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AMC Talks To Virtuality's Michael Taylor About His Ideal VR Scenario
22/June/2009 01:39 AM Filed in: Articles
--- Q: The concept of the virtual reality allows you to write a different show every time -- the pilot, for instance, has a Civil War environment. What's that experience like as a writer?
A: I've been doing that since my first days in scifi television, writing for Deep Space Nine and Voyager. And I had that same sense then -- one show could be a doctor show, a cowboy show, a police drama, a mystery thriller. What's most interesting for me is the extent the virtual reality is an expression of the characters. For the Civil War environment, if we have a chance to continue the show, we'll understand why Pike has chosen it. There's a reason. It's 12 people stuck in a ship, but the environments are limitless. The world is in one sense closed, but in terms of virtual reality opened up.
Q: Which is, in a strange way, the opposite of BSG where the world was very much contained.
A: Right. In Battlestar, despite a much larger potential field to draw characters from, in some way you assumed you had met the key players -- they were your players, and we weren't going to run into any aliens. Virtuality seems more contained and closed, yet can reach out in a whole different direction.
Q: What are the chances Virtuality will become a series?
A: Honestly, slim to none. I've been through too much drama with this show already to go through more funerals in my head for it -- it's too traumatic. They have not made an official word, but they're scheduling it on a night that I think has been characterized as the butt-end of the television universe. It's sad for me and Ron -- they said, "Hey come aboard. We love what you do." And then we did what we do, and they went, "Ooh, s--- man this is kind of much for us." Given the scheduling time and the lack of promotion, call it a New Orleans funeral: We'll be having a good time, and we're grateful people at least have the opportunity to see what we did. ---
Full Article:
http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/06/michael-taylor-interview.php
A: I've been doing that since my first days in scifi television, writing for Deep Space Nine and Voyager. And I had that same sense then -- one show could be a doctor show, a cowboy show, a police drama, a mystery thriller. What's most interesting for me is the extent the virtual reality is an expression of the characters. For the Civil War environment, if we have a chance to continue the show, we'll understand why Pike has chosen it. There's a reason. It's 12 people stuck in a ship, but the environments are limitless. The world is in one sense closed, but in terms of virtual reality opened up.
Q: Which is, in a strange way, the opposite of BSG where the world was very much contained.
A: Right. In Battlestar, despite a much larger potential field to draw characters from, in some way you assumed you had met the key players -- they were your players, and we weren't going to run into any aliens. Virtuality seems more contained and closed, yet can reach out in a whole different direction.
Q: What are the chances Virtuality will become a series?
A: Honestly, slim to none. I've been through too much drama with this show already to go through more funerals in my head for it -- it's too traumatic. They have not made an official word, but they're scheduling it on a night that I think has been characterized as the butt-end of the television universe. It's sad for me and Ron -- they said, "Hey come aboard. We love what you do." And then we did what we do, and they went, "Ooh, s--- man this is kind of much for us." Given the scheduling time and the lack of promotion, call it a New Orleans funeral: We'll be having a good time, and we're grateful people at least have the opportunity to see what we did. ---
Full Article:
http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/06/michael-taylor-interview.php
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