Profound, profane or pedestrian

Just as I adjusted myself to its pace and focus, news that Caprica is cancelled! Damn it and I had just started to get interested in it too! I did think that with Battlestar Galactica : Blood and Chrome getting at least a provisional nod, it was unlikely that Caprica would survive too much longer.

I think that at least part of the issue is that Caprica is so different from the series that it spun off, that it fell between audiences. You probably wouldn't really watch Caprica unless you had watched Battlestar Galactica and yet if you had watched Battlestar Galactica, Caprica wasn't likely to be the kind of show that would appeal to you.

Bob Loblaw Law Blog - funniest line yet!

And yet this gem is gone. Idiots!

The "Last Day on Set" extra was as heart-breaking as the blooper reel was funny.

The sheer genius of the writing and acting on this is so apparent.

And yet this gem is gone. Idiots! (whoops, I may have said that before!)

Another one of the canceled-before-its-time great series. Jeffrey Donovan's work in Touching Evil was so good. He portrayed the brain-damaged David Creegan so well. He avoided every cliche that other series trot out for the resident "loon" - he's not ranting and raving, he's not on an emotional knife edge and he's not hallucinating or delusional. He is, though, socially dysfunctional and his logic is impaired (and he is often aware of his ineptitude and embarrassed by it). There is a wonderful scene (can't remember what episode it is from) where they are debating what they know about a case. Creegan asks several questions and they all seem to be on the right track. Then he asks one more and we realise that every other question he asked meant something quite different from what we thought. There is a very embarrassed shuffle from everyone around the table, Creegan appears to realise that he missed something big (but he still doesn't know what) and then the meeting just melts away because no-one knows quite what to do. That right there is a better portrayal of the effects of psychiatric impairment than almost anything else I have ever seen.

Just to add insult to injury, this series doesn't seem to have been released on DVD yet, let alone an R4 version.