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Post by unc40 on Oct 15, 2020 22:52:16 GMT -5
I just started watching Only Fools and Horses and love it and found out there was a prequel called Rock & Chips about Del Boy's early years. Is this worth watching or should I stay away?
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 16, 2020 2:36:00 GMT -5
I haven’t seen much of it but what I did see, I wasn’t impressed.
I’d also stop with Fools and Horses after 1993. Some of the episodes that follow are abysmal.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 16, 2020 4:06:10 GMT -5
I thought it was shit. Nothing like Only Fools. It was more a serious drama than a comedy.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Oct 16, 2020 4:08:41 GMT -5
I haven’t seen much of it but what I did see, I wasn’t impressed. I’d also stop with Fools and Horses after 1993. Some of the episodes that follow are abysmal. What and miss out on the episodes from 1996 where they finally achieve their dreams? No |
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Post by mcstoklasa on Oct 16, 2020 4:08:59 GMT -5
Yeah it's pretty alright worth a watch
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 16, 2020 4:09:03 GMT -5
I haven’t seen much of it but what I did see, I wasn’t impressed. I’d also stop with Fools and Horses after 1993. Some of the episodes that follow are abysmal. The final 3 of the original run are good-- Del and Rodney as Batman and Robin is a classic moment. And Time on our Hands is a fitting end. The 3 later specials after Time in Our Hands though are crap. |
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Post by thechase on Oct 16, 2020 4:30:40 GMT -5
I have no idea what compelled Sullivan to do those last three specials, the 1996 ones are so good and are the pinnacle of 90s BBC comedy at the time. "Time On Our Hands" is the true finale. SKY ONE ran a special on top ten tv finales and completely ignored the final trilogy from the 2000s.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 16, 2020 4:31:21 GMT -5
I haven’t seen much of it but what I did see, I wasn’t impressed. I’d also stop with Fools and Horses after 1993. Some of the episodes that follow are abysmal. The final 3 of the original run are good-- Del and Rodney as Batman and Robin is a classic moment. And Time on our Hands is a fitting end. The 3 later specials after Time in Our Hands though are crap. I think the Batman and Robin moment is one of the most unfunny moments in the whole show. It bugs me that people include that alongside such classic moments as the chandelier falling and Del Boy falling through the bar. When you first saw them, you didn’t know what was going to happen. Batman and Robin you could see coming a mile off and it wasn’t funny when it arrived. I like some moments in the first final trilogy but I think the show was running out of steam before then and there are some truly distasteful moments like turning a miscarriage into a cheap gag. The show was one of the very best at making you cry: Del’s voice cracking at how Grandad dying broke his heart, Del crying with relief in hospital when he realises he’s not going to die, Grandad’s monologue about the evils of war (“they promised us homes fit for heroes, we got heroes fit for homes”) and the look Del and Rodney give each other at Rodney’s reception all still bring a tear to the eye just typing about them. But the real strength was when they used a little bit of black humour in a sad.moment, like accidentally burying the Vicar’s hat at Grandad’s funeral. That is how you mix comedy and emotion, not Del doing a stupidly over the top fake cry when going in to see Cassandra after she’s miscarried. The last truly great episode was Mother Nature’s Son. |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 16, 2020 4:37:12 GMT -5
I have no idea what compelled Sullivan to do those last three specials, the 1996 ones are so good and are the pinnacle of 90s BBC comedy at the time. "Time On Our Hands" is the true finale. SKY ONE ran a special on top ten tv finales and completely ignored the final trilogy from the 2000s. I think those final three give a lot of people a slightly negative opinion of the show overall. It had reached its natural conclusion and finally the Trotters were millionaires and happy. To bring it back and take that away from them reeked of a money grab and desperation. Although I did like how we finally got closure on the question of Rodney’s father and that the bond between Del and Rodney was so strong, having different fathers wasn’t going to change a thing. |
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Post by SmashTV on Oct 16, 2020 12:41:31 GMT -5
Rock and Chips is okay; it’s not in front of an audience so there’s no laughter track to draw you in, but it does provide a few laughs.
With regard to the last trilogy, I have to agree that it was a bad idea. The 96 send off was a perfect conclusion to the trials and tribulations of the Trotters, and should have remained so. Everybody just looked so old in the final three, and the joke of them going to the wrong funeral just seemed a bit...flat. At that point I had an inkling that it would be a disappointment, and sad to say I was right.
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