I was so bored by this episode... I can barely comment about it. It took me a while to remember whether I had ever finished watching the episode or not. The pilot was pretty classy but they followed it up with the flimsiest story I could imagine. The monetary system of Europe was at stake but I wasn't bothered.
Dan
· 2 months ago
What made it worse was that I really enjoyed the pilot, but this felt like all the fun had been sucked out of it. I'll give it a few more weeks to turn things back around, as otherwise I'm going to bail. Shame if I do -- the premise has lots of potential, and I like DeKay and Bomer. Also finding it hard to care about Neal's girlfriend -- mainly because we don't really know her, and her predicament's too vague right now.
shelly
· 2 months ago
If it helps, a weak second episode is actually typical of USA network's original tv shows. I've watched a bunch of USA's shows and they all seem to have a great pilot followed by a weak second episode and then either the show will find its sea legs or it'll flounder around a bit and then find its sea legs or it won't find them at all. Burn Notice is USA's signature drama because it's high-rated and very popular. I've never watched it but I'm guessing it figured itself out. Same with Psych - I loved the pilot but was underwhelmed by the second episode but the first season was pretty good from what I watched of it. And then Royal Pains which while I didn't love the pilot still thought it was okay but didn't care enough to finish the season because it was a flounderer to me.
I'm probably one of the few who didn't think the White Collar pilot was that good and I do think it'll have some trouble getting the right balance of comedy and suspenseful drama. I'm going to predict that the Neal's girlfriend storyline is going to be very problematic and lean toward soap territory if they're not careful. For one thing, the relationship that is at the heart of the show that the audiences need to care about is the Neal/Peter relationship. Throwing in a nebulous girlfriend into the mix just makes it too personal and drags the show down and to add to that, it's hard enough to make the audience care about the characters on the screen. But to try and get them to care about a character and a relationship by proxy through another character but never actually showing the character itself is not going to work in my opinion. Unless they've actually cast the girlfriend character and are going to show her through, oh, flashbacks or something like that, put a name to the face somehow, I really don't think there's any point in this storyline. But then maybe I shouldn't speak since I didn't tune into this after the pilot.
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I'm probably one of the few who didn't think the White Collar pilot was that good and I do think it'll have some trouble getting the right balance of comedy and suspenseful drama. I'm going to predict that the Neal's girlfriend storyline is going to be very problematic and lean toward soap territory if they're not careful. For one thing, the relationship that is at the heart of the show that the audiences need to care about is the Neal/Peter relationship. Throwing in a nebulous girlfriend into the mix just makes it too personal and drags the show down and to add to that, it's hard enough to make the audience care about the characters on the screen. But to try and get them to care about a character and a relationship by proxy through another character but never actually showing the character itself is not going to work in my opinion. Unless they've actually cast the girlfriend character and are going to show her through, oh, flashbacks or something like that, put a name to the face somehow, I really don't think there's any point in this storyline. But then maybe I shouldn't speak since I didn't tune into this after the pilot.