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June 29, 2009
TV : Virtuality
Just watched the pilot/movie “Virtuality” by Ron Moore who helmed the recent “Battlestar Galactica” remake. It has not yet been picked up as a series, which is a shame since it blows away anything else on TV today. A rich story, a complex mystery, a settling that provides scope to explore a lot of things. Pretty impressive. Plus, Moore has the recent track record that shows he can deliver.
I don’t want to spoil anything so I won’t go into any of the surprises - if you have not seen it I recommend you go watch it on: Hulu. However on face value, the story is: humanity has launched its first mission to another star system (using realistic technology, by the way). The mission is backed by a consortium of companies who are making back at least part of the cost of the mission by presenting it as a reality TV series (with product placement by the crew). She ship’s psychologist serves double duty as the show’s producer (no conflict of interest there!). The only private time the crew have is when they retreat into their virtual reality modules which are custom programmed to allow they to escape the stress of the ship.
In the pilot, various plots are set in motion - news from Earth is bad, one of the crew is ill, strange things start happening in the virtual reality modules, and there are hints that the story is a lot more complex than what I described above. Oh, and did I mention there may be a murderer on board? There are so many things they could explore just using what was in the pilot, I sure hope someone picks it up.
Posted by Steven at June 29, 2009 05:00 AM
