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TV: This Life

Ourobouros

Ahhhhhhhh....... I'm glad I'm not the only one. :X :( 8(

Do you think it was META enough???

There was NO storyline at all, it was just one big fucking lazy plot device to justify its own existence.

I didn't care about ANY of the characters any more. The reality TV angle just annoyed the FUCK out of me, what the hell was the point of that? Jesus fucking wept.

:X :X :X

P.S. TG, I think you must have gone back to the computer at exactly the same time as me, hehe.
 
Boo To This Shite!

I hear you with that reality angle crap. It was just so irritating!. And those hastily cut shots just made me dizzy this time around!. They should have done us a big favour and had one big fucking mass funeral and killed them all off! :X .

It only began to get interesting when Milly was flung off of that horse! :\ =D
 
I'm a bit "meh" about it.

On the one hand, I think it's quite clever that the characters have aged, along with the subtle changes in their behaviour. For example, Anna opening the door to let the smoke out... that'd never happen when she was younger! :D In that sense, it's good that it was different to the series.

Thing is... it really was quite boring. I think part of the problem was that the series was successful by telling mundane stories over the space of twenty episodes, interspersed with random and exciting tangential storylines. The one-off special couldn't do that, and was forced to tell a more linear story - even if it was a linear story made up of the seperate lives of each of the characters.

It seemed to try and force too much into 80 minutes. The series always felt like you were privileged to briefly look through a window into people's lives - without them being aware of your presence... this special felt like it was self-conscious - like the characters turned up with a pre-prepared set of issues that they were going to present to you.

Other points... I dunno about anyone else, but although I laughed at the sight of egg huffing on that coke, it seemed a little tokenistic??? And where was the shagging? Davenport and Nardini too famous to get nekkid these days?

On a final note, I felt a bit deflated with the "happy ending"... in particular, the destruction of tapes and thus the saving of Milly and Egg's relationship. It was too tidy and saccharine-sweet. The series wasn't about resolution and finality... it was about real life and how people don't work perfectly, and certainly don't work to 80 minute schedules.
 
tambourine-man said:
Oh yeah... and the reality TV thing was a joke. The woman was just a prop for everyone to hate and find common ground.

Ugh.
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Aye. It was a direct replacement for the therapist in the original series. Clumsy and obvious and pointless.
 
tambourine-man said:
The series always felt like you were privileged to briefly look through a window into people's lives - without them being aware of your presence... this special felt like it was self-conscious - like the characters turned up with a pre-prepared set of issues that they were going to present to you.
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You've hit the nail right on the head with that comment Tambo. It made me cringe just watching them. And in actual fact, in the documentary that was on after, they said that this time around they were more conscious of the cameras. Whereas before they didn't know just how close-up some of those shots were gonna be :\
 
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