Shark Bytes
Another wonderful show that was thoughtful, intelligent and dramatic, KILLED BY FOX!!!
Can't have portrayals of human beings as anything but inept mediocrity ya know.. Wouldn't want the masses getting delusions of grandeur.
Can't have portrayals of human beings as anything but inept mediocrity ya know.. Wouldn't want the masses getting delusions of grandeur.
I loved this show! It never jumped because it wasn't on long enough. The only real problem for this show was it's complexity level. You had to watch each episode to keep up with everything that was happening. Especially as it got later into it's one season. Personally I love that. It tells me that the creators and writers really cared about this show. And it made me care. Sure the premise was a little unrealistic, but what sci-fi or fantasy show isn't? Also, the whole story was never revealed, so maybe there was more to it that would have cancelled out the unrealistic bits. Years ago I saw a complete video set of the show at sci-fi convention. To this day I kick myself for not buying it. This show deserves the dvd treatment! And man, what a clifhanger!
Although I feel this show never jumped, I could see after the first couple of episodes that it was going to be in trouble because it was so highly serialized. The further along the show went, the less likely someone tuning in for the first time would have any kind of clue what was going on. For those of us that watched every episode, it had a well-connected plotline even if some found the premise unbelievable. I was actually hoping it would continue long enough to find out that the VR connection wasn't necessary, and that it would be revealed that Sydney had the ability on her own. Oh well, sometimes you never get to find these things out.
This show never jumped. It kept you interested throughout its entire short run. It was given the axe by the same geniuses at Fox that killed Alien Nation and Brisco (not that I'm still bitter or anything). And they killed it at the worst possible moment, cliffhanger ending and just as Oliver and Syd were starting to connect. Does Syd wake up? What's the deal with her dad anyway? Why is Samantha such a slut? The world may now never know.
This show was fabulous. The plots were weird and twisted and always left you guessing. It's too bad the show had to end on an odd cliffhanger with a mere 13 episodes.
This show never really jumped...in my opinion. Problem was - it was cancelled after a hellacious cliffhanger of an episode aired. The episode ended with the main character (Lori Singer) falling into a catatonic state. Fortunately, for some of it's die-hard fans, the producers brought the show back to life by distributing the final 2 (maybe 3) episodes on video so that all the questions are answered.
If you could handle the ridiculous premise of a Virtual Reality / Mind Control hookup over a phone line, then you could endure the real torture of actually watching the show. Let us begin: The first trip into VR world looked like a Crayola special effects freak out. Why did the rest of the trips look like normal reality? Did anyone catch how the chick's dad first delved into VR using some old 8 bit "VIC20" or "Trash80" looking piece of shit? They came out of this VR deal by finding and "pressing" some object that was given the moniker "the Escape key". The final "cliffhanger" episode involved a Dallas-esque kill off of the main character(s) trick followed by what? Nothing! That was the end of the series! But the worst thing on this show was the ungodly episode where the VR chick somehow manages to provide a complete life to some sorry bastard right before he gets executed in the gas chamber. And all this over a phone line! They do a hideous fade out / fade in to show the guy spazzing out in a cloud of poisonous gas! Give me a break! This farce ended up dying a miserable death as well - GOOD!
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