First of all, it sends a horrible message when Hollywood promotes smoking. Ron Moore is practically doing a cigarette commercial given the prevalence.

Think about this with BSG--35000 people out of billions survive a global nuclear war. They don't have food, but they have enough tobacco to survive for years?

They don't just show smoking, they really throw it in the audience's face. It's almost as if Moore is trying to say, "screw you people who don't like smoking, I'm going to show as much smoking as possible."

It detracts from the show and is just another example of the smug arrogance of people like Ron Moore.

"Perhaps my memory is faulty, but wasn't the entire planet of Caprica supposed to be a developed city?"

you didn't remember episode after episode after episode of BSG taking place in various woods and fields on Caprica?

kinda hard to forget that i would think.

"I must have missed something along the way. Why is Zoe so adamant about hiding her presence in the robot?"

If you are looking for reasonable or rational explanations regarding the artificial intelligence in the cylon, you are barking up the wrong tree. Its best to just turn off your brain and enjoy the cylon as mindless entertainment. None of it actually makes sense if you take the time to actually think about it.

Lots of interesting theories but I see that no one is bothered about the fact that they intend next episode to be the season's "finale"... Isn't that waaaaaaaaaaaay too soon to have caught enough audience for October's resuming to be successful? Just saying... Anyway, I'll be sure to watch it (die-hard BSG fan, here!)

They have not cured cancer or heart disease on Caprica. If they did, they would have mentioned it during the BSG run.

There was never a line like, "gee, if we were only on Caprica, I would cure this."

There is nothing natural about the smoking on this show. It's merely the smug writers saying, "look at how defiant we are about not showing smoking." It adds nothing to the show and actually takes away from it.

Even the road signs are modern Earth. Same days of the week as well.

Am I the only one getting a little tired of Zoe-bot being set up by the show as the only victim in the relationship with the dad? Maybe it's just the father's better acting skills but you can see his torture at having lost his daughter and now having her avatar withhold being there, although he knows she is. That torture of him is as bad or worse than what he put her through. If you think about what he did to make his daughter want to run away like that it doesn't really hold up IMO. I don't believe that the holaband worlds taken over by the kids would really be all sex and violence as shown without any fun and goofiness and other non-bad fun stuff leaving Zoe open to hating her dad for inventing it that much. (And for a smart kid to hate her dad for that is kind of lame when you think about it.) Sure kids get rebellious and all that but the home life and parents usually have to be pretty bad for the kids to lack compassion and love in great dose too. If she is lacking that because she's an avatar then she probably doesn't have he feelings about the dog or fire either so no story there. I'm just saying after reading the discussion here and elsewhere that I can't feel that it's all bad dad and poor Zoe while her parents are going through hell.
Probably the mother seeing the brother will turn out to be the doing of Vergis. I guess that's a less cliche way of his getting at Greystone's wife rather than seducing her.

You really need to let go of complaining that the plants looks like Earth, the cars look like Earth, the food looks like Earth. Do you really want them to spend their budget on that? Do you really want hour of exposition about their cuisine?

Haha! This thread is AWESOME! It's been taken over by Mothers for America or something :-D

You know, if characters smoke on TV you don't actually breathe the smoke, or have to start smoking yourself.

Yeah, the rampant murder is one thing, but smoking???

I am getting annoyed/sickened at the smoking on this show. It's gotten so stupid that when the wife/mother sucks the life out of her cancer stick they now have sound effects to enhance it. It's gross.