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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 291130" data-attributes="member: 23">The slight tweak to the structure for Series Three is helping it feel a little fresher and even a little less formulaic. The serial which took ten to fifteen minutes in the middle of each episode of the first two series has been replaced with a series of satirical pastiches based on then-contemporary series. These feel very much like a precursor to the kind of homages Wood &amp; Walters or French &amp; Saunders would be doing in their BBC series over the following decades. They&#039;re enjoyable enough, though I suspect I&#039;d find them much funnier if I was more familiar with the original material they&#039;re taking off, such as Jason King or The Onedin Line.I know it&#039;s the Seventies,&nbsp; but there really is an awful lot of casual homophobia for cheap laughs this year. Most of it coming from Ronnie C. Don&#039;t get me wrong, I&#039;m all for political correctness being thrown out of the window, but I also find myself both intrigued by sudden explosion of gay jokes this year, and a little bored by the lazy repetitiveness of it. But then Ronnie C. does seem big on repeating himself. The more I watch, the more it reinforces the truth that Ronnie B. is hugely talented while Ronnie C. seems to have gone a long way on very little. When he works well with Ronnie B. he&#039;s great and I applaud his going for it with pratfalls and drag and suchlike. But his style - the frequent ad libs and his being a whore for an extra laugh or a bit of attention from the audience - feels too much like naff cabaret. Truthfully I find him a little tedious at times, especially when watching at this rate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 291130, member: 23"] The slight tweak to the structure for Series Three is helping it feel a little fresher and even a little less formulaic. The serial which took ten to fifteen minutes in the middle of each episode of the first two series has been replaced with a series of satirical pastiches based on then-contemporary series. These feel very much like a precursor to the kind of homages Wood & Walters or French & Saunders would be doing in [U]their[/U] BBC series over the following decades. They're enjoyable enough, though I suspect I'd find them much funnier if I was more familiar with the original material they're taking off, such as [I]Jason King[/I] or [I]The Onedin Line.[/I] I know it's the Seventies, but there really is an awful lot of casual homophobia for cheap laughs this year. Most of it coming from Ronnie C. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for political correctness being thrown out of the window, but I also find myself both intrigued by sudden explosion of gay jokes this year, and a little bored by the lazy repetitiveness of it. But then Ronnie C. does seem big on repeating himself. The more I watch, the more it reinforces the truth that Ronnie B. is hugely talented while Ronnie C. seems to have gone a long way on very little. When he works well with Ronnie B. he's great and I applaud his going for it with pratfalls and drag and suchlike. But his style - the frequent ad libs and his being a whore for an extra laugh or a bit of attention from the audience - feels too much like naff cabaret. Truthfully I find him a little tedious at times, especially when watching at this rate. [/QUOTE]

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