Space Cadets

[PickledGecko]

I really don’t like reality TV. Bunch of people sitting around, how can that be interesting? But when I heard about this, it’s really piqued my interest. The main reason I’m interested is that I’m hoping it takes a bit more of a scientific “how would regular people cope stuck in space together?” angle rather than, “lets see which ones f*ck each other!”

Anyone heard much about it, Endemol are being pretty tight lipped as far as I can see.

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/e...pace_cadets_prepare_for_tv_hoax_blastoff.html

I’m also interested to see if anybody twigs what’s going on. Seems something like this would be very hard to pull off.

 

[Doppelgofer]

sounds interesting...prolly give it a watch

 

[ríomhaire]

Sounds like a f*cking reality TV show.

 

[Kangy]

It sounds hilariously like the Truman Show, so I'll probably watch every episode and buy the DVD box set. The fact that they've been tricked into it, as opposed to the contestants being a bunch of frankly, ****s, who're obnoxious and arrogant to think people care about them should mean the people are actually interesting.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I love this idea! It's much like something I once thought of:

Eight contestants (number doesn't matter) are told that they've been selected for an average run-of-the-mill reality TV show. However, they are actually on a conspiracy reality TV show. At first, they are allowed to go on a little trip to a nearby town once every week. But when they do, suspicious men follow them and survey them. Near the house, men watch conspicuously from adjacent buildings. There is a ‘confession room’ where they can speak live to a psychologist (actually an actor). Slowly, you’d try to convince the contestants that something was amiss. Subliminal messages on the TV. Constant and sinister self-improvement tapes in the background. Burly men in suits sneak in during the night to re-arrange the furniture ever-so-slightly. The food looks obviously drugged (not sure how to achieve this).

Slowly, and I’m not sure how to be honest, clues would be dropped. The people ‘voted out’ would be selected for maximum impact. Someone would be snatched while on an outdoor jaunt and after that there would be no leaving the house. SUSPICIONS, SUSPICIONS. The psychologist in the confession room would play the role of a sympathiser, dropping hints and trying to lead the contestants towards the truth. “None of this is what it seems,” he would say. “You are in danger.”

Strange things are afoot. The players would be encouraged to believe there is a spy among them. PARANOIA REIGNS. Soon, men in suits bundle someone away in the middle of the night. They know something but they don’t know everything. Drop hints that they’re part of some weird experiment, testing drugs or brain implants. **** up their minds with ultrasound and that new Japanese brain-effector thing that makes people walk in a certain direction. On the cusp of revelation the Psychologist’s feed is cut and he is taken, live, as a contestant listens. Oh noes! Finally, when there are only two left, and each thinks the other is a spy, they are grabbed from their beds by men in suits and thrown in interrogation cells. Each is grilled and tortured with their worst fears, 1984 style, and the last on to crack and admit to something that they haven’t done wins all the prize money!

You could do the same kind of thing by telling some people they were to be abandoned for 24 hours on an island, as some kind of survivor thing, and then simply not return with the boat/helicopter to pick them up. Make them think they’ve been left alone (wash up supplies on the shoreline to help them). Soon they’ll be fractured and at eachother’s throats, just like in any good drama. Then you start introducing strange mysteries, Lost style! Make them think they’re lost and abandoned on a desert island where nothing is what it seems! Maybe you could have them find (inexplicably) a rocket launcher at some point, then steal it while they’re all asleep. Wake them up with an approaching boat, that’s come to pick them up. Of course, it’s got no-one on it – you blow it up with explosives and soon they’ll notice their rocket launcher is gone. PARANOIA REIGNS. Yeah! That would be awesome!

 

[ríomhaire]

You could do the same kind of thing by telling some people they were to be abandoned for 24 hours on an island, as some kind of survivor thing, and then simply not return with the boat/helicopter to pick them up. Make them think they’ve been left alone (wash up supplies on the shoreline to help them). Soon they’ll be fractured and at eachother’s throats, just like in any good drama. Then you start introducing strange mysteries, Lost style! Make them think they’re lost and abandoned on a desert island where nothing is what it seems! Maybe you could have them find (inexplicably) a rocket launcher at some point, then steal it while they’re all asleep. Wake them up with an approaching boat, that’s come to pick them up. Of course, it’s got no-one on it – you blow it up with explosives and soon they’ll notice their rocket launcher is gone. PARANOIA REIGNS. Yeah! That would be awesome!

And hope they don't find any of the cameras.