American TV is bring about its own demise. 

I have just watched the end of season 1 of Caprica. After a slow beginning the season really hotted up and I was blown away by the final 4 1/2 minutes (see above). I got really excited and instantly did a search to see when season 2 was going to be out.

Once again (like so many other shows) I was gutted to see it had been cancelled.

I should have known better. I have started avoiding watching season 1 of any show after countless dissapointments of shows that have been cancelled just after I got into them (e.g. Firefly and Dollshouse). However, I thought I was on safe ground with Caprica. After all it was a prequel to the phenomenally successful BSG. Surely the networks would have the intelligence to allow the show to have time to grow into itself.

How naive of me.  Once again it has proved that the best thing for us consumers is to skip new shows on TV and instead torrent them once they reach their second or third season. That way we won’t waste time on a show that ultimately goes nowhere.