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Psychoville - Series 1 Page 41
Quote: zooo @ August 1 2009, 3:34 PM BSTYou just need to stop second guessing everything!
(Well not just you, personally, most people.)
Isn't it more fun to be taken on the journey by the programme? Instead of ruining any chance of surprises and twists by guessing all the possible outcomes before they happen?
And then *ahem, sooty* ruining it for everyone else by pontificating on the threads...
Well, I can only speak for myself, but I don't try to analyse it too much as I'm watching, I just try to enjoy it. But the idea that Jolly wasn't really dead didn't take much of a leap, I mean, you didn't see it, or the dead bodies face, so I would have thought that it would occur to most that perhaps he'd pop up again. Did you not wonder why you didn't see his face? Any show in which he was really dead, would have had a shock moment as Jelly clocked eyes on the dead, horror struck face.
Nope, my brain just doesn't do that.
(that pesky 'thinking' stuff.)
I did love that whole bit where every ones being awkward at the denoument.
Quote: zooo @ August 1 2009, 3:39 PM BSTNope, my brain just doesn't do that.
(that pesky 'thinking' stuff.)
I dunno, this isn't meant to come across as a put down (honest guv!), but it didn't take much thinking on my part to wonder 'why didn't we see his face?'
All this talk of commissioning... Of course it was going to help their cause that they had a strong track record as writers and performers, why shouldn't it? But it is also a good example that you should always write what excites you as a writer, not in the hope of getting commissioned. I made the mistake with the first pilot I ever wrote to write something I thought would be saleable, and it was mediocre at best. I've had far more success by writing something I enjoy and find funny - and then being pleasantly surprised when others "get it".
Comedy commissioning goes through so many phases of "what's in" and "what's out", plus changes of personnel etc. that in the end any commission relies on a big slice of luck, timing and who's in the hot-seat at the network.
It restores my faith somewhat in the BBC that this show has been made at all.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 1 2009, 3:43 PM BSTI dunno, this isn't meant to come across as a put down (honest guv!), but it didn't take much thinking on my part to wonder 'why didn't we see his face?'
It's cos you have an analyse-y brain, you think it's normal.
What zooo said. And what Matthew said about having watched too many horrors/mysteries. And being a writer so naturally trying to work out plot lines and setups and whatnot.
I don't recall what I thought when I saw the 'body', but for all we knew at that point, he could have been suffocated with a bag over the head.
Quote: Aaron @ August 1 2009, 3:51 PM BSTbut for all we knew at that point, he could have been suffocated with a bag over the head.
Well sure, it could be something to do with being a writer, or whatever, it's just in most horror films they would then have pulled the bag off to show the twisted, dead face, so I just wondered why they didn't. Or maybe I'm just a sick puppy so was looking forward to the dead face where as most people were quite happy not to see it! 
Ha.
I always want to see the bit where a person hits the ground after falling/jumping off a building, but they NEVER show it.
Hmph. 
Quote: zooo @ August 1 2009, 4:01 PM BSTHa.
I always want to see the bit where a person hits the ground after falling/jumping off a building, but they NEVER show it.
Hmph.
It is very messy. It is shown to some extent in The Departed, where Martin Sheen is thrown off a warehouse. If that's your thing, zooo...