The concept of Caprica is marginally mind blowing.  This is the world based on 1950’s American décor and fashion, but with very futuristic technology, and in the end is supposed to represent something from a galaxy far away, and 150,050 years ago.  Once you get past those contrasts, Caprica is a world where men still wear hats and double breasted suits are in fashion.  And the world is a contrast of modern and past themes in a very unique way.

The sets for SyFy’s new series, a prequel to Battlestar Galactica, are incredibly detailed and deeply contrasting.  MediaBlvd was given a tour of the Greystone mansion and the Adama apartment as part of the SyFy Press Tour on October 7^th, 2009.  The set designers have done an amazing job in contrasting these two worlds from far away, and long ago, with the ultra-sterile, modern Greystone mansion, and the warm, ethnic apartment inhabited by the Adama family.  The cold Greystone home comes off as a place that you would very much like to visit, while the warmer Adama apartment is a place that you would very much like to live.  And that is intentional.

Outside of the windows in the Greystone house is one of the largest wall murals ever, with a montage of mountains and ocean.  It was easy to imagine slipping into that world for a bit.  The set is also the home of the original Cylon model, in Dr. Greystone’s lab.  In the Adama apartment, their was a particularly cool Easter-Egg for the BSG fans in young William’s room; the model ship that would figure prominently later in the Admiral’s life (as he smashed it to bits in a fit of rage) was a part of his childhood décor.