Saturday, December 19, 2009

Back to the Beginning

Well for this week I went back to 30 Rock's first season and watched the pilot episode. I wanted to see how the show got its beginning and what was different from these more recent episodes I have watched. I have to say I laughed a lot more in the pilot than I did in the newer episodes. I think this was because I got to start from a fresh basis and not have to keep wondering "who this character is" and if there was some running joke going on. I was happy to see that everyone's character seems almost unchanged and just as funny. Tina Fey's character seems to be just as crazy as she has been in the newer episodes while Alec seems to still be the suave and know it all type character. Seeing this first episode also helped me understand why Tracy is there. I didn't want to just look up why he was there in case I actually went back and watched the series so seeing this episode made it just click into place. I enjoyed the two cut aways with Tracy, I have to say the one when he is on the highway in his underwear with a lightsaber yelling "I is a Jedi!" made me laugh a lot. Seeing this episode gives me high hopes at what I can see in the future when new episodes start up again. If I have more time maybe I will play a little catch up and watch some more earlier episodes.
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  1. Chris LykinsDecember 20, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    The pilot of 30 Rock is great, I feel like Tracy's character has more freedom in this season than he did towards the beginning. It's almost like they are allowing him to star in the show just as much as Baldwin and Fey.

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  2. Chris HullDecember 20, 2009 at 11:13 AM

    I have also been going back to the beginning of the show...I felt like maybe I was missing a lot of crucial plot thickener with coming in somewhere in the middle of season 4. Turns out I didnt miss anything to important, other than the fact that the first season is pretty hilarious. I am now finishing season 2, and I really like seeing how the characters continue to grow and interact. It seems like while we are constantly learning things about the cast, they are finding out strange things about each other. These are the kind of interaction and jokes that I think makes the show so fun and amusing.

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  3. Jenny NelsonDecember 21, 2009 at 7:07 AM

    Ah, the joys of asynchronous viewing! I remember when 30Rock first broadcast, it was up against another "show about NBC" (Black Rock?) whose format was a serial, very much like West Wing. Viewers started falling into Team 30Rock and Team BlackRock camps, watching both show's episodes every week and comparing them. To this day, one of my friends refuses--REFUSES--to watch 30Rock because he's still mad that the other show got cancelled. Ha.

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