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Ihave to say I find the use of band or song names in literature a bit of an off putting choice - it feels like the writer is either trying to get you on board because you like the same music / get the reference, or just an exercise in muso - like naming your child after an obscure musician so other parents who "get it" will nod approvingly
Caught this on iPlayer last night. Even by the low standards of the Chibnall era, this was fucking terrible. I can't even start to count the ways the plot made no sense, but that's par for the course with the show these days.
The directing, however, was objectively awful — the action sequences were disjointed and hard to follow, and there was no sense of a coherent 3D space in any of the scenes, with characters just popping up in places where they clearly hadn't been moments earlier.
Most of the acting was pretty poor and the jokes, such as they were, completely failed to land.
On top of all that, it managed to look like the production had quite a lot of money spent on it, whilst simultaneously looking cheap and plasticky.
What nonsense. Comicsgate is not a hate movement. It’s a group of fans who are pissed off at seeing franchises they love turned into utter shite by idealogues with zero love of the characters or properties and who just use them as platforms for sjw bleatings... ...Leo Baxendale and Ken Reid must be spinning in their graves.
“… the struggle between comedy and anti-comedy. The antithesis of comedy, anti-comedy is the domain of the one-eyed brothers capitalism and patriarchy, who walk hand in hand.”
I was today years old when I discovered Rhiannon Giddens. If you have four minutes to spare, you should spend them being astonished and devastated by her song Julie.
You're welcome.
(did Plug ever have a surname? if not make it Pluggerson)
On the Beano, I met one of the top Beano bods at a book fair and he said there was a lot of discussion about updating the Bash St Kids, and their biggest sticking point was that they desperately wanted to get in some ethnic diversity, but couldn't work out how to do it without being offensive, e.g. if Fatyy is now Sikh, does that mean all Sikhs are fat? Or all Hindus are spotty? If Sid n Toots become Muslim, what style of dress would they wear - since it has to be the same every episode? Can you make a character Jewish without falling into some hideous facial stereotyping?
I still don’t think the Bash St Kids is salvageable. It’s just too much of a relic. My daughter is constantly frustrated with the strip, because there aren’t enough girls, and that’s clearly never going to be addressed.