It’s like the clash of the titans, what more could one want? Simpsons and the Star Wars? Screw that, Family Guy is much better anyway. The only other cartoon that I see being better is Futurama. But I’m still very excited about this one.
Well it’s as many people have feared (some looked forward to it), Battlestar Galactica will come to an end the next season. So it’s just 22 more episodes before it’s over and done. The fourth and final season will be on TV sometime early 2008.
“This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and finally, an end. Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have been moving strongly toward that end and we’ve decided to listen to those internal voices and conclude the show on our own terms,” Eick and Moore said in the statement. “And while we know our fans will be saddened to know the end is coming, they should brace themselves for a wild ride getting there”- we’re going out with a bang .”
Personally I think it’s a good decision. By watching season three one can already see and feel that things are coming to an end, and it’s good that way. You don’t want to keep on stretching the show out till you run out of ideas and start doing rubbish rehashed plot lines.
Source: Los Angeles Times.
So apparently The Office has been overhyped by virtually everyone in UK for the past several years, and I still hadn’t even seen a single episode. Until last week that is. I haven’t yet seen the US version, or for that matter the german version (Stromberg), so the thoughts here are purely about the UK version.
From what I have heard and been told by other people, it’s one of those things that you either love or hate. And it’s mostly about either liking or not liking Ricky Gervais (plays the boss, David Brent). Because if you don’t like him, you won’t like the whole show, even if Tim (Martin Freeman) and Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) are great characters on their own.
The humour is another thing of course, as a lot of people say that the UK version is very dry and typical English humour. Though personally I find it quite good, and don’t see what’s so dry about it, especially since it is meant to be more of a mockumentary anyway.
Once I have seen the US version as well, I’ll be able to give a proper commentary on the differences, though I suspect that the US version will certainly skip quite a few jokes that the UK version had (hiding the dildo in Brent’s office comes to mind).