Okay, I saw the Fox News "report" on My Little Pony on Youtube--and there's actually two videos--and it wasn't a report except in the vaguest sense. The one with In Living Glover looked more like a comedy news commentary sort of deal. I mean, two people saying, "Gawsh, I bet the only people who like this show are man-children" isn't a threat to your show. Just ignore them and move on with your life. And the Red Eye video was more positive, at least, and the worst thing they said was, "Hrm, maybe a grown man watching this is a little iffy," and to be blunt that's not a statement I necessarily disagree with. I suppose you can get away with it if you're watching it with your kids. In both cases, though, that's just a statement of the opinions of a couple of commentators and not the entire freaking network. The fact that so many on this thread seem to believe otherwise shows just how blindly and mindlessly they hate Fox News.
Sigh. But back to the original topic. I once saw a really terrible movie that was actually supposed to be the pilot for a new TV series called Virtuality. The basic premise was that a spaceship crew in the future was going to set out for a distant world and determine whether or not it was habitable. To keep themselves from getting bored, they use a VR system to simulate all kinds of experiences, like being an officer in the Civil War or a rock star.
So far so good? Well, catch is that somehow, someone or something has infiltrated these simulations and is inflicting all kinds of horrors upon the crew as they try to use the VR system, including murder and rape. If you're thinking to yourself, "Why don't they just turn the VR system off?" then congratulations, you've just uncovered the plot-hole that would have torpedoed this series had it ever taken off. Aside from that plot-hole in addition to several others, Virtuality is pretentious, boring, and completely unfocused. None of its many plot threads are interesting and it's impossible to like any of the characters because they're horrible to each other for no reason. So, yes, I couldn't finish that movie, and it was easy for me to see why it didn't spawn a new series. It was one of those cases where network executives actually proved to be smarter than the critics.
