Virtuality

That is the very pretty Sienna Guillory who was the very hot and kick ass brunette in Resident Evil: Apocolypse. Give me a spoon and tell me where to start eating??

I have to set up this story. Twelve guys and twelve gals set off on a 10 year trip to visit another star, a first. Great idea! Noah's Ark sound familiar? They have a bunch of plants on the ship too, so no worries about oxygen.

Six months into the trip (thus enter Episode 1) they are at the point where they can turn back home, or go for it and head to the destination. How the hell did they get that far in 6 months!!?? It took Voyager(s) over a decade to get that far.

Ok, so they get that far and it turns out two of the guys are gay, so the balance of poon to hog is not equal. No problem, the married chick on board is a slut and is banging two guys. One (the Captain) only virtually. No physical contact, no foul, right? Um, that kind of stuff was the final straw in my first marriage and lead to the divorce.

So here we are, far from Earth and in the brief 6 months away, the trip has turned into a "reality TV show" (of all fucking things). On top of that, there turns out to be less than 100 years before "global warming" winds up making the Earth uninhabital. They float out the flood zones back home on a map and everone joins hands, sings Qum ba YAH. On we go, no turning back!

Before I get into the really ironic part of this tale, I have to interject the crap going on while the crew "relax" in their virtual reality "modules". Everyone is being visited by this dude who tries to (or does) kill them. After they die, it is more singing and joining hans, because "I feel alive!" Sooo jive.

Now the irony. To get the velocity needed to leave the solar system, they shoot nukes out the ass of the ship to apply force to big pretty skirt at the back. Poof and off the go. Um, the shock wave from a nuke in space is negligable. No air or density, no push. And no mention of the toxic waste left in the wake. Not too "green".

A few techical problems; a couple rings on the ship rotate, but people are walking around on the inner side of the ring, not the outer. That defies logic. They also said they should recieive a response from home to be 2.5 hours. If that "home" was on or around Saturn (with the planets perfectly aligned) it would take 6 hours (ish). If "home" was on Earth, it would be 8 hours.

They need better scientific consulting, and should realise that the planets rarely align perfectly. The numbers I put up could be more that twice that value in some cases.

I give this show one point for hot chicks, and two points for having the balls to create a sci-fi TV show. Minus one point for being so PC as to insert a gay couple, just because one of the writer/producer's is. That is 2 out of 5.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Fox has the Show/Commercial ratio right at 2.5 to 1. VERY LONG COMMERIAL BREAKS. Enough to stretch a 1 hour show to 1.5 hours.