Pilot season!

[sunnydlita]

It kind of sucks a little that I have to move this Saturday, because what I really want to do is watch all the series and season premieres that are coming up.

Here's what I've been able to catch so far:

Last Wednesday:
America's Next Top Model: Cycle 45634 I was only half-watching this while waiting for Gossip Girl to come on. I really can't watch

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[blaueteufelin]

Do you know if Adam Baldwin is a regular on Chuck? I caught a glimpse of him at the end of the episode while waiting for Heroes to come on and got SO excited.

I watched Season 1 of HIMYM in, oh, five days while we were out in California. It's fun. I don't have time to watch it live, though (plus I still have Season 2 to watch).

I guess Heroes is my favorite show on the air right now, with Ugly Betty a close second. I can't remember, do you watch that show? I'm trying to decide whether to add new shows or not. Maybe Pushing Daisies.

SPOILER ALERT for Heroes, highlight to see the text:
What do you think is going on with Nathan's face? I couldn't tell whether the burnination was supposed to be real or imagined. I'm going with real, and they're just showing us his normal face because they're lazy. Also, I guess Mohinder is the only person that could possibly infiltrate the company, but STILL, don't they know how stupid he is? He is not exactly smooth double agent guy. SPOILER ALERT, really!

[blaueteufelin]

Oh wow, TWoP has a new look! I hate it when websites change their look on me. Makes me feel all discombobulated. But I guess it's nice enough.

[sunnydlita]

Heh, I guess you don't visit TWoP every day like I do. Yeah, the new look is pretty slick -- so far I've still been able to find everything I need, so it's all good.

I'm not sure if Adam Baldwin is a regular on Chuck, but I'm guessing that he is. His character is set up to kind of be an antagonist both to the blonde secret agent chick (didn't catch her name) and to Chuck. He's not a bad guy, per se, but he's a fellow secret agent who disapproves of BSAC's tactics, as well as her sympathy toward Chuck.

I've seen a few episodes of Ugly Betty, but my shameful addiction to Smallville kept me from watching it on Thursday nights. Every crop of new shows always comes with an alarmingly low survival rate, so I pretty much watch anything I come across now, because I know the bulk of them are going to be cancelled in time anyway. Funny that you mention Pushing Daisies, though, because that's the new series that I'm most looking forward to. Did you ever watch WonderfallsI don't know how to spoiler tag text in a comment, so BEWARE EVERYONE ELSE

[blaueteufelin]

To hide the text I changed the color of the font like so: (font color="#FFFFFF")Text you want to hide(/font color). Except you change the parentheses to these thingies: < >.

I haven't seen Wonderfalls. Is it from the same folks as Pushing Daisies?

I watched Heroes at a friend's apartment, so I caught a few minutes of the new show just before I left. I don't know if you ever watched Charmed. Anyway, my friend and I (to my great shame) immediately recognized the house in Journeyman as being the same house used in the Charmed. Not just the exterior, but the inside as well, same rooms, similar furniture and everything. *Very* disorienting. I guess they've probably recycled houses before, but the Charmed mansion is *so* distinctive, it's hard not to notice.

Ugly Betty is really good. I highly recommend it.

[sunnydlita]

I don't think Pushing Daisies is directly from the same folks as Wonderfalls, although you could play Six Degrees with it. The most direct connection is that Lee Pace, the star of PD, was a regular on Wonderfalls, whose creator I believe was Tim Minear from the Whedonverse. The creator of Pushing Daisies is Bryan Fuller, late of Heroes and Six Feet Under, I think? And you can draw your awesome genre links from there.

.... Ah, I'm full of crap. Here's Bryan Fuller's IMDB. Clearly he is made of awesome any way you slice it.

And shame for the Charmed recognition. I'll bet it's less jarring than if they used the Full House property, though.

And yeah, Ugly Betty is on my list of TV shows to watch on DVD. I've loved Christopher Gorham since Popular!

[aliwilliams]

Wonderfalls was awesome. I liked Pushing Daisies, but I liked Wonderfalls better. So cute.

Am liking Journeyman, but only a few min in. Reaper is alternately funny and crammed full of crappy exposition. Pilots can be so awkward. The shows I loved (West Wing, VMars, Alias) didn't have such crappy pilots, did they? I really don't think so.

[sunnydlita]

Aw, did you get a screener for Pushing Daisies at work? Do you think it will do well?

I love the visuals of that show, the premise, the crime procedural twist and the star-crossed lovers twist. I think the two leads are going to be really charming.

I wasn't really paying attention to Journeyman, but then I read some speculation online that his not-actually-dead ex-fiancé is supposed to be a journeyperson too, which is pretty cool, because that would not only mean that there is a whole group of these chosen people, but also draws the two of them closer, which is nice because I don't really like the wife so far.

Aw, Bikki and I watched Reaper yesterday and we loved it! The lead guy is so cute and the supporting cast is really funny. I didn't think it had too much exposition. It's hard to compare against VM and Alias (I didn't watch WW) because those two probably rank among the Greatest Pilots of All Time.

[anyway413]

We had a whole "I'm the smartest geek in the room!!" "No, I'M the smartest geek in the room!" thing going on towards the end of Heroes----"Oh my god, that kid's Peter!" "Shit, yeah!" "No, wait, that was Peter!" "No way, that was totally Sylar!" "Shit, maybe it was!" "The power with the thing!" "Thing I can't remember that was really smart!"

Most of these comments literally ended with "I'm the smartest geek in the room!" or "No, now you're the smartest geek in the room". In my defense, there were four of us involved. And one poor kid who, it turned out, had never seen an episode before.