Graystone is the head of a successful technology firm whose daughter Zoe (Alessandra Torresani) died in the explosion. While the show manages to recapture the rich characters and social commentary that made Battlestar thrive, it lacks the bold propulsive dread that constantly rumbled in the background of that series.Įric Stoltz and Esai Morales play Daniel Graystone and Joseph Adama, a pair of fathers who lose family members when a suicide bomber destroys a bustling train car. Caprica begins nearly 60 years before the cataclysmic genocide that sent Battlestar hurtling off at its breakneck pace, and concentrates on the lives of two warring families whose actions unwittingly doom their entire civilization. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica re-imagination reached out and clenched viewers by the throat, but with Caprica, the highly anticipated prequel series, Moore & Co.