Skippers.. WTF...?

Sids Not

....not a dig at the programme ,but Liam Cunningham's voice over ...where did he get that ".."something horrible and deadly could happen , but probably wont " accent...oh how I laughed....:D.....just speak normally Liam ffs....

Aidric

It's to fit the dangerous circumstances the men find themselves in. I thought it was a good watch.

Sids Not

Aidric wrote: »

It's to fit the dangerous circumstances the men find themselves in. I thought it was a good watch.

No arguement there...we all know what a hard job it is....but i found his voice irritating and very false..imo....he should stick to the ESB ad's....;)

Keano

I couldn't help but laugh at the preview of next week of one of the skippers shouting at the new guy. All I could think was they guys are only putting up with his shít as they need the job and he knows it. Nothing like belittling someone to get some work done :rolleyes:

Cookiemunster

Poor mans rip off of Deadliest Catch. More "original programming" for your licence fee.

cian1500ww

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Poor mans rip off of Deadliest Catch. More "original programming" for your licence fee.

Exactly, why they even bothered is beyond me

Storm 10

They would have been better off to stick with one boat per show and stop changing boats every few minutes

Mal-Adjusted

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Poor mans rip off of Deadliest Catch. More "original programming" for your licence fee.

cian1500ww wrote: »

Exactly, why they even bothered is beyond me

Couldn't agree more. It's nice to see something from a (relatively) local perspective, but it's just so badly done. it it was a straight rip-off, it may at least be interesting.

Battlejuice

Does anybody know who the music to the Skippers series is from ?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Fair play to RTE for highlighting the current plight of the Irish fisherman. The industry has been crippled in recent years , with huge increases in running costs , low prices at market and ridiculous EU fishing regulations.

Green Hornet

I don't think it's bad. It's interesting to see it from a local perspective as another poster said. Certainly better than the alternative TV3 rubbish.

Irishmarinelife

I like how they provide subtitles when the foreign workers speak - even though they speak clearer and form longer sentences than the guys from Cork, Kerry and Dublin (not the guy from Donegal, he speaks well), Good old RTE.

JohnMearsheimer

Battlejuice wrote: »

Does anybody know who the music to the Skippers series is from ?

I think it's Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys.

BettePorter

Irishmarinelife wrote: »

I like how they provide subtitles when the foreign workers speak - even though they speak clearer and form longer sentences than the guys from Cork, Kerry and Dublin (not the guy from Donegal, he speaks well), Good old RTE.

agreed ! only caught the first and last show but on the last, the guy from cork was completely incoherent due to both his accent and the fact that he mummbled everything.......i didn't catch one word. Then i laughed when the foreign guy came on, speaking quite clearly if not accented, yet they gave him subtitles ! genius !

speakeasy900

Battlejuice wrote: »

Does anybody know who the music to the Skippers series is from ?

The Halves, "May your enemies never find happiness"

speakeasy900

BettePorter wrote: »

agreed ! only caught the first and last show but on the last, the guy from cork was completely incoherent due to both his accent and the fact that he mummbled everything.......i didn't catch one word. Then i laughed when the foreign guy came on, speaking quite clearly if not accented, yet they gave him subtitles ! genius !

do you not think he 'seemed' clear because you were reading what he was saying?

speakeasy900

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

Couldn't agree more. It's nice to see something from a (relatively) local perspective, but it's just so badly done. it it was a straight rip-off, it may at least be interesting.

It was a straight rip-off? That's complete rubbish. So RTE shouldn't make a series about the Garda Traffic Corps or a series about Teenagers who go off the rails, or about people overcoming addiction? They've all been done in other countries after all. RTE shouldn't make a news programme, that's been done before, they shouldn't televise horse racing, that's done in England on Channel 4 very well. They make all these shows despite their format existing elsewhere because the Irish are unique, we have unique issues and ways of doing things.

Just because a series on fishermen is done already in America doesn't automatically mean we should never make a similar series here. Are we not good enough to have our own view on things? A big part of RTE's remit is giving us a unique insight into Irish life and that is exactly what it's doing, on a budget that is equivilant to less than what the BBC spend on news.

If you are all so brilliant, sitting pontificating and begrudging like hurlers on the ditch, why don't you come up with some fantastic original ideas which have never been done in any other country, that will give a unique insight into Irish life. I'll look forward to reading all of the great ideas that are going to roll in here.

Mal-Adjusted

speakeasy900 wrote: »

It was a straight rip-off? That's complete rubbish. So RTE shouldn't make a series about the Garda Traffic Corps or a series about Teenagers who go off the rails, or about people overcoming addiction? They've all been done in other countries after all. RTE shouldn't make a news programme, that's been done before, they shouldn't televise horse racing, that's done in England on Channel 4 very well. They make all these shows despite their format existing elsewhere because the Irish are unique, we have unique issues and ways of doing things.

Just because a series on fishermen is done already in America doesn't automatically mean we should never make a similar series here. Are we not good enough to have our own view on things? A big part of RTE's remit is giving us a unique insight into Irish life and that is exactly what it's doing, on a budget that is equivilant to less than what the BBC spend on news.

if it's as badly done as this sorry excuse for a show was, then no, it shouldn't

speakeasy900 wrote: »

If you are all so brilliant, sitting pontificating and begrudging like hurlers on the ditch, why don't you come up with some fantastic original ideas which have never been done in any other country, that will give a unique insight into Irish life. I'll look forward to reading all of the great ideas that are going to roll in here.

exaggerate much? whoever said I was brilliant? and bringing hurlers into it? someone's getting a bit tetchy. You don't need to be a horse to smell horse****

Oh,and i'd just like to point out that had you actually bothered to read my post, you would have noticed my issue with the show wasn't it's unoriginality, but the fact that it wasn't any good, but then you couldn't have had your childish little rant, could you? grow the hell up

speakeasy900

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

if it's as badly done as this sorry excuse for a show was, then no, it shouldn't



exaggerate much? whoever said I was brilliant? and bringing hurlers into it? someone's getting a bit tetchy. You don't need to be a horse to smell horse****

Oh,and i'd just like to point out that had you actually bothered to read my post, you would have noticed my issue with the show wasn't it's unoriginality, but the fact that it wasn't any good, but then you couldn't have had your childish little rant, could you? grow the hell up

Skippers was a great series, it wasn't meant to be swashbuckling big budget series like on Discovery Channel. It gave a rare insight into a dangerous and thankless Irish profession and those decent, hard working men deserved a voice on our small screens.

So it wasn't all action, but to get a series like Deadliest Catch probably would have cost 5 times as much. No doubt this website would have had a field day giving out about wasting licence payers money had RTE spent a fortune on it.

Mal-Adjusted

speakeasy900 wrote: »

Skippers was a great series, it wasn't meant to be swashbuckling big budget series like on Discovery Channel. It gave a rare insight into a dangerous and thankless Irish profession and those decent, hard working men deserved a voice on our small screens.

i agree with everything you are saying, except that it wasn't a good series. there's false tension and mediocre events are portrayed as having huge implications when it was clear that they didn't.

speakeasy900 wrote: »

So it wasn't all action, but to get a series like Deadliest Catch probably would have cost 5 times as much. No doubt this website would have had a field day giving out about wasting licence payers money had RTE spent a fortune on it.

bull. it cost them the price of putting a camera crew on a boat (well, several)

murphym7

Everyone is incorrect when they say it is a rip off on the Deadliest catch on Discovery. It is an attempt, a very credible one too, to make a version of the series on BBC "Trawlermen".

I thought Trawlermen was a good show and I think that Skippers was also a very good show - its just a shame it was so short. I hope they go for it again.

I did find Liam Cunnigham's voice over hillarious though a bit too fire a brimstone.

Storm 10

The trawler "Ainmire" featured in Skippers sank earlier this year off the Butt of Lewis while under tow to Stornaway by another trawler "Our Hazel", all 5 crew ok, loss due to flooding, a UK Marine Casualty Investigation Report into the cause of the sinking will be issued in about 2 years time. Tough for the skipper and crew I hope they will get another boat