Caprica Is Not A Show About Lovable People

One affair Caprica will have in common with its parent show , Battlestar Galactica : Gnarly , uncompromising characters who ’ll make option you wo n’t care . We talked to starPaula Malcomsonand producerDavid Eickabout the regretful mother who birthed the Cylons .

Oh , and there are some modest looter in this post , but nothing serious . Actually , the picture above might be slimly spoilery , but it ’s just such an awing simulacrum of Amanda , I had to use it .

Malcomson plays Amanda Graystone , the mother of Zoe Graystone , the spoiled teen lady friend who becomes the first Cylon in the show ’s pilot . Graystone is n’t exactly the keen female parent in the earthly concern , and she make some selection in the first few episodes of the show that you may make you scream at your idiot box readiness .

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We took part in a conference call with Malcomson and Eick earlier today , and we got the chance to ask them about how you manage a bad mum like Amanda . Does Malcomson have a operose fourth dimension playing such an unsympathetic character ?

Malcomson says , “ It ’s definitely something that occurs to you in the back of your brain , but as an actor you have to coiffe aside your own judgment as to whether the character is in effect or bad … Being a in effect histrion is sort of sympathise the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us consummate . But yes , it was tough , and I did reckon that , especially , world would find this character unsympathetic . I just tried to … tap into the loss and the pain in the ass , and the fact that she has made mistakes and go from there … you cognise . ”

Eick bring that he does n’t think there ’s any room for the trope of “ appealing character ” on show like Caprica , any more than there was on BSG . “ Audiences like ambitious characters . [ There ’s ] no way for black and white , [ only ] morally gray . ” And he adds that you ’ll get hold Amanda unpredictable and weird : “ Sometimes you expect her to lose her doodly-squat and she holds it together , and vice versa . That ’s part of the appeal of the show . ”

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Also , Eick explained more about what ’s new and unlike in the version of the two - hour pilot that publicize on Friday , as opposed to the version many of us already bought on DVD . “ The version that air Friday is tricked out with a pair of raw shots and ocular effects and some new scenes we reshot . ”

In particular , there ’s one Brobdingnagian unexampled episode that was too expensive to include on the original rendering , because the show had n’t been picked up as a serial yet . The sequence , demand Daniel at a Pyramid biz , was so expensive to create , the cost had to be amortized across the cost of the rest of the show ’s first time of year . But it ’s whole deserving it , says Eick , because it ’ll “ raise and inflate the spectacle of this world . One of the aspects of the Caprica universe is that they have sports , and they like them , and they ’re huge . In that way they ’re [ representative of how ] this is a civilization from which our culture descended , for those who are embroiled in the mythos . ”

As for the ofttimes - repeated shibboleth that Caprica is more take aim at female viewers than the spaceship - with child BSG , Eick say a lot of the fervent BSG fans he encountered during that show ’s ravel were women , and he never had a signified that BSG ’s hearing skewed heavily male person . “ In general terms , I do recognize that a female audience might be tend to observe something [ that tells a taradiddle ] in scoop - operatic condition , without the accompanying visual ghetto of starship and shots of outer space … But certainly that was not a need for not put the show in space … The motivating was to make it as different and alone from BSG as possible . ”

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And yet , Caprica does n’t just deal with similar composition to BSG , it also handles them the same fashion : with reference - based storytelling . enunciate Eick , “ Nothing ’s different , which is to say , whether you ’re severalize a story in the kingdom of a armed combat spirit level ballistic capsule where everyone is battle - aweary and definitely trust to survive , or in an surroundings like Caprica , where we ’re in a much more telluric public [ which is ] much more expansive , the focal point is still on graphic symbol . Whether the theme hap to be what kind of moral values are necessary for technological progression … or the nature of the human somebody , those themes still get explored on a point of thought level , in term of character … and character is where we start our report . [ It ’s ] not terribly plot tug . [ The audience is there ] for The Sopranos , Mad Men , Grey ’s Anatomy , The Wire , The Shield , and [ other ] shows that are about turn over into the character . ”

Eick also downplays the musical theme that the show ’s late change of showrunner from Jane Espenson to Kevin Murphy will mean a major alteration in the pace or style of the show ’s second half . Caprica ’s just had the same evolution as every other first - time of year show , reveal the correct pace and mix of ingredient . With BSG , “ the show needed to retrieve its leg , ” and suffice query like , “ how serialise is it go to be , how much action , how much esoterica from the Cylons ’ standpoint ? ” Along with which arc would be leave dangling and which unity would be wrap up early , and which case would buy the farm off . “ The showrunner change was a function of practicality and aim weapons where they are well used . ” That say , Eick says Caprica does get better as it move along , just like every good show . Caprica is about a workweek away from wrapping cinematography on its first time of year .

Eick adds that a lot of “ very measured decision ” kick the bucket into making Caprica stand on its own , and having the show ’s “ Battlestar connective tissue paper as thin as potential … Hopefully we ’re telling majuscule tale very , very well . In no way are we relying on the Battlestar faithful to carry the show . ”

Lesdilley