{"id":1230,"date":"2009-06-27T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T23:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2009-06-27T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T23:40:12","slug":"virtuality-caprica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Virtuality & Caprica"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear so many conflicting rumours about new shows that I don’t know what to believe.\u00a0 Virtuality\u00a0<\/em>and Caprica<\/em> are both pilots for sci-fi shows and I’ve heard they are\/are not being picked up so often I just don’t know.\u00a0 But I sure hope they both get greenlit because they’re both pretty good.\u00a0 And they both deal with virtual reality.<\/p>\n

Caprica<\/em> is a prequel of Battlestar Gallactica<\/em> but all it has in common with BSG is the Adama name and the cylons.\u00a0 It’s set on a planet instead of in space and it’s about the beginnings of cylon autonomy.\u00a0 The cool thing is that even if I’d never seen BSG I would have liked it.\u00a0 It has a complete story all its own.\u00a0 But it also makes a compelling origin story that is enriched by having a good groundwork in BSG lore.\u00a0 It can’t help having a few cheesy elements because it is restricted by preexisting cylong modelling but I think the centurion over the topness is actually used effectively.\u00a0 There’s a cool retro futuristic feel to everything that works for me.\u00a0 I also liked the characters and actally cared about where they might end up.\u00a0 So I’m gonna give this thing 4 niqueheads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I think my score for Virtuality<\/em> is also 4 niqueheads but if I were to choose one series over the other I’d choose Virtuality<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s got some cool space scenes, cool ship scenes and kind of dorky virtual reality scenes that are the whole point and premise of the show.\u00a0 Now don’t misunderstand, I don’t necessarily use the word “dorky” in a negative way.\u00a0 Again, that’s part of the point.\u00a0 And I’m on board.<\/p>\n

Just as Caprica<\/em> relies on the “rise of the machines” cliche, Virtuality <\/em>uses a similar sci-fi staple, that of virtual reality: what’s real and what isn’t?\u00a0 But just because a concept has been done doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done again.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty picky about characterization and in the first half of Virtuality<\/em>, there were a couple of characters I was iffy about but by the end I had gotten over my qualms and fully supported where they had taken each character, even though, again, there were a few cliches in place.\u00a0 There are also a\u00a0few things to be nitpicked but I was able to rationalize them without effort so as far as I’m concerned the writing held up.<\/p>\n

Is it a sign of my desperation for more sci-fi that I’m so forgiving of all the cliches and nitpicks?\u00a0 Or are these shows actually worthwhile?\u00a0 Honestly I think it’s a bit of both.\u00a0 But in a world where the Sarah Connor Chronicles just got cancelled, please TV gods, let these shows live on.<\/p>\n

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I hear so many conflicting rumours about new shows that I don’t know what to believe.\u00a0 Virtuality\u00a0and Caprica are both pilots for sci-fi shows and I’ve heard they are\/are not being picked up so often I just don’t know.\u00a0 But I sure hope they both get greenlit because they’re both pretty good.\u00a0 And they both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,10,39,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}