TIME Says Virtuality Is "Sweepingly Ambitious, Thought-Provoking"
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The two-hour pilot Moore delivered is sweepingly ambitious, thought-provoking and visually well-imagined, like a more photogenic version of BSG's claustrophobic interiors. While it's hard to tell from one pilot, it certainly looks like a potentially worthy successor to BSG. It's also complicated, thick with levels and interlocking narratives and, frankly, tough to follow until you get acclimated. This apparently scared Fox off, and the network that made Joss Whedon dumb down Dollhouse (until it reconsidered, at which point it got good), decided not to order a series.
This would usually mean a pilot, unless freed and picked up by another network, would disappear without ever being seen. Fox, however, is for some reason not only airing the pilot but has been giving it a fair amount of publicity for a show it seems to have every intention of killing. It's moved the airdate from a July 4th weekend deathslot to tonight (a Friday, yes, but a traditional Fox sci-fi timeslot) and made actors and producers available for interviews. It's treating the airing almost as a debut even though, in all likelihood, it is not. ---
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