My husband and I really enjoyed this movie and we wish that Fox would pick this show up as a series. It was intellectually intriguing and we saw many possibilities for plot development.

I really got sucked into this movie - or what I thought was a movie until there was 15 minutes left and I thought to myself: "There's no way this is ending in 15 minutes. This has got to be a series or something." Now I'm both wishful that FOX picks it up (or at least does another 2-hour movie to end it properly) and wishing I never watched it (since my early wish will probably not be granted). Great cast. Diverse characters. Complex story. Why FOX continues to renew that awful "Til Death" and "Hole in the Wall" (among others) and not pick something like this up is beyond me.

Virtuality looks DOA. Think it has some serious promise. Could the Sci Fi channel ride in on a white horse? Could really be a good fit. Dopes at Fox can't get out of their own way, why spend the money to develop this and then kill it before it airs...

I loved this show. There is NOTHING like it out there--something that challenges your mind on many levels. I turned the channel from all the ABC, NBC, CBS usual suspects to watch this bright, witty, absorbing sci-fi. Thank God we've got a new sci-fi drama, I thought. I feel cheated that it has been dropped before it even had a chance to gather a following.

Saw it. It was confusing at first, but then I started to get used to it, and started to enjoy it toward the end. I really liked the moral complexity of a psychiatrist/psychologist being so superficial as to be obsessed with ratings and the idea of a commander immoral enough to cheat with a member of his crew's wife. Ground-breaking stuff.

I especially liked the commentary of corporations controlling things to the degree that some of the most important life and death decisions in our lives are determined by the market place and corrupt forces. I just watched a documentary in the cinema called "Food Inc." which showed how the meat industry was able to sue people for criticizing how unhealthily meat is manufactured in the US, including the mother of a toddler who died from bad burger meat; even farmers who gathered their own natural seeds were sued for supposedly encouraging those forbidden from reusing genetically modified seeds sold to them by some corporation; so, even if the farmer was not using their product, his simple act of reusing his own seeds was framed as encouraging others to do the same with their product. It's disgusting and very frightening and this kind of thing began in the '80s and intensified in the '90s and 2000s. Corporations are already running things because our elected leaders in the US and even in Canada aren't protecting us.

However, returning to "Virtuality", I hated the score. I realize it's meant to give the impression of commercialism, but it's fracking annoying, as is the constant reminders that it's a reality show. I hate reality shows and don't like being reminded of them -- except of course "I'm With Busey".

Also, the acting was pretty good (especially the second-in command) and the ethnic casting was quite gutsy and nice to see, but I didn't like the younger woman talk show host or the commander that much. A bit too "cool American" for my taste. At first I didn't like the complaining woman because I recognized her from other shows, but then started to identify with her bitchiness because I get pissed off all the time and liked seeing her do that.

Anyway, I will watch the show if it goes to series, but I'd like it to be less obsessed with the reality show format. So you could show them talking to the cameras but show it from their perspective, not the viewers'.

Good luck, Mr. Taylor and Moore, but I'd much prefer to see you write for "Caprica", if it comes to a choice of one or the other.

I was ready to love this show, and as the pilot wore on I grew less and less enthused. It started off entertaining enough, introducing the cast and premise, and after that it went downhill. I liked the design of the Virtual reality headsets, enjoyed the premise that glitches cause problems for the crew, yet the fact that these glitches were causing mental trauma far more mind ripping than anything that ever happened on the Enterprise made me wonder how sci-fi had become so tasteless and unflinching, and it was at that point I just turned off the tv. This show was very disappointing, and a meshing of so many sci-fi ideas that it just felt like a bad rehashing of good movies I have already seen.

They need to do an online Go or No Go poll and let the people tell them if they should do ahead with the show.

Liked the movie/pilot was different. Loved the mixing of virtual reality with their actual reality. Was wooried as how they would recover from the commander's death or whatever. Would have liked to seen that play out more. The brunette Starbuck was just a bit much for me, she needed tobe less like Starbuck because all I could think of was "Oh,heah there's Starbuck" But otherwise it had great potential. Would really like to see more. Why couldn't SyFy pick it up.

let me drop the knowladge on u. Let it be a good tv movie. A series will fall short let it be. Just be

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

Sunny, I had to rewatch it to be sure, but the commander isn't really dead. If you look back to the moment at which he reaches some sort of understanding, saying "it's true!", we see that the scene in which the door in the room opens and he is pulled into space is forshadowed with a white light on the other side of the door.

Also, he tells his lover and implies to Roger in a previous conversation that perhaps what they think is reality isn't. He finally says that he killed himself -- his character.

By the way, I loved the rape discussion. I thought it was the most powerful moment in the story and very subtly handled. I'm liking the show more and more as I rewatch my VHS.

Kudos to Michael Taylor for doing so much work on the script -- based on the fact that he is listed as doing the teleplay. I actually think this is a more subtle piece of writing than the Caprica pilot, and that's saying a lot.

Can't wait for more.

it really sucked, Mutant Chronicles was much better.

Seeing at the execs at Fox are nearly complete and utter idiots (with the barest glimmer of hope that the fans beat into them when the renewed Dollhouse for a half-season) , I doubt that they'll persue Virtuality and that's a great pity. I think it could be the next Lost.

Truly awful. I really wanted to like this show, but I just can’t care one bit about “The Real World” in space. Right from the beginning I couldn’t buy the premise. First that anyone would trust a “200 billion” dollar ship to Heidi and Spencer. And second that six months into this reality show/exploration the Earth really does need the ship to do some mission to save the earth (never said what that actually is) so why wouldn’t we just call the ship back, and replace the crew with real astronauts. O.K. it’s run by a corporation…so what? Don’t we have armies anymore? Take the ship, put on a real crew, shut down the show, and any execs or lawyers who get in the way just shoot. Even if they couldn’t bring the crew back, the mission is obviously too important to have a reality show going on at the same time, so that would be shut down here on earth. Also leaving aside the many ways to be interpreted ending, why quote the Matrix, referencing Alice in Wonderland? Out of writing ideas?

Ohh, and I’ve never seen a show where the holideck goes nuts either! No sir, never seen that before.

"Too smart for TV."

That's the moniker that's handed down to every sci-fi show Fox cancels. Something like "Firefly" is so good that it continues even after Fox stupidly cancels it, but Virtuality won't even have that chance. With only the pilot to fuel interest, it will have no future unless it is run to series. Pity, that, since space operas appear to be waning, and Galactica was its last gasp. Don't hold your breath for SyFy (SciFi Channel has changed its name), because the smartest show they ever had was Farscape, and they weren't even smart enough to keep that on the air, despite good ratings. No, Virtuality is too smart for TV, which translates as "way too smart for SyFy." Not enough boobs and bombs for that network. Maybe if you threw in Tricia Helfer and Claudia Black, they might consider it, but forget it otherwise.

It's sad, too, because they used to put out some pretty good shows. No longer.

Fox, though, you can forget about. "Your Network for the Lowest Common Denominators." That's Fox. It's not where you go for smart.

The Captain, they WERE astronauts. They also seemed pretty smart to me (not at all Heidi and Spencer), but corporations are running many things nowadays. Have you noticed that the work of armies are being contracted out to companies like Blackwater, which did whatever they wanted in Iraq? It's the same thing here. The state isn't providing or willing to provide, so the corporations are handling things. I think it's VERY believable in the next 70 years or so.

Perhaps the political and financial situation on earth is in such a shambles that governments are discouraged from launching such missions. How often to we hear right wing folks saying the private sphere should handle things? Well, this is what you get.

I think the show was awesome, it touches on some basic threads that my favourite movie of all time has, Existens.

Ok sure, the computer is close to HAL and all that, but hopefully that twist will work itself out. Im really hoping that the boundaries of space drives them slowly insane, and watching that for several seasons is just awesome :)

Get this series on now!

Boring, I saw the plot twists coming a mile away. I think Ron should take some time off and rethink himself. The only reason I watch this show is there wasn’t anything else on TV. This show will be over and done with before it gets started. The Hollywood bunch needs to quit treating us like we are morons. We are not and I find it offensive.

The whole space flight is virtual reality and the "reality tv show" is beaming the virtual world into the real world... Well that's what I thought anyway... With this in mind it kinda stood up as a standalone, but it still would be nice to see a follow up miniseries to tie up the loose ends...

Pretty decent pilot I thought. - If a little bit like 2001/Existenz/Silent Running

Just watched it tonight. Loved it. I thought where it was going was really intriguing and I'd definitely love to see more.

I've always thought that once you start goind down the infinite regression path, you're pretty much done before you begin. At no point can you say, this is actually reality, when one more twist can put it into question. If the series starts, I give it 4 episodes before they find out that the space ship is a VR, and everything they've been told is a lie. Oh, how shall they deal?

Without a sort of stability to the world around them, the lives of the characters become lackluster, as it really doesn't matter that one had a bad childhood, or another is getting over the death of a loved one, when the world they know doesn't actually exist. Suddenly, no bad childhood. Suddenly, the loved one is alive and well, and has never heard of the character.

All in all, it was a magic trick performed by monkeys, albeit talented monkeys.

Sure hope this gets saved by someone. May be the best production of any genre I've seen for TV in several years. Here you go SciFi channel - a chance to have another intelligent show after Battlestar.