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Day 27 - Best pilot episode.
Jul. 31st, 2014 06:06 amDay 27 - Best pilot episode.
This is a tie between the pilot of Veronica Mars and The West Wing. Not only did both pilots make me want to see more of the show, they made me want to see more of the show right now, how about we sit and watch six episodes AT THIS VERY MOMENT?
I’m trying to think what they have in common. Both shows have strong ensemble casts right out of the gate. They also have snappy dialogue, although the dialogue styles are very different: Sorkin’s is, for whatever reason, much easier to emulate than the Veronica Mars style. (I have yearned to write fic for VMars, but I always run aground on the rocky shoals of its character voices.)
They’re also both self-assured shows, at least in their first seasons; both of them lost it to some extent later on. They both started out with a story they wanted to tell, and they also both had strong worldviews - although their worldviews are as different as their voices. (I think Veronica, perhaps hypocritically, might have some problems with Bartlet’s “sometimes you have to lie to people for their own good” thing. Oh, she lies, but that’s different: she’s not an authority figure.)
This is a tie between the pilot of Veronica Mars and The West Wing. Not only did both pilots make me want to see more of the show, they made me want to see more of the show right now, how about we sit and watch six episodes AT THIS VERY MOMENT?
I’m trying to think what they have in common. Both shows have strong ensemble casts right out of the gate. They also have snappy dialogue, although the dialogue styles are very different: Sorkin’s is, for whatever reason, much easier to emulate than the Veronica Mars style. (I have yearned to write fic for VMars, but I always run aground on the rocky shoals of its character voices.)
They’re also both self-assured shows, at least in their first seasons; both of them lost it to some extent later on. They both started out with a story they wanted to tell, and they also both had strong worldviews - although their worldviews are as different as their voices. (I think Veronica, perhaps hypocritically, might have some problems with Bartlet’s “sometimes you have to lie to people for their own good” thing. Oh, she lies, but that’s different: she’s not an authority figure.)
