Your fave pilot episodes of any TV series?

POSTED BY: lwaves
UPDATED: Sunday, April 25, 2010 16:53
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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:
Daybreak**

** First DVD sucked! Re-release!!

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First off, it's great that somebody remembers this!
But they already re-released the DVD, and that's the one that sucks!
It was originally a 4-disc set, and then the company went out of business. Then it was put out as a 2-disc set by Mill Creek, and the compression really shows.
When I first discovered Day Break on Hulu last year, I went on a chaotic search for the DVD: Waited for the re-release, then couldn't find anybody selling it. Once I finally tracked that one down, and resigned myself to the poorer quality, then I found the original 4-disc set! O what a happy day that was!
What was your problem with it?
The only thing I didn't like was that they broke up the 2-hour pilot into separate episodes, which really disrupts the flow in the build-up to the big highway shoot-out, IMHO. Fortunately, Hulu runs it in its original form! (Sadly, we can't post Hulu links here.)

A good review of the 4-disc set...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/daybreakcompleteseries.php
And the 2-disc...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/daybreakcomplete.php

Oh, and my favorite pilots, ranked according to how many times I've rewatched them...

• Firefly
• The Middleman
• Mann & Machine
• Max Headroom
• Day Break
• Space: Above and Beyond
• Cupid (Jeremy Piven version)
• Defying Gravity
• Farscape
• Stingray (Nick Mancuso)
• Better Off Ted
• Total Recall 2070
• Babylon 5 (with the Stewart Copeland score)
• Airwolf
• Andy Barker, P.I.
• Strange Luck
• dueSOUTH
• EZ Streets
• C-16
• High Incident
• Hill Street Blues
• Earth2
• The Prisoner
• The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.
• Burn Notice
• EUReKA
• Threshold (aired version)
• Dark Skies
• The X-Files
• Stargate Atlantis
• Stargate SG-1
• Angel
• Buffy
• The Flash
• MacGyver
•

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I'll put in a vote for Andromeda. The show eventually went so far downhill it ended up underground, but "Under the Night" and "An Affirming Flame" (the two-part opener) were among the two best hours of TV space opera I've ever seen, and set up a universe that I still want to play in.

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I was tempted to include Andromeda on my list, but then I remembered that the episode I keep re-watching, D Minus Zero, wasn't the actual pilot.

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:

But they already re-released the DVD, and that's the one that sucks!

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Yes, I know! I was trying to kill two birds with one footnote. Obviously, I failed miseribly. It's now edited for accuracy.

Just looked at Amazon. Dude, 4-disc is much less than $90 now! Less than 30 even!

Getting..... now!

Along with Freelancer (game).
Hopefully the mods will run on my ancient (11yr old) system.

Plus, Baldur Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast!


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