Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Jul. 26th, 2010 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fabrisseI know I've missed a few days.
I didn't see the pilots to many of "my" shows until well after I started watching the series. This is certainly true for Beauty and the Beast, Wiseguy, Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X Files, Stargate SG-1, Criminal Minds, and Forever Knight.
VR.5, as preposterous as the premise was, the pilot captured me. I felt like I'd seen a movie instead of the forty-five minutes of an "hour" of television.
The 4400 was a little different. I saw it from the very beginning, but it was during the intense one day marathon leading up to the premier of the second season. I think being able to mainline a show through a marathon or borrowed DVDs or Hulu gives a person a different idea of a series and the impact of the pilot is diminished.
I didn't see the pilots to many of "my" shows until well after I started watching the series. This is certainly true for Beauty and the Beast, Wiseguy, Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X Files, Stargate SG-1, Criminal Minds, and Forever Knight.
VR.5, as preposterous as the premise was, the pilot captured me. I felt like I'd seen a movie instead of the forty-five minutes of an "hour" of television.
The 4400 was a little different. I saw it from the very beginning, but it was during the intense one day marathon leading up to the premier of the second season. I think being able to mainline a show through a marathon or borrowed DVDs or Hulu gives a person a different idea of a series and the impact of the pilot is diminished.
