E-Ring -- Series Premiere "Pilot" -- 09/21/05
 

"Pilot"


Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Dennis Hopper, Aunjanue Ellis, Kelly Rutherford.
Producer(s): Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, David McKenna.

Original Airdate: September 21, 2005.

Those reviews aren't making me look forward to this. :(

I'll still check it out.

for those who maybe watching something else when this is on, the pilot episode will be replayed Sun Sep 25 12:00am EDT, and Sat Oct 01 09:00pm EDT

I'm giving it a shot because I love Dennis Hopper but when I first heard about this show, one word came to mind: boring.

Agree with both you and Red Dog. Except for the man love of Dennis Hopper. That's just nasty :p.

I been looking forward to this one. I like the premise

Not bad. Will give it a shot for a while.

Not bad, not good. I like the premise. Just thinking of what decisions get made in that little ring makes my mind go crazy. It could get really interesting.

I thought it was pretty good. I will definitely be watching.

I thought it was ok. Although some of the dialogue had me rolling my eyes and Bratt and the Marine NCO's preformances seem somewhat forced.

I enjoyed it. Anyone notice Benjamin Bratt's wedding ring that disappeared in the segments with his girlfriend? I heard his character was suppose to be married with a kid in the original pilot. But since the actress who played her quit the show, they re-shot the pilot with the girlfriend. I guess the producers couldn't re-shoot the scenes where he was still wearing the ring.

I really liked it, except for Bratt's hokey "never leave anyone behind" speech (which really didn't apply anyway) and the Chairman of the JCS acting like he had never heard that angle before. :rolleyes:

Otherwise a solid show. I'll check it out again next week.

I liked it. Did anyone else notice it was directed by Taylor Hackford (Ray, Proof of Life)? Even though it was a bit cheesy, I liked the part where the seals rescued the spy. I thought that was well directed. I think next week will involve another special forces, they looked like deltas. I'm a sucker for shows/movies that involves military special forces.

Total garbage IMO. Won't be coming back for second viewing.

Maybe the "action" part could have promise, but watching the military bureaucracy at work is frankly upsetting.

Missed that, but when he came home after riding the seatless bike home, he carried the bike in through the front door and set it down...with a seat on the bike. Later on, it had no seat again.

:thumbsup:

I just watched it.

I don't really see the point to this show. All the action happens outside of the office and the main characters? You watch Alias to see Jennifer Garner kick spy butt, not see her bosses argue for permission to send her on the mission.

I had to laugh at the "signing papers" montage. :lol: It kind of underscored the lameness of the premise.

I did like the scenes outside of the office and next week Kelly Rutherford is added to cast. I have a had a girl-crush on her since Melrose Place, so I will watch it again, but I don't see myself sticking around for the season unless it gets much better.

I read in EW that they wrote her out (Sarah Clarke, Nina from 24) so that Benjamin Bratt could have more love interests & love scenes. They are replacing her character with Kely Rutherford's who plays some attorney.

I started watching, but erased the show after about 20 minutes. I've got enough to watch...

I saw the original pilot and can easily see why Clarke was written out. I think she's a talented actress, but her character was badly conceived and came off as exceedingly unsympathetic. Married....single....either way, I didn't care for the show.

Which Clarke was it? Only one I can think of is Melinda and she's on another show, already.

Ah, Sarah Clarke. She was supposed to be Bratt's wife? Maybe they just went for the more appealing eye candy. I doubt she can ouact Clarke though.

I don't think it was as bad as others thought, but when I watch this, it makes me -ohbfrank- that The Agency got canned a few years ago. That show was far superior to this one.

I lasted 30 minutes and then that was enough.

Good thing too, now I can get both Lost and Veronica Mars in HD next week. :up:

Based on what you guys are saying, I'm glad I didn't waste my time with this one.

That is exactly what I was thinking.

That's pretty much what I was thinking. The Agency was a great show, I liked E-Ring, it will fulfill my Agency absence for now.

I thought it was ok

The extraction scene was pretty good, but some of Bratt's dialouge was was awful.

I liked it. The cast is pretty solid. This is one that has great potential.

Ditto for me.

Can't wait to see Episode 2. I quite liked the show. Unfortunately there are sooo many new TV shows lately.

If the ratings tank, maybe they'll introduce an alien storyline. That's ratings gold nowadays.

i thought it was awesome, liked it a lot .. its a little bit like threat matrx (abc last year, cancelled) which i liked a lot too :)

Angie had a nice figure. Will she be off the show with Rutherford coming on board?

wasn't bad
better than threshold that's for sure

E-Ring 9/28/05
 

I am guessing most people aren't watching this show as there was not already a thread.

I had decided to give it one more chance and I ended up watching before bed last night.

So the first 15 miutes I am really noticing what a horrible show this is. Bad, bad dialogue, horrible acting, cliches. I am thinking I am going to cancel the season pass and free up some time.

But for some reason I actually got sucked in to the story and it held my interest for the episode. I am now torn because it is a truly sucky show, but why am I so entertained?

This episode added Kelly Rutherford to the cast, I like her. Kerr Smith was also introduced and I am guessing might be a recurring character. They also had that one geeky guy from LAX show up. I really like this secondary cast, with the exception of the girlfirend who is a boring character who adds nothing to the show.

Dennis Hopper was really fun to watch this episode. I was struck by what a horrible actor he is (almost worse here than his stint in 24). But he is absolutely hilarious here, as almost a parody of a crusty old military coot. I got a huge grin out of him constantly referring to an environmental protest ship as a French "hippie boat". :lol:

I can't believe I plan on watching the next episode. It's so bad it's good.

I saw it for the first time last night and hated it. All of the characters suck and there is nothing interesting or different about this show at all. I have already cancelled my season pass.

I liked the episode last night. I agree with you, Dennis Hopper was great. Next weeks episode looks promising since it will be almost all action based.