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I must admit it, that last episode was lame!

posted 16 years ago by acetremendous
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Darn it, darn it, darn it. Here I was championing this series, eagerly looking forward to what I hoped would be a lively, fun finale to an imaginitive series...and it just didn't work for me.

QUESTION: Does anyone know if they cut this together 100% before the first episode aired? If not, that could be the reason this one is so different and inferior. It might have been re-edited in response to poor ratings & reviews. Just a thought.

Many of the sketches were real yawns, like the space station (it hadn't been that great the first time round, but at least the first time it was really short). Tom-from-the-alternate-universe was a promising idea, but the performances weren't so hot and it got a little tedious.

One of my favorite storylines, the dinosaur boyfriend, didn't work AT ALL because it lacked the crucial element that made the other ones so funny to me: the way people refuse to believe their eyes, relying instead on social conventions. (I know he just ate our dog, but we have to be polite.) The montage of bits from those sketches didn't help, as it just reminded me that they made me laugh & this one didn't.

More Brian Blessed is *ALWAYS* welcome (I could watch that guy read a phone book), but he didn't get to really do anything this time. James Bondo was a great idea (I know, slag me off for that, but I think it's promising and in the right hands could have been a surreal romp) but it dragged. Did anyone else notice Burt Kwouk (Kato from the "Pink Panther" movies) as the head ninja? He's super, and he was really trying. The material just didn't support him.

The ending to the superhero tryouts was a real fizzler too. I like The Flame ("no, I only start fires"), but the whole thing felt thrown-together.

And the big killer robot. Well. The first time round, it was a startling image that only resurfaces very briefly, and it works great that way. It gives you an image or two, coupled with the concept that it isn't a "killer" robot but simply an uncaring clumsy one, and to me that gives it a touch of both humor and horror that your imagination can then work with. This time, it was sooooo belabored. All they really needed to do was the very last shot, tied to the first shot of ep 1: the jogger in the park getting squished. Unexpected once again, and a great closure of the "Door".

So this is the critique of someone who, flying in the face of all popular opinion, really likes eps 1-5. Those of you who already hated the show shouldn't be commenting too much because why would you have even watched last night? "Wow I hate that show. What time is it on? I have to watch the entire thing and take notes so I can complain some more about it...." :) Those of us who think it's flawed but good really should have been the only ones tuned in to ep 6. What a shame that, once these guys whittled the viewers down to the only people who like their style, they then had to let US down too.

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[–] TrekkerUK 16 years ago

Second'd. Really, that show seemed all a bit 'meh', like they ran out of all the interesting ideas and just chucked together what they had left.

Blessed is fantastically over-the-top, but he had nothing much to do here except die. I didn't like the Bond thing at all though, too forced and just plain rubbish :).