I've posted a mini-update and editorial on the restoration site...Personally think the pilot is brilliant and totally underrated by the network.
Someone's got extreme myopia to miss the obvious quality in this pilot. It plays like a 41min feature and looks amazing visually. I love all the nuance and fresh approaches the new cast brings to it and the mind swells with possible intriguing directions the show can take and character layers it could probe...
If this thing does stay dead for TV, I cross my fingers that a studio like Lions Gate or Studio Canal will snatch it up, shoot another hr and turn it into a feature...
It's another case of an artistic film director delivering something amazing (like Mulholland Drive) and it getting quashed by narrow minded TV execs with little vision...
Remember Mulholland Drive got slammed and dropped by the network, never to air, but then was released as a feature and won best director at Cannes and was nominated for Academy Awards...
If only they'd shot the pilot as a 90min feature length pilot, a feature sale would be a given...