Virtuality

I watched the Virtuality pilot with my Dad tonight and it was bloody awful. Not only did it have the boringness of most hardcore scifi, but it also had the boringness of the most boring reality tv show. The actors and characters were bland. The virtual reality was poorly used, and the plot was so slow Dad and I had time to have full conversations in between plot points while people moaned to the camera *rolls eyes* Probably the worst bit though was the portrayal of women. Out of the four women on the ship one was a 'slut' who cheated on her husband with the commander, and was the one pushing for sex, one was a confrontational bitch on permanent pms, one was in a healthy relationship with a man and all she longed for was to be pregnant (gag me), and the most cringe worthy was the final woman who was raped as a plot point! Gah. After that, Dad and I started fast forwarding, watched the last couple of minutes, then switched to the third season Bones christmas ep because we needed to erase the horror of that show.

What I don't get is why everyone is like how what's his name, Ronald Moore is rewriting scifi. His ideas are so bland and normal for science fiction I went into the show assuming there had to be brilliant characterizations to make up for what sounded like your normal scifi premise (and an old fashioned one at that). Has no one ever read science fiction? The only show I've seen push scifi in new and interesting ways in the past decade was Farscape (B5, while brilliantly executed, relied on a lot of scifi cliches).

I'm so thankful Virtuality did really poorly in ratings and is not being produced any more, cause all these reviews by people before the show aired saying how wonderful it is are horrifying.