"(By the way, the two-hour pilot is just two random episodes smushed together. I think they were even filmed a year apart. But neither of them is quite up to the standard the show later achieves.)"
"Also, Wyle really seems to be struggling to find Tom Mason's character in those first few hours, and has some scenes where he's not quite selling the emotions that Tom is going through."
So if wyle doesnt seem to have the character down in the debut episode and the debut episode is a pairing of two different episodes filmed a year apart, doesnt that mean that wyle still is struggling to find tom's character a year into filming?