My Top 3 Most Promising Pilots

Alcatraz

JJ Abrams and Jorge Garcia are moving to a different island. This island however does not contain a smoke monster or a 4 toed statue. It does however have disappearing and reappearing killers. The trailer looks wicked cool and I'm definitely tuning in to it. It's really reminding me of Fringe quite a bit. However in this case we have Sarah Jones instead of Olivia, Sam Neil instead of Broyles, and Jorge Garcia instead of Walter. Don't get me wrong I'm sure the show is going to be very original, as anything that JJ Abrams does is. I'm simply stating that I think it will have similar aspects. Anyway on to the next show! Alcatraz is slated for a midseason release on Fox.

Person of Interest

After talking about Alcatraz a bit I figured I should continue the chain with JJ's other new show. This show doesn't have the mystery factor that Alcatraz does, however I think the show will still be good. I can tell you I will be watching. When I saw the trailer for this one and saw "numbers" I freaked thinking Lost. I could be completely wrong on this guess, so please don't send me hate mail, but I'm predicting that the pilot of this may be a bit slow. In the trailer we see Benja- I mean Finche offer a desperate man a job. In my experience tv shows like that go through what my English teacher would describe as stage 3 of the Hero's Journey. What it basically means is that he will refuse the call(job offer) and go back to his normal boring life. It could pickup here though as Finche forces him into it. Just a guess though, I'm still gonna watch it. Person of Interest will play on Thursdays next fall on CBS.

Terra Nova

My top 3 pick for promising show is one that I don't know a whole lot about. I know about the time travel and dinosaurs, but not about the characters a lot. In the trailers released for Terra Nova, the only bit of character information we see is when it looks like someone is left behind in the future. I could be wrong about that and maybe I just haven't seen it. But I still think this is gonna be good. I won't say a whole lot about this one because I haven't researched it enough but from the trailer's the action looks great.Terra Nova will run on Mondays at 8 on Fox next fall.

From the looks of the polls most of you guys seem to agree with my top 3 pilots. I want to know why though. So whether you agree with me or not I'd greatly appreciate it if you left a reply explaining what you think the most promising looking pilots are and why. I really like reading your comments and am curious what you all have to say.