Sister Clarice is a Stoner?

Okay, so I’m a week behind on Caprica, the show we love to hate.  Or we hate to love? Anyhoo, here are my thoughts about “The Imperfections of Memory,” originally aired March 12.

First, and obviously, the episode is about Amanda Graystone’s imperfect memories of her brother Darius.  She keeps seeing him in crowds, despite the fact he died in a car accident years ago.  As it turns out, she’s been so tortured in the past by her thoughts and imagined(?) sightings of him that she was institutionalized for 2.5 years.   She attempts to catch his image in the crowd on her cell phone, but the photos are so blurred (imperfect….) it’s not clear whether he was really there.

Amanda has gone so hot mess over this dead brother thing that she makes what I’m sure will be a bad decision and confides in Sister Clarice about it.  The two of them end up smoking some dope together.  Peace and love….. Oh yeah, and Sister Clarice gets a Jehovah’s Witness bee in her bonnet and starts witnessing about God to Amanda.  Amanda asks, “Which one?”  Hold on kids, here we go…..  All aboard for Gemenon.

What's up with Amanda playing coy with Daniel about her "friend" aka Clarice?  Ewww.  Just ewww.

A little more subtle is Joseph’s pursuit of his “memory” of Tamara.  Her avatar in V World is just a collection of the memories of her, and isn’t V World, at the end of the day, all in your head?  Nice work, tough guy, getting the kid killed in New Cap City.  Somehow I think he had your back more than your new V World guide, Emanuelle.  Just a hunch.  I’m psychic like that sometimes.

And on the subject of V World, how interesting was it that Zoe 2.0 (aka Zoe’s avatar) doesn’t like the cookie cutter look of V World?  She would really hate American suburbs. And she doesn’t want to level herself up to be a better pilot in the flight simulator program, she wants to learn to do it herself.  She wants to improve V World; make everything unique.  And she didn’t seem to approve of the immorality and escapism for which it was being used – wasn’t that what Daddy Daniel designed it to be?  And she drops some pretty strong hints that V World = afterlife.

Cylon Zoe.  I’m not too motivated to go there.  Okay, a few things if we must. We learn that a couple of Sister Clarice’s husbands have figured out that Zoe’s avatar has been downloaded somewhere other than the disk thingy Sister Clarice used to heist data in Daniel’s lab.  My DVR conked out before the end of the episode, but I understand that Daniel becomes suspicious that Zoe’s avatar is in the Cylon prototype.  Bet you’re not feeling so hot about that throwdown with Amanda in front of the robot now, are you flyboy?

Chip, what are your thoughts on this episode?  And more importantly, give me a heads up.  Will I need Sister Clarice to take me to an opium den first to get through the next one?

Peace,

Holly