#s1e1 pilot

[redcheekdays]

called out.

[some-pacas]

going to try writing one ficlet/drabble thing per episode. wish me luuuck

PILOT

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"Where did you go to school?" Cameron asks.

It's Chase's turn to consolidate all their notes and paperwork into a functional chart, and he's taken up half the conference table to do it, Foreman's notes front and center, pen waggling between his teeth. "St. Vincent's Private school for boys," he says, and then: "Doctor Foreman's time notations are shit." Foreman's just left to do the last of his HR paperwork, can't even have left the floor yet. "Your MRI log says 10:35. Mine's 10:34. His is 10:30."

"You're being anal," Cameron scolds, amused. Chase shrugs, smirks a little. "I didn't mean elementary school."

"High school," Chase corrects. He removes his pen from his cheek, updates the chart. "Med school I went to University of Melbourne mostly. Sydney for specialty."

"Are they good schools?" Cameron asks, feeling a pang that she doesn't know, doesn't know all that much about her colleague's country of origin. It makes her feel ignorant; rude.

Chase shrugs. "They're alright. Why?" he adds, shrewdly.

"Foreman went to Hopkins." Chase doesn't really react, so she clarifies: "That's maybe the top school in the country --"

"I know," Chase interrupts, amused.

"House went there," Cameron adds, embarrassed. She isn't making her point clearly, she realizes: every since House told her, yesterday, why she'd been hired, she's been seething, humiliated: dwelling. A decorative plant, he'd said, and then, you're damaged. Like she was either eye candy or a pity-project, like one was any better than the other. "House said he hired me because I'm -- pretty," she says, checking to make sure House isn't in his office, listening in through the glass.

Chase looks up at that. "He came on to you?" he asks, frowning a little, more curious than alarmed.

"Not exactly," she says, unwilling to recount the rest of the conversation. "He said he only hired you as a favor to your dad," Cameron adds, wanting Chase to join her hurt, her offense. He doesn't deny it, just spins his pen idly in his fingers as he listens. "But he hired Foreman because he went to this great school, had a 4.0 --"

"I'm sure Foreman has something wrong with him," Chase interrupts dismissively.

"It doesn't bother you?" Cameron demands: she'd been hoping for sympathy. Commiseration. Six months and it's just been her and Chase, and they're not friends exactly but she'd figured they were allies, something.

"A job's a job," says Chase.

She doesn't want to tell him what else House said. The way he'd tried to guess at her damage, the idea that it was so blatant, so obvious. But at the same time, part of her does want to ask Chase: does he know too? Is it? Painted on her like a sign? Sure, she's still grieving, but damaged? Is that better or worse than being pretty?

"Do you think Dr. Foreman will stick around?" she asks finally, after a few minutes of Chase scribbling numbers and shuffling papers.

"Probably. House likes him," Chase says. True, but that doesn't help at all.

[b-plot-butch]

we’re just fifteen minutes into s1e1 and they’re already communicating nonverbally and joan’s already questioning suspects as sherlock looks at her with vague effrontery and undeniable interest and i am certifiable PUDDLE

[supertagged]

S1E1: “Pilot” 

CHARACTERS: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, John Winchester, Mary Winchester, Jessica Moore, Azazel.

RELATIONSHIPS: John Winchester/Mary Winchester, Sam Winchester/ Jessica Moore, Sam & Dean Winchester

ADDITIONAL TAGS: MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH, Pre Series, Flashbacks, Stanford Era, Fire, Mild Blood, Cryptic Voicemails, Impersonation of Law Enforcement, John’s Journal, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Monster of the Week: Women in White (Ghosts), Angst and Brother Feels.

[bramblewatchescharmed]

Charmed 2018 Pilot

Thoughts on the pilot episode:

Even leaving aside the fact the CGI looks worse somehow than the one from the original series, you have so many elements taken from other CW shows and movies

There’s no real sense of danger for Maggie, Mel, and Macy

The writers seemed to want to combine plot points from the first season and from episode one of season four (with the introduction of Paige as the Halliwells’ half-sister) all in one episode

I hate that they get their powers handed to them by their mother unbinding their powers right before she was killed, and then EXPLAINED to them by their male English Whitelighter who has kidnapped them in order to do so.

Seriously, please explain to me how the 2018 reboot is more feminist than the 1998 original when the reboot has its Latina witches KIDNAPPED and MANSPLAINED AT by their white English male Whitelighter and the original had the Halliwells invoke their powers and figure shit out on their own

Granted, by the time Harry does kidnap them and they realize they have powers, it’s been…. a month? three? since their mom died, but… still. There’s way too much going on, and the reboot pilot relies on “Tell, don’t Show”, and… thanks, I hate it.

There is zero chemistry between any of the actresses, and you do not really get a feel for their characters as characters even before all the weird magic stuff starts happening.

When confronting the final demon in the pilot, they had to call for their Whitelighter who then told them how to fight it; otherwise they would have been dead within seconds because they wouldn’t have figured out in time how to use the Power of Three.

Good fucking Goddess, the Halliwells did not rely on Leo this much and vanquished their first warlock and first demon on their own.

Tbh Macy is the only one of the sisters who even comes off as somewhat likeable to me, but even when she finds out she’s a witch, she wants to figure out how magic works scientifically so she can win a Nobel Prize for it, and I just… Cool cool, it's so very obvious NOBODY who worked on this show did their homework with the 1998 series, because mortals finding out about magic on a large scale ALWAYS ended badly, and the original series had systems in place to prevent large amounts of humans finding out about magic and magical beings.

Very weird to me that there is a clear shot of Melinda Warren in the Veras' Book of Shadows. This is never followed up on and only muddies the waters if this was supposed to be in the same universe as the original, when from what we've seen of the magic rules and Harry's style of orbing, it clearly is not. (The writers later clarified that this was only an Easter egg for audience viewers and wasn't supposed to mean anything in-universe. Then why add it?!?!?!)

I'm laughing at how cheap their spirit board looks in the final scene. "our old spirit board" where did your mom get it from, Barnes & Noble ten years ago?

[nsuyeula]

Episode one of Nancy Drew is just the perfect introductionary episode, its instantly is like - here is the cast, there is a murder, all of them are sketchy, who done it.

But still does enough to make each character interesting and make you connect with Nancy right out the gate, as well as the make the rest of the Drew Crew likeable, which makes it so much more intriguing when we get a snippet into their secrets.

[tomfoolery815]

Promo for the TWW series premiere, broadcast two nights before the premiere during an episode of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit." Found it on an old family videotape, which explains the poor audio quality. Through the use of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” NBC demonstrated that it hadn’t yet learned how to promote the show.