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Final Art For Caprica (Jan 2010)

Just a short while back SyFy released a series of Caprica promo posters as part of a poll taken on its website to learn which of the posters was the most effective with potential viewers.

At that time there were two posters that I favoured. One was similar to this final poster, with differences which I’ll mention below. Like the second apple-themed poster,  it was essentially a mix of several muted colours with heavy gray overtones with the vivid red apple  sort of bursting out visually.

The second apple poster featured the two patriarchs of the series: Adama and Graystone.

I think ultimately, I would have boiled it down to the two, which I now know was in agreement with Syfy’s conclusion–at least halfway.

However, as I noted, the final Caprica promo poster is different than than the one featured in the poll but maybe not better.

We again have Alessandra Torresani as Zoe Graystone, but here she is naked from the waist up, her arm covering her breasts and her face turned  looking right into the camera. There is a much less demure stance to this one and  that is where I hesitate  to say “it’s perfect.” One cannot help but get a strong sexual vibe going on here and seeing as though “Zoe” is to be a high-school age “girl,” one cannot get away from the Lolita overtones coming through–despite Syfy’s declaration that this is a swipe from the Garden of Eden.

“Lifting the theme of Original Sin, the art reveals that Zoe has taken a bite out of the forbidden fruit and starts the battle of humanity (above).”

A slightly similar but different poster of “Caprica” is released as the key art for the SyFy series. Featuring actress Alessandra Torresani as Zoe Graystone, the poster bears the tag “The future of humanity begins with a choice”. Executive VP of the network, Mark Stern, said, “There’s something really interesting about the idea of Zoe and the Eve metaphor.”

Serving as the prequel of “Battlestar Galactica”, “Caprica” deals with the question “When is too much knowledge a bad thing?”. It goes back to the time when the invention of Cylon was thought of and two powerful patriarchs, Joseph Adama and Daniel Greystone, are in duel for the war of humanity.

The series is scheduled to air its two-hour pilot on January 22, 2010. The pilot has actually been released as a standalone DVD on April 21 but eight of the episodes will only be aired on SyFy until March. Taking a hiatus, the nine remaining episodes will be aired some time in the second half of 2010.  Source: Ace Show Biz

Caprica show Syfy Synopsis:

An astonishing breakthrough is taking shape on the planet Caprica. The rapidly evolving spheres of human and mechanical engineering have collided, along with the fates of two families. Joined by tragedy in an explosive instant of terror, two rival clans led by powerful patriarchs, Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) and Daniel Greystone (Eric Stoltz) duel in an era of questionable ethics, corporate machinations and unbridled personal ambition as the final war for humanity looms.

The latest phenomenon from the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eick), set in a time over 50 years earlier, Caprica is entirely its own world – provocative, thrilling and startling relevant to our own.

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