Episode Commentary: There is Another Sky

According to Sam Adama (Sasha Roiz), an old Tauron proverb states that if one loses something in the desert and another finds it, the transfer is permanent. In this case, the lost item is none other than his wayward and despairingly aimless nephew, Willie (Sina Najafi).

Joseph (Esai Morales) has been moping for weeks as a result of the tragic loss of his wife and daughter. His son has been missing school to hang out with his mob assassin uncle in Little Tauron.

The avatar of the aforementioned daughter, Tamara (Genevieve Buechner), has been lost in the V-Club for quite a while at this point and seeks the help of a virtual mogul (Camille Mitchell) – seemingly running her own black market society – to find a way out.

The entirely family is rather on the verge of having to “roll the hard six” simply to right themselves again.
This episode definitely focuses on the Adamas and rightly so, since the Graystones took center stage of last week’s, though that certainly contained much more set-up than any legitimate action.

Regardless of that, the most interesting aspect of this week’s installment deals with the entirely-too-long ignored Tamara. She’s scared, she’s desperate and she’s definitively an Adama. Thrust into a perpetual stream of virtual reality, she must now win a game in a place called New Cap City – a virtual representation of Caprica City that’s rife with gunfire and a criminal underground that has no qualms about asserting its place well above its titular placement.

The only catch is that once a player is killed in the game, he can never return. The countermove, of course, is that Tamara’s avatar cannot die, so she’s the perfect candidate.

As she progresses in the game, her virtual powers alter, and she begins to grow into her role as an immortal being in a virtual world.

Although this episode does not deal with the Soldiers of the One and barely traipses Zoe’s (Alessandra Torresani) story line, it manages to quench such an intense thirst for the return of Tamara the best follow-up imaginable would immediately deal with the aftermath of her victory.

What continues to be strange on the Graystone front, however, is the inclusion of Luciana Carro as public relations representative, Pryah. Carro, for those unfortunate enough to forget, played Captain Louanne Katraine on “Battlestar Galactica” – a rival of Starbuck’s (Katee Sackhoff) who was killed in the otherwise lackluster “The Passage.”

Is Kat somehow connected to the Cylons, or did Carro simply make a fantastic impression on “Caprica’s” casting directors? The former seems entirely more reasonable, given Ronald D. Moore’s propensity for mesmerizingly tangled plot threads.

As “There is Another Sky” (an aptly-named episode if there ever was one) closes, the memory of “Galactica’s” glory returns and the wait between episodes becomes that much more agonizing.
At least we have the satisfaction that the season only began.

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