Space Cadets

[zed66]

Does it matter if the people involve object to their image being shown? I thought on a lot of programmes, especially public based practical joke programmes (Dom Joly etc) the people filmed had to sign a legal release.I understood that the standard practice was to use a physically attractive male/female reasearcher as appropriate to get the release form signed.

I think the entire idea is way beyond unethical. The thought of the people smiling when a camera is shoved in their faces when the joke is revealed Noel Edmonds Gotcha stylee at the end. Ah, aren't they a good sport? Truly sick, but not in a funny way.

 

[LJo]

I don't have a problem with most reality shows because the participants know what they're getting into. With this, they don't, and that's why I won't be watching.

Also I read a piece by the guy who thought up the show in the Guardian at the weekend and he sounds like a smug, smartarse, shallow wanker.

And, of course, Johnny Vaughn.

 

[blamblam]

I'm gonna watch this, just to see what happens. I mean it sounds pretty fucking interesting...

 

[In Bloom]

God I hate reality TV. Its all become so fucking cruel.

What is the entertainment value in nationally humiliating a buch of random stragers, anyway?

 

[Onslow]

I think im the only one that likes Jonny Vaughn??

Think im just fond of his big breakfast days..

 

[basher t]

I'm gonna reserve judgement untill I actually see the programme...

 

[Dowie]

With shows like this even people who have read about it & are completely outraged/horrified by it will often still watch it just so they can get themselves even more outraged etc.. by it.

I'll definately be watching - it looks interesting and tbh... I'm not too concerned about the contestants - if you choose to put yourself forward for 'reality TV' shows then you are choosing to be potentially humiliated - how they act & respond to situations on the show is up to them.

 

[zed66]

I'll probably watch it for a cheap laugh, not actually offended by anything (within reason). The two things that I dislike are 1:the fact that someone somewhere actually thought this up ( I've got this idea......) 2:the Jeremy Beadle style payoff that will happen at the end. Guess I'll find out after I've watched it.

 

[akirajoel]

Its on tonight.


I know its bad and morally wrong and everything. But I think I'm gonna watch it.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

The very thought of this programme makes me want to leave the planet.

 

[Cloo]

I do find the idea quite funny, but I probably won't be arsed to watch, for the same reason I don't watch any of this reality stuff. Namely that I don't want to watch lots of dull, stupid people bickering. There's enough of that in the world as it is.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Namely that I don't want to watch lots of dull, stupid people bickering.

So you came on to Urban75...

 

[Bonfirelight]

i'm gonna watch it and love it. no matter how shit it is.

 

[aqua]

we're watching it

 

[nino_savatte]

I think im the only one that likes Jonny Vaughn??

Think im just fond of his big breakfast days..

I think you must be. See the Upper Class Twit of 2005 thread in General.

 

[nino_savatte]

I won't be watching this because....

1. Johnny Vaughan is a twat and this another vehicle for his fuckwittery.
2. The contestants must be incredibly thick and were possibly selected because of their thickness.
3. Reality TV is becoming increasingly desperate: this represents the low water mark of the genre.

 

[Dowie]

there is also still the possibility that one of the contestants rumbles the whole thing and makes channel 4 looks silly

I'd love it if one of them goes 'hang on a minute thats just a feckin video screen' - unfortunately for them they will propably all end up humiliated tbh...

 

[Giles]

The very thought of this programme makes me want to leave the planet.

Well, if you decide to do this, just make sure you get on a REAL spaceship.

Giles..

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Won't the fact that no one is weightless give the game away a little

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Won't the fact that no one is weightless give the game away a little

That is what is concerning me. Unless they spend the continuous time on a parabolic flight I can't see how they can get round this - unless the participants are so unknowlegable that they can't work out that space = weightlessness.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

That is what is concerning me. Unless they spend the continuous time on a parabolic flight I can't see how they can get round this - unless the participants are so unknowlegable that they can't work out that space = weightlessness.

I think its being explained as due to artificial gravitation.

 

[Glosoli]

Won't the fact that no one is weightless give the game away a little

modern flights have a gravity simulator so no-one floats around anymore anyhow. shame really!

see http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/tvradio/story/0,14676,1655651,00.html?gusrc=rss

 

[MysteryGuest]

It would appear that at least some of the "contestants" are prone to playing practical jokes IRL. So serve them right frankly.

 

[G. Fieendish]

Re:Contestant Gullibility
They've been told the ship's spinning to simulate Gravity.....

 

[nino_savatte]

I think Paul McKenna should put in an appearance just for the sake of it.

 

[Bonfirelight]

they should have one of the actors pretend to get sucked out into space at some point. It would be cool to see the contestants faces as they watch their pilot drift helplessly into infinity.

 

[zed66]

they should have one of the actors pretend to get sucked out into space at some point. It would be cool to see the contestants faces as they watch their pilot drift helplessly into infinity.

How about having one of the actors actually being a cyborg who is unknowingly infected with an alien, which is due to burst out of his chest at any....oh hang on.....

 

[Maggot]

Does it matter if the people involve object to their image being shown? I thought on a lot of programmes, especially public based practical joke programmes (Dom Joly etc) the people filmed had to sign a legal release.I understood that the standard practice was to use a physically attractive male/female reasearcher as appropriate to get the release form signed.

These people have signed up to be on a reality show, of course they won't mind their image being shown.


As for gravity, the spaceships on Star Trek, Star wars, Aliens and almost any science fiction I cxan think of, all have gravity - so why shouldn't this craft?

 

[akirajoel]

As for gravity, the spaceships on Star Trek, Star wars, Aliens and almost any science fiction I cxan think of, all have gravity - so why shouldn't this craft?

Science fiction.
Reality.

Discuss.

 

[zed66]

I can't wait to see the inside of the spaceship now. To get the authentic space feeling they should get a bloke dressed as a wookie sat in the corner growling over a hologamatic chessboard.