real life to it. a sterile puzzle to be figured out.
but this is another world. with another culture, similar to ours, but different. the recreations of the pyramid(aka triad) games, the money, the slightly different social mores (tattooing), all these combine to create the tapestry that makes the stories being told that much more enthralling. the nuances that makes it, for my values, a true sci-fi tale. a place i want to go to walk the streets and breath in the culture and eat the food and play tourist for a week....
the fiend
mind you, i've not seen avatar yet, but i've always liked cities more...