Last night’s episode in the new season of Caprica, “Unvanquished,” was quite simply amazing. It brought together disparate threads from the previous season, and showed us how business, crime, and religion are pretty much the same thing.

While the first season of Caprica focused on two families, the wealthy Graystones and the immigrant mobster Adamas, this season has shifted emphasis. Now the Graystones are completely interconnected with the Adamas, and the two powerful forces at work are the Graystone Corporation (now run by Daniel Graystone’s enemy Thomas Vergis) and the monotheist terrorist movement STO. Both groups are vying to use technologies developed by Daniel Graystone and his daughter Zoe to further their goals to dominate Caprica – whether that’s financially or spiritually.

I watched the pilot & quite enjoyed it, but lost interest somewhere in the first or second episode of the first season. Yet, after watching the most recent episode, I have to say that I am much more interested in watching the rest of the series than I thought I would be going into the second half of the first season. Now I suppose I will have to go back and watch the first half of the first season, though I doubt it will be as good as this most recent episode. You can catch the timeshifted episode as well as the four previous episodes at http://www.hulu.com/caprica. It is probably a good thing for as many people as possible to watch the episodes online if not on television in order for the series to get better ratings, and hopefully be renewed for a second season.