crap new series.
that first episode was absolutely crap. i shouldnt have even givin it a chance with that idiot replaceing adal o hanlen.
anyway thats another show i'll never watch again :(
such a pity i loved my hero :(
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Ditto, like I said in the other thread:
"...have to say it has lost all of it's charm. The cheesy SFX, the annoyingly simple and childish jokes, James Dreyfus..."
james dufus as ruined it so much :(
y couldnt they have just ended it for good :(
also i will admit i was soo happy when it started with ardal but then he BLEEPING still went against my rised hopes
O my God its so rubish
shareI agree it was terrible. they never should have tried to do the show without Ardal O'Hanlon
sharePersonally I liked it. After the first 5 minutes of getting used to a different actor I quite enjoyed tonights episode.
shareAgreed. Ardal was perfect. They should have just ended it, if he wanted to leave. Dreyfuss was absolutely useless. He was camp, overactive, and just plain crap.
Couldn't agree more. I loved My Hero and Ardal O Hanlon was perfect, even so maybe it could have survived a new actor in the lead role if they hadn't picked James Dreyfus. Dreyfus is a good actor but in no way suited to play this role. He was camp, he over acted and he looked more like Mr Muscle than Thermoman.
Here's another series that has been ruined. I'll stick to the repeats on UK Gold.
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It really annoys me when people say things like this. If they had just got in another actor who was an Ardal O'Hanlon clone you would have just been moaning that he wasn't as good and that they had ruined the series. They have taken the series in a new direction, and it is going to take more than one episode to see if it works or not. It was always going to be a difficult episode for everyone involved.
J.D. is doing the role his way, give him a chance to show what he can do. I've seen most of his work on other shows and films and he is versitile, and I've never seen a bad performance from him.
I loved Ardal as much as anyone else but I also have faith that the producers wouldn't have taken the decision lightly to hire J.D. No one complains that new Doctor Whos aren't the same as the last one.
Before Dr. Who i was obsessed with this series. I had every episode on tape and knew everything about it, etc.
But when i heard that they where replacing Ardal, i didn't mind, because i thought he was getting bored of it by the end of the fifth series anyway.
However, i think it isn't great. It may get better tonight, i hope so, but if not, then i think that they should have made a 1 hour christmas final or something to send the show off on a high.
In early January of 2005, the show WAS going to be cancelled. Then a few days later Actor Lou hirsch said it might not be. Then in August last year it was confirmed that it was returning with James. But i think they should have done more of a send off for Ardal. His last full episode 'nightfever' was terrible, and the last episode should have been 'Big brother' a fantastic episode.
But we didn't get to see him go off in style, he just fainted after being drugged. A bit of a dissapointment. :(
After last week I'm not watching this show again. James Drefus is wrong for the role and he's ruined the show.
Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see - Muhammad Ali
No one complains about the Dr. Who changes because it is understood that he is regenerated and will have a different personallity with the same memories. However, George just lost his body so it is expected that the only thing that would change would be his looks and not his whole being. I agree that Dreyfus was excellent in his other rolls but not for this one. You do not expect a total personality change from masculine Thermoman to Feminine Thermoman. It is not slightly belivable.
shareWell, there's supposed to be a new guy on Doctor Who every now and then, isn't there? ;)
shareDoctor Who is different though, for one thing its been happening for the last 40 years? so people are used to it, even so I think there are lots of debates in the fandom over who is better, if some of my friends are anything to go by.
This show was never brilliant, but I though Ardal brought a silly charm to it, which Dreyfuss doesn't have, even though he is good in other things.
Of course there is going to be some upset when a new actor replaces someone that people were used to... but they did a horrible job casting James Dreyfus in that role. He played the same character in The Thin Blue Line... I liked his character there but it just doesn't work for this show in this role... also there is no chemistry at all between he and Emily Joyce (Janet Dawkins)... which I'm sure it's because he is gay, but he doesn't even pretend to try.... so the attraction they had in the previous seasons is not only completely gone but you can't even imagine that they would ever get it back....
I am partial to Ardal O'Hanlon but I will continue to watch it... with the hope that they'll fix it and try again with someone else in the role...
I agree mate. I think they should have just given us a new character (possibly Weatherman?) or even given Arnie a bigger role instead of just "swapping bodies"
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There must be a better actor who could have done the job. I dont have anything against Dreyfuss but he just cant play george the same way. Ardal O'Hanlan played george mellow and rather apathetic to everything.
Dreyfuss is over excitable and it just doesnt seem like the same character at all. I think someone who really could have done well in this part is Richard Ayoade who recently played Moss in the IT crowd.
HORRIBLE GUY, JUST CANT DO ANY JUSTIS TO PREVIOUS CHARACTER.BRING HIM BACK INSTEAD NOT THIS USELESS PERSON KILLING IT AND ACTING WAT OUT OF ORDER.
sharethe best person there is mrs raven. i really dislike this representation of george sunday. bring back ardol o hanlon now! if not, axe the show
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What idiot thought of replacing Ardal with a gay man, I mean at least get someone who is straight for crying out loud.
The show has gone from a lol, George is retarded 3rd Rock From the sun character kind of show, to a STFU, George is an overacting gay guy who isn't funny and couldn't work his way out of a paper bag.
its gone from bad to worse. at least ardol o hanlon had the comedy element of a bewildered alien. james dreyfuss couldn't play this role straight, he is easily typecast
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Why oh why did they make a new series of My Hero with James Dreyfus in it, he does not look comfortable in the role. I still see him as the gay guy in GIMME, GIMME, GIMME. Who's bright ides was it to reprise this series with James as George. He is much too effiminate in the role of George. Ardol was slighthly more fmanly in the role. After all George was a super hero, Thermoman. It is obvious that James is gay. I cannot bear to watch him trying to be George. I much preferred Ardol as George. I was sad that Ardol had finished with the series. They should have just finished My Hero with an extended episode, so that the series could have ended on a high with Ardol finishing the role that he made his own in the first place. I must admit I am deeply saddened by this latest series. It is terrible, no one looks comfortable in it. Is it me, but Janet looks more like Mrs Raven in the later series????? Please do not make another series. Let my Hero die a peaceful death, Please.
shareRelax everybody I've just heard that series 7 has been commissioned and they are replacing Thermoman with a new actor, it is to be Julian Clary. I hear he finally realises that Janet will never love him again and gives in to his cravings and starts a new life with Tyler.
Please BBC pull the plug now! Enough damage has been done to the memory of this show.
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'Relax everybody I've just heard that series 7 has been commissioned and they are replacing Thermoman with a new actor, it is to be Julian Clary. I hear he finally realises that Janet will never love him again and gives in to his cravings and starts a new life with Tyler'
wehay!!!!!!!!!! sense in the world at last!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's going to be suยขky without Ardal and I don't care much for what I've seen of James. I guess I'll watch the series if I'm not doing anything else but won't go out of my way for it.
sharesame. the best person there is mrs raven
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I can't believe everyone is so negative about James taking over the role. OK. So he still has that Tom Farrell (out of Gimme Gimme Gimme) personna going about him, but like someone else said here he is giving his own version of George (or George Monday).
If he just characterised what Ardal O'Hanlon has done in previous series then that would be just pointless - as it'd just be copying what he'd done and nothing original would be made from James's portrayal. It is good to see him in a 'straight' acting role as his effeminicity (if there's such a word) is always making him typecast into slightly camper or gay roles. Which he does brilliantly.
I like James's acting, and have nothing against him at all as he is only trying his best.
Perhaps he could of just been brought in as a relative of Thermomans who develops an interest in Janet and the children, ie wanting to be part of the family and caring for George Sunday's grieving relatives. (that's if it was decided George would die, etc.)
But unlike some people whose opinions aren't going to change I will see how the rest of this series pans out before giving up completely. Usually with series like this the bit in the middle improves and towards the end. So who knows. I bet the BBC will end up cancelling it anyway. So that'd make the whole point in introducing a new Thermoman totally and utterly pointless.
Rant over. For now anyway . . . lol :)
i don't have a problem with his acting, i have a problem with his acting so out of the loop with the programme. i don't think he fits the role thats all
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If the situation was reversed and Ardal was replacing James, everyone would be complaining that Ardal was too laid back, that he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. That's the problem. Everyone was simply used to Ardal in the role. James is doing it as it probably should have been done from the start. George should be weird and wacky. I'm not knocking Ardal, I just don't think people are being fair to James. The character of George should have been written out altogether, but he wasn't and that's just way things are.......... for now.
Lighten up everyone. It's just a TV show. For you nay sayers, just be glad that the Brit's think of a TV season is from 6 to 10 episodes long, not the 22 to 30 episodes that are commonly made for US TV audiences. And we think that isn't enough! I don't know how you tolerate so few episodes of you favorite shows year after year. Can you imagine a season of LOST being only 6 episodes long each year? People would riot! Again, it's just TV, and this is just my 2ยข.
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I thought the series had ended, then noticed there was a new one on the BBC, only to see George had been replaced with another actor. It was always going to be hard for anyone to take over, but they couldn't have chosen a worse choice if they had tried, as James Dreyfuss is probably the most unfunny person on television, & that's saying something.
I will not be watching again, or looking at any episodes with dreyfuss in. At least the are still around 40 classic episodes to enjoy.
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yeah. The new Thermoman sucks, and he is kinda gay.
shareAgree. He sucks and he does looks kinda gay. Ardal did the role of George/ Thermoman perfectly!
sharethat his last name isn't even Sunday anymore. It's insane, yet Janet's parents don't question why his last name is now Monday or why Janet is living with this man who looks nothing like he should. The first episode I saw with him was tonight on my PBS station. At first, I thought it was going to be a case of him having to change bodies or having an accident that changed his appearance, but it got worse from there only. The episode I saw was called, I think, "Not for Prophet" where George starts to think he's the "chosen one" of the Ultronian religion. Anyway, I wouldn't care if it was a gay man in the role, but not HIM. The actor should at least be believeable as a straight guy in this case and this actor is soooooo fem that it's ridiculous. He doesn't have the right anything to be playing this part. One other poster here said if he just acted like Ardal's characterization it would be a copy. Well, I say, PRAISE AND GLORY to copying as far as this role goes. George went from being a loveable well-meaning idiot with high morals to a flouncing and very annoying buffoon. The only thing they kept going was the fact that both George's don't know when to shut up and that's not enough by any stretch of the imagination. He needs to go to a "butch it up" school to be believeable and maybe have some voice lowering lessons if not surgeries.
shareFor all of you who preferred Ardal O'Hanlon, you do realise you're preferring someone who had NO acting lessons in his life.
James is different to Ardal, Ardal was TOO laid back and i felt James was OVERLY acting at times, but not enough to moan about. I still watch the last series like its a part of the first 5.
Why they never did a special i'll never know...
This was always utter Crap So fail to see any difference.
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