[ SECRET POST #2619 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2619 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes]


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03.
[Pushing Daisies]


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04.
[Dallas Buyers Club]


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05.
[Bravely Default]


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06.
[Fake & Kuroko no Basuke]


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07.
[Warehouse 13]


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08.
[Willem Dafoe]


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09.
[Dexter]


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10.
[Rooster Teeth]


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11.
[Lost Girl]


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it was due to all the fandom squee but I had really high expectations of this show. Then I watched the first episode and thought... meh, I don't get it. I mean, it's funny, but not piss-your-pants hilarious. I usually try to give shows more benefit of the doubt, but I just couldn't summon up the interest to keep watching.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it grows on you. I thought the first episode was pleasant enough but not really funny. I got to the paintball episode before I was really *laughing* at it.

[(Anonymous)]

IMO, You have to give a show two episodes. Pilots are almost universally awkward; you have to introduce characters in a way that doesn't feel too introductory and establish the world and characteristics. Plenty of my all-time favorite shows have bad pilot episodes, there's just too much to do and a limited number of minutes to do it in. A second episode can be so much better once you know the character's names and don't have to waste time one that.

[(Anonymous)]

I generally agree but I think the first season was probably the most even of all the seasons so the pilot episode is a pretty good example of what's going on for the rest of that season.

[truxillogical]

Not even. First episode is generic "wacky group" show, like Friends or something, where Jeff and Britta are our "will they won't they" couple taking center stage for the rest of the cast to orbit around. No one had really settled into their roles. Troy was still more jock than goof-nerd and...well, really all of the characters were still just showing their one main note. It's an alright episode, but not as good a representation of what people really found noteworthy about the show.

[truxillogical]

The first episode is a lousy one to start on because they were still finding their feet, writing and acting-wise, so it's still kind of a generic "here's a group of friends" show. Heck, in the first episode it's clear that the writers thought Jeff and Britta were going to be their main characters, which is just so weird in retrospect.

I usually start people off with the first Paintball episode. It's later in the first season, but it's a pretty good microcosm of what the show really is.

This!

[(Anonymous)]

My sister got me started on this show with the Paintball episodes - we watched both of them, back when there were only the first two, and I was hooked. When I went back and started from the beginning though, I probably wouldn't have gotten past the first episode if I didn't know it got better.