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⌈ Secret Post #2610 ⌋

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[Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[DC Comics, Strix and Batgirl]

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[my mad fat diary]

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[Sekai Seifuku]

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[Lindsey Stirling]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Attack on Titan]

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[How to Train Your Dragon]

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[Figure Skating]

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[A Wild Endeavour]

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[American Horror Story]

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[The Americans]

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Theres a lot of shows i recommend to people and say, "try xyz episode its like the quintessential"...only a few shows do i actually recommend the pilot. What are some pilots that you think perfectly represent the show? For me:

Leverage! Tonally, writing quality, characters...it sets up everything and is consistent.

Remington Steele...it doesn't show how goofy Brosnan's character often was but otherwise fit right in.

Breaking Bad and Supernatural.

I don't know. I think the Supernatural pilot is only representative for the first three seasons or so--it changed drastically after that.

Not so much the whole pilot episode, but the very first scene of the pilot of The Wire. That's the show. Right there. A better tone establishment there never was.

Absolutely agree.

This!

That's so true. Most shows, if I had to suggest one episode to introduce them to it, I wouldn't choose the pilot. Like X-Files - if I was going to introduce someone with only one episode, it would probably be Beyond the Sea or Bad Blood or something. The pilot episode actually kind of had shaky characterization, imo.

Agree about Beyond The Sea but I feel like Bad Blood really relies on already being familiar with the basics of the show. It plays off how well we know Mulder and Scully by that time, and relies on the familiar formula of the show so we can deviate from it.

I think that's true of a lot of the really fan-favorite X-Files episodes, actually. I'd probably start with Beyond The Sea or Tooms or something.

Tooms would be a great into, yeah. It has a lot of what you want and expect from the show.

+1 to Tooms! Also FWIW E.B.E. was one of my first eps and it made a really good impression on me. It's one of those mytharc episodes that don't actually require much background.

Breaking Bad, for sure

The West Wing

The West Wing and Sports Night pilots do a pretty good job of introducing characters, giving you the premise, and setting the tone. The Studio 60 on Sunset Strip pilot was better than most of the rest of the episodes.

Yeah say what you will about Studio 60 but you can't say the pilot wasn't representative. I would say more or less all of the qualities of the show were present in the pilot for good or for ill.

Man I'm sorry but I just got distracted remembering how pretty Amanda Peet was. What a great cast they marooned on that shitty show.

I'm gonna say the Pilot episode of Tiger & Bunny. It lays down the basic rules of the universe, introduces all the characters, gets Tiger & Bunny together, and it's fun to watch. I think the last episode was the best but the Pilot episode is basically what it's about.

The Scrubs pilot pretty much sets everything up.

Honestly? Torchwood. "Everything Changes" is mostly a Gwen episode, and police!Gwen at that, so it doesn't have quite the team dynamic that later episodes will have. But it's got just the right balance of Gwen-has-a-mystery and what-is-Torchwood-and-why-should-I-care-about-them. A lot of people forget that when it first aired, the last we'd seen of Jack was Rose the Bad Wolf resurrecting him, which did not indicate he was now immortal. So that was a big reveal! And they pulled off the prominent actor "fake main cast member" thing with Indira Varma. "Everything Changes" is a very well structured pilot.

I have to agree with you. It almost makes me disappointed in a way because Everything Changes is one of my top episodes of the first season, and everything felt like a little bit of a letdown after that.

I immediately thought of Leverage for this!

Also, White Collar to some degree.

Starsky and Hutch. The pilot is full of shenanigans, corny jokes, naked dudes, gay subtext, and car chases--it's basically the series.

Not to mention "Who the hell do we trust?" "The same people we always trust. Us." Which also remained the truth throughout the whole series.

Re: representative pilots

(Anonymous) - 2014-02-25 02:54 (UTC) - Expand

Hannibal, Supernatural and Father Ted. :D

TBF I feel like most UK short-season shows have very representative pilots if only because they have so few episodes. There's not that time for them to change much, they probably put more resources into the first episode, and the pilot will usually be a much larger percentage of the show in total than in American shows.

But also, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace has a super pilot.

purpleseas - 2014-02-25 06:51 (UTC) - Expand

The F.R.I.E.N.D.S. pilot is perhaps the most stellar pilot I've ever seen in terms of it establishing the characters and setting the tone, giving the viewer an idea of what's to come.

It's pretty perfect and I don't think I'll ever tire of watching it. I think it's better than many of the later episodes that sometimes fell flat.

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