"Virtuality - What I Liked...What Fox Probably Didn't" - UGO.com
23/June/2009 03:58 PM Filed in:
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Reality TV in space! I make no apologies, I'm a sucker for the bleeped out f-bombs, over-produced drama and conniving cliques that make for god-awfully good reality TV. Put a bunch of people in a pimped out fishbowl and watch 'em bring out the worst in each other. Name the time and channel and I'll get my TiVo on it! Baking this into a sci-fi setting works in Virtuality. Actually, it's a pretty ingenious plot device. The humanity of these characters, their flaws, their emotions are front and center in their confessional interviews and other footage we're shown from the reality show that's paying the bills for the expedition, Edge of Never. Pulling the crew out of their very sci-fi surroundings and listening to them pour their hearts out against the barren backdrop of the confessional forces the viewer to focus on the characters, to care about them, and for a moment forget about all that schnazzy sci-fi eye candy. ---
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