Spudiator
Artist Hume
High Priest of the Religion of Football
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Post by Spudiator on Dec 29, 2010 22:29:57 GMT
Any thoughts on this? I've gotta be honest, I'm not impressed. There are huge inconsistencies in many established details from the many years of Only Fools and Horses and all the character development seem to have been completely forgotten. I find it hard to understand how a prequel could have so completely misjudged the feel and spirit of almost every character when it was written by the same person who wrote the original, though given the atrocity of the final trilogy of OFAH, perhaps it shouldn't be such a surprise that John Sullivan seems to have so spectacularly lost the plot! There's still one more instalment to come in Easter 2011, so there may yet be a chance of redemption, but I don't hold out much hope.
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Post by Alex on Dec 29, 2010 22:32:03 GMT
I liked the 69 joke.
Erm. Yeah. That's about it.
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Spudiator
Artist Hume
High Priest of the Religion of Football
STC-O's resident footy obsessive
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Post by Spudiator on Dec 29, 2010 22:43:38 GMT
It's described as a comedy drama, so I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as funny as OFAH was at its best, but it could've at least been consistent. I like James Buckley, I think he's a good actor and seems well-suited to the Del Boy role, but he wasn't written well, like the way he was portrayed as pretending to get engaged to girls just to get lucky with them, that doesn't seem like the Del Boy that was portrayed in the 80's. I know OFAH established that Del had been engaged many times before, but it was never suggested that this was just a ploy, if anything the exact opposite. I don't actually think there's a single character in Rock and Chips whose portrayal is faithful to their OFAH origins.
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Post by Robert Frazer on Dec 30, 2010 0:01:51 GMT
Well, the show is a prequel, and characters (and people) change over time. You wouldn't expect a younger version of a character to necessarily be the exact tick-box same plus more hair, and the way I watched the show I thought that we were seeing them in their 'raw' state before fuller experience of life fired the clay.
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Spudiator
Artist Hume
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Post by Spudiator on Dec 30, 2010 9:52:15 GMT
Well, the show is a prequel, and characters (and people) change over time. You wouldn't expect a younger version of a character to necessarily be the exact tick-box same plus more hair, and the way I watched the show I thought that we were seeing them in their 'raw' state before fuller experience of life fired the clay. You'd think their Rock & Chips personalities would at least bear some resemblance to their OFAH counterparts, though. Take Freddie the Frog, for example. In The Frog's Legacy, Uncle Albert described him as a "gentleman thief", "very popular with the ladies" and "a very likeable fellah", but so far in R&C he's come across as a bit of an arrogant prick.
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