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   mir to Jacob   
   Re: Caprica Series on Sci Fi   
   21 Oct 09 17:10:28   
   
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   From: none@example.com   
      
   On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:31:17 -0700, Jacob wrote:   
      
   > Guys in suits and Fedoras wandering around a huge high-technology city,   
   > bright on the outsite, but dark and gritty on the inside...   
   >   
   > I was watching the Battlestar Galactica finale last night and saw the   
   > promos for Caprica, the spinoff they're working on and I couldn't help   
   > but notice the cyberpunkish imagery.  Of course, Cyberpunk is usually   
   > depicted as all Blade Runner, bleak urban wasteland/dystopia....   
      
   I have to disagree. Caprica is nothing like cyberpunk. It lacks the   
   dehumanization of cyberpunk, and I'd say it depicts a soft science   
   fiction alternate reality rather than a dystopia so... No cyberpunk for   
   Caprica, sorry :)   
      
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