We’re talking about premieres and pilots!
Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled
Our First Episode! Sleepy Hollow, Season Pass, Gotham, Doctor Who’s problems, True Detective, Farscape, Gilmore Girls, Buffy, The Office(s), Arrested Development, Parks and Recreation, Scrubs, Babylon 5 (Michael O’Hare is Sinclair), Deep Space Nine, Next Generation, Lost, BSG, Heroes, Jekyll, Angel, Firefly, Marvel Agents of SHIELD, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, and Hannibal.
Our outro is Debs & Errol’s BSG
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All this talk of Farscape’s pilot and not a single pun about Farscape’s Pilot? I’m so disappointed!
The unmentioned Whedon pilot that definitely falls into the “great series, terrible pilot” category: Dollhouse! And he can’t blame Fox for it, as much as he tries, because A) I’ve seen his original pilot and it was terrible, and B) c’mon, Joss, you couldn’t make six good stand-alone episodes with a premise this rich and varied? Really? Be a professional, dude.
Also, for “great pilot, terrible series”: Walking Dead. One of the show’s biggest problems is that they seem to decide everyone’s personality and motivation every season by spinning on a big wheel, and it’s hard to tell from a pilot that a show is going to be hella inconsistent.