I have to agree with the detractors. I thought the idea was interesting but the acting was bad. I only recognized the chick that was in Carnival/T3 and she was much better in both of thiose. It’s like the cast knew “This is never gonna get picked up” so why bother. I think the ending suggested a Matrix like fake reality as well. FYI, did anyone think that after Terminator-TSC and Dollhouse that Fox is a little gun shy for SciFi shows? This may have worked better as a mini-series. I just don’t see how the story could stretch over several seasons.

Stargate Universe will provide me with a similar themed sci-fi series. So it’s not a major loss to me, and it also means I have no reason to bother with Fox outside of Fringe. There is a bit of concern that the new series will become Stargate Voyager 90210.

Anyway… I was under the impression that more episodes of Virtuality were already produced, but weren’t airing outside of the two hour pilot. I guess I was wrong.

In fact, maybe somebody should start a channel called “The Pilot Channel” just showing all the pilots that were never picked up. There must be thousands – you could run the channel for five years just on previous unsold pilots, thus allowing new pilots to stack up so you could keep going afterward.

I was disappointed after watching the Global Frequency pilot that it wasn’t picked up, but in reality if they actually tried doing the GF stories as they were in the comic, the FCC would have banned the show anyway.

As far as people saying we should be “thankful” for them running Virtuality–I think not. It’s not about the fact that they actually put it up there, it’s simply the annoyance that people feel when they spend a bunch of time watching the damn show and then it not even being continued.

This always seems to happen with a ton of shows on Fox… I mean seriously…Glee? Dollhouse? Who are they advertising to anyways?

Nononono, the only thing Dollhouse killed is Joss Whedons credibility as a writer.

OMG, see what I did there?

Kidding. Kinda. ;D

Dollhouse killed TSCC. And Virtuality. And Firefly.

But, Dollhouse will get axed after 13 episodes, if not sooner come fall. Then there will be 4 failed FOX sci fi shows. BTW I liked TSCC and Virtuality and Firefly. Dollhouse I found mind-numbingly bad. Just all around horrible. But, hey, some people enjoy it so wtf do I know? And this is not hostility toward DH. It’s just an opinion from a TV watcher. Some shows i enjoy, some I don’t.

@Chad,

Not only will Virtuality not bring in the 18-34 males, it misses in all catagories. FOX doesn’t need SciFi at all if you want to get right down to it.

Science Fiction alone will not keep a network on the air, hence, the renaming of SciFi to SyFy and the shifting from a pure Science Fiction channel by SCiFi over the past couple of years to a broader audience.

In today’s high tech world, SciFi isn’t “All that WOW” like it was even 10, 15 or 20 years ago.

~Lanie~

And yeah, I can see why Fox won’t pick it up. It’s not mainstream enough, it won’t bring in the 18-34 males. Fox needs more Dushku cleavage, now that’s quality sci-fi. Right?

I liked the premise of the virtual-reality-game-gone-haywire, as well as the go/no-go plot device, but found the reality show idea to be lame. I don’t watch reality shows ever, so why would I want to watch a show depicting a reality show? I think the story would have plenty of tension if it had been told in a more straight-forward fashion, sort of like the Alien movies, only with the boogie man in the virtual reality game instead of a monster. The faux tension introduced by the lame reality show plot device was not only annoying but unnecessary.

But the chief sin of this show was to be utterly humorless and to take itself too seriously. There wasn’t a single flash of redeeming wit throughout the entire two hours. I like science fiction, but even so I won’t tolerate stupid or bad drama.

Besides, Vrituality was pre-canceled – we knew that.

Wonder if she’d like playing a vampire on True Blood…She’d do vampire good, I think.

Wouldn’t mind seeing her on Burn Notice getting into fights with Fiona…

There wasn’t anything wrong with my reading comprehension, you are simply junping at any opportunity to express your fanatical anger over your little robot show getting cancelled due to lack of interest in it. The Robot Show is dead and gone, never coming back in any form. There is and never will be a S3, get over it.

Virtuality was bad, definitly not one of RDM’s better creations. Robert was dead on about the virtuality head gear, infact I thought I saw a “Caprica” logo on the one in the opening sequence LOL

Richard Steven Hack also has a valid point about the show getting claustrophobic by being confined in a ship for ten years and it does seem like a ST:TNG and DS9 holodeck ripoff. However; RSH mentions the “Q”, perhaps this could happen…..

Q could introduce the crew to a lethal human like killing machine much in the way he did with exposing Picard et al to the “Borg”. With a simple wave of his hand to punish humanity a sphere forms melting everything in it’s path.

As it subsides we see a crouched, naked Summer Glau rise and the only way for the crew to live is to run endlessly through adventure after adventure, jumping from one holodeck sequence to the next being chased all across the holodeck universe by Jameron! I know you are all over that!

But then again, FOX is too stupid to know a good show when they see one ha?

~Lanie~

–And that still wouldn’t deter that you need some reading comprehension, plus a better attitude.

I was going to go with “bitchy little girls” out of homage to Burn Notice (”you know spies are a bunch of bitchy little girls”) but I didn’t want to disparage the little girls.

And for the record, official scoring is still less than one hand! A couple of those instances were not attributed to me (one was a Gossip Girl Episode name and one was a direct quote of a line of dialogue from LOST).