Watching: Caprica - PIlot

I admit I hit a wall with Battlestar Galactica a couple of episodes into the second season and never caught up with it. There was a lot of bleak in that show.

Caprica looks to be as willing as BSG to do horrible things to its characters in the cause of the story, but for the moment I'm willing to give it a shot.

The acting is fantastic - particularly the two main leads, Eric Stoltz and Esai Morales. The teen characters are not getting on my last nerve, nor do they exist primarily to be sullen, which is a relief.

And Polly Walker is playing absurdly named Sister Clarice Willow. I'm sitting there thinking, "Well isn't that neat? They cast against type and she seems so nice." Then, she does that thing she does where there's one flick of the eyebrow and you know she's up to no good. And probably bat-shit crazy to boot.

That should be fun to watch.