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[fish]

.. the recast Daisy was AWFUL. Recasts invariably suck, but be it the writing or the acting of the new actress, this Daisy didn't even bear the slightest resemblance to the character we had come to know in the series.

It really sucks when a new actor/ess comes in to an old role in an existing show and then you find not just a body transplant but a whole of personality transplant as well.

Much better to just let the character walk in front of a train.

[Ian]

We are unanimous in that, I think, fish. One of my absolute pet hates. I stopped watching a certain show when they pulled that stunt. It's really incredibly insulting, I can't believe they still do this sort of thing and think they can get away with it!

[mpox]

And yeah, sad to say, the writing really wasn't up to much, with several character and plot illogicalities that just didn't make sense with what we know from the series.

Very poor, and very disappointing. Methinks they should have let the dead lie in peace.

Yeah, the writing was pretty bad. New Daisy was awful and I hated how they wrote Mason and Roxie. I mean I could see them conspiring to get rid of their boss but kill him, chop him into chunks and burning him in the fireplace? Come on. And the reunion of George and Reggie... so much worse than I could ever have imagined. I'd go on but I've happily repressed most of the viewing now.

Watched the second DVD of the Series 1 ''Sugar Rush'' last nite. Wierd combination of laffing and bawling my eyes out...

I wish American shows could get away with that kind of writing without being on pay channels. , The writing and stories were really good but I could never really got into that show because the lead girl never seemed very sympathetic, I just never really cared what happned with her. It probably didn't help that she was so average looking. /shallow.

There's a sort of American counterpart called South of Nowhere that played on a much more repressed network. The first season is pretty good (helped in large part by the girls who are "awwww" cute) but then as usually happens with shows like that the network fixers move in with focus groups and new characters and contrived drama and shit that has nothing to do with why it got any kind of buzz in the first place and things go bad. Anyway the second season has some good parts, then it goes off the cliff in the third. You can find it in the usual places.

[Ian]

Yeah, the writing was pretty bad. New Daisy was awful and I hated how they wrote Mason and Roxie. I mean I could see them conspiring to get rid of their boss but kill him, chop him into chunks and burning him in the fireplace? Come on. And the reunion of George and Reggie... so much worse than I could ever have imagined. I'd go on but I've happily repressed most of the viewing now.

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I'm in the process of trying to do that now.

[snaps]

Watched the second DVD of the Series 1 ''Sugar Rush'' last nite. Wierd combination of laffing and bawling my eyes out...

The writing and stories were really good but I could never really got into that show because the lead girl never seemed very sympathetic, I just never really cared what happned with her. It probably didn't help that she was so average looking. /shallow.

I guess you are referencing Sugar? i.e Maria. ''Average looking?'' ??? I wish I was that average !!

I agree she may have appeared shallow. I would say, more worldy wise.

I hope you don't mean Kim (who I resemble) your girl-next-door or else I will have to place a large brown paper bag over my head with two eye-slits and never go out in public again

[mpox]

I guess you are referencing Sugar? i.e Maria. ''Average looking?'' ??? I wish I was that average !!

I agree she may have appeared shallow. I would say, more worldy wise.

No, I thought Sugar was quite cute. I meant I was being shallow.

I hope you don't mean Kim (who I resemble) your girl-next-door or else I will have to place a large brown paper bag over my head with two eye-slits and never go out in public again

Don't break out the paper bag please, but yes it was Kim who I meant. Part of it is probably how she was made up to be so girl-next-door, I'm sure if I googled for pictures of her outside the role she wouldn't be so plain. The main problem though was that while the writing was good I just can't watch a show where I don't care about the main character. If she'd had a different personality then I'd have probably stuck it out, there's a similar character in Muriel's Wedding except the she's written with a better personality and that was a fun movie.

[Ian]

Doctor Who - Blink. Pretty good, if a little overrated. Too short, too, which is one of my problems with New Who - I know the forty five minute standalone ep is common tv nowadays, I just find it unsatisfying in Who. I'm boring and old-skool, I like it movie-length, something you can settle into for the evening, not over in forty-five minutes.

I must be getting old.

[fish]

...yes it was Kim who I meant. Part of it is probably how she was made up to be so girl-next-door,....

......there's a similar character in Muriel's Wedding except the she's written with a better personality and that was a fun movie.

Isn't it strange, people's tastes I mean.

While I thought Sugar was absolutely gorgeous, (can't wait for next year's Doctor Who), it was precisely Kim's "girl next door" quality that won me over. Forever the underdog, used and abused, struggling to fight back and win her own happiness. I thought Olivia was just about perfect in the role.

And Muriel's Wedding is a classic. Just brilliant.

[Ian]

Columbo - How To Dial A Murder. Sheer class.


Rosebud!

[snaps]

I'm about to watch ''Ginger Snaps'' again. I'm in that kind of mood plus I have to go dentist first thing tomorrow I can only get through it by closing my eyes and thinking of nice things like FA/SML. I'm always a bit wary of reclining and being told to relax while a guy pokes some tool in my mouth

[fish]

I'm about to watch ''Ginger Snaps'' again. I'm in that kind of mood plus I have to go dentist first thing tomorrow I can only get through it by closing my eyes and thinking of nice things like FA/SML. I'm always a bit wary of reclining and being told to relax while a guy pokes some tool in my mouth

There is absolutely nothing I can say that would improve on what you have already said, so my comment is "No Comment".

[Ian]

X Files: Piper Maru/Apocrypha 2parter. Pretty good.

[fish]

I have to go dentist first thing tomorrow I can only get through it by closing my eyes and thinking of nice things like FA/SML. I'm always a bit wary of reclining and being told to relax while a guy pokes some tool in my mouth

So what happened? Where are all the gory details?
Oh, and how did the dental work go too?

[snaps]

Meh! nothing serious but the ba*tard charged me 48quid for a poke and polish. 48quid!! Takes me a day to earn that. That's like he gets 5quid a minute. Daylight robbery. No wonder he wears a mask

[Ian]

X Files - Pusher & Jose Chung's From Outer Space. Pusher is awesome (the guy who can make anyone do absolutely anything just by telling them to - the bit where he talks the fat cop into having a fatal heart attack over the phone is ) But Jose Chung is even better - possibly the greatest X Files episode. Insanely complicated, frequently hilarious, fiendishly intelligent and gloriously entertaining throughout, filled with fantastic moments. Awesome.