ChosenOne said:
just saw this last night and the only thing that crossed me mind was "Wow that gal does a hell of a lot of running"
:hihi:
I saw it too (Yay TV3!) and it was really funny to see it the massive differences between this and the later episodes I started with. For example: I've been whinging about all the running for half a season. Now I find out Tru's a track star. Laughed pretty hard. Tru running for her diploma was an added bonus.
I gotta say, everybody seems to agree that there were big improvements made between the pilot and the rest of the series, but I thought the Pilot was terrific compared to most of the series epps. The plot twisted well, and though I yet again find myself questioning Davis' credentials, I liked the exit wound twist. Just complex enough, and Tru's rather devious method of saving Coconut Head was clever. I liked Tru's unexpectedly dubious approach to getting everybody through the day more or less intact... Lots of very cool stuff that drifted out of the series later on... (I love bullety points, btw, brace yourself...)
* Davis being a complete and utter wierdo. People referred to his wierdness later on, but he was pretty blandified by the time I first met him... Weirdo Davis was way more interesting.
* Tru not having that slack jawed expression all the time. Pilot-Tru is shocked by whats going on, but she doesn't have that dumbfounded, mouth agape, looking to the left-hand-middle-distance thing going on all the time, like Series-Tru does.
* The morgue camera work. This was cool. Skewed angles, Matrix style colour twinging... sort of Twin Peaks meets Six Feet Under. The later direction was a lot more pedestrian, and it's a shame, because it would have given the show the distinctiveness it sorely lacked.
And the oh-so-Angel time lapses not only didn't annoy me, they were cool. They were done with impressive panache, and the last one was stunning. And I don't recall a single blindingly obvious flashback. My favourite epp so far, oddly...