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August 18 2006

Drive pilot episode reviewed. Drive Blog (which covers Tim Minear's new show - currently on the front page of Blogger as their blog of the day), reviews Drive's pilot script. "With seventeen characters and the mythology of the premise all needing to be established the script doesn’t waste anytime and by the end of the episode not only are we aware of the race and its rules and trappings, but each character is also given a moment to shine"

gossi | Cast&Crew | 03:27 CET | 17 comments total | tags: drive, tim minear, ben queen

Thanks Gossi, I can't wait. I've been so looking forward to this.

ramses 2 | August 18, 03:41 CET

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really looking forward to this as well. My brain is rotting without a Minear show on the air!

MySerenity | August 18, 03:54 CET

Hoooray! I can't wait. :)

Lunakitty | August 18, 04:04 CET

Every little tidbit I hear about Drive makes me more excited.

alpha5099 | August 18, 04:32 CET

Does anyone know when this show is hopefully going to air? Thanks.

WheelsOfJoy | August 18, 06:53 CET

Who could resist another cancelled show from Tim Minear! (c:
I'm still frustrated at them dragging their feet putting out The Inside DVD...

Manosdvd | August 18, 09:07 CET

How long is the pilot? An hour or two hours?

Simon | August 18, 12:12 CET

No idea but if Minear and Queen manage to introduce 17 characters and the show premise effectively in a one hour pilot they'll have pulled off a writing coup par excellence, IMO. Not saying they couldn't do it but a cast of that size sounds like 2 hours would do it more justice.

(Firefly only had 9 characters and, to me, definitely needed the double length pilot to give a good sense of them all AND include some kind of story)

Saje | August 18, 13:02 CET

It's an hour - but very fast paced.

[ edited by Jackal on 2006-08-18 11:28 ]

Jackal | August 18, 13:18 CET

Wow, then i'm ready to be impressed if they can pull it off.

Or maybe they'll just go down the 'Lost' route and introduce a few main characters properly in the pilot with sketches of the rest to be filled in on later episodes ?

Either way, really looking forward to it.

Saje | August 18, 13:27 CET

There's plenty of time in an hour to get the very basics down, and hopefully at least 13 episodes to flesh them out.

gossi | August 18, 13:43 CET

I'm so depressed... I misread the link as saying, "Drive pilot *renewed*," which I took to mean it was officially picked up for the season or something.

Sure, I'm comforted by knowing that Tim is brilliant, but how is that news? ;-P

Niels | August 18, 16:12 CET

Still not excited by the premise of the show itself (A race? Nah, thanks). Then again, it is Tim who's doing this, so I'm holding out hope. I'm still in a 'see it first, get excited second' state about this one though.

GVH | August 18, 16:51 CET

GVH, I don't think Tim's in to car races either. Well, not car race movies anyway.

gossi | August 18, 17:32 CET

I think Tim's more into the potential for character-killing car crashes. :-)

Niels | August 18, 22:21 CET

Polter-Cow's review is also now up here.

Jackal | August 18, 22:34 CET

Just wanted to add that at Worldcon Minear said that in two weeks, we'd know if it'd been picked up or not, most likely as a midseason replacement for Fox (although of course, that will also depend on how many of their shows will need replacing by then).

kli | August 29, 22:53 CET

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