Caprica: The Feature Length Pilot [DVD]

Product Description An astonishing breakthrough is taking shape on the planet Caprica. The rapidly evolving spheres of human and mechanical engineering have collided, along with the fates of two families. Joined by tragedy in an explosive instant of terror, two rival clans led by powerful patriarchs, Joseph Adama (Esai Morales, Jericho) and Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz, The Butterfly Effect), duel in an era of questionable ethics, corporate machinations and unbridled personal ambition as the final war for humanity looms. The latest phenomenon from the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eick), set in a time over 50 years earlier, Caprica is entirely its own world – provocative, thrilling and startlingly relevant to our own. Special Features: Feature Commentary with Director Jeffrey Reiner, Executive Producer/Writer Ronald D. Moore and Executive Producer David Eick Deleted Scenes Video Blogs Amazon.co.uk Review How do you follow a show of the scale, magnitude and ambition of Battlestar Galactica? The answer, as demonstrated with Caprica, is that you don’t. Instead, you go down the prequel route and instead explore what happened in the same world, just decades before the events we’ve already seen. It’s a fairly bold move, too, given that Caprica is inevitably going to draw Battlestar comparisons within minutes of the credits rolling for the first time. And the show’s creators aren’t shy about it, either. The language and some of the imagery of Battlestar are tattooed right through this extended pilot episode of Caprica, and it ultimately does the show no harm whatsoever. That said, it’s not long before it’s heading off on its own path, and the story soon focuses on two families. There’s Daniel Graystone--played by Eric Stoltz--and his wife and daughter, a family dripping in wealth and importance. Then there are the street-smart Adamas, led by Joseph, along with his wife, daughter and son. It takes a tragic event that puts the Graystones and Adamas on a collision course, and Caprica begins to address this expertly. With typically high production values, the events and ramifications of the pilot episode alone soon lead to a cliffhanger that’ll leave most Battlestar fans drooling. But fortunately, Caprica works well without that foreknowledge too, and emerges as a confident, mature piece of science fiction. Long may it continue… --Jon Foster