Caprica on SPACE , the 15th episode
I really liked "The Dirteaters" which makes the cancellation of Caprica even harder to take!
Finally the Adamas storyline became interesting. The brothers' background, through the flasbacks on Tauron 30 years before, was nicely done, and makes sense. We learnt that the Ha'la' tha' started as a resistance group but finally became a mob off world which reminded me both of the Irish history (the murder squads on Tauron reminded me of the ferocious Black and Tans terrorizing Ireland and I couldn't help thinking of the story of two brothers joining the resistance in Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley) and of the Sicilian mafia.
As the Guatrau's rite of passage welcoming Joseph in the Ha'La'Tha echoes the time young Yosef first got inked by his father, William,on Tauron, the brothers' childhood is showed in flashbacks and Sam's horrible guilt is revealed: the mistake that caused his parents' death and led him to a career of thief and assassin (as a boy he even tried to steal from The Guatrau's pocket!), and Yocef who was supposed to be "afraid of everything" according to his baby brother, turned out to be the strong one. Powerful final scene between the brothers with Joseph changing the rules and choosing blood over the soil. "Allow your brother his day" indeed.
The first William Adama was credible and I loved the echo to Daniel killing Vergis, young Yocef did it for his father while Daniel was tricked by his enemy to do the same thing, to return him to the soil. By the way, in the first scene as the brothers are promoted with Sam being made "captain" and Joseph officialy joining the mob, the Guatrau said somehting interesting about Joseph: he said that he was all in the eyes" always calculating". Just like Daniel.
Of course I loved the boxing scene! My boys got sweaty together and had a moment( kinda foreshadowing Apollo and Starbuck's fight in BSG season 3). Joseph who doesn't agree with The Guatrau's plan about killing Graystone, punched his opponent but couldn't help dropping a hint at his beloved Daniel. I loved the way he said his first name and the "Come on, Daniel! Fight back!". Oh and how Joseph embraced him, boxing-style, and whispered against Daniel's neck about finding his opponent's weakness otherwise he would kill him! Really the slash writes itself!
Daniel who is definitely much smarter than anyone else, of course went on research mode, understood that Joseph's warning wasn't just a boxing strategy and figured out that the weak spot in the Ha'La'Tha is Sam Adama! Daniel has got stones and plays with fire, which Sam admires, and as Amanda rightly guessed in the previous episode, he would exploit anything at hand...
Joseph probably didn't expect that Daniel would use Sam's weakness to fight back. At least for now the Adama brothers and Daniel have something in common, a war against The Guatrau.
Meanwhile the Willows didn't show much brain. Well the males in the family are rather brainless (although Nestor managed to save his life again, this time his virtual life in New Cap City) , but even Clarice who is the thinking one in the household didn't catch the hint about Zoe-A being part of the game she despises. Amanda's camera must have caught it though along with the post-kill talk about Marbeth. Amanda is Jordan Durham's better asset now that Singh have set Internal Affairs upon him because of Marbeth's death. Durham has stones too, he dared to say in his boss' face that he knew he was dirty and would bring him down...
Clarice's hubris is becoming more and more obvious and even Nestor seemed upset "statues of who?" he asked when they discussed the design of the afterlife, probably guessing that she would point to herself, what of course she did. The scene wasn't memorable in itself but I liked the echo of the last scene with Tamara-A and Zoe-A, as they changed (or was it Zoe only?) the design of the virtual world they lived in, thus achieving what Clarice meant to build. No longer a dark v-world but a sort of heavenly place. Two godesses arrived before Clarice, and they became icons before Clarice made statues after her own image.
The Avenging Angels thing was kinda funny, not the cheesy stuff in New Cap City per se, but the fact that they became a phenomenon in pop culture, making the news, and that t-shirts were made with their faces on. So as Daniel was walking the street (first time we see him not using his car and being driven by Sean!) he spotted one of those t-shirts. He bought it but I bet the fanboy would have given it to him for nothing!
The final scene between Daniel and Amanda, as he he revealed that Zoe-A still existed in the V-world, seemed anti-climatic after the powerful scene between the Adama brothers, but I guess they wanted to show that for both, the Adamas and the Graystones, family comes first. Will Daniel let Joseph in the know about the Avenging Angels?
Anyway Zoe is definitely Daniel's weak spot.
Finally the Adamas storyline became interesting. The brothers' background, through the flasbacks on Tauron 30 years before, was nicely done, and makes sense. We learnt that the Ha'la' tha' started as a resistance group but finally became a mob off world which reminded me both of the Irish history (the murder squads on Tauron reminded me of the ferocious Black and Tans terrorizing Ireland and I couldn't help thinking of the story of two brothers joining the resistance in Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley) and of the Sicilian mafia.
As the Guatrau's rite of passage welcoming Joseph in the Ha'La'Tha echoes the time young Yosef first got inked by his father, William,on Tauron, the brothers' childhood is showed in flashbacks and Sam's horrible guilt is revealed: the mistake that caused his parents' death and led him to a career of thief and assassin (as a boy he even tried to steal from The Guatrau's pocket!), and Yocef who was supposed to be "afraid of everything" according to his baby brother, turned out to be the strong one. Powerful final scene between the brothers with Joseph changing the rules and choosing blood over the soil. "Allow your brother his day" indeed.
The first William Adama was credible and I loved the echo to Daniel killing Vergis, young Yocef did it for his father while Daniel was tricked by his enemy to do the same thing, to return him to the soil. By the way, in the first scene as the brothers are promoted with Sam being made "captain" and Joseph officialy joining the mob, the Guatrau said somehting interesting about Joseph: he said that he was all in the eyes" always calculating". Just like Daniel.
Of course I loved the boxing scene! My boys got sweaty together and had a moment( kinda foreshadowing Apollo and Starbuck's fight in BSG season 3). Joseph who doesn't agree with The Guatrau's plan about killing Graystone, punched his opponent but couldn't help dropping a hint at his beloved Daniel. I loved the way he said his first name and the "Come on, Daniel! Fight back!". Oh and how Joseph embraced him, boxing-style, and whispered against Daniel's neck about finding his opponent's weakness otherwise he would kill him! Really the slash writes itself!
Daniel who is definitely much smarter than anyone else, of course went on research mode, understood that Joseph's warning wasn't just a boxing strategy and figured out that the weak spot in the Ha'La'Tha is Sam Adama! Daniel has got stones and plays with fire, which Sam admires, and as Amanda rightly guessed in the previous episode, he would exploit anything at hand...
Joseph probably didn't expect that Daniel would use Sam's weakness to fight back. At least for now the Adama brothers and Daniel have something in common, a war against The Guatrau.
Meanwhile the Willows didn't show much brain. Well the males in the family are rather brainless (although Nestor managed to save his life again, this time his virtual life in New Cap City) , but even Clarice who is the thinking one in the household didn't catch the hint about Zoe-A being part of the game she despises. Amanda's camera must have caught it though along with the post-kill talk about Marbeth. Amanda is Jordan Durham's better asset now that Singh have set Internal Affairs upon him because of Marbeth's death. Durham has stones too, he dared to say in his boss' face that he knew he was dirty and would bring him down...
Clarice's hubris is becoming more and more obvious and even Nestor seemed upset "statues of who?" he asked when they discussed the design of the afterlife, probably guessing that she would point to herself, what of course she did. The scene wasn't memorable in itself but I liked the echo of the last scene with Tamara-A and Zoe-A, as they changed (or was it Zoe only?) the design of the virtual world they lived in, thus achieving what Clarice meant to build. No longer a dark v-world but a sort of heavenly place. Two godesses arrived before Clarice, and they became icons before Clarice made statues after her own image.
The Avenging Angels thing was kinda funny, not the cheesy stuff in New Cap City per se, but the fact that they became a phenomenon in pop culture, making the news, and that t-shirts were made with their faces on. So as Daniel was walking the street (first time we see him not using his car and being driven by Sean!) he spotted one of those t-shirts. He bought it but I bet the fanboy would have given it to him for nothing!
The final scene between Daniel and Amanda, as he he revealed that Zoe-A still existed in the V-world, seemed anti-climatic after the powerful scene between the Adama brothers, but I guess they wanted to show that for both, the Adamas and the Graystones, family comes first. Will Daniel let Joseph in the know about the Avenging Angels?
Anyway Zoe is definitely Daniel's weak spot.