I watched a DVD of a pilot episode for a new TV show. What made this unusual was that the episode is yet to be shown on TV. DVD releases usually occur months after broadcast, in this case the DVD was released last month and the show is slated to start in 2010.
The show is a Battlestar Galactica prequel called Caprica and is set on the eponymous planet some fifty years before the Cylon attack. The initial episode focuses on the creation of the Cylons. It shows the same interest as its parent show to address difficult issues such as racism, religion, terrorism, and what it means to be a living being. The ninety-minute pilot was a promising start.
