Maybe cut corners havent come into fashion yet.
Maybe it only shows up after the Cylon War.
Like to save resources or something…
wasn’t there the adama father son theme in the last ep? the bagpipes?
Bear McCreary’s blog talks about the music after each episode. He puts little snippets of the music in there, and explains all the themes for each of the characters. He also does weave some musical themes froM
BSG into Caprica. It is so interesting, you should check it out!
The biggest continuity issue in Caprica - which I’m really enjoying I’ll add - concerns the invention of resurrection technology. In BSG we were asked to believe that the entire Cylon civilization was too technically incompetent to even re-invent resurrection. Yet in Caprica a 16 year old girl invents the technology for the creation of a virtual afterlife by adding some apps to her search engine. So the Cylons, and in a sense, the Capricans, had the means to upload minds before they ever encountered the Final Five. 
I don’t expect this to be resolved satisfactorily, btw. Narrative coherence can be over-fetishized and doesn’t necessary make for interesting drama (see under ‘Hamlet’). But it’s fun to speculate.
Resurrection is memory transfer from organic to organic.
right, that is what the Cylons didn’t have.
I like how in the last episode they mentioned “This all happened before and it will happen again” mythos.
i really want to see they bring out more of the polytheist part of their belief. i mean sometimes it’s almost like the religion doesn’t play much of a part of the Capricans lives. Not that it isn’t possible, but if something like STO would anger them so much, you’d think it’s because their deep rooted belief in the gods.
I like the Vipers in this last episode better than the BSG Vipers. Much cooler.
they remind me of that futuristic auto-fighter movie that Jamie Foxx was in… pretty sweet.
I figured it wasn’t a programming issue for the remaining Cylons but a hardware issue. Zoe was able to invent the concept of creating life-like avatars only because there was a pre-existing V-World to work it. If the whole network was instantly taken out (i.e., The Hub in BSG time) then all of Zoe’s efforts would be for naught.
But if the Germans could rebuild their entire economy in less than a decade after WWII, surely a sophisticated posthuman civilization could have rebuilt a big frakking wireless router! Just another demonstration of Cylon omni-incompetence.
As for the software issue. Well, I agree that resurrection would require organic to organic transfer. But presumably that involves encoding the state vectors of the deceased cylon’s brain in some computational device prior to download. What was the point of the resurrection ships otherwise? If that’s right, Zoe had cottoned on to the most important half of the process. The Cylons could have sojourned in VR for thousands of years sorting out their download issues. They didn’t need organic bodies.
BSG is easily my favorite TV SF ever, but even I have to admit that it never attempted to be coherent about science or technology (what about the scary co-evolution of cats on Caprica and Earth?):eek:
wasn’t that all explained in the BSG mini series? They were scared of wireless technology because they were afraid they can be hacked by the Cylons. At least with wired data tx and analogue voice communication, they can monitor access points physically to prevent infiltration. Or so they thought.
Hi Hansioux
By ‘posthuman civilization’ I meant the Cylons - sorry if I was being oblique. I was wondering why they needed to ask their ‘Mum’ to rebuild the Hub, or augument their bodies for that matter. As I said, I don’t think that these questions can be answered satisfactorily, theyre just nice to speculate about. The writers of BSG obviously made a decision not to stress the scientific and technological rationale of Cylon or Colonial cultures and concentrated on interesting dramatic and philosophical material instead. For example, if the Cylons had not been retarded at the point of posthumanity or singularity they would have walked all over the colonials militarily - before developing their cognitive capacities to the point at which they wouldn’t have cared that they won.
I’m enjoying how the monotheists like Sister Clarice are looking for a technological version of the afterlife. This is setting up a nice continuity between monotheism and Cylons.
I agree that the idea of a Hub didn’t make a lot of sense after being told for years that it was the Resurrection ships that had to be in range. And most certainly the Cylons could have reverse-engineered resurrection technology.
But I don’t think that Zoe and Tamara’s avatars represent resurrection exactly. They were explained as very good copies of original personalities based on a lot of personal data pulled together. Resurrection was always explained as a transfer (as someone already said) of consciousness rather than a replication of it.