Finally! The Frak blog Caprica series roundup

Better late than never I s'pose ;)

Here's what we know so far about the upcoming Caprica series from various sources:

The Wired blog summarizes it pretty well, thanks to TVAddict as a source

Caprica is set 51 years before the planet goes nuclear.

The show will portray the inhabitants of Caprica as a seedy bunch, "reading like an episode of HBO’s The Wire."

The pilot is filled with political intrigue, racial prejudice, religious zealots, "and a seriously cool take on Second Life courtesy of (the fictional company) Graystone Industries million dollar idea, the HoloBand."

Father and billionaire scientist Daniel Graystone is busy worrying that, "his company is on the verge of losing the government contract for the Robot Super-soldier and Meta-Cognitive Processor after wasting five years and half a billion cubits."

His wife, Amanda, is cheating on him with his chief rival Tomas Vergis (a Tauron).

His daughter Zoey joins an organization called, 'Soldiers of One' -- "a monotheistic religious group that advocates the worship of a single, all-knowing, all powerful God whose mission is to, 'drive out the many Gods.'"

Act one ends with a violent act of terrorism that kills Ben and Zoey as well as innocent bystanders Shannon and Tamara, wife and daughter of Joseph Adams. Cue world beats opening credits.

Graystone and Adams befriend each other in grief and decide to use the technology at Graystone Industries to download both daughters' consciences into the cybernetic life-form nodes (or Cylons) that are currently in R&D at the company.

By the end of the pilot, Adams and Graystone are enemies, torn apart by ethical differences.

TVAddict source article

Another TVAddict article on Caprica casting. It could be you!

A TV Squad commentary on the casting news

Earlier reportings on Caprica from Cinemablend

'Exclusive' Caprica Pilot Preview from E! Online