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I was just wondering if anyone else caught this... thread about the now-failed star of a ficitonal 80s kids s/f series (very Tomorrow People etc) going on the fanclub cruise as a last resort.
And it turned out to be really rather good. A more subtle script at times than I thought possible, and yet that collides with very heavy piss-taking (satire is too refined a word). The fans are possibly too crudely stereotyped, and by the end there are far too many neat moral climaxes... but somehow, it worked wonderfully well to me. In part, it's the lampooning of BBC kids' sci-fi; the opening dialogue (beginning with a triumphant "Leicester!") describing a post-apocalyptic world where the only survivors seem to be a dodgy Leicester-based New Romantic pop group, and it just spirals on from there. A very peculiarly British thing; how they explained to the Greeks I just don't know, but I was pleasantly surprised. Just thought it might be the kind of thing people here would appreciate because of a) the 80s tv angle and b) the whole fandom thing. Just curious. |
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