Yeah, I was actually enjoying Caprica... I you and I were the only ones Alteran195.
No Gothneo, my entire family was enjoying it as well. I would have been significantly more furious over the cancellation if it didn't seem inevitable thanks to Sci–Fi being incapable of competent scheduling. NBC/Universal turned bad scheduling into an art form with Caprica and it cost us a superb series. Showing the pilot almost a year before actually releasing anything else, including a release date for the actual series premiere definitely didn't help things, and the random hiatuses that the show was subjected too only ensured its demise. The one good thing to come out of Caprica's cancellation was a casting choice for Grimm, but that's about it.
NO NO NO NO. I was all in on Caprica. i loved it.
WORF22, trust me, you weren't the only one; I loved the series too, and the biggest problem was really NBC/Universal being incapable of programming Sci–Fi and subsequently deciding that they were also incapable of spelling it. They would put the show on a random hiatus and then do a shoddy job of promoting its return and eventually half of its viewers just got sick of jumping through hoops to watch the show, which ultimately lead to its cancellation. Had they just gone straight through or even had one hiatus and a set return date, they probably would have retained the audience needed for a second season.
Caprica really picked up towards the end of season 1, but it was a bit of a mess for the first three quarters of its run. I too was disappointed when the credits rolled after that tantalising tease, but I could totally understand why.
I lay the blame for the direction (or lack thereof) that both BSG and Caprica took starting with season 3 of Galactica at the feet of Jane Espenson. She was the show-runner on Caprica, and was pretty much in charge of later-seasons BSG, too - Moore had scaled back his influence, though he still plotted the course.
Destructor, I know exactly what you mean about the tease, because it just convinced me that the writers had learned from their mistakes in season one, and that season two would have been an improvement. The first three quarters of Caprica suffered from bad scheduling and the fact that they were clearly laying the groundwork for future events. The advantage to this is that it eliminates the need for a technique like flashbacks to be abused every 16 seconds to tell the audience about a character's past. The disadvantage is that it essentially causes a show to start slowly before spooling up its FTLs in future seasons. This can be done successfully, but not when the scheduling is as disastrous as Sci–Fi's was, and that's what really hurt Caprica. I've watched other shows that started out like Caprica, and the payoff is always after the early episodes where certain events that seem insignifcant turn out to be pretty important once the show picks up steam. This is what Caprica looked like it was positioning itself to do before NBC/Universal made the mistake of pulling the plug, and I only wish they'd have given Caprica one more season to prove itself before cancelling it; at best it would have taken off, and at worst they could have had a series finale planned that would have wrapped things up and not left me feeling like I was cheated out of an excellent series.
Jane Espenson also had a hand in Jericho from what I can remember, but I don't believe that she was the showrunner. (Why couldn't Caprica have some reference to nuts so we could have just used the Jericho playbook to try and save it?) However, I seem to recall her also having a hand in Revolution, and that series seemed to wind up having similar issues to Caprica in its second season where it stopped being a journey series and wound up "running in place" in the general vicinity of Texas. The only thing that kept steam from coming out of my ears when it was cancelled was that I knew it was "sacrificed" to give Parenthood a proper send–off, and given how much of my viewing time I'd invested into that show, I was willing to tolerating losing Revolution to see a critically–acclaimed series highly underrated by the average viewers have a proper ending. Having said that, if Revolution hadn't fallen off the rails, there wouldn't have been a need to consider cancelling it in the first place, and the teaser for the next season of that series was just as good as the teaser for the second season of Caprica that we never got. I only wish NBC/Universal would give at least one of those shows another try, even if not on NBC or SyFy respectively. Of course, with BSG movies now in development, I doubt we'll ever see a return to Moore's take on BSG and its universe, which is a shame because it was far more intelligent than a lot of what's out there, and the concept behind Caprica (a civilization developing technology that they weren't ready for as a society,) seems even more topical now than it did when Caprica initially aired.