Gravedancing

"Gravedancing" An episode of the Caprica Series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 4
Writer(s)	Jane Espenson
Story by	Michael Angeli Jane Espenson
Director	Michael Watkins
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US airdate	February 19, 2010
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The Reins of a Waterfall	Gravedancing	There is Another Sky
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Overview

"Gravedancing" is the fourth episode of the series Caprica.

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Analysis

• The public's deep suspicion of the Holoband as discussed on Backtalk With Baxter Sarno is mirrored in real life Earth over worries of the Holoband's presumed predecessor in the Colonies, the Internet. Much of the same issues of parental control, the youth loosing its way on it due to, as the adult public sees it, nefarious forces are much the same as the public worries of the net on Earth in First World Nations. This phenomena is called a Moral Panic when a new phenomena generates anxiety in a population, mostly among the middle age adult and older population as they worry as to the effect on the new cultural touchstone on children and teenagers and young adults, particularly adolescences. Past Moral panics have included video games in the 1980's through the early 21st century, Hip Hop Music, Gangsta Rap in particular, in the 1990's Skateboarding in the 1970's Rock 'n Roll music in the 1950's and 1960's, Comic books in the 1950's Such panics sometimes involved congressional investigations such as The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in early 1954 to investigate the Comic Book industry over what it saw as very violent content of detective and Horror comic books. This lead to the voluntary adoption of the industry create Comics Code Authority to police itself and the Congressional investigations of content in video games deemed to have a violent content in 1993. As with the Comic Book industry in the 1950's such concerns led the video game industry to adopt voluntary ratings rankings of video games such as the ESRB rating system in the United States and Canada, as well as the PEGI rating system in Europe to placate public and governmental concerns and to head off actual governmental regulation (congressional attempts failed due to First Amendment issues). Daniel Graystone at the spur of the moment pledged to take the profit motive out of creating the Holoband in response to public suspicion that it was the holoband that caused Graystone's troubled" daughter to blow up the commuter train although Graystone pointed out that it was because her daughter saw lack of moral direction on the Holoband that lead her to join the STO.