Pilot episodes

In America, one extralong episode is made, and based on how small group of people react to it, it will be shown on television.. and if people still like it, tv-series will be made. The first episode is known as pilot (just in case you didnt got that).

This short post is about pilots. Wikipedia also has exellent article about the subject. Read it. It's not that long...

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Done yet? OK! Now, as you could read from that article, most pilots wont last that long. At least here in Finland, there is one whole slot in the telly for failed pilotes. They are quite depressing, all ending with questions of "what happens next". For a person that dosent know these were made are pilots (they are always advertised as "TV-movies") this would be rather shocking. And some of the so-called movies are so sucky that you wonder how they even got that far. And some were so good you wonder why they didnt go farther. In the first category, probaply, there would be Justice League Live Action, that looked rather like Power Rangers; and Generation X, which I thankfully dont remember that much about, but that it was so sucky.

Should the pilot get attention and decision to make real series be made, there can be some time, say, year or two, between the filming of pilot and the first episode (or the third episode, as pilot would be shown as two parter to begin the first season). Of course, during this year much might happen to the people of the shows. They might get forward in their career, and consider television series a step back; or the actor might die.

It is then very amusing for new viewer to wonder why Flash's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes between episodes two and three, and why the style of clothing changes from over-eighties comedy look to something more modern (and less radical)... or why the character is potraited by different actor.. or there is new character that has taken without explanation the place of older character...