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I just discovered this message board today and have spent hours just reading all these fascinating posts. Extremely interesting to a LOSW cuckoo like myself. A couple points:
I first discovered LOSW while on Christmas vacation in 2006 and accidentally came across it while channel surfing during the day. I couldn't stop watching it, I felt like I had entered a wonderful world. It took me a while to finally remember the character names. I first saw the series from 1991 with Foggy. And probably for that reason my favorite episodes all involve Clegg, Compo & Foggy. They run the show weekdays on the local Public Broadcasting channel here in my State in the U.S. I've been recording them on DVD ever since and have gotten the whole series now EXCEPT for some of the various "Specials" which for some strange reason this TV station consistently skips over. I've bought the commercial releases here in the U.S. and many of them do contain at least some of the "Specials".
By the way, I've never understood, why do they call them "Christmas Specials" when most of them have absolutely nothing to do with Christmas? I'm a big fan of One Foot In The Grave too and they do the same thing, call non-Christmas related "specials" "Christmas Specials". Odd but still great shows.
OK, my last comment. I love the whole series, esp. those with Foggy and with Seymour so, don't get me wrong, I do appreciate this series immensely. Only one thing has bothered me, and that is the "Getting Sam Home" film. First of all, I didn't laugh once during the entire time, I found it way too long, in fact I remember thinking "when is this going to end?" as I watched, and that's never a good sign for a show that's normally very entertaining. 2nd of all the characters themselves didn't act like themselves, Clegg was crude, a quality I've never seen him be, and Compo was very subdued and low key and needless to say, not funny. Even Foggy acted odd and out of character. I just found the whole movie closer to a drama than a comedy and the situations went on way too long, padding perhaps?, but overly long.
At any rate, out of the 100's of episodes to only not like one isn't a bad record. I do know from reading over messages here that some really do like "Getting Sam Home", maybe I just don't get it. I just really objected to the trio acting so startlingly out of character. Esp. Clegg and the underplayed serious minded Compo.
At any rate, I'm glad to be here and discover so many interesting notes and information about a show I am so enjoying. By the way, I am now up to Series 28, the next to last season of the program. I am not happy that Clegg and Truly have been reduced to cameo shot only but the show is still enjoyable with Ivy and Howard's scenes.
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I first discovered LOSW while on Christmas vacation in 2006 and accidentally came across it while channel surfing during the day. I couldn't stop watching it, I felt like I had entered a wonderful world. It took me a while to finally remember the character names. I first saw the series from 1991 with Foggy. And probably for that reason my favorite episodes all involve Clegg, Compo & Foggy. They run the show weekdays on the local Public Broadcasting channel here in my State in the U.S. I've been recording them on DVD ever since and have gotten the whole series now EXCEPT for some of the various "Specials" which for some strange reason this TV station consistently skips over. I've bought the commercial releases here in the U.S. and many of them do contain at least some of the "Specials".
By the way, I've never understood, why do they call them "Christmas Specials" when most of them have absolutely nothing to do with Christmas? I'm a big fan of One Foot In The Grave too and they do the same thing, call non-Christmas related "specials" "Christmas Specials". Odd but still great shows.
OK, my last comment. I love the whole series, esp. those with Foggy and with Seymour so, don't get me wrong, I do appreciate this series immensely. Only one thing has bothered me, and that is the "Getting Sam Home" film. First of all, I didn't laugh once during the entire time, I found it way too long, in fact I remember thinking "when is this going to end?" as I watched, and that's never a good sign for a show that's normally very entertaining. 2nd of all the characters themselves didn't act like themselves, Clegg was crude, a quality I've never seen him be, and Compo was very subdued and low key and needless to say, not funny. Even Foggy acted odd and out of character. I just found the whole movie closer to a drama than a comedy and the situations went on way too long, padding perhaps?, but overly long.
At any rate, out of the 100's of episodes to only not like one isn't a bad record. I do know from reading over messages here that some really do like "Getting Sam Home", maybe I just don't get it. I just really objected to the trio acting so startlingly out of character. Esp. Clegg and the underplayed serious minded Compo.
At any rate, I'm glad to be here and discover so many interesting notes and information about a show I am so enjoying. By the way, I am now up to Series 28, the next to last season of the program. I am not happy that Clegg and Truly have been reduced to cameo shot only but the show is still enjoyable with Ivy and Howard's scenes.
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