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   From: no@spam.thanks   
      
   fozzi wrote:   
   > "Xam"  wrote in message   
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   >> Steve B wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:41:39 +0100, Max  wrote:   
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   >> The IT Crowd was quite good, ay.   
   >> How many seasons did they do?   
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   >> I am starting to enjoy "Hyperdrive" a bit more, but still, give me RD any   
   >> day.  Part of it may be that a live audience really helps actors lift   
   >> their game.  Same is true for musicians too.   
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   > I think one of hyperdrives main weaknesses lies in their 'rimmeresque'   
   > charachter, am not really into it enough to remember names but the XO who is   
   > constantly going around attacking people seems to be their rimmer style   
   > charachter and the problem with the charachter, it seems to me, is that he   
   > doesnt only *believe* he is the most competent person on the ship, he   
   > actually *is* the most competent person on the ship, and by an extremely   
   > significant margin, in spite of his psycholtic tendencies, it is a little   
   > hard to be humouressly annoyed, as we so often were with chris barrie, at   
   > his pompous behaviour when the charachter clearly has a valid claim to his   
   > air of superiority.   
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   > cheers   
   > Fozzi   
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   I couldn't agree more Fozzi.   
   The only thing him and Rimmer really have in common is that everyone   
   hates them.  The second lowest ranking person on the ship, as opposed   
   one of the highest ranking?, it doesn't quite work the same.   
      
   The biggest difference for me though, is the believability aspect.  The   
   premise of RD has a lot more credibility than HD.  I mean, who would put   
   that bunch in charge of a hyper-drive ship in the first place?  Not   
   going to happen is it.  I guess you could say the same about sending   
   Rimmer to do repairs on the drive plate, but that's nearly just   
   nit-picking.  And lets not even go into the subject of "aliens".    
      
   The main thing that hyperdrive has going for it imo, is that its a   
   British space-opera Sitcom.  Lets face it, how many have there been?  I   
   can't remember any American ones either.  The odd movie maybe, Dr.   
   Strangelove, is about it.  Or were there others?   
      
      
   cheers mate.   
   Xam   
      
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   >> Also, it's a bit too much like "The Office" and "Extras", neither if which   
   >> I found all that funny.   
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   >> Now if Chris Barrie was in it......... :-)   
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   >> -Xam   
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