Comments on: Caprica: The Imperfections of Memory

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:22:11 +0000

To me it seems like Lacy is trying to manipulate Keon, but she knows how wrong it is and that knowledge makes her really bad at the execution of it. She's trying to be Zoe in the situations that Zoe can't be present for, except that she's always been Zoe's sidekick and doesn't really know how to be front-and-center.

I think that under different, non-STO circumstances, Lacy and Keon really could be good friends.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:37:19 +0000

I really like GrandmAdama. She's traditionally Tauron, and doesn't hold back her opinions, even when Joseph is appalled by them. She needs to be around more. So does Evelyn, but that's mostly because I just love Teryl Rothery no matter what she does.

As for Clarice, I agree that she's calculating, but I think she — like Barnabas — is too consumed by her zealotry to be truly "level". They're both often outwardly calm, but they seem to put too little value on individual human lives for my tastes. In fact, from what little we've seen of the STO leadership, the whole movement comes across as dismissive on the subject. Clarice may not be screaming in the sense of being loud, but she's definitely talking the crazy talk and her spouses hear it pretty clearly.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:40:07 +0000

I feel like Caprica, overall, is doing a better job with writing women who aren't so crazed and needy. Zoe and Clarice are both level and calculating. Willy Adama's grandmother, in the few scenes we've seen her, has been a picture of stalwart perseverance. Amanda appears to be the lone screamer so far.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:30:01 +0000

I get the impression that the actual Zoe could have been interested in Philo because, although their ends are different, they're equals intellectually. At least on the engineering side of things. I'm anticipating some emotional conflict on that front. Lacy. . . I don't know about her. I agree that the Lacy/ Keon thing seems forced, but I can't decide if it's a character issue or an acting issue.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:26:09 +0000

I love some of my machines too! Not that anything is wrong with that because I try to be kind to all "living things."

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:15:06 +0000

However, I think the female crazy is always presented as a positive, while the male crazy is presented as sinister. I don't know if that makes it better for you or not, but the women, in their crazy, are still usually seen to be the "voices of reason" pulling the men back, or warning them against danger.

Since they are so strongly rooted in Greek myth, all the women on these two shows seem to be Cassandras in one way or the other. Screaming the truth at the top of their lungs, but no one believes them, and they are only SEEN as crazy by the men around them.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:09:00 +0000

Ha! My perfect V-World date? Ha'la'tha blade training.

As for "using the vadge", I actually don't think that Lacy's doing it in as calculated a manner as you seem to think, and I think that it's a weak choice in both cases. Re: Zoe – I actually liked the fact that she seemed genuinely interested in geek boy, and that her feelings about using him might be conflicted. But in this episode, it seemed purely a means to an end, which makes that story less complex. As for Lacy/Keon, Lacy's interest in Keon has always seemed really forced to me, too unearned to be a strong choice, whether it's a calculated move or not. I dunno…

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:10:53 +0000

I'm not sure if she actually has romantic feelings for Philo, but Zoe certainly seems fond of our resident lab geek. Whether that means she'll eventually regret using him to achieve her own ends remains to be seen, though. The whole Graystone clan seems to be a bit sociopathic like that.

I was starting to work up a good rant about all the crazy people in BSG / Caprica being women, but that's not true. It's just that the men in this universe hide their crazy better. Between Baltar, Tyrol, and Gaeta, there was plenty of male insanity in the fleet, but they were all repressive about it while Starbuck, Roslin, and now Amanda have very public screaming fits. (Well, okay, Baltar screamed some, but he at least tried to cover it.) That strikes me as kind of odd, since the world of the Colonies isn't supposed to be gendered in the same way our world is, yet the writers are kind of falling into Earth-based characterizations.