Is this a serious question? They didn't do that because it's not the show they wanted to make. They wanted to make some weird offputting family/business/religious drama, not the Tori Foster Bitchi Hour for 2000 straight years.
No, it wasn't a serious question.
I really wasn't sold on the Caprica setting either, initially, but it took only about 4 episodes for it to grip me completely.
To be honest, I was sold when the mag lev blew up on the first episode.
I hope not. I trust the writers more than to go "lol, all our characters are actually analogues to the BSG cast" all the time. I'm interested to see if they develop more explicit links between Lacey/Tamara/Zoe and the human cylon models we know, but nothing more.
I don't think we'll se any links between the Humanoid 8/13. I do think we'll see more of how the BSG centurions, raiders, and heavy raiders came to be.
It would be interesting to see the outbreak of the full-on Cylon War. Hopefully, it's not to campy or predictable to end the show with the commissioning of Galactica.
(and you're not using the term half-life correctly. Caprica isn't radioactive.)
Well, technically I could be proven right and this whole thing could run for six years. Though, I completely doubt that it'll take off past the second season, at best. It's still being fleshed-out (if you will), and this giant season 1 break isn't helping matters.
You kinda answered your own question about the story that has a shelf-life of about 3 years... um.... duh. That's exactly what you want when you're writing a show that's only likely to last exactly that long anyway. Doing a show about a 2,000 year period would either have to focus on a small segment of it (like, I dunno, maybe about 3 years of it), or be abridged to the point that it was a disjointed mess.
It would be interesting for the final five saga to into play when the first Cylon War ended. Just to watch the truce they bartered and the creation of the first hybrids and Cavil.
What mysterious figure behind the glass?
During one of the Holoband sessions with Clarice, she meets a person who is sitting behind some glass.
Batlar's house isn't in Caprica. It's a different house (as nice as it would've been for Baltar to buy Daniel Greystone's house). The exterior is CGI and the interior is a set, which doesn't resemble either of the houses used as Baltar's during BSG, aside from its lakeside location.
Sorry, I haven't read the production notes or listened to the podcasts. Are we sure they're sets and not actual homes? The architecture in his home on Caprica in the series finale looks a lot like a Lloyd Wright house. Small, cramped hallways, big, spacious rooms with huge windows, and the stained glass on the front door matches his style. All signature Lloyd Wright
Case in point:
Left Door, as seen in BSG S04E20 "Daybreak Pt1"
Right. Glass design by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The home we saw in some of the earlier flashbacks (and especially the miniseries pilot) is probably the same home they used to film the movie Firewall. I've seen that particular house appear in several places.
Not sure about the Daybreak Pt1 House... Looks the part.
