I’ve suddenly realised what Britain feels like now, under this new “austerity” government.
You know when you’re watching a good TV series and it builds up lots of interesting threads, and it’s slow-moving but you’re kind of happy to wait because you can see the way things are generally going and you’re looking forward to seeing how things play out?
Then suddenly they kill off a character you liked, and what you thought was going to be a great ongoing sub-plot is completely ignored, and they go against some hard-and-fast rule they set in an earlier episode, and the whole thing just turns into a huge disappointment?
That’s what Britain feels like now. It’s a new season, they’ve got new writers in, and it’s all turned into a horrible disappointment.
I’m not saying I was particularly happy with how the last season was going, but I thought that after the big Credit Crunch episode near the end we were in for a stunning comeback in the season finale. But no, the finale was a let down, and the new season has started badly.
You know that fancy 2-meg broadband-for-all plot we were building up? Yeah, that’s not going to happen. The Arts, Science and Welfare characters you enjoyed? They’re being sidelined for a while. All those other things we made you think were going to happen aren’t now. We’re “going a different direction” with it.
Huh, maybe things will pick up in the next season. At the moment I’m hoping the whole thing gets cancelled and they start showing re-runs.
To be honest I’m tempted to switch channels. I heard this season of “Australia” is doing reasonably well.
Can’t say I’m particularly looking forward to what is sheduled to be happening in a few months time, when one of the characters that I really liked, “funding”, is going to fall off a cliff.
Hoorah for working in the charity sector
Brilliant analogy. But I fear we’re watching the same time-slot and haven’t yet realised it’s going to be an entirely different series altogether.
Well, I see it more like this…
Remember “Dallas”? Remember how they got waaaaaaayyyyyy off track in one season and had Bobby killed, jet setted around Europe and wasting money on expensive guest stars until no 0ne could understand what was going on anymore. So they got a new producer in and he decided the show had to get back to basics and do what it always did well…unfortunately they had to work out a way of getting Bobby back and ditching all the crud that had developed in the interim. So they decided to have him come out of a shower and chalk it up to being a dream. Sure, people would howl in protest at first but as the show got back on an even keel they would forgive that left-field strategy and enjoy the show once again. Bobby and JR working side by side again. THAT is what it’s like right now.