This was great. Be proud, Tim! Those mean critics were wrong on this.

I love Peter Coyote.
I love Katie Finneran.
I love Adam Baldwin.
I like Rachel Nichols. The rest of the cast still has time to prove themselves, of course, but I thought Jay Harrington and Nelsan Ellis needed to be a bit more subtle. Carter's introduction was way too brief, and I really looking forward to seeing some character development with Mel & Danny.

There was plenty of exciting plot twists and great dialogue, as I expected, and I loved how the show was much more about the characters than the murder mystery. I loved the noir-y cinematography, too. This wasn't a brilliant start, but it was a very good one.

I'm excited for next Wednesday now.

that line you mentioned, P-C? yeah...i didn't like it either.

i'm actually pretty sold on the Rebecca character. i would assume that her kidnapping experience has made her very closed off and that is exactly what i got from her.

will reserve judgement on Mel and Danny. we didn't get enough of them in this ep for me to form an opinion.

Oh, I did really like Rebecca talking her way through the vic's house. I thought it would feel forced, but it was very natural.

Mostly I don't like Peter Coyote's character and I'm meh about him as an actor so that's kind of sucking some of energy out of the show for me.

I'm really liking Paul

Per my usual gift, I think he needs to shut up.

Damn you!!

Also, I didn't like the "Got it backwards" line that much -- it's a great line -- but I have such a strong dislike for Web that my initial reaction was "omigod what an arrogant prick -- aren't there rules against that?"

Well, he's clearly above the rules if he picks and drops his cases when he can. I think my initial reaction was "That's funny and she's safe, whew."

So Adam and Katie twist a little bit

I guess I'm just so happy to see them in a show, I want it to be all. about. them. Heh. I can wait.

See, I love an interesting "bad" guy. (It's the only reason I hang on to watching Deadwood). I want to know more.

my initial reaction was "omigod what an arrogant prick -- aren't there rules against that?"

It wasn't a laugh out loud line for me but I loved it. For me, it was "Awesome, he's an arrogant prick because there are totally rules against that!"

my initial reaction was "omigod what an arrogant prick

cough*MalcolmReynolds*cough

Oh, I did really like Rebecca talking her way through the vic's house. I thought it would feel forced, but it was very natural.

I really liked all those flashes with her dialogue coming out of other women's mouths and shit. That was way cool. I also really liked the way she worked her way to the subway revelation, how she kind of subtly shifted back and forth between first and second person (I think subconsciously, for her). Both those scenes show well that she really does get inside the heads of the victims...and as tiggy suggests, because she was one herself.

That was a very Mal Reynolds moment.

The front page of TI.org has a poll on the first episode now.

Edit: and it's getting about 30 visits a minute from Yahoo, the only search engine which has indexed the site so far. Looks like the show made an impact.