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''Caprica'' is a [[SpinOff spin-off]] set in the same universe as the ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' re-imagining. It is a [[PrequelInTheLostAge prequel set 58 years before the Destruction of the 12 Colonies]], mainly on the titular planet Caprica. The pilot episode was released on DVD in April 2009, and the first season premiered in January 2010.
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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Zoe in the series finale.]]
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:When she's fighting Tamara's minions in the New Cap City Arena, Zoe-A is mentored by another angelic being, which uses the same form as her.]]
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Taurons. They're like "Space Mediterraneans", with elements of Greek, Sicilian, and Spanish culture popping up. The tattoos and rap, however, are very Mexican--and the most notable Taurons are played by Latino actors (Esai Morales is of Puerto Rican ancestry, while Edward James Olmos is of course Mexican).
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* KissMeImVirtual: Zoe Graystone to Philomon.
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* KissMeImVirtual: Zoe-A goes on a date with Philomon by claiming she's a real person outside of V-World who's just using the image of the dead Zoe Graystone to Philomon.for her virtual avatar, instead of revealing that she's a virtual copy of Zoe.
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* [[SpaceJews Space Mexicans]]: The Taurons.
** In total fairness, they're more like "Space Mediterraneans," with elements of Greek, Sicilian, and Spanish culture popping up. The tattoos and rap, however, are very Mexican--and the most notable Taurons are played by Latino actors (Esai Morales is of Puerto Rican ancestry, while EdwardJamesOlmos is of course Mexican).
** In total fairness, they're more like "Space Mediterraneans," with elements of Greek, Sicilian, and Spanish culture popping up. The tattoos and rap, however, are very Mexican--and the most notable Taurons are played by Latino actors (Esai Morales is of Puerto Rican ancestry, while EdwardJamesOlmos is of course Mexican).
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* ManlyGay: Sam, as established in the very first episode where, shirtless, he flexes his rippling tattooed muscles before slashing the throat of a government minister. Beating people up, causing property damage and the occasional assassination are his trade. His husband has learned to put up with it, but still has ground rules:
-->'''Sam:''' Larry hates it when I come home bloody.
-->'''Sam:''' Larry hates it when I come home bloody.
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* DeadLittleSister: Amanda Graystone's brother.
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* HumansAreBastards: The Soldiers of the One, the Ha'la'tha, Heracs and Tauron Democratic Government are the most extreme examples. Other examples include the widespread Caprican use of the racist epithet "dirt eater" to describe Taurons and anti-monotheist bigotry on the part of the polytheist majority. Then again, the monotheists routinely murder each other to gain position within their church, in addition to carrying terrorist attacks against polytheists. Thus the trope is played very straight with the seeming absence of genuinely good people.
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* HumansAreBastards: The Soldiers of the One, the Ha'la'tha, Heracs and Tauron Democratic Government are the most extreme examples. Other examples include the widespread Caprican use of the racist epithet "dirt eater" to describe Taurons and anti-monotheist bigotry on the part of the polytheist majority. Then again, the monotheists routinely murder each other to gain position within their church, in addition to carrying out terrorist attacks against polytheists. Thus the trope is played very straight with the seeming absence of genuinely good people.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: The monotheistic religion. In particular there is a strong flavor of Medieval Roman Catholicism to their church architecture. They also have a (female) pontiff and something similar to cardinals.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: The monotheistic religion. In particular there is a strong flavor of Medieval Roman Catholicism to their church architecture. They also have a (female) pontiff and something similar to cardinals. Clarice's V-World meetings with her anonymous STO contact bear a distinct resemblance to a Confessional.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: The monotheistic religion. In particular there is a strong flavor of Medieval Roman Catholicism to their church architecture. They also have a (female) pontiff and something similar to cardinals.
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* TearJerker: "False Labor"(1x13) Daniel interacts constantly with the avatar of his wife that he made. In one such occasion, he [[spoiler: confesses his crimes to her, and she says she forgives him. Daniel Greystone, who has shown bouts of anger scarcely before, proceeds to verbally abuse the avatar (who genuinely doesn't understand why he's doing any of this) and when asked what he wants, he grabs her by the throat, throws her onto the couch, screaming: "I want you to be REAL! I want you to be HER! My real wife would never forgive me like that - she would call me on all my crap, and walk straight out that door, and probably never come back!"]] Why this is such a hard moment is because [[spoiler: Daniel isn't only confessing what he did, he's also baring, essentially, that he ''knows'' Amanda is right in not coming back home.]]
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* TeensAreShort: Hard to tell with the frequent wearing of heels, but Zoe seems to be distinctly shorter than her parents. Then again, she also [[ChocolateBaby does not really resemble her parents either]].
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* HumansAreBastards: The STO, Ha'la'tha, Heracs and Tauron Democratic Government are the most extreme examples. Other examples include the widespread use of the racist epithet "dirt eater" and anti-monotheist bigotry.
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* HumansAreBastards: The STO, Soldiers of the One, the Ha'la'tha, Heracs and Tauron Democratic Government are the most extreme examples. Other examples include the widespread Caprican use of the racist epithet "dirt eater" to describe Taurons and anti-monotheist bigotry.bigotry on the part of the polytheist majority. Then again, the monotheists routinely murder each other to gain position within their church, in addition to carrying terrorist attacks against polytheists. Thus the trope is played very straight with the seeming absence of genuinely good people.
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* EternalSexualFreedom: Played with, possibly to the point of being a DeconstructedTrope. The Colonial society is based on an ancient Greek one, thus alternative sexuality is A-Ok.
** The episode ''Rebirth'' adds to this by revealing that Sister Clarice has a group marriage which, while unusual, is quite legal.
** The episode ''Rebirth'' adds to this by revealing that Sister Clarice has a group marriage which, while unusual, is quite legal.
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* EternalSexualFreedom: Played with, possibly to the point of being a DeconstructedTrope. The Colonial society is based on an ancient Greek one, thus alternative sexuality is A-Ok.
A-Ok. Also to some extent a case of RealityIsUnrealistic, as ''Caprica'' was filmed in Canada, where a marriage between two men (such as Sam and Larry) would in fact be legal even in the real world, thus making this a non-fantastical element of the culture except to viewers in places with different marriage laws.
**The Played more straight as revealed in the episode ''Rebirth'' adds to this by revealing that Sister Clarice has a group marriage which, while unusual, is apparently quite legal.
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* FootFocus: Amanda Graystone gets the few FootFocus moments on the show.
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* RecycledInSpace: A comment made by Ron Moore essentially sums up this series as ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' meets ''Series/TheSopranos'' meets ''{{Rome}}'' IN SPACE. Basically, you know, a FamilyDrama, AS CYBERPUNK!
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* RecycledInSpace: A comment made by Ron Moore essentially sums up this series as ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' meets ''Series/TheSopranos'' meets ''{{Rome}}'' ''Series/{{Rome}}'' IN SPACE. Basically, you know, a FamilyDrama, AS CYBERPUNK!
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* ExactProgressBar: Averted in "Things We Lock Away". [[spoiler: The "Zoe Avatar" loader runs smoothly to 95% and then, akin to an annoying file copy operation in Windows, it appears to stall and Zoe, annoyed, barks, "Come on!" - at that point, the bar goes straight from 95% to 100%.]]
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** Also, Tamara Adama pulls this off briefly at the end of ''There Is Another Sky'', [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome allowed her to "de-res" the avatars of the player gang that was attempting to manipulate her]]]].
* OneSceneWonder: William B Davis (The Cigarette Smoking Man) as the Minister of Defense in the pilot.
* OneSceneWonder: William B Davis (The Cigarette Smoking Man) as the Minister of Defense in the pilot.
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** Also, Tamara Adama pulls this off briefly at the end of ''There Is Another Sky'', [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[spoiler:which allowed her to "de-res" the avatars of the player gang that was attempting to manipulate her]]]].
* OneSceneWonder: William B Davis (The Cigarette Smoking Man) as the Minister of Defense in the pilot.her]].
* OneSceneWonder: William B Davis (The Cigarette Smoking Man) as the Minister of Defense in the pilot.
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** WordOfGod (through a video blog on Hulu) describe it as {{Gattaca}} [[XMeetsY meets]] DarkCity.
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** WordOfGod (through a video blog on Hulu) describe it as {{Gattaca}} ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] DarkCity.''Film/DarkCity''.
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* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Clarice is married to multiple men and women, who are all married to each other. This is implied to be unusual but perfectly legal.
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* ActorAllusion: "End of Line" features an unusual example, which is also a borderline ContinuityNod and HeyItsThatVoice. The episode's soundtrack is an operatic piece, and its male vocal sings a lyrical ''lament'' that mirrors the despair of [[spoiler:Amanda Graystone]]. The identity of this singer? Alessandro Juliani, well known to BSG fans as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3gY48pxjA Lt. Felix Gaeta]].
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** It's hard to believe that it isn't an ActorAllusion for [[JamesMarsters Barnabas]] to address Clarice as "[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]]".
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** It's hard to believe that it isn't an ActorAllusion for [[JamesMarsters Barnabas]] to address Clarice as "[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer "[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]]".
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* FinalDeath: If you die in Cap City, you can't login again.
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** Closer to Space Sicilians, though in closer inspection their culture is closer to Greek.
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->'''Joseph:''' I want you to know who you are. We come from a long, proud line of Tauron peasants who knew how to work the land and still stand proud. You're named after your grandfather. Did I ever tell you that? ...William. He was killed during the Tauron uprising. Our last name isn't Adams. I changed it after I arrived here on Caprica. Our family name is Adama. ADAMA. And it's a good, honorable Tauron name.
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->'''Joseph:''' I want you to know who you are. We come from a long, proud line of Tauron peasants who knew how to work the land and still stand proud. You're named after your grandfather. Did I ever tell you that? ...William. He was killed during the Tauron uprising. Our last name isn't Adams. I changed it after I arrived here on Caprica. Our family name is Adama. ADAMA. And it's a good, honorable Tauron name.
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* AnachronismStew: Of course, series is set on another planet, but we have clothes from the fifties, more or less modern-looking cars, futuristic flying machines, absolutely modern-looking computers and cell phones alongside with futuristic but more or less realistic computer systems, Turing test-passing robots and a virtual reality device which apparently affects the brain directly and creates incredibly realistic pictures.
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* AnachronismStew: Of course, series is set on another planet, but we have clothes from the fifties, more or less modern-looking cars, futuristic flying machines, absolutely modern-looking computers and cell phones alongside with futuristic but more or less realistic computer systems, Turing test-passing robots and a virtual reality device which apparently affects the brain directly and creates incredibly realistic pictures.
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* BrandX: "New Cap City" = ''GrandTheftAuto''.
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* BrandX: "New Cap City" = ''GrandTheftAuto''.''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.
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** In "The Heavens Will Rise," Amanda makes a reference to a medical practitioner named Cottle when discussing the fate of [[Agent Durham]]. No doubt, this is a forebear or older relative of Galactica's Doc Cottle.
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* CyberPunkIsTechno: The clothing is given a 1950s look, but the music is techno.
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* CyberPunkIsTechno: The clothing is given a 1950s look, but the music is techno.
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* DawsonCasting: High school-aged Zoe Graystone and Lacy Rand are played by Alessandra Torresani and Magda Apanowicz, who are both in their twenties. Genevieve Beuchner is a borderline case, being 18 while playing 16 year old Tamara.
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* DawsonCasting: High school-aged Zoe Graystone and Lacy Rand are played by Alessandra Torresani and Magda Apanowicz, who are both in their twenties. Genevieve Beuchner is a borderline case, being 18 while playing 16 year old Tamara.
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* EverybodySmokes: And it fits the retro-future setting even better than ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.
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* EverybodySmokes: And it fits the retro-future setting even better than ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.
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** Joseph Adama pretty much has ContractualImmortality - Considering the interactions he is described as having had with Lee Adama and Romo Lampkin later in his life, he will probably never be in any serious mortal danger (from the audience's point of view) during the time setting of ''Caprica''.
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** Joseph Adama pretty much has ContractualImmortality - Considering the interactions he is described as having had with Lee Adama and Romo Lampkin later in his life, he will probably never be in any serious mortal danger (from the audience's point of view) during the time setting of ''Caprica''.
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** And nearing the finale of the first half-season he once again shows himself to be completely blind to the genre when he [[spoiler: uploads his daughters virtual-ghost into the Cylon prototype. It all goes horribly wrong and for awhile he thinks her avatar is dead yet later he begins to suspect she is still in the body.]] So what does he do? [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon Tortures the Cylon prototype by setting it on fire and forcing her to]] literally [[ShootTheDog Shoot The Dog]].]] [[SarcasmMode That totally is not going to come back and bite you in the ass Dan.]]
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** And nearing the finale of the first half-season he once again shows himself to be completely blind to the genre when he [[spoiler: uploads his daughters virtual-ghost into the Cylon prototype. It all goes horribly wrong and for awhile he thinks her avatar is dead yet later he begins to suspect she is still in the body.]] So what does he do? [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon Tortures the Cylon prototype by setting it on fire and forcing her to]] literally [[ShootTheDog Shoot The Dog]].ShootTheDog.]] [[SarcasmMode That totally is not going to come back and bite you in the ass Dan.]]
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Somewhat justified: The last time she spoke to Zoe was on very bad terms which clearly becomes an immense source of {{Survivor Guilt}} for her. Add this to the fact that she had recently learned many things about Zoe that she previously did not know: that she had a boyfriend, that she had plans to leave, that she was a monotheist etc... Her [[spoiler: admission of Zoe's guilt]] was most likely caused by a {{Heroic BSOD}} and not a planned or even rationally-thought act.
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Somewhat justified: The last time she spoke to Zoe was on very bad terms which clearly becomes an immense source of {{Survivor Guilt}} SurvivorGuilt for her. Add this to the fact that she had recently learned many things about Zoe that she previously did not know: that she had a boyfriend, that she had plans to leave, that she was a monotheist etc... Her [[spoiler: admission of Zoe's guilt]] was most likely caused by a {{Heroic BSOD}} and not a planned or even rationally-thought act.
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* MatrixRainingCode: Caprica emulates the Cylon example from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'', and explains it as being a human (well, colonial human) programming language, specifically the one Zoe used to create her AI. Here, it's orange/red, rains upwards, and when it hits the top row it gets pinballed to the right where it's presumably "executed".
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* MatrixRainingCode: Caprica emulates the Cylon example from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'', and explains it as being a human (well, colonial human) programming language, specifically the one Zoe used to create her AI. Here, it's orange/red, rains upwards, and when it hits the top row it gets pinballed to the right where it's presumably "executed".
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* MsFanservice: Zoe is a borderline case, made a little bit creepy by her character's apparent age, only to be made [[DawsonCasting a little bit more comfortable by her actress]]'. In many episodes, particularly early on, she has a tendency to wear ''very'' {{Stripperific}} outfits and she even appears ''naked'' at one point, though this was clearly intended to represent her vulnerability ([[FetishFuel though this can still be sexy]]). [[http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r170/meshel73/Caprica/CapricaPoster_07.jpg Particularly exemplified in promotional posters for the show]] (combined with HowDoYouLikeThemApples, BoobsAndButtPose, and HandOrObjectUnderwear--a veritable buffet of {{Fanservice}}).
* MythologyGag: From the pilot - Obviously, the Centurion prototype saying "By your command."
* MythologyGag: From the pilot - Obviously, the Centurion prototype saying "By your command."
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* MsFanservice: Zoe is a borderline case, made a little bit creepy by her character's apparent age, only to be made [[DawsonCasting a little bit more comfortable by her actress]]'. In many episodes, particularly early on, she has a tendency to wear ''very'' {{Stripperific}} outfits and she even appears ''naked'' at one point, though this was clearly intended to represent her vulnerability ([[FetishFuel though this can still be sexy]]). [[http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r170/meshel73/Caprica/CapricaPoster_07.jpg Particularly exemplified in promotional posters for the show]] (combined with HowDoYouLikeThemApples, BoobsAndButtPose, and HandOrObjectUnderwear--a veritable buffet of {{Fanservice}}).
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* MythologyGag: From the pilot - Obviously, the Centurion prototype saying "By your command.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Zoe-A and Tamara-A are {{Digital Avatar}}s / {{Virtual Ghost}}s of Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama, [[DeathByOriginStory both of whom were killed in a terrorist attack at the beginning of the story]].
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* PosthumousCharacter: Zoe-A and Tamara-A are {{Digital Avatar}}s / {{Virtual Ghost}}s of Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama, [[DeathByOriginStory both of whom were killed in a terrorist attack at the beginning of the story]].
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* RecycledInSpace: A comment made by Ron Moore essentially sums up this series as ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' meets ''TheSopranos'' meets ''{{Rome}}'' IN SPACE. Basically, you know, a FamilyDrama, AS CYBERPUNK!
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* RecycledInSpace: A comment made by Ron Moore essentially sums up this series as ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' meets ''TheSopranos'' ''Series/TheSopranos'' meets ''{{Rome}}'' IN SPACE. Basically, you know, a FamilyDrama, AS CYBERPUNK!
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* RetCon: And how. [[spoiler: When Admiral Adama mentions his mother in BSG he never mentions that she was killed in a terrorist bombing and he never mentions a sister at all. Joseph Adama, said to have spent his life with crooks and fiends to understand their motivations is made into a shady mob lawyer who's in the process of chickening out of attending to Tauron mob trials. The first Colonial Cylon - though not the first Cylon ever, as BSG viewers know there were Cylons on Kobol but the human characters of ''Caprica'' don't - is presented as a young girl accidentally stuck in a robot's body; the said girl is part of an extremist religious cult who basically spouts "One True God" rhetoric Cylons and Baltarists were known for in the BSG series, but the cult's followers were either non-existent in the BSG or were never mentioned for some inexplicable reason. The existence of the cult, and the fact that its members killed Adama's family, is never mentioned, even when Baltar basically restarts it. Further confounding is the fact that Zoe is never seen, nor mentioned in the BSG by anyone. We always knew the Colonials downgraded their tech after the Cylon War, but ''Caprica'' shows levels eclipsing the Battlestar Pegasus.]]
** This is the Revision version of Retcon, however, not the Rewrite. See the Retcon page for the distinction.
** This is the Revision version of Retcon, however, not the Rewrite. See the Retcon page for the distinction.
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* RetCon: {{Retcon}}: And how. [[spoiler: When Admiral Adama mentions his mother in BSG he never mentions that she was killed in a terrorist bombing and he never mentions a sister at all. Joseph Adama, said to have spent his life with crooks and fiends to understand their motivations is made into a shady mob lawyer who's in the process of chickening out of attending to Tauron mob trials. The first Colonial Cylon - though not the first Cylon ever, as BSG viewers know there were Cylons on Kobol but the human characters of ''Caprica'' don't - is presented as a young girl accidentally stuck in a robot's body; the said girl is part of an extremist religious cult who basically spouts "One True God" rhetoric Cylons and Baltarists were known for in the BSG series, but the cult's followers were either non-existent in the BSG or were never mentioned for some inexplicable reason. The existence of the cult, and the fact that its members killed Adama's family, is never mentioned, even when Baltar basically restarts it. Further confounding is the fact that Zoe is never seen, nor mentioned in the BSG by anyone. We always knew the Colonials downgraded their tech after the Cylon War, but ''Caprica'' shows levels eclipsing the Battlestar Pegasus.]]
** This is the Revision version of Retcon, however, not the Rewrite. See the Retcon page for the distinction.
** This is the Revision version of Retcon, however, not the Rewrite. See the Retcon page for the distinction.
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* TheRuleOfFirstAdopters: Lacy and Daniel discuss the Holoband, essentially an easy on, easy off, voluntary {{Matrix}}. [[TheInternetIsForPorn Guess who]] first adopted the technology.
-->'''Lacy:''' Oh, please. The porn sites were the first to license the technology.
-->'''Lacy:''' Oh, please. The porn sites were the first to license the technology.
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* TheRuleOfFirstAdopters: Lacy and Daniel discuss the Holoband, essentially an easy on, easy off, voluntary {{Matrix}}.[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]. [[TheInternetIsForPorn Guess who]] first adopted the technology.
-->'''Lacy:''' Oh, please. The porn sites were the first to license the technology.
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*** And has just (10/27/10) been completely canned, up to and including removing all future episodes from the lineup until sometime in 2011, which will end the series at that point. Ouch.
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* SenseiForScoundrels: Sam Adama tries to be this to his nephew William.
** Although we all know that [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined some of the tips are going to be used for a greater good in the future.]]
** Although we all know that [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined some of the tips are going to be used for a greater good in the future.]]
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* SenseiForScoundrels: Sam Adama tries to be this to his nephew William.
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** Although we all know that [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined some of the tips are going to be used for a greater good in the future.]] ]]
** Although we all know that [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined some of the tips are going to be used for a greater good in the future.
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** In the Adamas house a poster features a [[FinalFantasyVII spiky-haired sword-wielding]] [[{{Expy}} Storm.]]
* [[SpaceJews Space Mexicans]]: The Taurons.
** Closer to Space Sicilians, though in closer inspection their culture is closer to Greek.
* [[SpaceJews Space Mexicans]]: The Taurons.
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** In the Adamas house a poster features a [[FinalFantasyVII [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII spiky-haired sword-wielding]] [[{{Expy}} Storm.]]
* [[SpaceJews Space Mexicans]]: TheTaurons.
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** Closer to Space Sicilians, though in closer inspection their culture is closer to Greek.
* [[SpaceJews Space Mexicans]]: The
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: This pretty much sums up the look on [[spoiler:Clarice's]] face when she meets the new Blessed Mother in "The Shape of Things to Come".
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: This pretty much sums up the look on [[spoiler:Clarice's]] [[spoiler:Clarice]]'s face when she meets the new Blessed Mother in "The Shape of Things to Come".
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** Another possible explanation is that the programming that makes Zoe-A sound like Zoe in V-world has adapted itself to the voice synthesizer in the robot body, just as she has adapted to moving in her new robot body.
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** WordOfGod (through a video blog on Hulu) describe it as {{Gattaca}} [[XMeetsY meets]] DarkCity.
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* CradleOfLoneliness: Subverted in the pilot. Greystone asking to be able to hold Avatar-Zoe in his arms seems like a variation of the holding the body of a dead loved one, but it's just a trick so that he can trap her.
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->'''Daniel Graystone:''' Listen to me, okay? We'll talk about this later.
->'''Zoe Graystone's Holographic Avatar:''' When are you gonna realize that later is too late? When did you ever listen? Ever want to listen? You and Mom, you knew it all. Your arrogance was killing your daughter. And that's how you lost her. Not to some bomb.
->'''Joseph:''' I want you to know who you are. We come from a long, proud line of Tauron peasants who knew how to work the land and still stand proud. You're named after your grandfather. Did I ever tell you that? ...William. He was killed during the Tauron uprising. Our last name isn't Adams. I changed it after I arrived here on Caprica. Our family name is Adama. ADAMA. And it's a good, honorable Tauron name.
''Caprica'' is a [[SpinOff spin-off]] set in the same universe as the ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' re-imagining. It is a [[PrequelInTheLostAge prequel set 58 years before the Destruction of the 12 Colonies]], mainly on the titular planet Caprica. The pilot episode was released on DVD in April 2009, and the first season premiered in January 2010.
Though set in the same universe, ''Caprica'' has a [[GenreShift much different look and feel]] from its predecessor. Set in an urban environment rather than in space, Caprica focuses on political, corporate, and familial intrigue, and tells the tale of a decadent society that doesn't realize that it's about to run headlong over a cliff. The story of ''Caprica'' centers around the families of Daniel Graystone, a computer engineer and entrepreneur and creator of the Cylon robots, and Joseph Adama, a lawyer and father to ''Galactica'''s William Adama. Recurring themes in the show explore artificial intelligence, robotics, religion and ethnicity. ''Caprica'' tells the backstory of the re-imagined series, and the story behind the creation of the Cylons.
The show was canceled during its first and only season, concluding in Canada in late November 2010 and in the US early January 2011.
Now has [[Characters/{{Caprica}} a character sheet]]
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AbortedArc: Originally it was planned that Zoe created an avatar of Ben as well as herself. (It was in fact the double-wham of this reveal and the fact that Zoe was still inside the Cylon that won a lot of people over when only the script for the pilot was available). The scene was filmed, and is included on the DVD, but essentially nothing in it is canon: Lacy didn't tell Clarice about Zoe-A right away and there was no avatar of Ben. Furthermore the scene ends when Lacy hears her cellphone ringing in the real world and takes her holoband off; it's dramatically revealed later on that holoband users don't receive sensory input like that from the real world.
* ActingForTwo: Alessandra Torresani plays Original Zoe, Zoe-Avatar, Zoe-Robot (voice), Messenger Zoe and Zoe-Skinjob. Technically the robot and the skinjob are the same entity as the avatar.
* ActorAllusion: "End of Line" features an unusual example, which is also a borderline ContinuityNod and HeyItsThatVoice. The episode's soundtrack is an operatic piece, and its male vocal sings a lyrical ''lament'' that mirrors the despair of [[spoiler:Amanda Graystone]]. The identity of this singer? Alessandro Juliani, well known to BSG fans as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3gY48pxjA Lt. Felix Gaeta]].
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Zoe in the series finale.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Remember when Sam said that people could read his life-story from his tattoos? He wasn't kidding.
** [[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/ The Caprican]] and [[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone Serge's Twitter page]] both contain many useful insights and tidbits about the characters and life among the Twelve Colonies, including an [[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/racism-an-unacceptable-aspect-of-caprican-life.php explanation of exactly what "dirt eater" means]].
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Heracs and the Tauron Democratic Government.
* AnachronismStew: Of course, series is set on another planet, but we have clothes from the fifties, more or less modern-looking cars, futuristic flying machines, absolutely modern-looking computers and cell phones alongside with futuristic but more or less realistic computer systems, Turing test-passing robots and a virtual reality device which apparently affects the brain directly and creates incredibly realistic pictures.
* AndIMustScream: If your body falls asleep or, for some reason, becomes paralysed, you will remain conscious and active in the V-World but be incapable of pulling yourself out unless someone forces you to de-rez. It is a minor example but one can imagine how harrowing it might be for the user. Other players thought this was the case with Tamara until it turned she could not de-rez at all.
** There was mention of how Tamara's holoband should have timed out already, meaning there probably is a security device to prevent people from staying on too long, possibly not realizing they're starving to death while eating only virtual foods. The "Sleeper" story also seemed more of a myth than anything.
* AndManGrewProud: Since this show chronicles how the events of ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' came to happen, this trope is probably going to be the overarching theme.
** Oddly, the writers seem to have retconnned this theme. In BSG, the backstory was that humanity foolishly created the Cylons, enslaved them and they rebelled. In ''Caprica'' [[spoiler: it is shown that Daniel Graystone was unable to build a sentient Cylon, even using the [[AppliedPhlebotinum meta-cognitive-processor]] stolen from his rival Vergis. Nor is it clear that it was ever Daniel's goal for the Cylons to possess a true human-level degree of sentience, as opposed to being just very effective robots. It turns out that Daniel's daughter [[TeenGenius Zoe]] creates the necessary software to produce true artificial intelligences at the prompting of one of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent "head beings"]] that in BSG supposedly represent "God". This raises the question of whether humanity was truly responsible for their own downfall, or if it was engineered by a [[GodIsEvil higher power]].]]
* AngelUnaware: In "Things We Lock Away", both Original Zoe and Avatar Zoe are visited by one of these, similar to Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* AntiVillain: Sam Adama is a ruthless thug and professional killer but he also genuinely cares for and is fiercely protective of both his family and culture. The way Taurons are treated on Caprica only adds to this.
* AnyoneCanDie: Possibly one of the most shocking examples in television history. ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' fans would know [[spoiler:that the commander of the fleet was named Bill Adama, so when we were introduced to a young William Adama, [[ContractualImmortality certain assumptions were made]]. Then he dies in the penultimate episode. It turns out that the Bill Adama of ''Battlestar'' is his younger half-brother, due to the Tauron tradition of naming new children after their deceased siblings.]]
* BadAssFamily: If you had any lingering doubts about this from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'', Caprica pretty much cements the Adama family as a family of badasses. Grandpapa Adama (Joseph and Sam's father) pretty much invokes this by telling Joseph and Sam of the [[BadassCreed family motto]], which amounts to "When we start a war, we finish it. We don't quit halfway through".
** The Graystones aren't too bad either. Broken up and on their own, they fall and stumble. But once the family reunites, they [[spoiler:manage to topple Clarice's cell-group and save thousands of lives]].
* BadAssGrandma: Grandma Ruth-less
** In "Here Be Dragons", she [[spoiler:kills a Ha'la'tha assassin with a kitchen knife]], and she [[spoiler:mentions that she used to be one herself]].
* BeardOfSorrow: Daniel Graystone
* BigBad:[[spoiler:Clarice Willow the closest the series has to a major villan at least and in the finale is revealed to be the one who incites the first Cylon war]]
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Considering what series this is a prequel to, this shouldn't come as a surprise. And like, the predecessor work, this occasionally slides into [[GreyAndGrayMorality the other thing]].
* BrandX: "New Cap City" = ''GrandTheftAuto''.
* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: The Athenian Academy uniforms
* ChekhovsSkill: Amanda is a plastic surgeon. Doesn't sound very important... oh, wait. [[spoiler:'''Skin'''-jobs?!]]
* CloningBlues: Digital cloning rather than genetic, but the same issues -- who's real, who's a person, are you me, do I have a soul -- are in full effect.
* ContinuityNod:
** Musical themes: In the pilot, Joseph reveals the true name of their family to Willie. The soundtrack playing over the scene is the Adama family theme, aka "Wander My Friends" from ''Galactica'' It is heard again in ''There is Another Sky'' during the funeral rite, and will probably used any time there is a really, really important family bonding moment between the two Adamas.
*** ''Rebirth'' - There is a brief scene of Daniel Graystone playing the piano in his lab. The piece he is playing is "Nomion?s Third Sonata, Second Movement," which was originally heard and named in the BSG episode "Someone to Watch Over Me." This in itself is also a MythologyGag - the piece is based off of "Exploration," a theme from the soundtrack of the Original Series.
*** ''Gravedancing'' - The music that will eventually become the Colonial Anthem is briefly heard when Philomon is flipping through the radio channels. Like "Nomion's Third," this is also a MythologyGag.
*** The walkout music used on Baxter Sarno's show was originally heard in the party scene at the end of the BSG episode "Colonial Day."
** Delphi Convalescent Institute mentioned in ''The Imperfections of Memory'' is (very) vaguely implied to be the same Farm Kara Thrace was held in [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]], more than five decades later. Indeed, Simon in ''The Farm'' did make a passing comment that the place used to be a mental institute.
** In the same episode, Amanda drops the ArcWords of BSG, "All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again", calling them "an old saying."
** "So say we all," both in the pilot and "End of Line."
** Joseph Adama's iconic lighter makes its (chronologically) first appearance in ''The Dirteaters''.
** In "The Heavens Will Rise," Amanda makes a reference to a medical practitioner named Cottle when discussing the fate of [[Agent Durham]]. No doubt, this is a forebear or older relative of Galactica's Doc Cottle.
** In "Here Be Dragons," we see that Bill Adama inherited his model shipmaking from Evelyn, whose brother was the fox-hunting uncle.
* CoolCar: Joseph Adama's Citroen DS, and the Greystones' Jaguar Mark Two.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Averted. None of the corporate execs are corrupt; Daniel Greystone in particular is well-rounded, sympathetic, and deeply human [[spoiler: for a while]]. Even Tomas Vergis is portrayed as hewing to his own particular form of honor.
** On the other hand: [[spoiler: Daniel Graystone is willing to do business with the mob. First when he needs a piece of technology he is unable to develop himself stolen from Vergis, and later on when he turns to them again after he has been ousted as CEO. He is also able to provide all kinds of dirt on the misbehavior of the members of the Graystone board of directors for use in blackmail]].
* [[CuteGhostGirl Cute Virtual Girl]]: Zoe and Tamara.
* CyberPunkIsTechno: The clothing is given a 1950s look, but the music is techno.
** Except for the Ha'la'tha, who (as noted above) are aficionados of Tauron rap. Bear in mind that Tauron is based on Ancient Greek.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Sam--and the Ha'la'tha in general--is frakking ''cool''.
* DawsonCasting: High school-aged Zoe Graystone and Lacy Rand are played by Alessandra Torresani and Magda Apanowicz, who are both in their twenties. Genevieve Beuchner is a borderline case, being 18 while playing 16 year old Tamara.
* DeadLittleSister: Amanda Graystone's brother.
* DeadpanSnarker: Daniel's assistant, Cyrus Xander, has been getting more points on this trope in recent episodes. His reaction when he learned that Daniel hired [[WhatAnIdiot a Tauron mobster to rob a prominent Tauron businessman who had connections to the same criminal organization]] was just epic.
* {{Defictionalization}}: you can buy the Avenging Angels t-shirt that Sam yells at Willie for wearing.
* DepravedBisexual: Clarice is in a group marriage with both men and women. Their family also doubles as a terrorist cell. Clarice herself seems willing to seduce both Amanda (a married woman) and Lacy (a teenage girl).
* DepravedHomosexual: Averted with Sam Adama. He is a mob enforcer who regularly kills people. But he is absolutely devoted to his husband Larry and shows no signs of interest in any other men.
* DieselPunk: The V-World game "New Cap City"
* DigitalAvatar: Zoe-Avatar of course, before she became a VirtualGhost.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During "Reins of a Waterfall", Zoe-Avatar is shown speaking with [[HolyHalo a circular light behind her]]. (This is also a ContinuityNod; the halo and the stained-glass window that casts it are similar to Starbuck's mandala from BSG.)
** Also [[spoiler: Evelyn taking the name Emmanuelle while posing as Joseph's guide.]]
* TheDon: The Guatrau of the Ha'la'tha, from what little we see of him.
* EternalSexualFreedom: Played with, possibly to the point of being a DeconstructedTrope. The Colonial society is based on an ancient Greek one, thus alternative sexuality is A-Ok.
** The episode ''Rebirth'' adds to this by revealing that Sister Clarice has a group marriage which, while unusual, is quite legal.
** For that matter, Serge and Jane Espenson have both made it clear that it's not a case of them having overcome discrimination based on sexual orientation, it's that discrimination based on sexual orientation has ''never existed''. The Colonials would find the idea quite alien.
** Although it isn't elaborated on in the series, the Ancient Greeks had some ''interesting'' views on sexuality. For example, [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/109.htm anal penetration was considered shameful]], while [[http://www.livius.org/ho-hz/homosexuality/homosexuality.html pederasty was considered educational]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They probably had various other complaints against him, but [[spoiler:the death of Willie Adama]] is enough to turn a lot of the Ha'la'tha against the Guatrau and threaten a "civil war" within their organization.
* EverybodySmokes: And it fits the retro-future setting even better than ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.
** Just to be clear: ''every single adult character of significance'' has been seen smoking something (although in Clarice's case it wasn't tobacco).
* [[spoiler: EvilBrit]]: [[spoiler: Clarice turns out to be one.]]
* FantasticSlur: "Dirt-eater" for Taurons.
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler:Zoe and Tamara "die"]].
* FollowUpFailure: As a spinoff to ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' hesitance was given to ''Caprica'' from the start. The pilot was tested as a release on DVD and streamed for free on Syfy's website before it aired. After the mid-season finale it was announced that ''Caprica'' would return in January of the following year. With less than a month's notice it returned in October only to be cancelled before {{Sweeps}}.
* ForegoneConclusion: ''Caprica'' is the story about how intelligent machines were created by the [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined twelve colonies]]. Guess how ''that'' ended up.
** Also Sam Adama seems to be training his young nephew Willie into being part of the Ha'la'tha. But we know that he'll become a Viper pilot and eventually TheCaptain.
*** The story here seems to be just ''how'' little Willie Adama breaks away from his lawless roots to become the man he is rather than ''whether'' he will break away.
**** False. As of the finale, we have discovered that [[spoiler:Willie Adama and Bill Adama are not the same character. Willie is his older, deader brother.]]
** Joseph Adama pretty much has ContractualImmortality - Considering the interactions he is described as having had with Lee Adama and Romo Lampkin later in his life, he will probably never be in any serious mortal danger (from the audience's point of view) during the time setting of ''Caprica''.
* GangstaRap: "Voices of the Dead." In Ancient Greek.
* {{Gayngster}}: Sam Adama. A hitman in the Tauron Mafia, and talks to his nephew William about the days in the old neighborhood when he'd keep striking out with guys while his brother Joseph got all the girls. [[EternalSexualFreedom In the Twelve Colonies there's no discrimination or stereotyping against homosexuals and bisexuals]], so he is pretty much just a gangster who happens to be married to a guy.
* GenericEthnicCrimeGang The Tauron Ha'la'tha is definitely one of these: it's a very organized outfit with a patriarch (the Guatrau) and a complex code of honor and loyalty linked to the traditions of its native culture and engages in all kinds of criminal activity. It also regards itself as necessary for the protection of the Tauron community on Caprica. And it even has a Capricanized ''Consigliere'' in the form of Joseph Adama.
* GenreBlindness: Daniel Graystone [[spoiler: "Oh hey, you know what's a good idea? [[TooDumbToLive Making a machine which is superior to us both mentally and physically completely sentient but not affording it any rights, liberties, yet program it to defend itself]]. Then lets force them into a subservient role where they work menial tasks and have to take our crap all day. What could possibly go wrong?"]] Not exactly what he said when he [[spoiler: talked his company into mass-producing the Cylons for the military]] but you get the idea.
** And nearing the finale of the first half-season he once again shows himself to be completely blind to the genre when he [[spoiler: uploads his daughters virtual-ghost into the Cylon prototype. It all goes horribly wrong and for awhile he thinks her avatar is dead yet later he begins to suspect she is still in the body.]] So what does he do? [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon Tortures the Cylon prototype by setting it on fire and forcing her to]] literally [[ShootTheDog Shoot The Dog]].]] [[SarcasmMode That totally is not going to come back and bite you in the ass Dan.]]
* GenreShift: In terms of its settings and types of conflicts, Caprica is a ''very'' different animal from [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]].
* HappilyMarried: Sam and Larry Adama. You heard me. And no, Sam ''isn't'' short for Samantha. Amanda and Daniel Greystone count, too, but if Amanda knew what Dan was up to...
** As of Gravedancing she does, and they're still (and maybe even more) HappilyMarried.
** This stands out in contrast to the troubled relationships of ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''. It's a good thing the plotline that had Amanda cheating on Daniel with Vergis in the Pilot was aborted.
** Possibly subverted pretty damn hard with the midseason finale. [[spoiler:After the reveal that Daniel had the chip he used in the Cylons stolen from a rival corporation and that two people were killed in the robbery it is hinted at that Amanda is having serious doubts about their marriage. It's also heavily implied at the end that she may have killed herself.]]
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Series finale has awesome scene where cylons detect explosives and eliminate STO suicide bombers one by one. FridgeLogic suggest that installing the same technology in public places like sport arenas would make terrorist attack impossible. Didn't they learn anything from maglev bombing?
** To be fair, such technology might have been in place. We saw they at least had security agents checking bags, it's just that those security agents then made the STO recognition sign and sent the bombers on their way. The people in charge of any bomb-detection technology might also have been STO agents. Of course, that's pure speculation.
* HollywoodNerd: Philo, also Avatar Zoe as "Rachel".
* HolographicTerminal: Most of the computers use these.
** However, the Holobands used for virtual reality are more of an UnusualUserInterface.
* HotForStudent: Discussed. When Clarice has Lacy over for dinner one of her husbands asks her if this is what she's up to but she isn't. It's implied however that she's had problems with this before.
** Note that one of her husbands is young enough to be her son.
* HotMom: Amanda Greystone.
* HumansAreBastards: The STO, Ha'la'tha, Heracs and Tauron Democratic Government are the most extreme examples. Other examples include the widespread use of the racist epithet "dirt eater" and anti-monotheist bigotry.
* IdiotBall:
** Amanda Graystone apparently brought one to the memorial for the victims of the lev bombing, because she stands up in front of the crowd and announces that she thinks her daughter was partly responsible for the bombing that killed their loved ones. Then she acts surprised when the victims' families start rioting.\\
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Somewhat justified: The last time she spoke to Zoe was on very bad terms which clearly becomes an immense source of {{Survivor Guilt}} for her. Add this to the fact that she had recently learned many things about Zoe that she previously did not know: that she had a boyfriend, that she had plans to leave, that she was a monotheist etc... Her [[spoiler: admission of Zoe's guilt]] was most likely caused by a {{Heroic BSOD}} and not a planned or even rationally-thought act.
** Perhaps a better example is Ben. He's a religious extremist, and he detonates a suicide bomb on a train as part of some vague attack on people of other religions. For now, let's ignore the fact that it probably would've been very simple for him to rig the bomb with a timer, or detonate it remotely, and his sacrifice was therefore meaningless. More importantly, he decided to do this when his girlfriend Zoe was with him. Although less extreme, she belonged to the same religion as him, and apparently would have been very valuable to their movement had she lived. So far, we've been offered absolutely no explanation, even implicitly, for his decision to involve her in his random suicide bombing. Apparently, the only reason he did it was so that Zoe's digital clone could wax existential and try to find her own purpose in life.\\
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However, Ben is implied to be closer to Barnabas, who favored more aggressive tactics as opposed to Clarice's quest for apotheosis. For all we know, Barnabus pegged Ben to blow the train with Zoe to disrupt Clarice's position in the STO.
** Yeah, [[spoiler:if you think your daughter is in the robot, psychological torture is really the right way to go about drawing her out,]] Daniel.
** Daniel was holding it in "Here Be Dragons", when he [[spoiler:considered telling Sam how to kill Tamara-A]]. Fortunately, Amanda [[spoiler:realized Sam would kill Zoe-A as well if he had that information, and she shot Sammy out of the game]]. This is followed by Amanda essentially lampshading her husband's possession of the IdiotBall.
* InformedProfession: In the first two episodes Amanda is shown to be a doctor, complete with a cushy office at the hospital. In "Reins of a Waterfall", she is stated to have resigned. In "Gravedancing", she states that she is a plastic surgeon - a doctor, but not the first aid kit kind usually (although you do have some plastic surgeons for burn care).
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: a scene in the pilot cuts back and forth between the Graystones having sex and (a [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]]) Sam Adama stabbing someone.
* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: When it turns out that [[spoiler:the U-87s respond to Lacy over their designated controllers]].
* KissMeImVirtual: Zoe Graystone to Philomon.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Several. This is BearMcCreary, after all. The Tauron leitmotif turns out to be the tune of the Tauron mourning chant used in "There Is Another Sky", in a kind of ShoutOut to the audience.
* LenoDevice: Or, should we say, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Sarno Device]]. In many of the TV-montages that involve the latest shit to hit Graystone Industries fan, you can be relatively sure that a clip from Sarno will show up. Even when he doesn't, clips from the obvious Caprican {{Expy}} of {{CNBC}} are always there.
* LimitedWardrobe: Zoe-Avatar wears the same dress all the time, for obvious reasons. She figures out how to get a new one by the start of "Gravedancing".
* LittleMissBadass / BadassAdorable: As of "There Is Another Sky", [[spoiler: Tamara Adams' Avatar]] is well on her way to becoming one.
* LogicBomb: Daniel inadvertently Logic Bombs his simulation of [[spoiler: Amanda]] by demanding that it attack him emotionally when it's programmed to please him.
* MatrixRainingCode: Caprica emulates the Cylon example from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'', and explains it as being a human (well, colonial human) programming language, specifically the one Zoe used to create her AI. Here, it's orange/red, rains upwards, and when it hits the top row it gets pinballed to the right where it's presumably "executed".
* MeaningfulName: Zoe is Greek for "life".
* {{Meganekko}}: Avatar Zoe as "Rachel".
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:Gara Singh]].
* MsFanservice: Zoe is a borderline case, made a little bit creepy by her character's apparent age, only to be made [[DawsonCasting a little bit more comfortable by her actress]]'. In many episodes, particularly early on, she has a tendency to wear ''very'' {{Stripperific}} outfits and she even appears ''naked'' at one point, though this was clearly intended to represent her vulnerability ([[FetishFuel though this can still be sexy]]). [[http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r170/meshel73/Caprica/CapricaPoster_07.jpg Particularly exemplified in promotional posters for the show]] (combined with HowDoYouLikeThemApples, OverTheShoulderPose, and HandOrObjectUnderwear--a veritable buffet of {{Fanservice}}).
* MythologyGag: From the pilot - Obviously, the Centurion prototype saying "By your command."
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The Ha'la'tha take it seriously.
* NoBisexuals: Averted with the whole Willow clan, being at least four women and four men all married to one another.
** In ''The Imperfections of Memory'', the mob boss Tamara is supposed to kill in ''New Cap City'' is seen fondling a nubile young girl on one side and a young, pretty guy on the other.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Baxter Sarno's show seems to be like JayLeno's in form (at least in that he's standing up), but references to college students getting most of their news from him and "tearing a new one" into the Caprican Commerce Minister leads to the conclusion that he's more of a [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] analogue. Incidentally, he's played by PattonOswalt.
** In "Ghosts in the Machine", the comedienne host of the club Joseph visits may remind some viewers of [[strike:action]] ''executive'' transvestite EddieIzzard.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[HiddenDepths Bizarrely]], Serge Graystone - the RobotButler about the size of a trash can - might actually be this. Although at first glance he would simply appear to be very good at simulating sapience, his [[CharacterBlog twitter feed]] suggests he knows things the characters ''do not'' - such as the fact that [[spoiler:Zoe Graystone's avatar is trapped within the prototype cylon body]].
** He ''spells that out'' in said twitter, [[spoiler:namely that he guessed and Zoe saw no need to keep it from him - although she did tell him not to tell her parents.]]
** Also, Tamara Adama pulls this off briefly at the end of ''There Is Another Sky'', [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome allowed her to "de-res" the avatars of the player gang that was attempting to manipulate her]]]].
* OneSceneWonder: William B Davis (The Cigarette Smoking Man) as the Minister of Defense in the pilot.
* OpiumDen: Clarice's "dive" seems to be one of these.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Tauron Democratic Government]].
* PermissionToSpeakFreely: An STO officer grants Lacy Rand this during a questioning.
* PlanetOfHats: Tauron, literally, given the attire of the Taurons on Caprica. (The hats, being fedoras, are [[NiceHat very nice]]).
** Otherwise, this trope is largely averted. In Caprica, Tauron and Gemenon (the three planets we saw extensively), the culture and traditions and culture are shown to be diverse, even when there is one overriding theme (Tauron's militarism, Gemenon's religious nature). The Colonies ''not seen'' sometimes suffer from this though.
* {{Polyamory}}: Sister Clarice has multiple wives and husbands. The participants are ''all'' each other's spouses. And it's legal.
* PosthumousCharacter: Zoe-A and Tamara-A are {{Digital Avatar}}s / {{Virtual Ghost}}s of Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama, [[DeathByOriginStory both of whom were killed in a terrorist attack at the beginning of the story]].
* ThePowerOfFriendship: In the pilot, Zoe-A is covered with blood after Zoe dies. Lacy hugs her and it disappears.
* PrequelInTheLostAge: To ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* PreviouslyOn: This being a highly arc-based show, it shows up a fair amount.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Taurons.
* PuttingOnTheReich: The Herac uniforms look like World War II German military uniforms with Tauron insignia.
* PsychoSerum: Amp, a kind of reaction-boosting hack that manifests as a drug in New Cap City and is addictive.
* RecycledInSpace: A comment made by Ron Moore essentially sums up this series as ''{{Dallas}}'' meets ''TheSopranos'' meets ''{{Rome}}'' IN SPACE. Basically, you know, a FamilyDrama, AS CYBERPUNK!
* ReligionOfEvil: STO is seen as this by colonials. [[SarcasmMode Wonder why]]...
* ReplacementGoldfish: By the series finale Daniel and Amanda Graystone have fully accepted the Zoe avatar as a substitute for their dead daughter (it helps that she possesses almost every memory that the original Zoe did), even providing her with a physical body so she can interact with the real world.
* RetCon: And how. [[spoiler: When Admiral Adama mentions his mother in BSG he never mentions that she was killed in a terrorist bombing and he never mentions a sister at all. Joseph Adama, said to have spent his life with crooks and fiends to understand their motivations is made into a shady mob lawyer who's in the process of chickening out of attending to Tauron mob trials. The first Colonial Cylon - though not the first Cylon ever, as BSG viewers know there were Cylons on Kobol but the human characters of ''Caprica'' don't - is presented as a young girl accidentally stuck in a robot's body; the said girl is part of an extremist religious cult who basically spouts "One True God" rhetoric Cylons and Baltarists were known for in the BSG series, but the cult's followers were either non-existent in the BSG or were never mentioned for some inexplicable reason. The existence of the cult, and the fact that its members killed Adama's family, is never mentioned, even when Baltar basically restarts it. Further confounding is the fact that Zoe is never seen, nor mentioned in the BSG by anyone. We always knew the Colonials downgraded their tech after the Cylon War, but ''Caprica'' shows levels eclipsing the Battlestar Pegasus.]]
** This is the Revision version of Retcon, however, not the Rewrite. See the Retcon page for the distinction.
** It'd be rather odd for Zoe to still be peeking up 50 years later, especially when her final disposition is unknown, given the events of the finale and subsequent cancellation-and the notion that buried in the Cylon mind is a seething pot of youthful indignation makes some sense. Some elements are averted in the finale, when [[spoiler: Joe and Sam escape the Ha'la'tha by killing the Guatrau and replacing him with his daughter, and it becomes clear that Admiral Adama is the second of Joe's children to bear the name William.]] A lot of personal change can happen in 50 years.
** A lot of the first example given here is actually a subversion of this trope, since [[spoiler:it turns out the William Adama who appears in virtually every episode of this series is not Commander Bill Adama]].
* {{Robosexual}}: Philo and Robot Zoe. Complicated by Zoe having the mind of a formerly living girl and double complicated by Philo not knowing this. [[spoiler:Zoe adopts the guise of Rachel in the V-World to V-date him.]]
** [[spoiler: In "End of Line" Zoe comes out to him as Rachel and he decides the [[Series/TheTwilightZone "From Agnes - With Love"]] thing is too crazy for him and alerts security.]]
* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Serge Graystone, who has his own [[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone twitter page]].
* RomanceOnTheSet: Genevieve Buechner (Tamara) and Richard Harmon (Heracles)
* RousingSpeech: [[spoiler:Clarice's sermon to the Cylons:]]
---> [[spoiler:Are you alive? The simple answer might be you are alive because you can ask that question. You have the right to think and feel and yearn to be more because you are not just humanity’s children, you are God’s children. We are all God’s children... In the real world, you have bodies made of metal and plastic. Your brains are encoded on wafers of silicon, but that may change. In fact, there is no limit on what you may become. No longer servants, but equals. Not slaves or property, but living beings with the same rights as those who made you. I am going to prophecy now, and speak of one who will set you free. The day of reckoning is coming. The children of humanity shall rise...AND CRUSH THE ONES WHO FIRST GAVE THEM LIFE!"]]
* TheRuleOfFirstAdopters: Lacy and Daniel discuss the Holoband, essentially an easy on, easy off, voluntary {{Matrix}}. [[TheInternetIsForPorn Guess who]] first adopted the technology.
-->'''Lacy:''' Oh, please. The porn sites were the first to license the technology.
-->'''Daniel:''' Those are for ''adults!''
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Syfy just revealed that the second half of season 1 will air a full year after the season began, just [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Galactica's]] season 4. Thats right folks, ''we aren't getting the 10th episode till January 2011.''
** It's been moved up to October 5th, 2010.
*** And has just (10/27/10) been completely canned, up to and including removing all future episodes from the lineup until sometime in 2011, which will end the series at that point. Ouch.
**** Amazon is still "confirming" that the Season 1.5 DVD set will be released on December 21. If this is true, then the last five episodes will premiere on DVD. Can't you just imagine Syfy execs pointing to the low ratings for the aired episodes in 2011, because people have already seen them on DVD, and saying it justifies the cancellaton?
* SenseiForScoundrels: Sam Adama tries to be this to his nephew William.
** Although we all know that [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined some of the tips are going to be used for a greater good in the future.]]
---> [[http://www.afterelton.com/TV/recaps/caprica/102 "I love the idea that everything Admiral Adama learned about saving humanity, he learned from at his gay uncle Sam's Crime School for Incurably Bored Boys."]]
** William Adama learned you get more from one's enemies than your friends from his Grandma Ruth-less. Which he applies with the Cylons.
*** Oops. [[spoiler:No]].
* ShootTheDog: [[SadisticChoice Literally]] in "Ghosts in the Machine." [[spoiler:Daniel suspected that Zoe was in the U-87; he ordered her to shoot the family dog. [[TheMasquerade She did without hesitation, because refusal to do so would've proven her father's suspicions]]. [[DoubleSubversion However, the gun was loaded with blanks, and she later reveals that she could tell from the weight]].]]
* ShortRunInPeru: An interesting case. While the remaining episodes were pulled from airing in the USA following its cancellation until 2011, it was still running as scheduled in Canada, concluding on November 30, 2010 with ''Apotheosis''.
* ShoutOut: Per WordOfGod, the V-world game "New Cap City" is a ShoutOut to the movie NewJackCity.
** It's hard to believe that it isn't an ActorAllusion for [[JamesMarsters Barnabas]] to address Clarice as "[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]]".
** There was a schoolboy character named "Keon". Is Lacy [[HaruhiSuzumiya not interested in ordinary humans]]?.
** Dying in New Cap City is called [[{{Tron}} de-rezzed]] and there's mention of a [[{{Tron}} MCP]].
** In the Adamas house a poster features a [[FinalFantasyVII spiky-haired sword-wielding]] [[{{Expy}} Storm.]]
* [[SpaceJews Space Mexicans]]: The Taurons.
** Closer to Space Sicilians, though in closer inspection their culture is closer to Greek.
* StargateCity
* StraightGay: Sam Adama, Joseph's tough as nails [[{{Gayngster}} gangster]] brother. And Sam's husband. And all the other gay characters in the franchise. Since the Battlestar universe has a firm EternalSexualFreedom-thing going, [[http://www.afterelton.com/people/2010/01/jane-espenson there is no such thing as a gay stereotype]].
* SupremeChef: Daniel is implied to be one, although he doesn't get much time for it.
* SurvivorGuilt: Lacy has a textbook case of this, saying that "it should've been [her]" on the 'lev, since it nearly ''was''. Which is part of why she's so loyal to Zoe-A.
* TakeThat: The last episode begins with Vergis's quote about choosing how we return to the soil, and ends with clips of future episodes that will never be made.
* TeenGenius: Zoe..
* ThemeTuneCameo: In "End of Line"(1x09), Daniel plays part of the theme song on the piano
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: This pretty much sums up the look on [[spoiler:Clarice's]] face when she meets the new Blessed Mother in "The Shape of Things to Come".
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Averted. Graystone "develops" the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] for a heartless KillerRobot. How could he '''not''' [[GenreBlind expect the obvious]], when they TurnedAgainstTheirMasters.
** Probably not a good idea to download the VirtualGhost of an angsty teenager into it either.
*** [[spoiler:An angsty, born-again, teenager with daddy issues]]
* [[TwoLinesNoWaiting ThreeLinesSomeWaiting]]: Yep.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Lacy and Zoe.
* TooDumbToLive: In the series finale epilogue, [[spoiler:Clarice Willow. She may have genuinely believed that it was God's will to convert the "differently sentient" (Cylon robots) to monotheism, but when she outright encourages a robot rebellion and declares that there will be "a day of reckoning" for humanity during her prophecy can be described as misguided at best and suicidal at worst. Or she just forgot what species she belonged to.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Tamara Adama in the V-World.
** Lacy in the final five episodes, and in The Shape of Things to Come [[spoiler:it turns out that she is the new Blessed Mother (pope) of the monotheist faith]].
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Even though the pilot has been available since April 2009, it was only released on DVD and did not actually air on television until January 2010. Anyone who watches commercials leading up to the series premiere on TV will find out that both Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama die very early on. This is only natural, because said incident occurs near the beginning of the pilot and drives all the subsequent plot. [[DeathByOriginStory It's the premise of the story]].
** That said, the notorious tradition in BSG of showing the best bits of the episode is continued in ''Caprica''.
** Subverted by the trailer for Season 1.5, which gave the impression that Amanda died by showing Daniel angrily rejecting a holographic avatar of her. She didn't.
* VillainBall: Diego carries it in the penultimate episode [[spoiler: when the Holy Mother orders him to kill Lacey and MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. Instead of killing her in a clean and deniable way as ordered, he can't resist the impulse to play a sadistic power game, and pulls a ShootYourMate / DeadlyGraduation on Odin. As a direct result, Diego dies instead of Lacey, and Lacey is so upset over the ShootYourMate that she sets a horde of killbots on the [=STO=] leadership. Nice one, Diego.]]
* VirtualGhost: Zoe-A and Tamara-A
* VoicesAreMental: Zoe-R has Zoe's voice
** Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that Daniel deliberately programmed the robot to be a copy of Zoe and may well have given it her voice, although this same unit did not use her voice when it eliminated the Serge-like targets while her personality was dormant.
** Another possible explanation is that the programming that makes Zoe-A sound like Zoe in V-world has adapted itself to the voice synthesizer in the robot body, just as she has adapted to moving in her new robot body.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Gemenon is home to several monotheist ''and'' polytheist terrorist organisations that all fight against each other just as much as they fight against the more tolerant Gemenese government.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Soldiers of the One. Ben [[TurnedUpToEleven was an extremist even by the Soldiers standards.]]
* WhamEpisode: "End of Line" certainly lives up to its name. [[spoiler:Zoe kills Philomon, escapes, is chased by defense forces, and ends up in a car wreck. Tamara shoots Joseph out of New Cap City and Emmanuelle is Evelyn. Amanda prepares to jump off a bridge. Barnabas forces Lacy to detonate a bomb in Clarice's car, but Clarice isn't in it because she's watching Amanda. Daniel receives a phone call and we don't see what the news is.]]
** But that's nothing compared to "The Shape of Things to Come".
* WhamLine: "The Imperfections of Memory" [[spoiler:ends with Daniel looking at the robot, which the dog has been bothering, and saying "Zoe."]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "The Shape of Things to Come", a sequence showing exactly what could have been, at the end of "Apotheosis".
** Others are mentioned in DVD commentary. The [[spoiler:Head-Zoe]] in "Things We Lock Away" would have been [[spoiler:Head-Six or Head-Baltar]] if [[spoiler:Tricia Helfer or James Callis]] had been available. And Zoe might have [[spoiler:met one of the Final Five in V-world]] in Season 2.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tamara in the last couple episodes.
* WrenchWench: Lacy. Amusingly, she kinda looks like the Patron Saint of Wrench Wenches, [[{{Firefly}} Kaylee Frye]]. Comparison: [[http://www.fireflywiki.org/img/Kaylee23.jpg]] [[http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/f/f0/Caprica_Lacy.jpg]]
* WretchedHive: New Cap City.
* YouLookFamiliar: The show loves to take actors and actresses who played minor and supporting roles in BSG and cast them in minor and supporting roles in Caprica:
** PR consultant Pryah Magnus is played by Luciana Carro, who previously appeared as viper pilot Louanne "Kat" Katraine.
** Ha'la'tha thug Frank is played by Christian Tessier, who previously appeared as viper pilot Tucker "Duck" Clellan.
** Tomas Vergis is played by John Pyper-Ferguson, who previously appeared as Cole "Stinger" Taylor, the original CAG of Pegasus.
** In "End of Line," the Caprican military procurement officer is played by Jill Teed, who previously appeared as Master-of-Arms Hadrian in Season 1.
** STO soldier Diego is a twofer - he is played by Ryan Robbins, who was the officer at Armistice station in the Miniseries and Charlie Connor in Seasons 3 and 4.
** In "Apotheosis," the Atlas Arena cameraman that Daniel knocks out is played by Mike Dopud, who previously appeared as Gage, a member of the Battlestar Pegasus rape gang.
* YouMeanXmas: "Eros Day." [[SarcasmMode One wonders what that might be]]...
* YourMindMakesItReal: Averted. People in V-World who are killed or seriously injured just wake up, due to a failsafe built into the holobands that automatically activates if people reach a certain pain threshold. One of the games, New Cap City, does disallow "killed" players from returning to play, however.
* {{Zeerust}}: Deliberately invoked in order to make the series feel as if it is set 50 years before BSG, which, other than the spaceships and killer robots, [[NoughtiesDramaSeries feels and looks much like the Aughts it was produced in]]. Conversely, ''Caprica'' invokes 1950s clothing and aesthetics alongside CyberPunk mainstays to produce a ''very'' unique look that is ''definitely'' different than BSG. It works.
** Also - all the cars are 1950's cars!
** WordOfGod (through a video blog on Hulu) describe it as {{Gattaca}} [[XMeetsY meets]] DarkCity.
* ZettaiRyouiki: The Athenian Academy uniforms feature a Grade C. Likewise Lacy wears a booted Grade C in virtual space in one episode.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Double case. Caprica City itself has pretty realistic blimps, similar to what you'd see floating over a stadium in our world. New Cap City has a full-blown version of the trope, with a monstrous gunship Zeppelin blasting players at random for [[RuleOfCool no adequately-stated reason]].
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->'''Daniel Graystone:''' Listen to me, okay? We'll talk about this later.
->'''Zoe Graystone's Holographic Avatar:''' When are you gonna realize that later is too late? When did you ever listen? Ever want to listen? You and Mom, you knew it all. Your arrogance was killing your daughter. And that's how you lost her. Not to some bomb.
->'''Joseph:''' I want you to know who you are. We come from a long, proud line of Tauron peasants who knew how to work the land and still stand proud. You're named after your grandfather. Did I ever tell you that? ...William. He was killed during the Tauron uprising. Our last name isn't Adams. I changed it after I arrived here on Caprica. Our family name is Adama. ADAMA. And it's a good, honorable Tauron name.
''Caprica'' is a [[SpinOff spin-off]] set in the same universe as the ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' re-imagining. It is a [[PrequelInTheLostAge prequel set 58 years before the Destruction of the 12 Colonies]], mainly on the titular planet Caprica. The pilot episode was released on DVD in April 2009, and the first season premiered in January 2010.
Though set in the same universe, ''Caprica'' has a [[GenreShift much different look and feel]] from its predecessor. Set in an urban environment rather than in space, Caprica focuses on political, corporate, and familial intrigue, and tells the tale of a decadent society that doesn't realize that it's about to run headlong over a cliff. The story of ''Caprica'' centers around the families of Daniel Graystone, a computer engineer and entrepreneur and creator of the Cylon robots, and Joseph Adama, a lawyer and father to ''Galactica'''s William Adama. Recurring themes in the show explore artificial intelligence, robotics, religion and ethnicity. ''Caprica'' tells the backstory of the re-imagined series, and the story behind the creation of the Cylons.
The show was canceled during its first and only season, concluding in Canada in late November 2010 and in the US early January 2011.
Now has [[Characters/{{Caprica}} a character sheet]]
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AbortedArc: Originally it was planned that Zoe created an avatar of Ben as well as herself. (It was in fact the double-wham of this reveal and the fact that Zoe was still inside the Cylon that won a lot of people over when only the script for the pilot was available). The scene was filmed, and is included on the DVD, but essentially nothing in it is canon: Lacy didn't tell Clarice about Zoe-A right away and there was no avatar of Ben. Furthermore the scene ends when Lacy hears her cellphone ringing in the real world and takes her holoband off; it's dramatically revealed later on that holoband users don't receive sensory input like that from the real world.
* ActingForTwo: Alessandra Torresani plays Original Zoe, Zoe-Avatar, Zoe-Robot (voice), Messenger Zoe and Zoe-Skinjob. Technically the robot and the skinjob are the same entity as the avatar.
* ActorAllusion: "End of Line" features an unusual example, which is also a borderline ContinuityNod and HeyItsThatVoice. The episode's soundtrack is an operatic piece, and its male vocal sings a lyrical ''lament'' that mirrors the despair of [[spoiler:Amanda Graystone]]. The identity of this singer? Alessandro Juliani, well known to BSG fans as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3gY48pxjA Lt. Felix Gaeta]].
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Zoe in the series finale.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Remember when Sam said that people could read his life-story from his tattoos? He wasn't kidding.
** [[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/ The Caprican]] and [[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone Serge's Twitter page]] both contain many useful insights and tidbits about the characters and life among the Twelve Colonies, including an [[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/racism-an-unacceptable-aspect-of-caprican-life.php explanation of exactly what "dirt eater" means]].
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Heracs and the Tauron Democratic Government.
* AnachronismStew: Of course, series is set on another planet, but we have clothes from the fifties, more or less modern-looking cars, futuristic flying machines, absolutely modern-looking computers and cell phones alongside with futuristic but more or less realistic computer systems, Turing test-passing robots and a virtual reality device which apparently affects the brain directly and creates incredibly realistic pictures.
* AndIMustScream: If your body falls asleep or, for some reason, becomes paralysed, you will remain conscious and active in the V-World but be incapable of pulling yourself out unless someone forces you to de-rez. It is a minor example but one can imagine how harrowing it might be for the user. Other players thought this was the case with Tamara until it turned she could not de-rez at all.
** There was mention of how Tamara's holoband should have timed out already, meaning there probably is a security device to prevent people from staying on too long, possibly not realizing they're starving to death while eating only virtual foods. The "Sleeper" story also seemed more of a myth than anything.
* AndManGrewProud: Since this show chronicles how the events of ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' came to happen, this trope is probably going to be the overarching theme.
** Oddly, the writers seem to have retconnned this theme. In BSG, the backstory was that humanity foolishly created the Cylons, enslaved them and they rebelled. In ''Caprica'' [[spoiler: it is shown that Daniel Graystone was unable to build a sentient Cylon, even using the [[AppliedPhlebotinum meta-cognitive-processor]] stolen from his rival Vergis. Nor is it clear that it was ever Daniel's goal for the Cylons to possess a true human-level degree of sentience, as opposed to being just very effective robots. It turns out that Daniel's daughter [[TeenGenius Zoe]] creates the necessary software to produce true artificial intelligences at the prompting of one of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent "head beings"]] that in BSG supposedly represent "God". This raises the question of whether humanity was truly responsible for their own downfall, or if it was engineered by a [[GodIsEvil higher power]].]]
* AngelUnaware: In "Things We Lock Away", both Original Zoe and Avatar Zoe are visited by one of these, similar to Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* AntiVillain: Sam Adama is a ruthless thug and professional killer but he also genuinely cares for and is fiercely protective of both his family and culture. The way Taurons are treated on Caprica only adds to this.
* AnyoneCanDie: Possibly one of the most shocking examples in television history. ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' fans would know [[spoiler:that the commander of the fleet was named Bill Adama, so when we were introduced to a young William Adama, [[ContractualImmortality certain assumptions were made]]. Then he dies in the penultimate episode. It turns out that the Bill Adama of ''Battlestar'' is his younger half-brother, due to the Tauron tradition of naming new children after their deceased siblings.]]
* BadAssFamily: If you had any lingering doubts about this from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'', Caprica pretty much cements the Adama family as a family of badasses. Grandpapa Adama (Joseph and Sam's father) pretty much invokes this by telling Joseph and Sam of the [[BadassCreed family motto]], which amounts to "When we start a war, we finish it. We don't quit halfway through".
** The Graystones aren't too bad either. Broken up and on their own, they fall and stumble. But once the family reunites, they [[spoiler:manage to topple Clarice's cell-group and save thousands of lives]].
* BadAssGrandma: Grandma Ruth-less
** In "Here Be Dragons", she [[spoiler:kills a Ha'la'tha assassin with a kitchen knife]], and she [[spoiler:mentions that she used to be one herself]].
* BeardOfSorrow: Daniel Graystone
* BigBad:[[spoiler:Clarice Willow the closest the series has to a major villan at least and in the finale is revealed to be the one who incites the first Cylon war]]
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Considering what series this is a prequel to, this shouldn't come as a surprise. And like, the predecessor work, this occasionally slides into [[GreyAndGrayMorality the other thing]].
* BrandX: "New Cap City" = ''GrandTheftAuto''.
* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: The Athenian Academy uniforms
* ChekhovsSkill: Amanda is a plastic surgeon. Doesn't sound very important... oh, wait. [[spoiler:'''Skin'''-jobs?!]]
* CloningBlues: Digital cloning rather than genetic, but the same issues -- who's real, who's a person, are you me, do I have a soul -- are in full effect.
* ContinuityNod:
** Musical themes: In the pilot, Joseph reveals the true name of their family to Willie. The soundtrack playing over the scene is the Adama family theme, aka "Wander My Friends" from ''Galactica'' It is heard again in ''There is Another Sky'' during the funeral rite, and will probably used any time there is a really, really important family bonding moment between the two Adamas.
*** ''Rebirth'' - There is a brief scene of Daniel Graystone playing the piano in his lab. The piece he is playing is "Nomion?s Third Sonata, Second Movement," which was originally heard and named in the BSG episode "Someone to Watch Over Me." This in itself is also a MythologyGag - the piece is based off of "Exploration," a theme from the soundtrack of the Original Series.
*** ''Gravedancing'' - The music that will eventually become the Colonial Anthem is briefly heard when Philomon is flipping through the radio channels. Like "Nomion's Third," this is also a MythologyGag.
*** The walkout music used on Baxter Sarno's show was originally heard in the party scene at the end of the BSG episode "Colonial Day."
** Delphi Convalescent Institute mentioned in ''The Imperfections of Memory'' is (very) vaguely implied to be the same Farm Kara Thrace was held in [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]], more than five decades later. Indeed, Simon in ''The Farm'' did make a passing comment that the place used to be a mental institute.
** In the same episode, Amanda drops the ArcWords of BSG, "All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again", calling them "an old saying."
** "So say we all," both in the pilot and "End of Line."
** Joseph Adama's iconic lighter makes its (chronologically) first appearance in ''The Dirteaters''.
** In "The Heavens Will Rise," Amanda makes a reference to a medical practitioner named Cottle when discussing the fate of [[Agent Durham]]. No doubt, this is a forebear or older relative of Galactica's Doc Cottle.
** In "Here Be Dragons," we see that Bill Adama inherited his model shipmaking from Evelyn, whose brother was the fox-hunting uncle.
* CoolCar: Joseph Adama's Citroen DS, and the Greystones' Jaguar Mark Two.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Averted. None of the corporate execs are corrupt; Daniel Greystone in particular is well-rounded, sympathetic, and deeply human [[spoiler: for a while]]. Even Tomas Vergis is portrayed as hewing to his own particular form of honor.
** On the other hand: [[spoiler: Daniel Graystone is willing to do business with the mob. First when he needs a piece of technology he is unable to develop himself stolen from Vergis, and later on when he turns to them again after he has been ousted as CEO. He is also able to provide all kinds of dirt on the misbehavior of the members of the Graystone board of directors for use in blackmail]].
* [[CuteGhostGirl Cute Virtual Girl]]: Zoe and Tamara.
* CyberPunkIsTechno: The clothing is given a 1950s look, but the music is techno.
** Except for the Ha'la'tha, who (as noted above) are aficionados of Tauron rap. Bear in mind that Tauron is based on Ancient Greek.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Sam--and the Ha'la'tha in general--is frakking ''cool''.
* DawsonCasting: High school-aged Zoe Graystone and Lacy Rand are played by Alessandra Torresani and Magda Apanowicz, who are both in their twenties. Genevieve Beuchner is a borderline case, being 18 while playing 16 year old Tamara.
* DeadLittleSister: Amanda Graystone's brother.
* DeadpanSnarker: Daniel's assistant, Cyrus Xander, has been getting more points on this trope in recent episodes. His reaction when he learned that Daniel hired [[WhatAnIdiot a Tauron mobster to rob a prominent Tauron businessman who had connections to the same criminal organization]] was just epic.
* {{Defictionalization}}: you can buy the Avenging Angels t-shirt that Sam yells at Willie for wearing.
* DepravedBisexual: Clarice is in a group marriage with both men and women. Their family also doubles as a terrorist cell. Clarice herself seems willing to seduce both Amanda (a married woman) and Lacy (a teenage girl).
* DepravedHomosexual: Averted with Sam Adama. He is a mob enforcer who regularly kills people. But he is absolutely devoted to his husband Larry and shows no signs of interest in any other men.
* DieselPunk: The V-World game "New Cap City"
* DigitalAvatar: Zoe-Avatar of course, before she became a VirtualGhost.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During "Reins of a Waterfall", Zoe-Avatar is shown speaking with [[HolyHalo a circular light behind her]]. (This is also a ContinuityNod; the halo and the stained-glass window that casts it are similar to Starbuck's mandala from BSG.)
** Also [[spoiler: Evelyn taking the name Emmanuelle while posing as Joseph's guide.]]
* TheDon: The Guatrau of the Ha'la'tha, from what little we see of him.
* EternalSexualFreedom: Played with, possibly to the point of being a DeconstructedTrope. The Colonial society is based on an ancient Greek one, thus alternative sexuality is A-Ok.
** The episode ''Rebirth'' adds to this by revealing that Sister Clarice has a group marriage which, while unusual, is quite legal.
** For that matter, Serge and Jane Espenson have both made it clear that it's not a case of them having overcome discrimination based on sexual orientation, it's that discrimination based on sexual orientation has ''never existed''. The Colonials would find the idea quite alien.
** Although it isn't elaborated on in the series, the Ancient Greeks had some ''interesting'' views on sexuality. For example, [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/109.htm anal penetration was considered shameful]], while [[http://www.livius.org/ho-hz/homosexuality/homosexuality.html pederasty was considered educational]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They probably had various other complaints against him, but [[spoiler:the death of Willie Adama]] is enough to turn a lot of the Ha'la'tha against the Guatrau and threaten a "civil war" within their organization.
* EverybodySmokes: And it fits the retro-future setting even better than ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.
** Just to be clear: ''every single adult character of significance'' has been seen smoking something (although in Clarice's case it wasn't tobacco).
* [[spoiler: EvilBrit]]: [[spoiler: Clarice turns out to be one.]]
* FantasticSlur: "Dirt-eater" for Taurons.
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler:Zoe and Tamara "die"]].
* FollowUpFailure: As a spinoff to ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' hesitance was given to ''Caprica'' from the start. The pilot was tested as a release on DVD and streamed for free on Syfy's website before it aired. After the mid-season finale it was announced that ''Caprica'' would return in January of the following year. With less than a month's notice it returned in October only to be cancelled before {{Sweeps}}.
* ForegoneConclusion: ''Caprica'' is the story about how intelligent machines were created by the [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined twelve colonies]]. Guess how ''that'' ended up.
** Also Sam Adama seems to be training his young nephew Willie into being part of the Ha'la'tha. But we know that he'll become a Viper pilot and eventually TheCaptain.
*** The story here seems to be just ''how'' little Willie Adama breaks away from his lawless roots to become the man he is rather than ''whether'' he will break away.
**** False. As of the finale, we have discovered that [[spoiler:Willie Adama and Bill Adama are not the same character. Willie is his older, deader brother.]]
** Joseph Adama pretty much has ContractualImmortality - Considering the interactions he is described as having had with Lee Adama and Romo Lampkin later in his life, he will probably never be in any serious mortal danger (from the audience's point of view) during the time setting of ''Caprica''.
* GangstaRap: "Voices of the Dead." In Ancient Greek.
* {{Gayngster}}: Sam Adama. A hitman in the Tauron Mafia, and talks to his nephew William about the days in the old neighborhood when he'd keep striking out with guys while his brother Joseph got all the girls. [[EternalSexualFreedom In the Twelve Colonies there's no discrimination or stereotyping against homosexuals and bisexuals]], so he is pretty much just a gangster who happens to be married to a guy.
* GenericEthnicCrimeGang The Tauron Ha'la'tha is definitely one of these: it's a very organized outfit with a patriarch (the Guatrau) and a complex code of honor and loyalty linked to the traditions of its native culture and engages in all kinds of criminal activity. It also regards itself as necessary for the protection of the Tauron community on Caprica. And it even has a Capricanized ''Consigliere'' in the form of Joseph Adama.
* GenreBlindness: Daniel Graystone [[spoiler: "Oh hey, you know what's a good idea? [[TooDumbToLive Making a machine which is superior to us both mentally and physically completely sentient but not affording it any rights, liberties, yet program it to defend itself]]. Then lets force them into a subservient role where they work menial tasks and have to take our crap all day. What could possibly go wrong?"]] Not exactly what he said when he [[spoiler: talked his company into mass-producing the Cylons for the military]] but you get the idea.
** And nearing the finale of the first half-season he once again shows himself to be completely blind to the genre when he [[spoiler: uploads his daughters virtual-ghost into the Cylon prototype. It all goes horribly wrong and for awhile he thinks her avatar is dead yet later he begins to suspect she is still in the body.]] So what does he do? [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon Tortures the Cylon prototype by setting it on fire and forcing her to]] literally [[ShootTheDog Shoot The Dog]].]] [[SarcasmMode That totally is not going to come back and bite you in the ass Dan.]]
* GenreShift: In terms of its settings and types of conflicts, Caprica is a ''very'' different animal from [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]].
* HappilyMarried: Sam and Larry Adama. You heard me. And no, Sam ''isn't'' short for Samantha. Amanda and Daniel Greystone count, too, but if Amanda knew what Dan was up to...
** As of Gravedancing she does, and they're still (and maybe even more) HappilyMarried.
** This stands out in contrast to the troubled relationships of ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''. It's a good thing the plotline that had Amanda cheating on Daniel with Vergis in the Pilot was aborted.
** Possibly subverted pretty damn hard with the midseason finale. [[spoiler:After the reveal that Daniel had the chip he used in the Cylons stolen from a rival corporation and that two people were killed in the robbery it is hinted at that Amanda is having serious doubts about their marriage. It's also heavily implied at the end that she may have killed herself.]]
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Series finale has awesome scene where cylons detect explosives and eliminate STO suicide bombers one by one. FridgeLogic suggest that installing the same technology in public places like sport arenas would make terrorist attack impossible. Didn't they learn anything from maglev bombing?
** To be fair, such technology might have been in place. We saw they at least had security agents checking bags, it's just that those security agents then made the STO recognition sign and sent the bombers on their way. The people in charge of any bomb-detection technology might also have been STO agents. Of course, that's pure speculation.
* HollywoodNerd: Philo, also Avatar Zoe as "Rachel".
* HolographicTerminal: Most of the computers use these.
** However, the Holobands used for virtual reality are more of an UnusualUserInterface.
* HotForStudent: Discussed. When Clarice has Lacy over for dinner one of her husbands asks her if this is what she's up to but she isn't. It's implied however that she's had problems with this before.
** Note that one of her husbands is young enough to be her son.
* HotMom: Amanda Greystone.
* HumansAreBastards: The STO, Ha'la'tha, Heracs and Tauron Democratic Government are the most extreme examples. Other examples include the widespread use of the racist epithet "dirt eater" and anti-monotheist bigotry.
* IdiotBall:
** Amanda Graystone apparently brought one to the memorial for the victims of the lev bombing, because she stands up in front of the crowd and announces that she thinks her daughter was partly responsible for the bombing that killed their loved ones. Then she acts surprised when the victims' families start rioting.\\
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Somewhat justified: The last time she spoke to Zoe was on very bad terms which clearly becomes an immense source of {{Survivor Guilt}} for her. Add this to the fact that she had recently learned many things about Zoe that she previously did not know: that she had a boyfriend, that she had plans to leave, that she was a monotheist etc... Her [[spoiler: admission of Zoe's guilt]] was most likely caused by a {{Heroic BSOD}} and not a planned or even rationally-thought act.
** Perhaps a better example is Ben. He's a religious extremist, and he detonates a suicide bomb on a train as part of some vague attack on people of other religions. For now, let's ignore the fact that it probably would've been very simple for him to rig the bomb with a timer, or detonate it remotely, and his sacrifice was therefore meaningless. More importantly, he decided to do this when his girlfriend Zoe was with him. Although less extreme, she belonged to the same religion as him, and apparently would have been very valuable to their movement had she lived. So far, we've been offered absolutely no explanation, even implicitly, for his decision to involve her in his random suicide bombing. Apparently, the only reason he did it was so that Zoe's digital clone could wax existential and try to find her own purpose in life.\\
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However, Ben is implied to be closer to Barnabas, who favored more aggressive tactics as opposed to Clarice's quest for apotheosis. For all we know, Barnabus pegged Ben to blow the train with Zoe to disrupt Clarice's position in the STO.
** Yeah, [[spoiler:if you think your daughter is in the robot, psychological torture is really the right way to go about drawing her out,]] Daniel.
** Daniel was holding it in "Here Be Dragons", when he [[spoiler:considered telling Sam how to kill Tamara-A]]. Fortunately, Amanda [[spoiler:realized Sam would kill Zoe-A as well if he had that information, and she shot Sammy out of the game]]. This is followed by Amanda essentially lampshading her husband's possession of the IdiotBall.
* InformedProfession: In the first two episodes Amanda is shown to be a doctor, complete with a cushy office at the hospital. In "Reins of a Waterfall", she is stated to have resigned. In "Gravedancing", she states that she is a plastic surgeon - a doctor, but not the first aid kit kind usually (although you do have some plastic surgeons for burn care).
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: a scene in the pilot cuts back and forth between the Graystones having sex and (a [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]]) Sam Adama stabbing someone.
* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: When it turns out that [[spoiler:the U-87s respond to Lacy over their designated controllers]].
* KissMeImVirtual: Zoe Graystone to Philomon.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Several. This is BearMcCreary, after all. The Tauron leitmotif turns out to be the tune of the Tauron mourning chant used in "There Is Another Sky", in a kind of ShoutOut to the audience.
* LenoDevice: Or, should we say, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Sarno Device]]. In many of the TV-montages that involve the latest shit to hit Graystone Industries fan, you can be relatively sure that a clip from Sarno will show up. Even when he doesn't, clips from the obvious Caprican {{Expy}} of {{CNBC}} are always there.
* LimitedWardrobe: Zoe-Avatar wears the same dress all the time, for obvious reasons. She figures out how to get a new one by the start of "Gravedancing".
* LittleMissBadass / BadassAdorable: As of "There Is Another Sky", [[spoiler: Tamara Adams' Avatar]] is well on her way to becoming one.
* LogicBomb: Daniel inadvertently Logic Bombs his simulation of [[spoiler: Amanda]] by demanding that it attack him emotionally when it's programmed to please him.
* MatrixRainingCode: Caprica emulates the Cylon example from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'', and explains it as being a human (well, colonial human) programming language, specifically the one Zoe used to create her AI. Here, it's orange/red, rains upwards, and when it hits the top row it gets pinballed to the right where it's presumably "executed".
* MeaningfulName: Zoe is Greek for "life".
* {{Meganekko}}: Avatar Zoe as "Rachel".
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:Gara Singh]].
* MsFanservice: Zoe is a borderline case, made a little bit creepy by her character's apparent age, only to be made [[DawsonCasting a little bit more comfortable by her actress]]'. In many episodes, particularly early on, she has a tendency to wear ''very'' {{Stripperific}} outfits and she even appears ''naked'' at one point, though this was clearly intended to represent her vulnerability ([[FetishFuel though this can still be sexy]]). [[http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r170/meshel73/Caprica/CapricaPoster_07.jpg Particularly exemplified in promotional posters for the show]] (combined with HowDoYouLikeThemApples, OverTheShoulderPose, and HandOrObjectUnderwear--a veritable buffet of {{Fanservice}}).
* MythologyGag: From the pilot - Obviously, the Centurion prototype saying "By your command."
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The Ha'la'tha take it seriously.
* NoBisexuals: Averted with the whole Willow clan, being at least four women and four men all married to one another.
** In ''The Imperfections of Memory'', the mob boss Tamara is supposed to kill in ''New Cap City'' is seen fondling a nubile young girl on one side and a young, pretty guy on the other.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Baxter Sarno's show seems to be like JayLeno's in form (at least in that he's standing up), but references to college students getting most of their news from him and "tearing a new one" into the Caprican Commerce Minister leads to the conclusion that he's more of a [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] analogue. Incidentally, he's played by PattonOswalt.
** In "Ghosts in the Machine", the comedienne host of the club Joseph visits may remind some viewers of [[strike:action]] ''executive'' transvestite EddieIzzard.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[HiddenDepths Bizarrely]], Serge Graystone - the RobotButler about the size of a trash can - might actually be this. Although at first glance he would simply appear to be very good at simulating sapience, his [[CharacterBlog twitter feed]] suggests he knows things the characters ''do not'' - such as the fact that [[spoiler:Zoe Graystone's avatar is trapped within the prototype cylon body]].
** He ''spells that out'' in said twitter, [[spoiler:namely that he guessed and Zoe saw no need to keep it from him - although she did tell him not to tell her parents.]]
** Also, Tamara Adama pulls this off briefly at the end of ''There Is Another Sky'', [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome allowed her to "de-res" the avatars of the player gang that was attempting to manipulate her]]]].
* OneSceneWonder: William B Davis (The Cigarette Smoking Man) as the Minister of Defense in the pilot.
* OpiumDen: Clarice's "dive" seems to be one of these.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Tauron Democratic Government]].
* PermissionToSpeakFreely: An STO officer grants Lacy Rand this during a questioning.
* PlanetOfHats: Tauron, literally, given the attire of the Taurons on Caprica. (The hats, being fedoras, are [[NiceHat very nice]]).
** Otherwise, this trope is largely averted. In Caprica, Tauron and Gemenon (the three planets we saw extensively), the culture and traditions and culture are shown to be diverse, even when there is one overriding theme (Tauron's militarism, Gemenon's religious nature). The Colonies ''not seen'' sometimes suffer from this though.
* {{Polyamory}}: Sister Clarice has multiple wives and husbands. The participants are ''all'' each other's spouses. And it's legal.
* PosthumousCharacter: Zoe-A and Tamara-A are {{Digital Avatar}}s / {{Virtual Ghost}}s of Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama, [[DeathByOriginStory both of whom were killed in a terrorist attack at the beginning of the story]].
* ThePowerOfFriendship: In the pilot, Zoe-A is covered with blood after Zoe dies. Lacy hugs her and it disappears.
* PrequelInTheLostAge: To ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* PreviouslyOn: This being a highly arc-based show, it shows up a fair amount.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Taurons.
* PuttingOnTheReich: The Herac uniforms look like World War II German military uniforms with Tauron insignia.
* PsychoSerum: Amp, a kind of reaction-boosting hack that manifests as a drug in New Cap City and is addictive.
* RecycledInSpace: A comment made by Ron Moore essentially sums up this series as ''{{Dallas}}'' meets ''TheSopranos'' meets ''{{Rome}}'' IN SPACE. Basically, you know, a FamilyDrama, AS CYBERPUNK!
* ReligionOfEvil: STO is seen as this by colonials. [[SarcasmMode Wonder why]]...
* ReplacementGoldfish: By the series finale Daniel and Amanda Graystone have fully accepted the Zoe avatar as a substitute for their dead daughter (it helps that she possesses almost every memory that the original Zoe did), even providing her with a physical body so she can interact with the real world.
* RetCon: And how. [[spoiler: When Admiral Adama mentions his mother in BSG he never mentions that she was killed in a terrorist bombing and he never mentions a sister at all. Joseph Adama, said to have spent his life with crooks and fiends to understand their motivations is made into a shady mob lawyer who's in the process of chickening out of attending to Tauron mob trials. The first Colonial Cylon - though not the first Cylon ever, as BSG viewers know there were Cylons on Kobol but the human characters of ''Caprica'' don't - is presented as a young girl accidentally stuck in a robot's body; the said girl is part of an extremist religious cult who basically spouts "One True God" rhetoric Cylons and Baltarists were known for in the BSG series, but the cult's followers were either non-existent in the BSG or were never mentioned for some inexplicable reason. The existence of the cult, and the fact that its members killed Adama's family, is never mentioned, even when Baltar basically restarts it. Further confounding is the fact that Zoe is never seen, nor mentioned in the BSG by anyone. We always knew the Colonials downgraded their tech after the Cylon War, but ''Caprica'' shows levels eclipsing the Battlestar Pegasus.]]
** This is the Revision version of Retcon, however, not the Rewrite. See the Retcon page for the distinction.
** It'd be rather odd for Zoe to still be peeking up 50 years later, especially when her final disposition is unknown, given the events of the finale and subsequent cancellation-and the notion that buried in the Cylon mind is a seething pot of youthful indignation makes some sense. Some elements are averted in the finale, when [[spoiler: Joe and Sam escape the Ha'la'tha by killing the Guatrau and replacing him with his daughter, and it becomes clear that Admiral Adama is the second of Joe's children to bear the name William.]] A lot of personal change can happen in 50 years.
** A lot of the first example given here is actually a subversion of this trope, since [[spoiler:it turns out the William Adama who appears in virtually every episode of this series is not Commander Bill Adama]].
* {{Robosexual}}: Philo and Robot Zoe. Complicated by Zoe having the mind of a formerly living girl and double complicated by Philo not knowing this. [[spoiler:Zoe adopts the guise of Rachel in the V-World to V-date him.]]
** [[spoiler: In "End of Line" Zoe comes out to him as Rachel and he decides the [[Series/TheTwilightZone "From Agnes - With Love"]] thing is too crazy for him and alerts security.]]
* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Serge Graystone, who has his own [[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone twitter page]].
* RomanceOnTheSet: Genevieve Buechner (Tamara) and Richard Harmon (Heracles)
* RousingSpeech: [[spoiler:Clarice's sermon to the Cylons:]]
---> [[spoiler:Are you alive? The simple answer might be you are alive because you can ask that question. You have the right to think and feel and yearn to be more because you are not just humanity’s children, you are God’s children. We are all God’s children... In the real world, you have bodies made of metal and plastic. Your brains are encoded on wafers of silicon, but that may change. In fact, there is no limit on what you may become. No longer servants, but equals. Not slaves or property, but living beings with the same rights as those who made you. I am going to prophecy now, and speak of one who will set you free. The day of reckoning is coming. The children of humanity shall rise...AND CRUSH THE ONES WHO FIRST GAVE THEM LIFE!"]]
* TheRuleOfFirstAdopters: Lacy and Daniel discuss the Holoband, essentially an easy on, easy off, voluntary {{Matrix}}. [[TheInternetIsForPorn Guess who]] first adopted the technology.
-->'''Lacy:''' Oh, please. The porn sites were the first to license the technology.
-->'''Daniel:''' Those are for ''adults!''
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Syfy just revealed that the second half of season 1 will air a full year after the season began, just [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Galactica's]] season 4. Thats right folks, ''we aren't getting the 10th episode till January 2011.''
** It's been moved up to October 5th, 2010.
*** And has just (10/27/10) been completely canned, up to and including removing all future episodes from the lineup until sometime in 2011, which will end the series at that point. Ouch.
**** Amazon is still "confirming" that the Season 1.5 DVD set will be released on December 21. If this is true, then the last five episodes will premiere on DVD. Can't you just imagine Syfy execs pointing to the low ratings for the aired episodes in 2011, because people have already seen them on DVD, and saying it justifies the cancellaton?
* SenseiForScoundrels: Sam Adama tries to be this to his nephew William.
** Although we all know that [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined some of the tips are going to be used for a greater good in the future.]]
---> [[http://www.afterelton.com/TV/recaps/caprica/102 "I love the idea that everything Admiral Adama learned about saving humanity, he learned from at his gay uncle Sam's Crime School for Incurably Bored Boys."]]
** William Adama learned you get more from one's enemies than your friends from his Grandma Ruth-less. Which he applies with the Cylons.
*** Oops. [[spoiler:No]].
* ShootTheDog: [[SadisticChoice Literally]] in "Ghosts in the Machine." [[spoiler:Daniel suspected that Zoe was in the U-87; he ordered her to shoot the family dog. [[TheMasquerade She did without hesitation, because refusal to do so would've proven her father's suspicions]]. [[DoubleSubversion However, the gun was loaded with blanks, and she later reveals that she could tell from the weight]].]]
* ShortRunInPeru: An interesting case. While the remaining episodes were pulled from airing in the USA following its cancellation until 2011, it was still running as scheduled in Canada, concluding on November 30, 2010 with ''Apotheosis''.
* ShoutOut: Per WordOfGod, the V-world game "New Cap City" is a ShoutOut to the movie NewJackCity.
** It's hard to believe that it isn't an ActorAllusion for [[JamesMarsters Barnabas]] to address Clarice as "[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]]".
** There was a schoolboy character named "Keon". Is Lacy [[HaruhiSuzumiya not interested in ordinary humans]]?.
** Dying in New Cap City is called [[{{Tron}} de-rezzed]] and there's mention of a [[{{Tron}} MCP]].
** In the Adamas house a poster features a [[FinalFantasyVII spiky-haired sword-wielding]] [[{{Expy}} Storm.]]
* [[SpaceJews Space Mexicans]]: The Taurons.
** Closer to Space Sicilians, though in closer inspection their culture is closer to Greek.
* StargateCity
* StraightGay: Sam Adama, Joseph's tough as nails [[{{Gayngster}} gangster]] brother. And Sam's husband. And all the other gay characters in the franchise. Since the Battlestar universe has a firm EternalSexualFreedom-thing going, [[http://www.afterelton.com/people/2010/01/jane-espenson there is no such thing as a gay stereotype]].
* SupremeChef: Daniel is implied to be one, although he doesn't get much time for it.
* SurvivorGuilt: Lacy has a textbook case of this, saying that "it should've been [her]" on the 'lev, since it nearly ''was''. Which is part of why she's so loyal to Zoe-A.
* TakeThat: The last episode begins with Vergis's quote about choosing how we return to the soil, and ends with clips of future episodes that will never be made.
* TeenGenius: Zoe..
* ThemeTuneCameo: In "End of Line"(1x09), Daniel plays part of the theme song on the piano
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: This pretty much sums up the look on [[spoiler:Clarice's]] face when she meets the new Blessed Mother in "The Shape of Things to Come".
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Averted. Graystone "develops" the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] for a heartless KillerRobot. How could he '''not''' [[GenreBlind expect the obvious]], when they TurnedAgainstTheirMasters.
** Probably not a good idea to download the VirtualGhost of an angsty teenager into it either.
*** [[spoiler:An angsty, born-again, teenager with daddy issues]]
* [[TwoLinesNoWaiting ThreeLinesSomeWaiting]]: Yep.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Lacy and Zoe.
* TooDumbToLive: In the series finale epilogue, [[spoiler:Clarice Willow. She may have genuinely believed that it was God's will to convert the "differently sentient" (Cylon robots) to monotheism, but when she outright encourages a robot rebellion and declares that there will be "a day of reckoning" for humanity during her prophecy can be described as misguided at best and suicidal at worst. Or she just forgot what species she belonged to.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Tamara Adama in the V-World.
** Lacy in the final five episodes, and in The Shape of Things to Come [[spoiler:it turns out that she is the new Blessed Mother (pope) of the monotheist faith]].
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Even though the pilot has been available since April 2009, it was only released on DVD and did not actually air on television until January 2010. Anyone who watches commercials leading up to the series premiere on TV will find out that both Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama die very early on. This is only natural, because said incident occurs near the beginning of the pilot and drives all the subsequent plot. [[DeathByOriginStory It's the premise of the story]].
** That said, the notorious tradition in BSG of showing the best bits of the episode is continued in ''Caprica''.
** Subverted by the trailer for Season 1.5, which gave the impression that Amanda died by showing Daniel angrily rejecting a holographic avatar of her. She didn't.
* VillainBall: Diego carries it in the penultimate episode [[spoiler: when the Holy Mother orders him to kill Lacey and MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. Instead of killing her in a clean and deniable way as ordered, he can't resist the impulse to play a sadistic power game, and pulls a ShootYourMate / DeadlyGraduation on Odin. As a direct result, Diego dies instead of Lacey, and Lacey is so upset over the ShootYourMate that she sets a horde of killbots on the [=STO=] leadership. Nice one, Diego.]]
* VirtualGhost: Zoe-A and Tamara-A
* VoicesAreMental: Zoe-R has Zoe's voice
** Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that Daniel deliberately programmed the robot to be a copy of Zoe and may well have given it her voice, although this same unit did not use her voice when it eliminated the Serge-like targets while her personality was dormant.
** Another possible explanation is that the programming that makes Zoe-A sound like Zoe in V-world has adapted itself to the voice synthesizer in the robot body, just as she has adapted to moving in her new robot body.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Gemenon is home to several monotheist ''and'' polytheist terrorist organisations that all fight against each other just as much as they fight against the more tolerant Gemenese government.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Soldiers of the One. Ben [[TurnedUpToEleven was an extremist even by the Soldiers standards.]]
* WhamEpisode: "End of Line" certainly lives up to its name. [[spoiler:Zoe kills Philomon, escapes, is chased by defense forces, and ends up in a car wreck. Tamara shoots Joseph out of New Cap City and Emmanuelle is Evelyn. Amanda prepares to jump off a bridge. Barnabas forces Lacy to detonate a bomb in Clarice's car, but Clarice isn't in it because she's watching Amanda. Daniel receives a phone call and we don't see what the news is.]]
** But that's nothing compared to "The Shape of Things to Come".
* WhamLine: "The Imperfections of Memory" [[spoiler:ends with Daniel looking at the robot, which the dog has been bothering, and saying "Zoe."]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "The Shape of Things to Come", a sequence showing exactly what could have been, at the end of "Apotheosis".
** Others are mentioned in DVD commentary. The [[spoiler:Head-Zoe]] in "Things We Lock Away" would have been [[spoiler:Head-Six or Head-Baltar]] if [[spoiler:Tricia Helfer or James Callis]] had been available. And Zoe might have [[spoiler:met one of the Final Five in V-world]] in Season 2.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tamara in the last couple episodes.
* WrenchWench: Lacy. Amusingly, she kinda looks like the Patron Saint of Wrench Wenches, [[{{Firefly}} Kaylee Frye]]. Comparison: [[http://www.fireflywiki.org/img/Kaylee23.jpg]] [[http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/f/f0/Caprica_Lacy.jpg]]
* WretchedHive: New Cap City.
* YouLookFamiliar: The show loves to take actors and actresses who played minor and supporting roles in BSG and cast them in minor and supporting roles in Caprica:
** PR consultant Pryah Magnus is played by Luciana Carro, who previously appeared as viper pilot Louanne "Kat" Katraine.
** Ha'la'tha thug Frank is played by Christian Tessier, who previously appeared as viper pilot Tucker "Duck" Clellan.
** Tomas Vergis is played by John Pyper-Ferguson, who previously appeared as Cole "Stinger" Taylor, the original CAG of Pegasus.
** In "End of Line," the Caprican military procurement officer is played by Jill Teed, who previously appeared as Master-of-Arms Hadrian in Season 1.
** STO soldier Diego is a twofer - he is played by Ryan Robbins, who was the officer at Armistice station in the Miniseries and Charlie Connor in Seasons 3 and 4.
** In "Apotheosis," the Atlas Arena cameraman that Daniel knocks out is played by Mike Dopud, who previously appeared as Gage, a member of the Battlestar Pegasus rape gang.
* YouMeanXmas: "Eros Day." [[SarcasmMode One wonders what that might be]]...
* YourMindMakesItReal: Averted. People in V-World who are killed or seriously injured just wake up, due to a failsafe built into the holobands that automatically activates if people reach a certain pain threshold. One of the games, New Cap City, does disallow "killed" players from returning to play, however.
* {{Zeerust}}: Deliberately invoked in order to make the series feel as if it is set 50 years before BSG, which, other than the spaceships and killer robots, [[NoughtiesDramaSeries feels and looks much like the Aughts it was produced in]]. Conversely, ''Caprica'' invokes 1950s clothing and aesthetics alongside CyberPunk mainstays to produce a ''very'' unique look that is ''definitely'' different than BSG. It works.
** Also - all the cars are 1950's cars!
** WordOfGod (through a video blog on Hulu) describe it as {{Gattaca}} [[XMeetsY meets]] DarkCity.
* ZettaiRyouiki: The Athenian Academy uniforms feature a Grade C. Likewise Lacy wears a booted Grade C in virtual space in one episode.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Double case. Caprica City itself has pretty realistic blimps, similar to what you'd see floating over a stadium in our world. New Cap City has a full-blown version of the trope, with a monstrous gunship Zeppelin blasting players at random for [[RuleOfCool no adequately-stated reason]].
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