Re: Anybody Watch or Record The Dresden FilesOriginal Pilot 3AM-5AM EST

In article <Xns9A5B839C026F6jayembeesnurcher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 jayembee <jayembeenospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Just wondered what people thought of it.
> 
> I'd downloaded a cap of the airing on Space from January via BitTorrent.
> 
> It's hard to compare, since I don't have the DVD set, and haven't
> seen the shorter version of "Storm Front" since it was first on a
> year ago. But storywise, it was pretty much the same as I remember
> from the shorter version. The only element that seemed unfamiliar
> to me was that Dresden had a re****ter kinda-sorta-girlfriend. I
> vaguely remember someone of that sort from the shorter version,
> but it seemed obvious here that she was intended to be a regular
> character but was dropped for the series.
> 
> The pilot was also filled with backstory exposition about Dresden's
> past, all of which seemed familiar, so I expected that it was all
> footage that was used in other episodes.

yeah; so what was this?  I take it this wasn't the original pilot as it 
first existed, and that (at least) the stuff with the dad and uncle was 
retconned in?
> 
> I thought it had all of the typical weaknesses I tend to find in
> pilots, especially 2-hour ones. They tend to be unfocussed as
> they try to juggle an interesting plot and character backstory.
> Rarely do they integrate the backstory *into* the plot.
> 
> Other than all of the continuity glitches from airing the episodes
> in the wrong order, I actually think it was better to do it the
> way Sci Fi ended up doing it: get the character up and working,
> and *then* fill in the backstory.
> 
> -- jayembee

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