Pilot
- Episode aired Oct 3, 2006
- TV-PG
- 43m
New head coach Eric Taylor finds his every move scrutinized as he takes over leadership of Texas's No. 1 high school football team.New head coach Eric Taylor finds his every move scrutinized as he takes over leadership of Texas's No. 1 high school football team.New head coach Eric Taylor finds his every move scrutinized as he takes over leadership of Texas's No. 1 high school football team.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThen University of Texas head football coach Mack Brown has an uncredited cameo as an aggressive booster. He's also mentioned twice in the episode.
- GoofsThe Pilot, in which events revolve around Dillon High School's first football game of the season, has several scenes in which there are leafless trees and winter skies, and many characters and background players are dressed for cold weather. The first game of a Texas high school's football season takes place in late August/early September, so trees would still be carrying all of their leaves for months and temperatures would be extremely hot in every part of the state (Dillon, the home team, is identified as being in West Texas). Interspersed between these scenes are others in which high sun angles, hot temperatures, fewer layers of clothing and fully blossoming trees are seen in the shots, revealing that the Pilot was filmed at various times during distinct, separate seasons.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Eric Taylor: [voiceover] Give all of us gathered here tonight the strength to remember that life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2007)
But, the best part of the first half of the show was the absolutely stunning soundtrack from Explosions in the Sky. The background music perfectly suits the theme of the series, the touching moments, the passion during the game and most of all during Coach Taylor's inspirational pep talks.
The twist at the end of the Pilot sets up the whole series beautifully Some of the characters undergo massive transformations, some happy, some sad. All in all, my favorite episode mostly because I like to think how the series would have evolved if it had not been for that major twist in the episode...
- muraliavarma
- Jul 12, 2009
Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1