After watching Caprica last night and listening to the latest 'cast this morning, this is what pops into my brain:
What kind of Boob Report will Audra have for this?
:eek:
My thinking exactly - why didn’t he just make a back-up? It’s only 300 megabytes! You could fit that onto a CD-ROM!
I couldn’t have said it any better myself! Or if not a CD-ROM, maybe one of those hard drives that Topher uses in Dollhouse. If a human consciousness really is just 300MB worth of ones and zeros, there shouldn’t be anything stopping people from cloning a person into multiple avatars. And making backups!
What I’m really curious about is how exactly Zoe downloaded the contents of her mind to create her avatar.
The way I’m looking at why CyberZoe was more of an adapted, fully functioning person than CyberTamara (that was her name, right? I know Joseph called her “Tammy” at some point) was because BioZoe was trying to link herself to CyberZoe. There was already emotional feedback going on, imperfect as it was, since CyberZoe felt BioZoe die. I’m also very intrigued by the “Is she/isn’t she really Zoe” plot. I’m looking at her more as Zoe’s daughter than Zoe or Zoe’s clone. A functional creation based on a template with experiences distinct from the original’s, and whether or not you think she’s a person at all is probably relative to how you felt about whether the Cylons of BSG are people or not–made, but capable of independent thought and emotions.
There’s so much I want to gush about, but it would take forever to write. Did anyone start crying when they first showed William (I want to say Bill because that’s what everyone called him in BSG but he’s not that person yet, or else Adama because that’s what I was so used to calling him but his dad’s also Adama now, making things 100% more confusing when I try and talk about the show) because you realized that in about sixty or sixty-one years he’d be living alone in a hut next to the dead woman he loved? Depressing 
ETA: Also, did anyone else freak out when they realized that the Graystones’ house was Baltar’s house?
I don’t know if anyone else got this impression, but watching the Caprica pilot for me was a lot like watching The Phantom Menace in that you got to see a lot of the cultural and technical underpinnings of the later series. You get to the Caprica in its glory days before the Cylons rebel (like the Empire before the Sith take it over), you get to see Bill Adama as a little kid like baby Anakin, you get to see the origins of monotheism in the Cylons like the origins of the Empire’s Death Star plans. There’s something just really cool about seeing the history and back story of a series that answers a lot of the “why?” questions about how things got to be the way they did in the older series (well, at least older in our universe).
And before anyone flames me for it, yes I know that the acting and scripts used in the Star Wars prequels were really, really bad compared to BSG, Caprica, and episodes 4-6. 
Good Save…LOL
I noticed that too. I’m wondering if that was just them reusing the set or if they are actually saying that Baltar lived in the same house that the Graystones used to occupy.
She said how she was able to create the copy.
The entire sum of her recorded existence was used, everything from medical records, to shopping lists, to what birth control she uses.
In the commentary RDM and David talk about how the working is that if you lived in a world where everything about you is recorded, and if you took all that data you could make a copy that not only looks like you, but has the same thoughts and ideas. Its really interesting.
I thought so but really didn’t know for sure.
It’s not a set, it’s a practical movie house. RDM said on one of his podcasts that it’s used for tv & movies a lot & once they had to change a script cos some other company was using the house to shoot in.
I’;ve never noticed it in anything but BSG stuff tho.
I actually shouted out, “bagpipes of filial devotion! bagpipes of filial devotion!”
I did, particularly one shot from below the deck, but was it really? I am intrigued.
Frakkin’ loved the pilot. I have one question that I feel was left hanging: At the Z club in the beginning, Zoe said that Zoe 2.0 was going to “change” everything… Z2 was down by the stage where the club virgins were being sacrificed, and I got the sense that she was supposed to go up on the stage. She freaked and “de-rezed.” So, what was the initial mission Z2 was on to ‘change everything?’ Did I just miss something in the pilot? I’ve only watched once so far.
ZK
I haven’t seen the pilot yet, but I have this thing for Baltar’s house and I’ll give you the website of the architect with pictures!
It’s on a road called Tidewater, off Sea-to-Sky Highway north of Vancouver. (Horseshoe bay or something?)
Site with pics here (don’t forget to hit “Additional photos”)
The architect also posts a magazine spread of the same house (I think) here
Some of his work looks the same, but it’s all beautiful!
This might have been mentioned by someone else, sorry if it has. We as of now have a complete new cast in Caprica. There could be a fun way to tie into BSG and it could make total sense.
[spoiler]
We know of the different skinjobs and how they were created for the most part. My postulation is who are some or most of them based on. I could see Grace Park or Tricia Helfer as lets say Lab assistants working on the new line of cylons. You could also have the actors who played Leoben and Simon in there to. It could give a base of the future cylon lines. Would also be a great way to explain back story for the 6’s and 8’s ect. The only one I could not see would be Cavil. Seeing how this was based on Ellen’s long dead yet new again father.[/spoiler]
If I’m proved right after the series I’ll be soo stoked.
Maybe that could work out if the Centurions remembered the original lab workers or something. But personally I got the impression from the end of BSG that the FF created the skinjobs from scratch. I don’t think they knew any humans at the time of the first Cylon war.
i just lol’ed milkshake onto my keyboard.
thanks!
been there, near where you can drive the car on to a ferry, breath taking place.
awesome question. I wonder about that too… what could Zoe2 do that will change the behaviors in the V club?
I wish I could remember what podcast it was in, but he spent about 15 minutes talking about the house and how in one of Baltar’s “dreams” they were gonna build a set of the destroyed house. It was all very interesting.
that…was awesome
I just got the DVD from Netflix and I really enjoyed it.