Hyperdrive

SamuelAWilkinson · 19 January, 2006, 04:34:47 AM

Alas, Huff, the guy was pretty much right. Well, half right. All the stuff on the planet was good enough to warrant watching ("You marvelled. You did. I saw you.") but the other half of the episode seemed to consist of there being a dearth of script and an excess of special effects budget.

Rob Spalding · 19 January, 2006, 02:06:03 PM

Second episode was definitely funnier than the first.
At this rate of progression, episode 6 should be an absolute corker.

hag · 19 January, 2006, 02:37:10 PM

I did laugh, though it was still clunky and I was drunk.

Oddboy · 19 January, 2006, 02:55:33 PM

I completely failed to video it. I think it's repeated on Sunday night.

Dunk! · 19 January, 2006, 03:17:13 PM

Gave this a watch as a bloke i knew on Art Foundation - and a few unemployed years there after - is in it. Steve Evans, who plays... I didn't catch his name.

Awful predictable pish.

Though respects to Steve for acheiving his goal of doing comedy for the Beeb.

I bathe in his fame.

House of Usher · 19 January, 2006, 07:12:27 PM

Eeewww, and you left a tide mark all around it, too !

[YT-2] · 23 January, 2006, 05:52:49 AM

Nick Frost really needs a better agent so instead of just saying ?Hey Nick, seen a great script and if you say yes you?ll be the star of the next big BBC sci-fi series & by the way do you know Simon Pegg and can you get me his autograph?

They?d be honest enough to say ?Hey Nick, seen a really shit script and if you say yes you?ll be the star of the next big BBC sci-fi series flop & by the way you need to come out of the shadow of Simon Pegg and can you can shove the complimentary autograph?

After watching the second episode I realised that I?d wasted 2% of my Sky+ box which would have been better used to record Bob Ross?s Joy Of Painting instead of this crap.

Art · 23 January, 2006, 06:24:34 AM

Hey, Danger 50000 Volts was good!

Carlsborg Expert · 23 January, 2006, 04:46:10 PM

I think its funny as hell.
Alright. It is predictable.There are loads of connotations of a rivalry with Pegg.Okay, its safely funny. But there are moments in there that could not be done without the bulk, foundation setting program vehicle. Which,btw hyperhoppers, I find a comforting backdrop. So neh.

dweezil2 · 23 January, 2006, 07:09:08 PM

Something about Hyperdrive reminds me of John Carpenter's, Dark Star(always a good thing).Could be the low-fi look, and maybe the slacker character, with the beard. Just needs an episode with a an alien, killer beachball and i could be hooked! Episode 1 was deserately unfunny, but Episode 2 had it's moments. I'm charitable enough to give it a chance-British T.V needs all the Sci-Fi it can get.

[YT-2] · 23 January, 2006, 11:19:34 PM

Maybe I was looking out the window at the time but could someone who laughed during episode two tell me at what point their mirth circuits were engaged?

SamuelAWilkinson · 24 January, 2006, 02:50:18 AM

That bit with the marvelling?

hag · 24 January, 2006, 06:30:57 AM

the bit when the bottle of wine kicked in.

the alien sex film bit, but maybe i was only laughin cos the RT told me to laugh.

House of Usher · 24 January, 2006, 08:10:50 PM

the bit when the bottle of wine kicked in.

Yep, I'm with you all the way there, pella.

...and damn, that I missed the first 10 minutes. And snooker overran on Sunday to stop me seeing the repeat. Oh well.

Buddy · 25 January, 2006, 06:20:40 AM

Not too worry, the snooker has more jokes.