Comic-Con 2010: Caprica 1.5 Meatier

The second half of Caprica promises audiences a whole new gear as characters are pushed in extremely unusual and unexpected ways, at least according to show creators David Eick and Ron Moore.

Eick, Moore and actors Alessandra Torresani, Sasha Roiz, and James Marsters were on hand to answer questions from Poptimal.com at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con.

They were all very passionate about the series and excited to share that the show’s pace becomes faster as the story gets into its meatier parts.

“The first half of the season has a lot more setup, even as we were writing, a lot of this was laying the ground work for things to do later on in the show and the second half is when we really start to capitalize on things we already set in motion,” said Moore.

Torresani adds that audiences will get to see multiple Zoe’s in the second half of season one and that she’s happy that her character gets to finally be in action. “I was stuck in this robot in this wall and my dad’s trying to burn me and I can’t say anything, [and] now, okay, I have a gun and I’m gonna kill you,” she says. “There are still different forms of Zoe, but now she’s ready to fight. You know she’s been knocked up too long and her mouth’s been taped too long and so now she’s kicking and screaming, you know watch out!”

Moore also said that season two of Caprica has already been outlined pretty well and that they have a fairly structured plan on what they want. He did not go into further details, but is confident that the Syfy channel will pick up the show for another season.

Viewers can also expect the conflict between Daniel Graystone and Zoe to get turned up a notch because she’s locked in a virtual environment and attempts to get out of that situation as her moral calling. On the other hand, Eick also comments that, “Well, she’s still pissed at her dad.”

In the meantime, Roiz comments on his character’s homosexuality and the stability of his relationship in the show as incredibly interesting because of its non-issue. “As an actor, I don’t even think about it, but the audience, they’re so aware of it. Look how much of a non-issue it is…in its subtlety it actually sends out a huge message.”

Marsters raves about the show and comments on how the greatest challenge in playing Barnabas has been finding the love in him. He goes on to explain that at first he came to Vancouver, where the show is being filmed, expecting that his character to be a Timothy McVeigh (the domestic terrorist who bombed an Oklahoma City federal building), but he was surprised to learn that instead he had a lot of love for humanity.

“He’s watching a culture that is feeding itself for fun. It’s like ancient Rome, you’ve got a pantheon of gods and no moral compass. People are butchering each other for the pure ecstatic pleasure of doing it. And so he’s trying to bring some semblance of rationality.”

Caprica tells the story of humanity’s fall fifty years before the events of Battlestar Galactica. Moore felt that this story was worth telling because it was essentially humanity’s last great ride, and that the audience knows that they’re doomed, but how they get there is the real question and worth exploring.

Caprica will return to the SyFy channel to complete its first season in January 2011.

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