Not everyones cup of tea I must say. Not really a laugh out loud sort of show but an amusing one non the less. Considering the probably tiny budget, is it not possible that they wanted the CGI to look like that as opposed to the wonderful settings that you are all barking on about?
Of course they might have wanted it to look like that.
We're just saying we don't like it, as far as I can tell.
Quote: Honker @ March 3 2010, 12:27 AM GMTbarking on about?
That's a bit rude.
The Goons, Vic and Bob etc etc all managed to create loveable fantasy worlds on tiny budgets.
As did Krackerjack.
Lexx had quite cheesy CGI backgrounds yet it worked for them. Although it also had incredibly hot ladies in skimpy clothes. That helped.
Watching this on iPlayer.
29 seconds in and I hate it already... sticking with it- maybe a whole minute.
1 min - two seconds: I made it, but feel unusual.
This has got 'commissioned by a mate we met at Oxford' written all over it.
3 mins - 12 seconds: I'm a man, but I want to cry.
This is like The League of Gentlemen, 're-imagined' by a git.
"A crow in a turban on a lake". That would have been funny if said by Vince Noir.
5 mins - 51 seconds: the weather : it's clear many drugs are taken by the people who commission programmes at BBC3.
This just isn't funny... did Chris Moyles and Chris Evans write this?
6 mins - 50 seconds: crisps in boxes. Yeah...
Shelves went unstacked at Asda when these two were writing this...
9 mins - 41 seconds: animal sex - at last!
The Song: "and mentals". I do believe I grinned at that.
10 mins - 40 seconds : This bit reminds me of Fanella's kettle in Chorlton and the Wheelies.
15 mins: cat abuse, really not liking this now. Harm children instead!
The old 'cat shit mistaken for a biscuit' thing. We've all done it...
Sod this, it's not going to get any better, is it?
How the hell did BBC3 survive this week!?
Quote: Damn His Duckpond @ March 3 2010, 1:36 PM GMTHow the hell did BBC3 survive this week!?
Being Human is awesomeness.
The real stumbling block was the performances. Script-wise there was a lot of invention, but the actors were just voids. Maybe Mighty Boosh calibre performers could have made it work.
I'm not sure even Rowan Atkinson and John Cleese could have made that load of tosh work.
I thought Christopher Fairbank and the bloke with the big black thing in his hair were pretty funny.
I've just watched a Sally Phillips pilot from 2002 called Ccancun (evidently, it was not commissioned). Very similar to This Is Jinsy in some ways. A bit surrealist, a very strange little world with its own TV channel(s), and all that kind of level of peculiarity and detachment from the norm. But miles better than TIJ - this would be considered a weak, infertile pretender to the throne if Ccancun had been broadcast.
Quote: Aaron @ March 4 2010, 1:54 AM GMTI've just watched a Sally Phillips pilot from 2002 called Ccancun
It was flipping brilliant!
I believe I am very glad that I am unable to see this. An advantage to being here in the US.
Quote: chipolata @ March 3 2010, 10:52 AM GMTLexx had quite cheesy CGI backgrounds yet it worked for them. Although it also had incredibly hot ladies in skimpy clothes. That helped.
Lexx was also brilliant, though.
Sky 1 have commissioned 8 episodes for next summer.
What a cracking start their comedy department is off to...
Well, all I can say is... why?
