Quote: Ronnie Anderson @ September 20 2009, 6:31 PM BSTno non writer would ever complain about a show for having too much exposition.
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I wasn't saying that there shouldn't be any exposition at all - just that it shouldn't be so clunky and unsubtle.
I think it's fine when the expostion is said in an internal monologue. It's just when it's out loud that it sounds a bit unrealistic.
Terrific start to the series - Dobby's becoming a bit of a star ... go get her extinguisher knob Mark ;-)
Alan!!
Yeah I loved that bit with the extinguisher. So funny.
Yeah, the new credits were wierd. I thought they had redone them to stop them looking really young in the credits and then really old in the show. I liked the young version, it was a little link to series 1. Either they refilmed it, or the HD prominated their wrinkles. I also saw "I am so ready for HD" as an outside reference.
The end of JLB credit... Nooooooo. My favourite scenes were in the office. The office and the flat. And I wonder if Mark's dad will make an appearence in the baby storylines. God, I'm really hoping they don't do the obvious and make the baby not Mark or Jez's. That would just... suck.
I think the whole baby thing might end up being a ruse... Sophie pretending in order to twist them around her finger. Then again I can't even recall - was she showing at all in this latest episode?
And yes, the end of JLB sucks but there is endless comedic potential in unemployed mark/mark applying for jobs.
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Were we meant to assume the fire alarm was a ruse to get everyone out the building and sack them? If so, why didn't any of the sacked employees realise this? (or am I missing something?
It wasn't perfect by any means. I never really bought that JLB's parent company would care about a bunch of losers in a pub. Let alone feel the need to bribe its leader to shut down the group. And towards the end the coincidences were piling up. I.e., they just happened to bump into Super Hans at JLB. And Mark et all just happened to be discovered by Johnson and his German uber-master, who just happened to notice the bribe in his top pocket, which Mark just happened to have left there...
These are small quibbles, however. It was undoubtedly great to have back, not leasst after a fortnight of bland offerings from the BBC's banality factory. And there was more wit in five minutes of this than Home Time, Lunch Monkeys, How Not To Life Your Life and Off The Hook combined.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
Quote: chipolata @ September 21 2009, 10:13 AM BSTthey just happened to bump into Super Hans at JLB.
I didn't understand why the writers put Super Hans in there. No comedy resulted (did it?), nor did it further the plot.
Quote: Nogget @ September 21 2009, 11:11 AM BSTI didn't understand why the writers put Super Hans in there.
Made me laugh.
Quote: Nogget @ September 21 2009, 11:11 AM BSTI didn't understand why the writers put Super Hans in there. No comedy resulted (did it?), nor did it further the plot.
No, it wasn't a particularly funny encounter. Or relevant to the plot. It felt more like the sort of scene that's usually cut and included as a DVD extra.
Quote: Nogget @ September 21 2009, 10:13 AM BSTWere we meant to assume the fire alarm was a ruse to get everyone out the building and sack them? If so, why didn't any of the sacked employees realise this?
Yeah, that was why the alarm went off; I don't think any character needed to underline the point for anyone to get it.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ September 21 2009, 11:15 AM BSTYeah, that was why the alarm went off; I don't think any character needed to underline the point for anyone to get it.
It seemed strange to me that no-one else in the story seemed to realise, and made me wonder why, which I found distracting.
I liked this episode though, despite the lack of belly laughs.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ September 21 2009, 11:14 AM BSTMade me laugh.
Why was that?
I did think JLB closing was an audacious move, and the comic potential for unemployed Mark is great. I just hope this doesn't mean we've seen the last of the mighty Johnson.
Quote: Nogget @ September 21 2009, 11:30 AM BSTWhy was that?
Can't remember, but I did. He's just a funny presence. Actually, the idea of this disaster area of a man for once trying to stop destruction is in itself quite funny. Super Hans of all people was the responsible one.