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Title: Pilot (09 Sep 2008)
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| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Anna Torv | ... | Olivia Dunham | |
| Joshua Jackson | ... | Peter Bishop | |
| Lance Reddick | ... | Phillip Broyles | |
| Kirk Acevedo | ... | Charlie Francis | |
| Blair Brown | ... | Nina Sharp | |
| Jasika Nicole | ... | Astrid Farnsworth | |
| Mark Valley | ... | John Scott | |
| John Noble | ... | Dr. Walter Bishop | |
| Jason Butler Harner | ... | Richard Steig | |
| Peter Outerbridge | ... | Dr. Reyes | |
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Bernadeta Wrobel | ... | Flight Attendant |
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Jill Harland | ... | German Woman |
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Peter Sawyer | ... | Denver Man |
| Max Topplin | ... | Angry 16 Year Old | |
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Shaun Shetty | ... | Indian Man |
When a commercial flight from Germany lands at Boston's Logan Airport without a single passenger or crew member on board alive, FBI agent Olivia Dunham is assigned to the investigative team. When her partner and lover John Scott suffers severe chemical burns, she seeks help from Dr. Walter Bishop a one-time university professor who experimented in the same field but has now been institutionalized for 17 years. To get his cooperation however, she has to get Bishop's son Peter's cooperation as well. The information they gather leads to Massive Dynamic, a huge multinational founded by someone who once shared laboratory space with Dr. Bishop. Agent Dunham also learns that what happened may have been part of a much larger pattern of strange phenomena. Written by garykmcd
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I suspected this to be like a TV movie because of its overlong runningtime, but director Alex Graves managed to make this look like a longsome introduction to the characters and I thought that was good. I also really enjoy the whole look of the show, that is to say cinematography, score, editing or the way they show the locations of the particular scenes. This and the mystery style of the show are enough to keep me watching it, at least for the 1st season. We'll see if it gets better or worse (both is possible). So, I think the 3 leads are quite interesting and I'm curious how John Noble did not get a nomination for an Emmy as Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. I also enjoyed the beginning of this pilot very much and I had great interest in where the story would go. But after watching the whole thing, I think this show (or at least the pilot) is overrated. There were really a lot of goofs in the storyline and J. J. Abrams has never proved better that he adores to fill something that would otherwise be quite good with stereotypes. I mean, the love story? It seemed fake as hell and was totally unnecessary to the storyline. Furthermore, I really wanted to believe the supernatural parts of this, but it was just impossible regarding the illogicality and stupidity of some scenes. Despite all my criticism, I've got to give this pilot its due for entertaining me for the whole running time - I actually think it passed quickly. The mix of action, crime, sci-fi, mystery and drama (yes, it really are that much genres in one) worked rather good, but overall it just doesn't fulfil its premise. The writers focused on the false stuff because even with this long run-time, I still didn't really get to know the villains and the way they've done it. Usually I wouldn't rate an episode to which I've got that much to criticize about that good, but I like the style of the show very much and I'm just hoping that this was nothing more than a false start.