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Caprica DVD
(Tuesday, Apr. 21, 2009)
Making this DVD available is like dangling a beautiful drug in front of a Battlestar Galactica fan who’s suffered withdrawal since the show’s swan song a month ago. BG addicts, rejoice! Naturally, we’re all aware that a prequel called Caprica is in the works, set to debut in 2010. Buy this DVD: Get the uncut, unrated 93-minute pilot of the upcoming series. The Graystone and Adama families, led by its usually combative patriarchs (Eric Stolz plays the Caprican roboticist Daniel Graystone and Esai Morales plays Tauron lawyer Joseph Adama), are drawn together when both families become the target of a terrorist attack. It’s expected that the show will hover over the tension between science and religion, the heightened strain of racism and, of course, the bizarre effects on humanity in a sub-world populated with ‘bots. Set 58 years prior to the Cylons’ attack on mortals, it’s a thinking series vs. a shoot-’em-up-and-blow-’em-out actioner. However, that isn’t to say that it couldn’t and won’t be both …
YESTERDAY’S DO-IT: Knights + elves + magical crucibles!
