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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Overview

Daniel readies himself for his appearance on Backtalk with Baxter Sarno. The GDD carry out searches on the Athena Academy and the Graystone home. Sam waits patiently for his moment to kill Amanda, but Joseph is slowly overcome with regret for calling in the hit on her.

Notes

• As Philomon cycles through music selections in Daniel's lab, the Colonial Anthem is briefly heard.
• The source music for Backtalk with Baxter Sarno, such as the opening theme and the walkout music heard when Daniel walks onto the set, is the same source music heard at the dance at the end of "Colonial Day."
• Several mentions are made during the episode to Willie's set of Tauron jacks. This may be an indirect reference to "Sometimes a Great Notion," where Anastasia Dualla discovers a set of jacks buried among the ruins on Earth.

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 losing 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, particularly with social networking sites. This phenomena is called a Moral Panic when a new powerful trend that generates anxiety in a population, mostly among the middle age adult and older as they worry as to the effect on the new cultural touchstone on children, teenagers and young adults; in particular adolescents. Past Moral Panics have included video games in the 1980's through the early 21st century, Hip Hop Music, in particular Gangsta Rap 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 created Comics Code Authority to police itself. Then 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 using the holoband in response to public suspicion that it was somehow the holoband, which seems overwhelmingly "populated" by teenagers that caused Graystone's "troubled" daughter to blow up the commuter train. Graystone pointed out that it was because her daughter saw lack of moral direction on the Holoband that lead her to join the STO, not that it caused her to lack moral direction.

Guest Stars

• Scott Porter as Nestor Willow
• Patton Oswalt as Baxter Sarno
• Kendall Cross as Youngblood
• Peter Wingfield as Gara Singh
• Luciana Carro as Priyah Magnus
• Alex Arsenault as Philo
• Karen Austin as Ruth
• Sina Najafi as William Adama
• Hiro Kanagawa as Cyrus Xander
• Jim Thomson as Voice of Serge
• Liam Sproule as Keon
• Françoise Yip as Desiree Willow
• Panou as Olaf Willow
• Feguins Toussaint as Bodyguard Sean
• Rebecca Lee as Makeup Artist
• Maggie Ma as Crew Member
• Scott Patey as Comic
• Riel Hahn as Stage Manager
• Conrad Whitaker as Businessman

Caprica definition: a monotheistic terrorist organization in existence for more than a decade prior to 58 BCH (^{(CAP: "Pilot")}, et al).