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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 379263" data-attributes="member: 23">Following On The Feast Of Selwyn, I began the sequel series:<img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fartworks.thetvdb.com%2Fbanners%2Fposters%2F187321-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=95d8da163b079a00f4cc2e778ac22e98803c0983b85d0f7dbf2feea0b18ba062&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 449px" />Very early on in viewing Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt, I found the character of Selwyn just too much. His over-enthusiastic rantings paired with his over-optimism made him grate a little. As the series found its feet I grew to really like the character, not least because of the dynamics of the ensemble.My one complaint about Selwyn's "friends" was that they were written to be cruel towards him at times. Practical joke after practical joke and endless leg-pulling and gags at his expense. It worked in the series' favour, though, because it made the character of Selwyn more sympathetic and in turn more likeable. And, because the group was played by a team of good character actors, they too remained likeable. It all worked, and any tweaks made generally improved the series.With the first episode of Selwyn, it's back to square one in all the wrong ways. The character is zany, over the top and completely out there without the all-important grounding that came from his family, friends and familiar environs. As a one-off, transplanting Selwyn to a holiday camp is a novelty (Sykes did the same thing fairly recently in this very thread), but I have to question how on earth permanently dumping the entire cast apart from one character got beyond the germ of an idea from a writer or producer.Adding insult to injury, the sequel series even attempts to replicate a key dynamic from the earlier series by having immediate enmity between Selwyn and the Welsh colleague who has no patience for his Selwynisms. Except this time round, the character isn't played by a Welsh actor. I did think for a time it was actually Scottish actor Fulton Mackay, but it's actually English actor Bernard Gallagher, probably best known to me as Ewart Plimmer in Casualty.We're only just finding our bearings with the new series since much of the first episode was about Selwyn's coach journey to reach the dilapidated camp (evidently part of an old RAF base or something, since the "road" where Selwyn was very clearly part of an airfield). As such, I'm not giving up on it completely. I knew this reboot was coming and it's certainly no worse than anticipated. But I will say that the familiar faces and places from the original Selwyn series are much-missed.</blockquote>

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