This Spartan Life
August 21st, 2005
This Spartan Life has all the features of a modern chat show: a wisecracking host, a backing band, dancers, and of course guests with interesting thoughts to share. However, as the show takes place in the middle of Halo Online, it has a few unique features.
First of all, every couple of minutes a player not involved in the show will wander onto the virtual set and not realise they've encountered an interview. Secondly, guests and host alike are armed, so when an uninvited spectator takes a potshot at the guest our host will have to do that multi-tasking thing we're always being told that TV presenters are so good at, taking out the assailant whilst prompting the guest to finish that point he was making about how Marx and Engels might have revised The Communist Manifesto if it had been a hypertext publication.
Come to think of it, arming the host, the guests and the audience is an innovation which would render the average TV chat show at least 500% more entertaining. Not to mention the auditions for shows like Pop Idol…
[Via GromBlog]
August 22nd, 2005 at 12:56
I can't tell if you intended this whole "spit up" sort of thing on my part, I can only testify, sir.