***JUST ADDED: Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought it was dumb. I just found out that virtuality was dropped as a series and the two hour premier was a two hour movie and nothing more is going to come of it. No surprise there.***


I was really interested in seeing the two hour kick off of a new sci-fi series that WASN'T going to be on the Sci-Fi channel. I thought it would be worth watching because there really hasn't been a good sci-fi show on the alphabet channels in some time. (And by that I mean true science fiction, in space, in the future, not some show about yet another secret organization...blah blah blah...<cough>FRINGE<cough>.)

Anyways, don't waste your time. It appears that they "cream-puffed" a science fiction series down to reality show level and daytime soaps.

It's the same ol' tired spinning ship in space to create gravity. Anyone who is hardcore sci-fi knows that doesn't work. There's no such thing as producing gravity by being spun in a circle. It's old hat. Writers can do better than this. Good writers are using particle force field theory to produce a pseudo-gravity. Forcefield technology isn't there yet but it's new and at least it isn't spinning in a farting circle! But clearly Virtuality was written for people who don't even want to watch a real sci-fi story. Hence the name. At any point this spaceship can go back to the real world a la "virtual reality" so basically the writers don't even have to think, they can make up stuff as they go along. On top of that, they are using an Orion drive to get up to near light speed. Folks, the Orion drive was a real drive (at least on paper). Where it used a nuclear bomb ejected out of the rear of the ship to propel itself. There is no way even on a fictional scale where an orion drive could achieve near light speed velocity. I think the writers never wrote sci-fi before and just wiki'd some crap.

So anyways, to make a dumb, poorly written story, short. Here is what happens in the primier:

14 people in a space ship use virtual reality to escape from the rigors of being aboard a spaceship for 10 years.

Except the virtual reality has a problem, there's someone/something else controlling it. One girl get's virtually raped. One gets pushed off a mountain, the commander gets shot (and has a reawakening in the process because he has figured out what actually is happening)

The commander figures it out, and let's the mission continue anyways. No-one dies from their faulty virtual experiences.

There's some love twists. Is it cheating if it's done virtually??

There's the fun and lovable gay men, that also cook and like SALT a LOT.

There's the black woman married to the Asian man because we can't leave anyone out in this story.

There's the silly/shy girl who is also a host of the reality show to get money to pay for the mission.

There's the reality show producer and shrink... now there's a combo. How do you get that double major?

The doctor just found out he has parkinsons.

So you can see how it goes from here. The commander dies, but he doesn't care because he has figured the whole thing out, as have I. The ENTIRE space mission, REALITY SHOW, EVERYTHING, is a fake. It's like that movie with Jim Carrey, Truman Show. But the 14 people are real, they just are in a virtual reality that they THINK is real. Bleh, I figured it out in the first episode.

By the way, the commander died because of a "short in a 20 cent fuse". ... A FUSE IS A SHORT!!! THAT'S WHAT A FUSE DOES, IT'S A CURRENT CARRYING PIECE OF WIRE!! AND IF THE CURRENT GOES TOO HIGH THAT PIECE OF WIRE WILL MELT CAUSING THE FUSE TO OPEN. DUMMIES. COME ON!! AT LEAST RESEARCH ELECTRONICS A LITTLE BIT BEFORE PUTTING PEN TO PAPER!!! A fuse by it's very nature is shorted, until there's a problem, then it's open because no current will flow until the fuse is replaced and/or the problem in the circuit path is identified and repaired. IT'S A FLIPPING SAFETY DEVICE!!!!!!!!!

Sorry ...rant... I had higher expectations for this show.. it failed utterly and I won't watch it.

Sorry for my rambled together review, I know it wasn't put together very well.