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The Project

Goodness Gracious Meme

20:42 / 12.11.02

Did anyone see this? Opinions?

Interesting timing...

Tryphena Absent

21:28 / 12.11.02

I really enjoyed this programme but found it incredibly sad. The characters occassionally didn't seem all that real, Paul and Maggie were the only two who were particularly realistic but this felt purposeful. Rather than drama this show seemed to be attempting to get a message across. Thus people who would usually be built up, his girlfriend, the people they lived with, acted as devices. New Labour is so divorced from the party that existed twenty years ago and The Project was effective as a means to illustrate that divorce.

Yeah, the timing of the show hit me, with the amount of political crap going down at the moment. What got me though was the fact that I am never going to get to be an idealistic 21 year old because I can develop no political enthusiasm.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

11:40 / 13.11.02

I've only seen the first half so far, but was a little irritated that everything that happens over a five/six year period is because they for some reason continually fail to get it on then get jealous when they see the other person shagging someone else.

Tryphena Absent

11:42 / 13.11.02

Yeah but they didn't really suit each other, I mean did you understand why they were friends? I sure as hell didn't.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

15:27 / 18.11.02

The second part was okay, though towards the end lost it a bit as they desperately tried to portray our trio as the only people in government with consciences, I would have prefered to see them sink into scumbag-dom. Interesting that we didn't actually see the MP back down over the disability bill, it was left implied by her still standing at the next election.
Shame there was nothing left for the third wheel character who left the BBC to work for Labour then went back to the Beeb to do, she didn't actually do anything in the last half hour or so except get pregnant but generally it was a fairly good bit of drama.

yawn - thing's buddy

19:46 / 18.11.02

I tohught this was indescribably shit and felt very angry with myself for watching the first two hour long episode.

A total waste of time.

Do drama or do documentary.

Not watery shit like this.

What was the point in fictionalising it?

Seriously. What was the POINT?

To get in people who don't watch documentaries about political parties. That was the point. Well, to do that, you need good characters and good drama. Therefore there was, quite literally, no point to this PROJECT nonsense.

That's nearly three years now sinse the bbc put out a good drama.

THe last one was called Nature Boy.

Before that, there was Looking after Jo Jo.

Before that, there was Our Friends In the North.

Thats 3 good dramas in ten years.

Want to protest?

Demand mpore fom your licence fee.

BBC are worse than New Labour.

Turk

00:31 / 19.11.02

Boring boring boring.
No matter how important this story is the political satirist make it funny for a reason. Because, no matter how much you care, it is boring. Well, that and such a tragedy is depressing enough.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

11:24 / 19.11.02

Yawn- Perhaps they had to fictionalise it because they couldn't find anyone willing to go on the record? Do you think any politician past or present would be willing to admit "Yes, I was threatened and blackmailed into supporting Government policy that I didn't agree with"? At the very least their own career is then finished, at worse it could probably damage their own party. Similarly the spin doctors can't go on record either, they are supposed to lurk behind the scenes.

I agree that it wasn't really as damning as the BBC talked it up as being, but then when the top layer of BBC staff is appointed by Labour it was probably presented as something to help the illusion of the BBC being seen as impartial but not doing the Government any real harm (the whole issue of 'Tony's Cronies' was quietly sidestepped I noticed).

Brigade du jour

05:03 / 21.11.02

it was a pretty ordinary drama, but a fantastic and timely expose of what politicians really think of the electorate, i.e. we're there to serve them apparently. which is, needless to say, bollocks. damn, i said it

yawn - thing's buddy

08:53 / 21.11.02

Misgendered: If the people portrayed in The project are as odious in real life, then on-camera confessions would not be hard to come by. This is the age of ‘Fuck and Go’ fer chris biggin’s sake. Regardless – this programme was real niche stuff – interesting to a few people who already knew about everything (and more) that the programme revealed.Utterly pointless.And the bloke actor who’s in everything these days – he doesn’t have much range does he? A bit hesitant for my liking.

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