LG15: The Resistance

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Posted on: November 5, 2009

Posted in: Action, Drama, FakeBlogging, Fiction, Mocumentary, Video

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LG15: The Resistance is one of several spin-offs of Lonelygirl15 that burst onto the scene in the past three years, continuing in the same universe and a similar style created by Miles Beckett, Greg Goodfried, and Mesh Flinders – that is, telling a thriller through video-blogs.

Resistance goes a step further. All characters, besides doing video-blogs, also carry their cameras around at all times, supplementing each other’s individual story-lines. Inter-cut are also exponential narrations by a disembodied digital Eliza-type voice representing the Hymn of None, the resistance group, as well as a strange narration by a girl locked in a lab of sorts whom we observe only through surveillance cameras. The editing is fast paced and at times practically psychedelic in its use of frame-in-frame, color-saturations and TV snow-cuts (sometimes a little too much almost).

I’m not going to give away the plot except as far as saying that it continues the storyline of girls with ‘The Fountain of Youth’ in their blood, who are wanted by a variety of evil organizations. The acting is surprisingly natural, even in the face of somewhat silly lines, and the show takes itself very seriously in this regard. Everything follows in the established vein of EQAL shows, the production company started by the minds behindLonelygirl15. We will review more of their shows in the future, but suffice it to say that it has come to the point that their shows do start to look the same.

The thrill of Lonelygirl15 is gone, but the novelty of it helped establish a whole new genre and The Resistance as the first spin-off does it’s best to live up to it. Hence if you enjoyed Lonelygirl15 you will enjoy this, and if you didn’t, be assured to know that in a lot of ways it is more entertaining than Lonelygirl15 ever was.

LG15: The Resistance