Thread: Learners
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6th Nov 2007, 10:30 PM #1Pip Madeley Guest
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6th Nov 2007, 10:43 PM #2
Hynes, Tennant and Dingwall? It's practically another Doctor Who spin-off!!
I'm sure I'll be tuning in, mainly out of curiosity, but I reckon it could be quite funny. Jess was part responsible for 'Spaced', so if her script for 'Learners' is anywhere near half as good, then it will certainly be worth watching.
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6th Nov 2007, 11:01 PM #3WhiteCrow Guest
Do you think some of it is "I don't need you Simon Pegg!".
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7th Nov 2007, 10:29 AM #4
Jess looks foxy in that pic so I'll be watching For the comedy obviously.
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11th Nov 2007, 11:13 PM #5WhiteCrow Guest
Did anyone else watch it then?
Wow they made David Tennant look so geeky. God he looked a lot like my friend at school there, who ironically had asthma himself.
Overall though I kind of expected it to be a little funnier. The bad driving scenes felt like a rip off of Maureen from Driving School. A not bad one off comedy drama, but I'll not be hurrying to watch it again, and it felt a little short on the comedy.
And was it me or did the caravan seem bigger on the inside? Was that some kind of a joke?
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11th Nov 2007, 11:21 PM #6WhiteCrow Guest
This is so dumb - it's been bothering me all night who Sarah Hadland is, who played Fiona
Just been through everything she's been in, I knew I knew her, thought from some kind of comedy, gone through it all Casualty(don't watch), the Bill (ditto) blah blah blah.
Yes now I know - she was in the VEET adverts.
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11th Nov 2007, 11:27 PM #7
I thought the cast was fabulous, but the whole thing didn't really gel together. Just a bit of a big non.
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11th Nov 2007, 11:34 PM #8WhiteCrow Guest
Yes - it makes me think having seen Hot Fuzz and now Learners that maybe Simon Pegg wrote much of the comedy for Spaced.
The writing wasn't up to much, and in fact it felt very much like the bog standard one off drama ITV and BBC1 drone out which is on the whole very samey and instantly forgetable.
I keep wanting to compare it unfavourably with Rupert Grint's Driving Lessons. This is perhaps a bit unfair as they share only the flimsiest of connections, but on the whole I enjoyed Driving Lessons a lot.
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11th Nov 2007, 11:44 PM #9Pip Madeley Guest
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12th Nov 2007, 12:15 AM #10
I saw it & I thought it was very good. I wasn't expecting a side-splitting comedy which was a good thing because it wasn't one. It was more of a black comedy.
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12th Nov 2007, 7:53 AM #11
I enjoyed it and it made me laugh in several places, but I broadly agree with P-Bal that the cast were brilliant, but the whole thing dodn't quite work as well as it should have done.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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12th Nov 2007, 7:53 AM #12
It was OK, entertaining enough for a Sunday evening, but it did lack a certain sparkle I think. There was nothing wrong with it, the performances were all very good, but it was just a bit pedestrian.
On the other hand, I did like the fact that nobody was really a goodie or a baddie (well, except perhaps Chris, as it happens). Dingwall's character was a bit of a waster, but on the other hand at the end his 'crazy' owl scheme had come off; the married cop was a bit of a b*****d to Fiona, but on the other hand helped take the owls to the vets...
My favourite moment was probably the one where teary Fiona is breaking up over the phone... and then we discover that she's actually just leaving a message with a completely different guy!
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12th Nov 2007, 8:03 AM #13WhiteCrow Guest
No best line was "I'm your driving instructor, and a member of the DVLA!".
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