smbc
For awhile now a friend of mine has been sending me comics from smbc. I keep telling him, this isn't funny. He keeps sending them. He's convinced they're funny. I'm starting to become convinced that he makes them since, as far as I know, only he and his girlfriend find them amusing. And supposedly someone at xkcd which, even if true, makes me think they were hacked. Probably by him. Anyway, this comic has a certain Heroes-esque allure to it in that I nearly despise it, find absolutely nothing to like about it, and yet keep reading it despite all that. And I don't know why I keep reading them, other than that he keeps sending them. Anyway, I finally laughed at one today which I attribute to whatever word they use for the syndrome where a torture victim gives into his oppressors. I've pasted the stages of pain and numbness and gone onto the hypnotic mindlessness of finding these things funny somehow. And it's not even like all of them are funny now; I still find the majority of them unfunny yet I'm compelled to wade my way through hundreds of them just to find another one that's as mildly amusing as the one he showed me, which I've included below:
virtuality
If anything shows how long it's been since my last post it's that I can now give a mini review of something I then thought was a ways away. Time seems to slip by too easily. And as it happens, the passage of time plays a role in Virtuality as the crew of this strange space ship have been given virtual environments basically to pass the time.
Virtuality is a new would-be series by Ronald D. Moore. Ronald D. Moore, who produced several Star Trek shows, is not to be confused with Ronald B. Moore, who oddly enough did visual effects on several Star Trek shows. This latest outing from D finds a crew readying for a 10 year voyage sponsored by a reality show in an attempt to find a viable alternative to a dying earth. The running phrase throughout the pilot is "go, no go" which refers to the point where the crew must decide whether to go forward with their journey or turn around and head back home. I doubt FOX labored over that point as much as the show's characters did.
Main reasons to check out Virtuality are Seinna Guillory(hawt British chick) and Clea DuVall (Sofie from Carnivale, among other things). Ritchie Coster was also really awesome, though I don't think I've seen him in anything else. Oh and the main baddie from Crank (1) is in this (not as a bad guy).
The virtual reality stuff probably was not going to be strongly featured; it's sort of a recreational thing for the characters but not plot based, so even though they could have done different "realities" every week like Sliders or Dollhouse, I doubt they woulda gone that route. The documentary style is also not the focus but rather another way of presenting the story. It's there to show the corporate moneymaking theme that's pretty strong in the pilot, as this expedition is being funded by way of it being a television show at home (since it's claimed that the world is ending "within 100 years" they not only need to find an alternative place to live, but they need to distract the people on earth from causing a mass panic). Much like BSG, the sci fi stuff is just window dressing for the human dynamic and drama. However, I really don't think the religious stuff will be present. Not necessarily anyway. The ending is ambiguous and mystic but doesn't clearly state a reason for why it ended that way. One could argue it's religious but that's just speculation and we'll probably never know.
Overall I liked it. I think it coulda been better in parts but had this continued as a series I probably would have given it a shot. If the show did not get picked up I think I'll survive. The pilot was cool but I'd need to see more of the universe to form an attachment.
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