Space Cadets

[Charlie5x5]

I started writing a description but this is much more eloquent ;)

Channel 4 is blasting a group of adventurers, ordinary members of the public, off into space to spend five days orbiting the earth. It's thrilling, it's exciting, and it's totally bogus.

In fact, the cadets will be on a disused military base in Suffolk.

Our group of thrill seekers will experience two weeks of intensive astronaut training believing they are in Star City, near Moscow, and labouring under the illusion that they are part of a real space mission.

After all, who would go to the trouble of dressing Suffolk, up as Russia, and faking a space launch?

To fuel the illusion, the base has been painstakingly decked out in Russian products, down to the very last plug socket.

Their physical training is under the supervision of a genuine former KGB agent.

Hollywood visual effects specialists, Wonderworks, whose credits include The Day After Tomorrow and Apollo 13, have created the space shuttle itself from a NASA blueprint.

Sound effects have been created to simulate the incredible noise generated by blasting off from the earth. Hydraulics and 'air biscuits' will pull, jolt, and vibrate the craft around for authenticity.

When the cadets look out of the cockpit window, they'll see a distant earth, thanks to meticulous visual effects.

Who wouldn't believe?

It's really quite cruel, they picked some of the stupidest people in the country. To overcome the fact they wont be weightless, they told them there was an "Inner' and an 'Outer" space, and theyre only going to "Inner" space, so they wont expeience weightlessness :rolleyes:

[Keri]

I was really excited about this show, but i forgot to watch the first one, and saw some of last nights, and to be honest I found it kind of dull :/

Are you watching Charlie?

[Charlie5x5]

i watched about 5 minutes of it last night in a break of something esle i was watching, i see what you mena about the dull thing, but i guess it's just setting it up, it might get better later on, when theyre actually 'in space' and i want to see their faces when they tell them its all made up and everyone has been taking the piss hahaha, idiots.

yeah same, i thought it was ok. Ima keep watching though

another cruel joke for the public's amusement

[Jocasta]

I've only seen a few minutes and it does look a bit lame. Some of the "astro-nuts"* are actors planted to help keep the joke going, right?
But it seems like a one joke idea; when they find out it's all a big con. A bit like that "There's something about Miriam" show.

*as far as I'm aware that's my own term for the poor dears.

[Charlie5x5]

Originally posted by Jocasta:
"astro-nuts"*

haha i like it.

also yeah i think a few of them are actors, i didnt watch it again last night, i went out [img]redface.gif[/img] and i wont watch it again tonight for the same reason....oops [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Keri]

All done.

Didn't really watch it but i just saw the finale tonight and it was pretty fvcking funny when they opened the hatch and told them they were in fact in Ipswich [img]graemlins/spin.gif[/img]

They even stopped caring that they'd been made fools of when Jonny told them they were all 25 grand richer.

What next for reality TV i wonder?