The Beast (1.1)

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 @ 10 PM
A & E
The Beast– Season 1 – Episode #1 – Pilot

http://www.aetv.com/the-beast/index.jsp












I ask you, "Dirty Dancing or The Beast?"

Marmot: Kinda “meh” about The Beast. I feel like all the best stuff was going to be in the pilot

Manatee: I hated the ending! Why does everyone think they need some sort of twist these days? What happened to good old-fashioned storytelling

Marmot: It became stale and boring, so then the twist became something shiny and new, and ultimately, cliche. At least for horror movies. This is a rare example of a twist in a pilot . I feel like it could have been better executed, though. Perhaps if we had seen the FBI folks in an earlier scene? It just kind of felt tacked on otherwise.

Manatee: I just felt like I had seen it before and it was a very weak ending.

Marmot: Its straight out of the movie Breach.

Manatee: They whole premise and storytelling was pretty weak and tired. The only good thing about the pilot was the way it looked, other than that, I'm not really looking forward to the season.

Marmot: Yes. The cinematography was amazing. I also liked that Patrick Swayze shot a missile launcher. I'm pretty sure he never did that in Dirty Dancing.

Manatee: Is Patrick Swayze marketable anymore? Who is tuning in to see him? And did CBS ask themselves a similar question when Caruso thought about signing on for CSI Miami?

Marmot: EVERYONE is watching Caruso on CSI Miami. It's unbelievable. Maybe that was their thinking with Swayze. Or maybe A&E figured people would watch the first episode out of shear curiosity and get hooked.

Manatee: Are you hooked?

Marmot: Not so much hooked as mildly interested. I'm mostly interested in why Patrick Swayze made his brother-in-law shoot himself. Also something that never happened in Dirty Dancing.

Manatee: That personal story felt unnecessary. It seems like that scene and the later one with his sister set up the FBI agents trying to convince the young partner that his older, harder partner is dirty. Each week we should compare and contrast The Beast and Dirty Dancing

Marmot: Similarities to Dirty Dancing? Nobody put baby in a corner.