This looks like it’s going to be a pretty good show too. It’s like the WB commissioned a live-action series based on a Japanese anime remake of Blade Runner (directed by Ryutaro Nakamura), and fitted it with Battlestar trappings.

Basically what it seems to exist to do is explore all the culture that’s only kind of hinted in the parent show. There, you get all these groups and their dynamics — Capricans, Taurans, Gemini — yet never a real sense what any of it means. It doesn’t matter.

There are a couple of genius ideas in here. One of them is a pretty simple wardrobe choice that’s meant to show that this takes place “about fifty, sixty years ago”. The other is a bit more central. Kind of the point of the whole enterprise, actually. Which, I guess, is good.