It's funny because I just now watched the original pilot on YouTube, and they had a different actor playing Mitchell (and Annie, too). And he just didn't work for me at all. One of the things I love about Mitchell is how he is so believably ordinary but can switch so easily to look dangerous and predatory without really even moving. The original Mitchell never seemed able to pull off the ordinary part. And he really did look like he'd gotten thrown out of the Bauhaus for being TOO goth. I didn't like the original Annie, either. The whole tone of it was a lot more....goth. It was interesting to watch, though.