i've been looking forward to virtuality for a long time now, and have begun to sense that my mounting excitement for the project is going to be met equally with crushing disappointment. it's just too good to be true: peter berg directing and ron moore writing/producing, starring clea duvall, with an absolutely fascinating premise. possibly the most interesting part of the story is that the problem on the fictional mars mission is one that is being researched for real in our lab as nasa prepares for its 202x manned trip to the red planet. the problem being, if you're lazy to click on hyperlinks and read, that we're not sure of a group of people can survive living together for almost 2 years on board a spacecraft without having some sort of psychological breakdown.

(and you thought we just studied sleep.)

so line this one up behind dollhouse as another show that fox will probably stab to death in their effort to lose friends and alienate people. i predict a november 2009 post lamenting its untimely death. maybe i'll go compose my letter to sci-fi begging for a inter-network pick-up right now.