I remember how, years ago, I was so disgusted with the deus ex machina ending that it had the power to retroactively sour me on the entire series. Which made it feel all the worse, for making me feel like I'd wasted those years watching the show.

Since then I've streamed it twice, and I find that I like it more, and I've even become reconciled to the ending. The ending actually wasn't a non-sequiter and the religious element hadn't appeared from nowhere--in fact, the religious denouement had been foreshadowed from the very beginning.

I think I refused to see it, not wanting religion to "pollute" a show I was enjoying. But it was there all along.

Caprica brought the religious theme into the foreground--it was all about the struggle of monotheistic radicals against the polytheistic establishment.

Production notes: I'm pretty sure that Caprica was cut off early, but Moore had produced it in such a way that he had a huge amount of footage for a second season already shot. That would have been the story line on Geminid, I think it was, the hotbed of the monos. So he cobbled together the last few episodes to try to tell more of the story than was originally to have been in the first season.

Another one: That poster you used has always bothered me:

Because I'm pretty sure that that is not the actress (Alessandra Torresani) who ended up playing the whole first season in a little cocktail dress:

Nope. Not the same girl at all.