The Roaring Twenties

estebancambias · 14-01-2008 11:59PM #1

Its pretty funny, the main guy with the curly hair is funny. I like this humour. Some bits are a bit...well meh, but definetly not terrible.

Access · 15-01-2008 12:03AM

estebancambias wrote: »

Its pretty funny, the main guy with the curly hair is funny. I like this humour. Some bits are a bit...well meh, but definetly not terrible.

You are joking right? its pure ****e! same old RTE dribble!

ShaneU · 15-01-2008 12:04AM

People are far too quick to dismiss anything new by RTE, I thought it was alright.

YeatsCounty · 15-01-2008 12:06AM

I'm enjoying it so far. Nice and quirky.

tubey · 15-01-2008 12:06AM

People are far too quick to defend things that have already been slated. It's terrible, simple as. I hope these guys have not ruined it for other writers in this country. The thing is, Stephen Stubbs, one of the writers/creators is quite a talented writer, think he just stuck with this creation for longer than he should have.

estebancambias · 15-01-2008 12:06AM

Its not that bad. The charachters happen to be somewhat interesting. Their accents don't get to me. The nerd guy who is like an encyclopedia(?) on sports is a charachter which could be developed. I don't feel it has been exploited that well, they could have made it funnier.

Some funny scenes, like when he tapped her on the nose after giving the clothes to charity. Seemed like a Mr. Bean scene.

estebancambias · 15-01-2008 12:07AM

Tubey- I hated the Jake Stevens show. Honestly if this was a load of crap, I would be loving the banter giving it abuse.

Basq · 15-01-2008 12:08AM

I'm warning well in advance..

The last Roaring Twenties thread was locked for a reason - don't let this thread go the same way but will be keeping a close eye on it.

estebancambias · 15-01-2008 12:09AM

Ssshhhhhhhhhhh its back on.

Access · 15-01-2008 12:09AM

tubey wrote: »

People are far too quick to defend things that have already been slated. It's terrible, simple as. I hope these guys have not ruined it for other writers in this country. The thing is, Stephen Stubbs, one of the writers/creators is quite a talented writer, think he just stuck with this creation for longer than he should have.

True.

Its force feed the viewers anything in January time!

Crazy Christ · 15-01-2008 12:09AM

Woeful, five minutes is enough of this crap. Are the writers all second-year students?

15-01-2008 12:10AM

estebancambias wrote: »

Its not that bad. .

Oh great another ****e rte comedy, Wow they really spent my tv license well.

What ever that is , its not humour.

Utopia Parkway · 15-01-2008 12:10AM

Decided to give it a second chance this week but I think this episode is even worse if anything.

estebancambias · 15-01-2008 12:10AM

Crazy Christ wrote: »

Woeful, five minutes is enough of this crap. Are the writers all second-year students?

Here, perhaps you hate the show, but don't go bashing it. If you have no interest just don't comment.

estebancambias · 15-01-2008 12:11AM

You cannot hate the charachters in this show, some of them are good.

segadreamcast · 15-01-2008 12:13AM

Last week's episode was pure drivel.

So based on that, this is an improvement.

The sports character, as someone said above, is easily the best thing about it. This episode, on its own, would get 3 - maybe 4 - out of 10. No way can this show be expanded though. Two writers 'spreading' themselves across two episodes and this is the best they could do? Honestly. That's upsetting.

Similarly, someone else above said that Stubbs is a good writer... what else has he written? I know he won a Smedia. Is that what this is based on?

estebancambias · 15-01-2008 12:13AM

Ok thats annoying, This Afternoon Show crap is wack.

15-01-2008 12:13AM

estebancambias wrote: »

You cannot hate the charachters in this show, some of them are good.

I am off to throw rocks at RTE, yes i can hate them

estebancambias · 15-01-2008 12:15AM

5/10

Some, and I stress some what I call funny scenes, but some of the plot did not seem to be going anywhere.

Crazy Christ · 15-01-2008 12:15AM

estebancambias wrote: »

Here, perhaps you hate the show, but don't go bashing it. If you have no interest just don't comment.

I'm sorry to have crossed the line and I will refrain from having an opinion in future.

pause not

Bounty Hunter · 15-01-2008 12:17AM

its what i consider car-crash TV, its so very very bad for the 2nd week in a row i am still yet to laugh, but why the hell cant i stop watching it.

The narators commentary was the only funny thing infact saying things like hopefully whatever the characters name is is doing something better or that wasnt very good

15-01-2008 12:19AM

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

its what i consider car-crash TV, its so very very bad for the 2nd week in a row i am still yet to laugh, but why the hell cant i stop watching it.

The narators commentary was the only funny thing infact saying things like hopefully whatever the characters name is is doing something better or that wasnt very good

The lie of the FAS girl is why. The FAS girl is a lie!!

estebancambias · 15-01-2008 12:19AM

This show reminds me of Poochie the Dog.

abakan · 15-01-2008 12:20AM

alrite,

I dont know why people think its that bad.

good enough humour.

super_furry · 15-01-2008 12:20AM

Well it was definately better than last week's car crash. The start with the two flash-back scenes was funny - again very much reminiscent of Spaced. The sports nerd was pretty good and the end with the tramp at the bin-fire made me smile. Can't say anything good about the rest though, so I won't. It seems to be a case of too many ideas being crammed into too small a time frame. You could easily lose one or both of the Kevin and Seamas characters - they're unfunny, annoying and add nothing. The other two seem much more well developed and would probably be better on their own.

amacachi · 15-01-2008 12:20AM

Yeah I strongly disliked last week's episode, but this is even worse. I was confused last week as to why two episodes were made, even before I saw it. Surely one episode as a pilot would've made sense or a full series, but even with two episodes there wasn't a single moment that made me smile.

kevthecelt · 15-01-2008 12:20AM

You know what the funniest thing was? after ray went running after the van with a samurai sword, the news headline straight after the show ended said 'a call for a ban on imitation samurai swords after a mans hand is severed' CLASSIC

15-01-2008 12:23AM

abakan wrote: »

alrite,

I dont know why people think its that bad.

good enough humour.

It sucked, they have wasted your tv license

Mylow · 15-01-2008 12:23AM

kevthecelt wrote: »

You know what the funniest thing was? after ray went running after the van with a samurai sword, the news headline straight after the show ended said 'a call for a ban on imitation samurai swords after a mans hand is severed' CLASSIC

Pretty funny, good thing show wasn't on before incident in Finglas, otherwise they would blame '20 Something'

15-01-2008 12:25AM

Mylow wrote: »

Pretty funny, good thing show wasn't on before incident in Finglas, otherwise they would blame '20 Something'

I don't know about that, I think it can be blamed for windows broken at RTEby rocks by the end of the night

segadreamcast · 15-01-2008 12:25AM

Mylow wrote: »

Pretty funny, good thing show wasn't on before incident in Finglas, otherwise they would blame '20 Something'

I'm still going to.

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