About Caprica Season 1.5
Caprica Season 1.5 Special Features
Disc 1
# Deleted Scenes
# Re-Caprica
# "Unvanquished" Commentary with Executive Producer Kevin Murphy
# Podcast Commentaries
Disc 2
# Deleted Scenes
# Video Blogs
# Podcast Commentaries
Disc 3
# Deleted Scenes
# "Apotheosis" Commentary with Executive Producer Kevin Murphy
This review is from: Caprica: Season 1.5 (DVD)
Since this product was announced there have been numerous reviews posted here that have nothing, NOTHING, to do with the actual DVD set. While I share in the general anger at SyFy for having canceled Caprica, I thought it best to actually wait until the DVD set arrived before making any judgment and limit that to what was offered. Now, after having watched all three DVDs in the set (down one from the four-set Season 1.0), it's time to open this can o' worms and put out my opinion.
Caprica Season 1.5 includes all nine of the final episodes, those aired in October of this year and the remaining five that SyFy has chosen to air in toto on 5 January, coinciding with ABC's broadcast of "V". Like the first set, these episodes were well written, well executed, and brilliantly acted by the amazing ensemble cast brought into the project. Additionally, there were many more "Easter eggs" for BSG fans, including the origins of "toaster," "skin job," and which of Admiral Adama's parents had the farm with the fox problem mentioned in BSG Season four. These episodes also delved further into Tauron culture and the origins of the Adama family itself in "The Dirteaters," arguably the best episode of the series.
However, there were problems. Aside from the fifteen-second scene in a so-far unaired episode where someone in the props department forgot to cover the British Columbia license plate on a nearby parked car, there were far fewer video blogs and deleted scenes compared to the first set. This either means video blogs weren't produced and the episodes weren't hacked up too much in editing or Universal wanted to get this product out as quickly as possible and overlooked perhaps some more interesting stuff about Caprica. Maybe all of that was covered in the first set, I don't know. I just felt that there could have been more included in this current set; after all, it cost the same as the first.
Still, after watching them I have to agree with many viewers here and on Facebook that the last five episodes were Caprica's best. The final episode, "Apotheosis," ended with what could be seen as both a wrap-up of the series and a teaser for what was supposed to come. If only SyFy had stuck to its science-fiction roots and not gone after the redneck viewer with incessant "ghost-hunting" and "professional wrestling" programs we may have seen Caprica come into its own. Alas, corporate myopia kills another arguably great show.
