Will Wright To Make Fan-Participation TV Show 69
SmarterThanMe writes "Will Wright, creator of several famous computer games beginning with 'Sim,' is involved in the production of a new TV show called 'Bar Karma.' Viewers will be heavily involved in putting forward their own storyboards that the show will then play out. Viewers also vote on the storyboards that they most like for the next episode. In effect, the viewing public collaborates with each other to create the show."
And griefers all around the world rejoiced (Score:5, Insightful)
In our next episode: did little Lisa survive her heart surgery?
4chan: Nope.
Brilliant (Score:1, Insightful)
How long until someone abuses a flaw in the voting system or simply uses a billion proxies to vote up a storyboard consisting of an elaborate episode-long orgy?
Fan Fiction (Score:5, Insightful)
There's a *REASON* 99.9% of fan fiction doesn't get turned into the next episode. How many Lt. Mary Sue's do we really need? I think there was one rare instance where some Xena fan-fic got published as a book... that was about it.
Women writers tend to make a Han-Solo/Luke or Kirk/Spock love fest, while men tend to write stories where the hero lands on an alien planet inhabited by sex-starved babes in bikinis.
Basically it's trash writing and most of the time, it shows that most people should never even get near a keyboard.
Re:Brilliant (Score:3, Insightful)