Ronald D. Moore lands a two-hour sci-fi pilot on Fox! - Forums - EZTV

Posted at 14/04/2008, 16:22

first of all, rdm needs a new headshot. he looks like eric bana with hair
extensions.

second of all... nope, not interested. people tuned into bsg as a curiousity
factor, and found out it was awesome. why should i tune into the 15th virtual
reality show in the last 10 years (nearly all of which were cancelled by fox?).
hey ron, you used to work on star trek... go remake that and make it more
bsg-y. i'd watch that. i'd watch the $^#* out of that.

Posted at 14/04/2008, 18:34

#88672

vr was a massively overhyped technology that has yet to deliver on any of its
promises, much like all the shows based around vr.

Posted at 14/04/2008, 20:12

#88678

other than setting it on a spaceship it sounds somewhat like harsh realm where a
military training vr program was taken over by one of the early participants...
i rather liked it but it was left hanging when it got cancelled.

i expect the visual effects will be better though and i'd certainly give it a
look on moore's name alone - see if he can strike gold again so to speak!

Posted at 14/04/2008, 21:12

#88688

well, i'd be more interested in the actual cast seeking out new worlds then
turning to the inner worlds of vr, where it has all been done before on star
trek, tng. they spent a lot of time on the holodecks, and created all types
of programs that went wrong, so its all been done before, nothing new to add
there...
proabaly won't watch. i'd just assume go reload my old pc game holodecks
:)

Posted at 14/04/2008, 21:24

#88689

harsh realm 2.0? too bad terry o'quinn is busy this time around.

Posted at 15/04/2008, 00:32

#88698

the holodeck episodes were the worst part of star trek. come on .

tolkien nailed it in the 40s... if you're going to do a speculative story, leave the dream stuff out of it. it
almost never goes well. fiction is already virtual reality.

Posted at 15/04/2008, 02:20

#88715

✎ Quote by dmfaust

there have been a few decent virtual reality plots. it all
depends on the logic
involved. it is frustrating to watch stuff take place in vr or a dream or any
random thing because it has no effect on the actual world. it is like watching
a movie of someone reading a book, and just dumb. if anyone has seen the hack
sign anime, that is pretty much the perfect example of vr crap done wrong in
every way possible.

but there are some exceptions for sure - harsh realm wasn't bad even if it
wasn't mind blowing, and i personally loved the movie the 13th floor(even
though it wasn't quite vr it is the same basic concept of a world within a
world). i also remember a few one shot episodes of series like outer limits
that had some decent vr related plot lines(the one that comes to mind the most
is one that i think had lou diamond phillips or someone like him where they
were a prisoner in a looping vr scenario being made to relive various scenarios
in which they were the victim of whatever crime they had commited in real life).

anyway, moore has enough of a resume going at this point even before bsg that
if anyone active in the genre can pull it off he can, so will be interesting to
see how it plays out.

hmm.

we seem to be on the same side, but your examples are terrible.

no one has watched hack sign. no one enjoyed or remembers the 13th floor. and
the other two major legs of moore's resume are "star trek: tng," which isn't in
the same league as bsg, and oh yeah, "bionic woman."

will lightning strike twice? maybe. eventually. but not in the form of
america watching a fake tv show about fake people interacting with faker people.
fox has cancelled better shows than that.

the tolkien example was the most accurate-- and the most accessible.

Posted at 15/04/2008, 03:28

#88721

isnt that almostthe plot for the 'gunmen of the apocalypse' episode of red
dwarf??? with a touch of 'better than life' ep.

red dwarf always had decent vr plots 😉

Posted at 16/04/2008, 13:25

#88855

fox and a new sci-fi show ? ain't gonna work ...

Posted at 16/04/2008, 17:30

#88868

if you're going to do the "trapped in vr" gimmick, i guess doing it on a
spaceship light-years from earth at least eliminates the question of "why don't
they just unplug?"

doesn't sound super-promising to me, but it's really all about the writing.

now that i think of it, philip k. dick had a short story with a similar premise
called "i hope that i shall arrive soon", originally published as "frozen
journey", in which a space traveller accidentally becomes semi-conscious in his
cryosleep chamber and has to be fed stimuli harvested from his own memory to
protect him from sensory deprivation. alas, he's pretty neurotic, and his
memories get worse the more he re-experiences them.