M7: Pilot/Ghosts of the Confederacy

[ithildyn]

Welcome to the first of our Magnificent Seven episode discussions. In addition to the usual summary, I thought I'd add something that would be both fun and educational. Okay, fun [g] -- a stats list. It contains both canon and fanon items along with an Oops! category

Comments

[tygermama]

I liked the plot of the pilot, but I had a few quibbles.

I yelled at the screen when Mary tried to save Nathan, really I think she should have known better than to get close enough to those men that they could just rip the gun out of her hands.

JD did make me cringe more than once, but he was just so earnest, it was pretty obvious that he was brave but needed a little guidance. (and I really liked how the guys eased off him just a little, but lots, once they found out he wasn't some spoiled rich kid)

It seemed like the whole setting up Ezra and Nathan as adversaries because of race thing was tacked on and never really addressed.

What I liked;

Buck's entrance pretty much summed up his entire character in, what? Less than five minutes, which is really effective television. And really funny, you get that he's a ladies man, a little goofy and loyal and caring. You also learn he has a thing against bowler hats, although I don't think it was every completely explained. :)

I though Josiah was a hoot, when they introduced him. The whole inscrutable mystic thing.

I liked Nathan better in the pilot than in some of the other episodes. Here he was very well balanced. And I like Rain.

Umm, Ezra and Vin. *sighs* Two completely different sets of buttons getting pushed here, it would take me all night to talk about them.

And Chris. One minute he's the bad element, the next he seems close to tears. I was a little confused. But, while clearly grieving, he never came off as emotionally unstable or particularly easy to set off, except under specific circumstances (not shooting someone in the back, talking about his past without his knowledge or permission)

Daragh O'Malley has a sexy accent!

And the tribal leader was a great character. I wished he was on the show more.

(I was intending to rewatch last night but due to brats bratifying and housework, I never got the chance, so all this is from memory, sorry)

[ithildyn]

Two completely different sets of buttons getting pushed here, it would take me all night to talk about them.

We're not going anywhere [g]

I adore Daragh O'Malley, so was thrilled when I saw him in the pilot. I wish they'd kept him as a recurring character.

[conjured_1]

Behind the scenes info: The pilot was written that Buck died after the sword injury and Daragh O'Malley was going to be part of the 7. Dale's chemistry with the rest of the guys was so pronounced that the end was rewritten to what we have now.

[ithildyn]

That's what Casey was telling me a while back. It makes the way the pilot was filmed make a lot more sense looking at in retrospect. Glad Buck didn't die, but doesn't mean I wouldn't have liked to see Daragh pop in now and again [g]

[strangevisitor7]

Poor Daragh but he really did not have any chemistry with the group that I could see