Finally finished watching Caprica, the spin-off of the Battlestar Galactica reboot.
I enjoyed it. A couple of times things did seem too soap opera-ish, but it was couched in a sci-fi wrapper, which is generally interesting. I'm actually kind of glad it didn't survive past the first season. I think it told the story just fine in those 20 episodes. If it had been allowed another season, I fear it would have struggled to maintain consistency in the universe (the danger of telling prequel stories) while trying to remain interesting.
I read an interesting article about why the show didn't rate so highly. Soap opera fans didn't want to watch sci-fi, and sci-fi fans didn't want to watch soap operas. The latter part kind of amuses me, because I think the real point is that sci-fi action fans would not be interested. I actually found the ethical and philosophical points to be interesting, and those feature prominently in many sci-fi works.
I have to admit that it's funny that the near-universal destruction of humanity blossomed from an angsty teenaged girl. Maybe too funny to be taken seriously?