I've now raved about the pilot everywhere I know to rave (except the offical board, which I still fear), and need to do that thing I planned to do hours ago - sleep.

Thanks, Tim, for giving me something so great to look forward to this summer. And thanks, Allyson, for pimping it so relentlessly and intelligently that I was required to watch. And thanks, my parents, Ayn Rand and God, for always being there for me in the tough times.

The pilot has been posted online in HDTV torrent form, and has 1500 concurrent downloaders at the moment. That's larger than any original series I've ever seen, so hurray. Although boo hiss, piracy.

Wanders in, checks to see if anyone else is still alive?

by the way, east coasters -- now that you've seen it, doesn't all this hand wringing by the MSM critics about the gore seem a bit overwrought?

I have a very low gore-tolerance. The one thing that got to me was when Martinez was on the slab and the ME moved a flap of her face into place. I, forgive me, nearly jumped right out of my skin. It was a really disturbing image -- but very simple and subtle and not (forgive me again) in-your-face bloody.

It was honest, not overwrought gratuitous gut-splatter. Maybe that's what freaked the critics out.

Favorite Line of the Night Which Had Me Shrieking 'Tim, Tim, I've Missed You So, You Stud': Now wouldn't it be sad if I had to shoot his little boy or his mother just because you were a bitch?

It is interesting to me, however, that with all the intense, high-tech, major brainiac training they have a Quantico no one in the FBI can work a lightswitch. Clarice, Mulder, Scully, now these kids -- they walk into the creepy room, guns drawn, squinting madly... if only they could SEE THINGS while they searched! Would that there were some mystical ILLUMINATING DEVICE!

Define alive.

I'm moving around and stuff, but that's just because they pay me.

Trudy,

Stylistically, though, it looks a bit better if you don't light everything gallore. In my opinion, anyway.

An hour left on The Inside download. Squee.

Download 'the.inside.101.hdtv-lol.[VTV].avi' has changed state from Downloading to Seeding

Grin. Comments tonight.

You'll likely see it before I do, Kevin. Scott had to work from home last night (conference call to the West Coast). I put on A:ts S4's Slouching Toward Bethlehem, while waiting for him to get off the phone, and fell asleep before that was over. We'll be watching tonight, hopefully.

Trudy, was the darkness watchable? That is, I had a lot of problems telling what was going on on A:ts, sometimes. I know the darkness is a good stylistic choice, but sometimes, the action just didn't read to me. I used to joke about starting a "Get Angel a Lightbulb" campaign. Sometimes, I feel the same way about 24.

All in all, I'm very excited for it, reading this thread. I gen'lly find Buffista opinion more in line with my own.

Nilly, I hope you will get copies, soon. I hope you enjoy them in good conscience. The showrunner wants your opinion on his show.

I had a strange dream this morning, involving the cast of The Inside. They were performing a play and somehow I ended up as Rachel Nichols understudy. I hadn't watched any previous rehearsals or even read the script, but I got thrown into a run thru rehearsal. I think that the thing that freaked me out the most was that Web (yes, the character... not Peter Coyote) was directing.

I'd never had an Actors Nightmare type dream before.

I'd never had an Actors Nightmare type dream before.

Was MADAME BUTTERFLY or DEATH OF A SALESMAN involved?