MacBook Pro spotted on Caprica
It's not at all unusual for Apple's products to make guest appearances on TV shows and films. Some shows take this to an extreme. 30 Rock, for example, is so stuffed full of iMacs, MacBooks, and iPhones that it seems like Apple is the only computer company in that show's universe.
A unibody MacBook Pro made a guest appearance in the unlikeliest of places last night: on the season finale of Caprica, SyFy's prequel to the critically acclaimed, re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series. It's unusual enough to see a MacBook Pro on a science fiction show of this type in the first place, but given the setting of the Battlestar Galactica universe, it's even more extraordinary. For those of you who haven't yet caught up on the final season of BSG for one reason or another, I've hidden the rest of this article behind the "Read More" link so you won't get any spoilers from me. The rest of you feel free to read on.
During a climactic scene in the final minutes of the season finale of Caprica, there's a unibody MacBook Pro with one of the optional matte screens installed clearly visible for several seconds. Some propmaster cleverly tried to disguise the computer's identity by putting a trapezoidal piece of duct tape over the name badge, but it's still very obviously a MacBook Pro. As regular viewers know, Caprica is set on another planet, on the other side of the galaxy, where humans travel through interplanetary space as easily as we travel between continents. But stranger even than that, the show is set over 150,000 years ago.
One of the oft-repeated lines from the re-imagined BSG series was, "All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again." So now that we've seen a MacBook Pro on the planet Caprica, I guess we know where Apple's Jonathan Ive gets all his industrial design ideas -- from the same psychedelic, Cylon-derived collective unconscious that inspired Bob Dylan to write "All Along the Watchtower."
