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  • Virtuality Premiere, Pilot, or One and Done?

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    The Virtuality pilot aired on FOX last night but I didn’t get around to watching it until this morning. I’d been looking forward to it a great deal due to its pedigree – Ron Moore, Michael Taylor, Gail Berman, and Peter Berg in various creative capacities – and the promise held in its premise: a dozen scientist/explorers aboard an experimental interstellar ship who were also the focus of a reality TV show and who were also dealing with a VR system with some glitches. With Ron Moore at the helm the risk of the show being an amalgam of every bad holodeck episode of ST:TNG was as possible as the show exploring the edge of reality and humanity.

    So what was the verdict?

    I didn’t like it.

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  • Battlestar Galactica: “Daybreak”

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    Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.

    God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

    So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.”
    Genesis 6:11-13

    Frak. Frak, frak, frak!

    Now, that was something.

    But before we get into the discussion, let’s get this out of the way first: I’m not surprised by the polarizing nature of this finale, but I am a bit shocked by the number of people with tin ears and tunnel vision who object to the presence of God and angels. I’m not sure what show those people have been watching for four seasons, but it wasn’t Battlestar Galactica.

    Let me clarify that:

    Nerds? Shut the fuck up.

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