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Pure Mule

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  • #32
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    I dont think they all spoke last night. The guy who ran restaurant in second ep was farely posh. But the accents were fairly authentic. And a hell of a lot better then some of the accents you see in the Hollywood movies. Circle of Friends which i think is on tonight an example. Mini Driver does a terrible accent


  • #33
    nessie911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭nessie911


    Maybe they were laughing at your spelling.[/quote]

    Yea thats smart when i spoke they laughed at my spelling. You are a very smart person realy must be a doctor in sometin. Just because i cant spell does not give you the right to make fun of me, if you had a brain you might realise that people can have dislexia which is a condition that they cant help. But i sapose someone as smart as you should know about that already. And just to let ya no, just because i cant spell does not mean that i have any less brains...unlike you...


  • #34
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    yes folks no below the belt remarks on spelling and stuff like that unless it does not make any sense. By all means people should keep posts as tidy as possible but there should be a little bit of lattitude given.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    nessie911 wrote: »
    Maybe they were laughing at your spelling.
    nessie911 wrote: »
    Yea thats smart when i spoke they laughed at my spelling. You are a very smart person realy must be a doctor in sometin. Just because i cant spell does not give you the right to make fun of me, if you had a brain you might realise that people can have dislexia which is a condition that they cant help. But i sapose someone as smart as you should know about that already. And just to let ya no, just because i cant spell does not mean that i have any less brains...unlike you...

    I was only pulling the piss but obviously you are one of those who lack a sense of humour. I really don't get your rant though, did I say you don't have a brain? No I did not but reading your reply I'm thinking that perhaps you......

    Not going to lower myself to your level with childish insults. I'm well aware of dyslexia and it's affects, just I don't believe that you have it and am getting sick of it being used as an excuse.


  • #36
    nessie911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭nessie911


    Not going to lower myself to your level with childish insults. I'm well aware of dyslexia and it's affects, just I don't believe that you have it and am getting sick of it being used as an excuse.[/quote]


    well you see making fun of some one who cant spell is a very childish insults. and i do have a sense of humor, but only when it comes to something that is actuly funny, not some thing that is an insut. Also i do have Dyslexia, i do mix up my spelling my words, and numbers so how do you think you have the rite to say its only an excuse.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
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    nessie911 wrote: »
    Not going to lower myself to your level with childish insults. I'm well aware of dyslexia and it's affects, just I don't believe that you have it and am getting sick of it being used as an excuse.

    nessie911 wrote: »
    well you see making fun of some one who cant spell is a very childish insults. and i do have a sense of humor, but only when it comes to something that is actuly funny, not some thing that is an insut. Also i do have Dyslexia, i do mix up my spelling my words, and numbers so how do you think you have the rite to say its only an excuse.

    Did not know that dyslexia affected grammar as well as spelling.

    Back on topic, I was told by someone who worked on the show that a DVD release is planned for Christmas.


  • #38
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Yes back to the subject a christmas DVD would be great. Up there with Batchelors Walk in terms of good drama RTE have done. Clinic also for any Clinic fans out there.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    bayviewclose wrote: »
    Yes back to the subject a christmas DVD would be great. Up there with Batchelors Walk in terms of good drama RTE have done. Clinic also for any Clinic fans out there.

    Clinic and fans in the same sentence. Surely that's a first.


  • #40
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Clinic and fans in the same sentence. Surely that's a first.
    Well they made five or six series out there so it must be popular. Found it too depressing myself.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
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    bayviewclose wrote: »
    Well they made five or six series out there so it must be popular. Found it too depressing myself.

    Andormeda got 5 series, 4 more than Firefly. Take from that what you will.


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  • #42
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Andormeda got 5 series, 4 more than Firefly. Take from that what you will.
    Well given the budgets RTE runs on I think Clinic would need to be pulling in steady viewers to get commissioned for so many series. Know that RTE has a remit to produce a certain percentage of home based dramas but six series or whatever is still very good going. And remember RTE moved the three last episodes of established important like Scrubs to the graveyard slot and replaced it with old father ted re-runs. Obviously wasnt generating enough figures for the last series.


  • #43
    Wyndman
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    I don’t mean to offend those who enjoy it, but I’ve never understood the universal fawning over Pure Mule. Whatever about its stage acting, languid tone and the fact that it looked exactly like a soft-focus Barry’s Tea ad, I think the biggest problem was the writing.

    RTE have this thing where, rather than train and develop television writers, they find it easier to throw some cash at an “established playwright” (I don’t know if anyone here’s a big theatregoer but modern Irish plays are invariably plotless studies in misery and monologues.)

    Pure Mule missed the point of a television series entirely. It (and Prosperity its undead urban spin-off) had way too many interchangeable characters that are only focused on for one episode at most and than relegated as background colour.

    RTE will never learn that the advantage TV drama has over films and plays is the opportunity for rewarding long-form storytelling. Oh and that it might be an idea to invest in one or two actual screenwriters, not just fall back on pre-packed “literary playwrights” (or worse yet, Irish Film Board luvvies) who look down on the medium as merely a profitable way to dust off a rejected Druid/Abbey pitch into an easy nixer.


    RTE will never make anything worth wasting an hour on. The place is a coral reef of institutionalised mediocrity.


  • #44
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Wyndman wrote: »
    I don’t mean to offend those who enjoy it, but I’ve never understood the universal fawning over Pure Mule. Whatever about its stage acting, languid tone and the fact that it looked exactly like a soft-focus Barry’s Tea ad, I think the biggest problem was the writing.

    RTE have this thing where, rather than train and develop television writers, they find it easier to throw some cash at an “established playwright” (I don’t know if anyone here’s a big theatregoer but modern Irish plays are invariably plotless studies in misery and monologues.)

    Pure Mule missed the point of a television series entirely. It (and Prosperity its undead urban spin-off) had way too many interchangeable characters that are only focused on for one episode at most and than relegated as background colour.

    RTE will never learn that the advantage TV drama has over films and plays is the opportunity for rewarding long-form storytelling. Oh and that it might be an idea to invest in one or two actual screenwriters, not just fall back on pre-packed “literary playwrights” (or worse yet, Irish Film Board luvvies) who look down on the medium as merely a profitable way to dust off a rejected Druid/Abbey pitch into an easy nixer.


    RTE will never make anything worth wasting an hour on. The place is a coral reef of institutionalised mediocrity.
    You are obviously referring to Eugene O'Brien writer of Eden and Pure Mule. I thought Eden the play(subsequently adapted for television) was excellent and Conor McPherson who also used the Monologue in plays like Port Authority is a very gifted writer. As for RTE their dramatic output has been very low so for something like Pure Mule to come along and buck that trend is always welcome. Most recently we had Father and Son and although it had its moments was a bit too much like the crying game and not that original. Still some good acting there.


  • #45
    Firetrap
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    Pure Mule's not perfect and some of the accents are seriously dodgy (especially the woman with the big teeth) but it was still compelling enough. It's nice too to have something set in rural Ireland for a change. Not that I'm knocking urban or Dublin based dramas either but a bit of variety is nice.


  • #46
    missingtime
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    nessie911 wrote: »
    Pure Mule was crap, it had such bad story lines, it is not a true perspective of rural town life, i live very close to where pure mule was filmed, and where it is being filmed at the min, and it is not at all like that. people have real lives and real problems... And we dont sound like that, like thay sound like thay have been bet up or sometin... maybe they should try get some good actors and directors too...

    Ahem.


  • #47
    JONJO THE MISER
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    Watching it now, the guy dumps his gf before the weeding, what a prick, had it all restraunt and lots of money of course thats the problem celtic tiger mommys boy cub who doesnt know his arse from his elbow, i tell ya if i was the father in law to be id lynch him if he done that to my daughter.


  • #48
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Watching it now, the guy dumps his gf before the weeding, what a prick, had it all restraunt and lots of money of course thats the problem celtic tiger mommys boy cub who doesnt know his arse from his elbow, i tell ya if i was the father in law to be id lynch him if he done that to my daughter.
    why was he watching Dublin gaa game on television for?


  • #49
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    What's "Legend"?

    Pure Mule was excellent.


  • #50
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Elmo wrote: »
    What's "Legend"?

    Pure Mule was excellent.
    Hey just finished "Deirdre" and having watched five episodes there seems to be an awful lot of drinking in this. Still a great show but do ever feel parched after watching it?


  • #51
    JonathanAnon
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    bayviewclose wrote: »
    Still a great show but do ever feel parched after watching it?

    I think it's a fair reflection of Irish society. I hate Dawn Bradfield on all those voiceovers she does, like Hibernian, in that whingey accent of hers. But she did a great job on Pure Mule.


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  • #52
    grenache
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    Charlene McKenna is hawt! She always plays feisty characters. Ditto Single Handed.


  • #53
    ManFromAtlantis
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    anybody not from the area could be forgiven in thinking that the accents are too thick or put on.

    i've spent sometime in the area and seriously, there are alot of people around birr (+ 15 mile radius say) that do speak just like the pure mule accents. i'm telling you its uncanny.

    it's spot on......................or should that be Spawh hon.


  • #54
    Elmo
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    I think it's a fair reflection of Irish society. I hate Dawn Bradfield on all those voiceovers she does, like Hibernian, in that whingey accent of hers. But she did a great job on Pure Mule.

    She does a good job on The Clinic also, which ads does she voice?


  • #55
    Red Sleeping Beauty
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    Elmo wrote: »
    What's "Legend"?

    Pure Mule was excellent.

    Legend was a mini-series thing set in a working class area concerning the lives of a few people loosely connected to one another. Grim stuff.


  • #56
    JonathanAnon
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    Elmo wrote: »
    She does a good job on The Clinic also, which ads does she voice?

    I dont like the pathetic, clingy creature she plays in The Clinic. She voices for a lot of insurance companies and banks.

    Here, what happened to Bomber, I missed that episode. His missus if free now, is that right?


  • #57
    ziedth
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    I dont like the pathetic, clingy creature she plays in The Clinic. She voices for a lot of insurance companies and banks.

    Here, what happened to Bomber, I missed that episode. His missus if free now, is that right?

    Shamie kissed bombers lack and he went bat **** and scrapped the two brothers. He got arrested and to show her what honesty is he confessed to a accidently murder he commited some years ago and got arrested.


  • #58
    PTH2009
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    If you didnt see the ad for next week after the show tonight dont read this.
    So Jenifer returns to her mothers funeral, Mckeons is gone, Scoby is out of work and the place is changed.

    Intresting is what did they do about Tom Murphys Character.


  • #59
    Red Sleeping Beauty
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    I think everybody knows at least one "Jenifer". Even in the cities.


  • #60
    JonathanAnon
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    Some decent lad has uploaded them if anybody is interested in catching up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUpD2Y2SRxc


    Good series in fairness. Hard to think the same people that commissioned this are responsible for hiring Tubridy as Late Late host.


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  • #61
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Some decent lad has uploaded them if anybody is interested in catching up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUpD2Y2SRxc


    Good series in fairness. Hard to think the same people that commissioned this are responsible for hiring Tubridy as Late Late host.
    Well to be fair Tubridy is what late late needs. He has a good way with his guests. Never felt PK was good at dealing with the lighter aspects of the show but he was very good on current affairs.


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