I actually liked it very much. In fact, I think it will be the show of the season, including the US imports, which is saying something. Okay, it isn't an altogether original concept but it is in the way they've packaged it. Nice to see a different type of show on BBC1 which isn't a usual cop/medical/soap type drivel.

The fact that I wasn't really going to watch it and hadn't read the hype leading up to the show probably helped. That's usually how I got into all the shows I liked - they all took me by surprise. Buffy, Smallville, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls.

I can actually see this show becoming something of a cult classic years down the line. Okay, it's The Sweeney meets Quantum Leap meets Total Recall. But what show out there is totally original these days? How many more legal/medical dramas can we take these days? Alright, so it *is* a cop show, but it's much more than that.

Still, if it was a US show, it's probaly get canned after a season at most.

Innovative programming, God, we can't have that now, can we?

I thought it was quite good too. Very authentically done (not that I remember what things were like in 1973, lol).

I liked it. Very Thomas Covenant, though, apart from him not being a leper...

Interestingly (or so I thought), the lead was played by the guy who played that young (latent?) homosexual in 'Cracker', and Philip Glenister sounded familiar too, but it was his brother Robert in 'Sink Or Swim', with Peter Davison.

Solid pilot for the most part. Barring some muddled plotting with the shrink boyfriend, they pulled a high-concept plot off very smoothly, although I found myself paying most attention to the production values. Which either makes them particularly strong or the story a little weak, not decided yet. Anyway, it was very atmospheric, the juxtaposition between form-filling '00s and cowboy '70s was simplistic and a little overdone but very effective, and it treated the audience to some great visuals, especially the contrast of clincial 2006 CID office with dank, fuggy 1973 equivilent. And every time a kipper tie put my widescreen set to its limits. Soundtrack was superb.

Did find it ironic how a series selling itself on shock-value confirmed to 2006 mores in the process: tons of OTT sexism but not a hint of racism. I can see why the producers might have decided an audience would find one more acceptable than the other, but I don't like it. In getting their point over, they came dangerously close to populating 1973 with mysoginistic parodies. We'll see how it goes over the next few weeks.

Was far more impressed with the refusal to glamourise police brutality. The suspect's battery of advocates in 2006 actually cleared an innocent man, and even the most grizzled hanger'n'floger isn't going to have much sympathy with a cop beating up a young woman. Sam earning his initiation by destroying evidence at the end was very interesting, It'll be interesting to see how long the by-the-book ethic drummed into modern coppers lasts in the absence of enforcement. My guess is not very long.

Had to laugh at the trailer for tonight's ep with Sam giving the guy they'd just arrested the modern caution and stopping half way through and desperately trying to remember the old one.