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Post by shibby on Sept 7, 2008 6:31:59 GMT -5
This is TV Guides top ten best TV pilots of all time: 1. Lost 2. 24 3. The Shield4. The Sopranos 5. 30 Rock 6. Football Wives 7. Desperate Housewives 8. Saturday Night Live 9. ER 10. Alias I think The Shield should have been number 1 but I may be biased Via: buzzsugar.com/1920769They are also talking about this on ONTD if anyone has a livejournal.
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Post by n00b on Sept 7, 2008 11:02:24 GMT -5
Have to agree with you, for obvious reasons, The Shield's pilot is the best of all time. Agree with the writer at the linked story that ER should be higher (one of the main characters almost dies in ER pilot; of course, in TS pilot, one of the main characters DOES DIE!).
The West Wing should also be there ... love how the Sheen President doesn't even show up until the last scene, and how he rips that bitchy woman a new a**hole in the process ... little known fact; the original show as envisioned to have a mainly off-screen President with the focus almost exclusively on the behind-the-scenes players (like in the pilot). It wasn't until they saw how well Sheen did in the role, interacted with the other actors, and how much the audience liked him that the President role became much larger.
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Post by Strike Team 4 Life on Sept 7, 2008 17:12:06 GMT -5
What great press for THE SHIELD!!!
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Post by chemikalman on Sept 7, 2008 17:40:41 GMT -5
Lost? Someone is lost. OK, so I have never seen Lost (or 24 for that matter), but, like ST4L, I'm biased, too. And while Lost might deserve its acclaim, the idea of a plane crash on a deserted island is anything but original. That makes me wonder how could the pilot overcome that fact? Maybe I'll watch it some day and see what I think.
The pilot of 24, though, again, I've never watched an episode of the show, I could maybe see being good. From what I've read from a columnist in our local rag, it has simply become too implausible in terms of the number of events that are supposed to take place all in one day.
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Post by Inside Man on Sept 10, 2008 17:49:08 GMT -5
Chem, you owe it to yourself to check out, at least, the 2-hour Pilot of LOST. It's fantastic, compelling, instantly engaging television. Just rent it, you may prove me 100% wrong, but I agree that it deserves to be on the list.
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Post by Inside Man on Sept 10, 2008 17:51:56 GMT -5
As to how it overcomes its agreeably derivative trappings? By being stylish and well-shot as all hell. It is a very well plotted chunk of television. The characters are great, the acting top-notch.
And if you dig the Pilot, watch the next two episodes. If you're not hooked by 'Walkabout,' I'll eat my hat ('cause if you dig the first 2 hours, the next two will absolutely knock your socks off).
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Post by badcop187 on Sept 10, 2008 18:26:12 GMT -5
I think 24 and Sopranos deserve to be on the list, but Lost? I don't get that show, could never get into it.
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Post by badcop187 on Sept 10, 2008 18:26:43 GMT -5
Oh, and The Shield is the only show that has ever "hooked" me in 1 episode. So that does need to be number 1
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Post by Inside Man on Sept 10, 2008 19:01:20 GMT -5
That goes without saying, badcop. I was liking The Shield a ton, but the ending sealed it for me. I knew then and there I was watching something special.
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Post by chemikalman on Sept 10, 2008 20:26:15 GMT -5
Oh, and The Shield is the only show that has ever "hooked" me in 1 episode. So that does need to be number 1 I second that, brother.
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Post by cuffs on Sept 11, 2008 2:51:24 GMT -5
The Shield didn't just hook me in the first ep... it hooked me in the first ten minutes! I've never experienced anything like that. When they say it's like crack, they aren't kidding!!
As for LOST, I was very intrigued by the first few eps and then the increasingly esoteric nonsense of the eps to follow really turned me off... like 6 eps in. I thought "this is bullshit" and I turned the channel. I like something new and challenging, but I don't appreciate being toyed with and played.
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Post by ISaidWhoaDangIt on Sept 11, 2008 8:25:25 GMT -5
The pilot of 24, though, again, I've never watched an episode of the show, I could maybe see being good. From what I've read from a columnist in our local rag, it has simply become too implausible in terms of the number of events that are supposed to take place all in one day. Nothing is implausible for our hero Jack Bauer. This is the man who hasn't peed or eaten once in 6 years and no matter where he is, his cell phone works and his phone never has a dead battery. Jack could be locked in a lead box underground container and he'd still get a cell signal. He's my hero.
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Post by badcop187 on Sept 11, 2008 12:25:48 GMT -5
^Yeah now it does get a little hokie, but say the first 3 season or so rocked!
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Post by chemikalman on Sept 11, 2008 20:44:51 GMT -5
Nothing is implausible for our hero Jack Bauer. This is the man who hasn't peed or eaten once in 6 years and no matter where he is, his cell phone works and his phone never has a dead battery. Jack could be locked in a lead box underground container and he'd still get a cell signal. He's my hero. He sounds like he is probably on the Christmas card list of Walker, Texas Ranger.
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Post by F*ckernando on Sept 11, 2008 23:45:32 GMT -5
Jack "THE MAN" Bauer!! that is some serious shit!!!!!!!!
I've missed this year of that full injection-non-stop-bombs-kills-blood-eternal-cell-phone-terrorism-kick-ass-hours-that-seems-like-butter-immortal-body of JACK BAUER!!
I've always said that The shield exists in a FREE TERRORISM - Los angeles... thanks to Jack and the CTU..............If Jack fails......Farmington EXPLODES!!!! ............literally....
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Post by Lemonhead on Sept 12, 2008 22:57:10 GMT -5
I thought 24's pilot episode was kind of bland; the show DOES pick up steam, however. It's silly, nonsensical, and mostly action-based, but it's a fun show none the less.
Lost's pilot episode really was amazing, and despite a VERY slow buildup throughout the course of the show, it's really getting to something teriffic.
But The Shield's pilot trumps them all.
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Post by -|E|- on Sept 15, 2008 7:47:15 GMT -5
^ Agreed. I'd never been insanely addicted to a show during the first 5 minutes of a pilot ep before. And I only watched it because I couldn't believe Chikky could pull it off... he was still The Commish to me.
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