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Den of Geek Reviews Virtuality: "Intriguing" And "Clever"
29/June/2009 10:38 PM Filed in: Articles
--- There is something dark lurking in the shadows of the Phaeton, and before the end of the pilot it claims its first real victim. I won't say who dies and how, but it's an event that turns the whole scenario on its head.
At the end, you really begin to wonder if the whole mission is real or even if they're actually on a spacecraft. An early clue that CO2 levels have risen and O2 dropped also suggests that maybe there is another person onboard who wasn't in the original roster.
In terms of the actors there aren't many familiar faces, although they all seem to be competent performers. I recognised Clea Duvall, as pilot Sue Parsons from Heroes where she played Parkman's cop buddy before the writers got bored with her. Captain Pike is played by the excellent Danish actor Nikolaj Coster Waldau, who was in Black Hawk Down and Wimbledon.
But my personal favourite here is English actor James D'Arcy, who plays Roger Fallon, who is both the crew physiologist and the producer of the reality TV show they're all forced to appear on. The part where he explains to the two gay guys that they need to bitch more for ratings, so that one of their relatives can move away from the coastal flood waters back on Earth, was quite chilling. He represents the TV crew back to Earth, but also ‘the consortium' that spent $200bn on the Phaeton to the crew. Using his security camera array, he's oddly the voyeur who can't see past his own nose, and a man in desperate need of his own physiologist.
Overall, after seeing the pilot, do I want more? Hell, yes! ---
Full Article:
http://www.denofgeek.com/television/277437/virtuality_pilot_review.html
At the end, you really begin to wonder if the whole mission is real or even if they're actually on a spacecraft. An early clue that CO2 levels have risen and O2 dropped also suggests that maybe there is another person onboard who wasn't in the original roster.
In terms of the actors there aren't many familiar faces, although they all seem to be competent performers. I recognised Clea Duvall, as pilot Sue Parsons from Heroes where she played Parkman's cop buddy before the writers got bored with her. Captain Pike is played by the excellent Danish actor Nikolaj Coster Waldau, who was in Black Hawk Down and Wimbledon.
But my personal favourite here is English actor James D'Arcy, who plays Roger Fallon, who is both the crew physiologist and the producer of the reality TV show they're all forced to appear on. The part where he explains to the two gay guys that they need to bitch more for ratings, so that one of their relatives can move away from the coastal flood waters back on Earth, was quite chilling. He represents the TV crew back to Earth, but also ‘the consortium' that spent $200bn on the Phaeton to the crew. Using his security camera array, he's oddly the voyeur who can't see past his own nose, and a man in desperate need of his own physiologist.
Overall, after seeing the pilot, do I want more? Hell, yes! ---
Full Article:
http://www.denofgeek.com/television/277437/virtuality_pilot_review.html
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