Where are all the people?

[erika]

Does anyone have any ideas as to what happened to all the people left behind on Caprica ? We haven't seen a single corpse, or roaming dog come to that. It's like the world has been emptied.

[joemc72]

erika said:

Does anyone have any ideas as to what happened to all the people left behind on Caprica ? We haven't seen a single corpse, or roaming dog come to that. It's like the world has been emptied.

What I think they're trying to do is just get you to suspend belief. Cylons nuked the planet and cities as well, but so far we've seen no damage whatsoever. I'm guessing the writers just want you to trust that it happened, and move on.

Course, I could just be talking out of my butt as well...

[mjm800]

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In 1x13 as Starbuck takes the Raider in for a landing it is clear that Caprica City is destroyed. As for the people I would suspect that the Cylon Centurions are hunting them down or infiltrating them with Cylons and playing the same game that they played with Helo.

[CylonGod]

They show a veiw of Caprica city with nuke damage but still no bodies. It's as if the cylons cleaned them up but left everything else as it is.

[Ziptie]

We've talked about that before, and there were a variety of theories ranging from Cylon weapons that vaporised the corpses while leaving the buildings to camps full of human prisoners.

There most definitely is damage in the cities though. Granted Caprica is in a far better state than it would be had it been hit with the sort of nuke we're familiar with on earth, but it's certainly there, although if you're watching in the US you haven't seen the worst of it yet.

As Joe says though, a lot of the Caprica storyline involves suspension of disbelief.

Apart from anything else, the budget required to build sets (either real or digital) depicting a city suffering even moderately realistic nuclear weapon damage would be considerable, while filling it with hordes of radiation burned corpses - and survivors - would be more expensive again, and probably more gruesome than the bounds of TV drama would permit.

It'd probably also have detracted from the story. The Caprica storyline is about Helo and Boomer, and putting more people there would probably have detracted it.

[mjm800]

CylonGod said:

They show a veiw of Caprica city with nuke damage but still no bodies. It's as if the cylons cleaned them up but left everything else as it is.

Helo shot rats off of a body when he and Boomer first arrived in the city. There are bodies the audience is just not shown them. I am sure that many people did survive but that they have fled to the mountains or forests for refuge. I also suspect that the Cylons are actively hunting them down and exterminating them wherever they find them.

[Hellscaretaker]

mjm800 said:

Helo shot rats off of a body when he and Boomer first arrived in the city. There are bodies the audience is just not shown them. I am sure that many people did survive but that they have fled to the mountains or forests for refuge. I also suspect that the Cylons are actively hunting them down and exterminating them wherever they find them.

wide off the mark thought......cleaning the place up for the new race of cylon/humans? ;D

[joemc72]

mjm800 said:

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In 1x13 as Starbuck takes the Raider in for a landing it is clear that Caprica City is destroyed. As for the people I would suspect that the Cylon Centurions are hunting them down or infiltrating them with Cylons and playing the same game that they played with Helo.

Sorry, hadn't seen the finale yet. I know RDM had mentioned that a lot of the Caprica storyline was added in after the mini showed that Helo was popular with the ladies viewing... I suspect it wasn't ever going to be shown again, but when it was, they needed the extra time to CGI up a damaged Caprica City.

Remember, the budget for these shows is fairly small (remember that was why the actual Cylon attack in the mini wasn't shown)...which is why I came up with the whole 'suspension of disbelief' thing.

My $0.02.

[ladyrheena]

CylonGod said:

They show a veiw of Caprica city with nuke damage but still no bodies. It's as if the cylons cleaned them up but left everything else as it is.

The Cylons do seem to be using some areas of the city as bases or centres of operations, judging by some of the stuff we've seen. And I don't think it's unreasonable that they would clean up the- ah- debris in that case. Firstly, it wouldn't be very healthy for the humanoid models, any genetic tinkering aside, to be living around rotting corpses, and secondly it's just not very nice, so perhaps they do have an inbuilt aestetic sense. Nobody likes to live around dead bodies, right?

There was a big thing going on in another thread about the lack of damage and the possible types of bomb that could have been used to subdue the Colonies without laying complete waste to the planets- we were talking neutron bombs and all kinds of stuff. Can't remember where it was, though...think it might have been moved to the sci/tech forum where it really belonged. Need a new brain to aid my memory. Or maybe less sugar. ;D

[pudge]

They show a veiw of Caprica city with nuke damage but still no bodies. It's as if the cylons cleaned them up but left everything else as it is

They definitely did a major clean up and it was not too difficult for them either. When the cylons were hunting Helo and Boomer, Six commented that they searched every room in every building hence why our couple escaped by moving underground. It is perfectly conceivable from this that they tidied things up so that the new humanoid tenants could move in.

Delphi is the city in which Starbuck is seen in the last episode and not Caprica, that is why it was possible for Helo to meet her after his foiled attempt to escape from the nearby spaceport with Boomer.

[EstoniaKat]

That wasn't Caprica City they were in. That was another city, Delphi. It had bomb damage, but didn't get the bunker buster like Caprica City did.

Caprica City, from what they've indicated, is a hole in the ground.

The damage in Delphi is more consistent with a neutron bomb. Low yield, but designed to kill people.

[CylonGod]

It's Delphi city where the Arrow is.

Thanks for setting it straight.

[futureworldruler]

As the cylons plan is still unknown, I think there are a number of options the show could persue.

Where the humans slaughtered then cleaned up? Or did they all succeed in fleeing? Or have they been moved to camps to die/work in slavery/be used some other dark purpose?

[CylonGod]

futureworldruler said:

Where the humans slaughtered then cleaned up? Or did they all succeed in fleeing? Or have they been moved to camps to die/work in slavery/be used some other dark purpose?

I don't think they where slaughtered in the cities because there is no blood or any of that type of thing. They may have been moved to camps or maybe taken to the basestars to be recycled into food for the Raiders and such.

[ladyrheena]

CylonGod said:

I don't think they where slaughtered in the cities because there is no blood or any of that type of thing. They may have been moved to camps or maybe taken to the basestars to be recycled into food for the Raiders and such.

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