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Pioneer One new scifi series (avail on T word)

Meredith

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Pioneer One is a new scifi series launched just a few days ago. It is only availible by the banned T-word and also on you tube. Here is the first part of the first episode.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6h3wqW9zsg[/yt]

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Killer intro! Love the music. That something that gets ignored all too often in these freeware types of shows - how important music is to setting the tone of a show. Any series that started out like that on TV would have my immediate attention.

Buuuut then we come to the high-school-drama-club level acting performances, which just kills my interest dead. Of all the things they couldn't get on the cheap, I wouldn't expect actors to be among them. Aren't there tons of desperate, out-of-work actors out there who are just as talented as the lucky ones who land gigs?

The intro narration is great, but the dialogue is amateurish - exposition-city. Needs a rewrite.

And the production values are pretty shoddy, too, but nothing I wouldn't expect.

I'm willing to give internet-based series a shot, but I can't help judging them by the standards I hold professional shows to, because anything below that level is just too annoying to endure.

This concept wouldn't be bad if it were done over at a basic professional level (meaning, a notch above Skiffy's Saturday-night-monster movies). Keep the same head writer and music composer, hire someone who can write dialogue to work with the main writer, recast the roles with some real actors, up the production values to tolerable levels, and you'd have something.
 
a brand new 7-part TV-series

$7,000 budget for pilot episode.


The full synopsis of the show reads:

An object from space spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover is a forgotten relic of the old Soviet space program whose return to Earth will have implications for the entire world.

http://newteevee.com/2010/06/18/original-series-pioneer-one-debuts-directly-to-p2p-networks/

Sci-Fi Thriller Series Pioneer One Debuts…
 
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