Episode 26: The pause.com Entertainment Podcast
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In this (rather short) episode:
In Video Games, Lou talks more about Fallout 3‘s latest DLC, Point Lookout, as well as the Beta of Aion on the PC. Some miscellaneous video game news follows.
In TV (~10:55) the guys talk about missing Chopped (and Top Chef Masters) and Lou talks about forgetting to record Warehouse 13. Lou talks about starting to watch the final season of Stargate Atlantis on DVD (bemoaning the fact that it’s not on Blu-ray) and then random TV news after that.
In Movies (~34:35), Tony talks about Reservation Road and Lou’s got…nothin. Random movie news after that, including this week’s edition of Re-make/boot/imagining Hell.
In the Mash-Up (~50:20), the guys go over all sorts of fun and exciting gadget, technology and car news. Although there’s not enough car news to upset Tony this week.
As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments.
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July 13th, 2009 at 9:58 am
scifi thoughty vs scifi actiony
right when i think i agree with you two, you surpise me. I loved Sunshine. and rather enjoyed Virtuality. Would you rather waste 2 hours on SciFi/SyFy watching one of their saturday night crapfests or something that has some character building that invests your time like Lost which is very scifi thoughty.
and BTW, i picked up Plants vs Zombies last week. Most fun i’ve had in a game in ages. Great challenges with silly little graphics.
and if i never hear Michael Jackson’s name again, it wouldn’t be soon enough.
July 13th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I’ve got nothing against “thoughty” sci-fi, but I just didn’t like either of those.
I’ve mostly forgotten ‘Sunshine’ by now, so let’s just talk about ‘Virtuality’…what did you think it all meant and where’d you see it going (that’s an honest question, not a challenge or anything haha)
Yeah, PvZ is such a blast.
July 13th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
It seems to me that since the mysterious character invading everyones VR space was never addressed that it had to have been someone running the REAL VR environment. Notice how i gave that weight. I think the whole thing is a VR / holodeck scenario. Whether the players know it or not is beyond me, but maybe when you die in the fake real environment (where we were following their lives in the show on the ship), you get released from the REAL VR environment and get to sit back and watch via counterstrike view until the next round begins. I thought that was a cool touch at the end when the captain said that to her. The only thing that puzzles me is who’s aware and who isn’t. Did her husband know? Was he the one that put the glasses in her room? If so, after witnessing the captains comments through the glass, was he confirming? catching her in a trap? Again, if this is just a larger game, then no one may be who we think they are. Maybe it’s just an elaborate SIMS game. In which case, i’m suing. 🙂
July 13th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Heh.
Well, that’s what I said in the podcast…that it seemed like the whole thing wasn’t real. But my problem with it isn’t that concept in general, but the fact that there was nothing to specifically set that up (as far as we know).
You can look at a show like ‘Lost’ and say “Well, there’s tons of mysterious stuff going on there and that’s been fine for years,” which is true.
The problem for me with ‘Virtuality’ is that we have no sense of what the conflict is or where it’s coming from, based on the pilot. If, in fact, the whole thing is a VR simulation, yeah, cool idea, but so what? Is there any actual danger? Are any of these people even real?
Since we’re led only partially down a path, we don’t have enough information to care (IMO) since it could “all be a dream” so to speak.
July 13th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
All true, but in keeping with the Lost comparison, it didn’t tell us anything on the pilot either. Just that they crashed and who are all of these other people. I have no doubt that Virtuality would tell us everything we wanted to know and more if there had been more than one ep.
And since Ron Moore did it, i have faith that it would have been a pretty good show.