You might be right about the girl. But I don't think so. Remember, Allessandra is playing a precocious mid-teenage character, but the actress was in her twenties when the series was filmed.

I was totally infatuated with the Zoe character and paid close attention to every scene she appeared in. Now I do agree that much can be done with lighting, makeup, wigs, airbrushes and Photoshop; but after all, she IS an actor. Remember how Lee Adama gained, and then lost, all that weight? Sure, you can pad a uniform, but how did they change his face? Good actors can do remarkable things with the most subtle changes in posture and expression, as witness Caprica No 6.

As for the mono/poly theism subtext of the series, I'm not so sure that really matters all that much. Neither alternative is appealing to me, and frankly, I don't see much fundamental difference between the two. I know in our own planet that duality has played an enormous historical and cultural role, but the only conclusion we can draw from just one example (the Judaeo-Christian-Muslim triad are really just variations on one theme)is that monotheism is much more intolerant and exclusive than polytheism.

In pagan cultures, it was widely assumed the same gods were worshiped by all nations, and that religious diversity was merely a variation in local custom and ritual. The Greeks and Romans actually wrote about this, identifying certain deities in their pantheon with counterparts in other civilizations they were familiar with. Religious wars, bigotry and persecution were, alas, invented by monotheists. The Jews had their conquest and occupation of Canaan, the Christians gave us the Crusades, Inquisition and Southern Baptists, and Islam has spawned ISIS and the Ayatollahs. Even the Roman Empire allowed freedom of religion as long as you paid your taxes.

I was most sympathetic to the philosophical position of John Cavill, the Dean Stockwell character. As they say, the Devil always gets the best lines, and he nailed that role.