From: ningynongy@nob.nob   
      
   "johnsinclair"  wrote in message   
   news:45927cd2$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...   
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   > mmm.... the problem i have with series 7 and 8 is kochanski. she is just   
   > so wet. pony named trumper? perfectly generated cgi teachers in her   
   > perfect little world...  ... ok, she would've been cool for about 2   
   > or 3 eps but i'm with kryten on this... she was damn annoying. there's   
   > somethign very sad but funny about a buncha blokes trapped 3 million years   
   > in deep space with zero chance of getting laid. but put a woman in the mix   
   > and it becomes somehow less funny. in fact, i'll go as far as saying the   
   > eps where she has little to say at all where her best ones.   
   > don't get me wrong tho.. i think she is a babe. she looks [and talks] a   
   > lot like a girl i went out with before moving away from home town [who   
   > prolly squeaked like a gate when she came but i don't recall] but i   
   > wouldn't have put her in a comedy series about a buncha sad lonely losers   
   > in deep space.   
      
   Well, it's true that from Series 1-6 "there's something very sad but funny   
   about a buncha blokes trapped 3 million years in deep space with zero chance   
   of getting laid" but that's because there aren't any women around!  Of   
   course logically it should be even sadder and funnier when it's "about a   
   buncha blokes trapped 3 million years in deep space with zero chance of   
   getting laid" and there's a real woman around.  It isn't, though, but that's   
   because the loss of Rimmer upset the character dynamics AND the loss of Rob   
   Grant did immeasurable damage to the writing process.   
      
   > but i thinkthe writers were getting desperate at this point and clutching   
   > at anything to build on. grant and naylor had departed ways and possibly   
   > they felt they had little choice but to throw a spanner in the works.   
      
   As I understand it (inasmuch as I understand anything these days) Glam   
   Kochanski was brought it so that they could appeal more to the American   
   market with the presence of a hot babe in PVC.   
      
   > and the really annoying thing? after watching the 7 & 8 series afew times   
   > i found i liked them. or it could've been chloe annette's arse in red pvc.   
      
   Um..... Sorry, my mind wet elsewhere for a moment then.   
      
   > but did anyone notice series 8 slowly became a 2 man show with rimmer and   
   > lister becoming busom buddies almost? but i think that was for the best. i   
   > mean... prison? 13th level? naff...   
      
   One of the original inspirations for the show was Porridge, which is really   
   a two-man show in a confined space with assorted supporting eccentrics; they   
   maybe wanted to get back to what worked in earlier series that didn't work   
   in S7.  And this was also after Craig Charles had been in prison on remand.   
      
      
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