I'm really enjoying your DS reviews, and I haven't been involved in this fandom since the show was actually on the air.
I have for many years maintained that there are two Almost Perfect Pilots out there, and one of them is Due South's. I wasn't surprised that Paul Haggis emerged from Due South to go on to critically-lauded but difficult-to-understand shows like E-Z Streets, and back-to-back Academy Awards (in fact, he kinda set a record there.) I've always felt all his stuff was genius because it has had a stylistic thread running through it: whimsy and tragedy set up against one another on a knife-edge.
(In case you were wondering, the other Perfect Pilot is Invisible Man, starring Vincent Ventresca and Paul Ben-Victor, and the two pilots are actually very similar: they are pilots for a "buddy"-style action show where two opposite characaters who complement one another even as they are adversarial with one another combine to fight crime, and of course there's that humorous whimsy balanced against darkest tragedy to make it interesting.)
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Date: 2007-10-31 11:39 pm (UTC)I have for many years maintained that there are two Almost Perfect Pilots out there, and one of them is Due South's. I wasn't surprised that Paul Haggis emerged from Due South to go on to critically-lauded but difficult-to-understand shows like E-Z Streets, and back-to-back Academy Awards (in fact, he kinda set a record there.) I've always felt all his stuff was genius because it has had a stylistic thread running through it: whimsy and tragedy set up against one another on a knife-edge.
(In case you were wondering, the other Perfect Pilot is Invisible Man, starring Vincent Ventresca and Paul Ben-Victor, and the two pilots are actually very similar: they are pilots for a "buddy"-style action show where two opposite characaters who complement one another even as they are adversarial with one another combine to fight crime, and of course there's that humorous whimsy balanced against darkest tragedy to make it interesting.)