OI-OI!
Today is the tenth anniversay of Spaced airing for the first time on Channel Four. Happy Birthday, Spaced!
I have to say, I feel slightly unworthy of celebrating, mainly because I only got into Spaced a couple of years ago, as the first series only aired when I was eight years old. Too young for Daisy and Tim and their doobies and discussions of porn. But, despite all the other stuff I've been into since, Spaced will ALWAYS stick with me. No show has ever struck me on such a personal level. I've been emotionally involved in shows (well...show) like Torchwood, but Spaced is just real. Utterly real to me, and so many others, even though it's filled with surreality.
I love it. It's a love letter to geeks everywhere, and ridiculously quotable. It's about ordinary people, people down on their luck, who we can identify so much more with than vapid characters on American sitcoms. It's what I want to see, because I know it's more real; groups of friends who aren't love hounds, who aren't as successful as they want to be, who often know more about comic books and films than what they should do with their lives.
And, also, whenever I see Daisy I see me, which is both alarming and brilliant; alarming because she's lazy, poor, eternally procrastinating and not doing enough with her life, but brilliant, because she's such a human, real creation that it's impossible not to love her, and love Simon and Jess for making something so close to people's hearts. They understand it all, man!
If you've never seen it, do. It's wonderful. And I leave you with this montage, edited together by Edgar Wright. Enjoy!
Bloody youtube wouldn't let me embed it. But it's here!
I have to say, I feel slightly unworthy of celebrating, mainly because I only got into Spaced a couple of years ago, as the first series only aired when I was eight years old. Too young for Daisy and Tim and their doobies and discussions of porn. But, despite all the other stuff I've been into since, Spaced will ALWAYS stick with me. No show has ever struck me on such a personal level. I've been emotionally involved in shows (well...show) like Torchwood, but Spaced is just real. Utterly real to me, and so many others, even though it's filled with surreality.
I love it. It's a love letter to geeks everywhere, and ridiculously quotable. It's about ordinary people, people down on their luck, who we can identify so much more with than vapid characters on American sitcoms. It's what I want to see, because I know it's more real; groups of friends who aren't love hounds, who aren't as successful as they want to be, who often know more about comic books and films than what they should do with their lives.
And, also, whenever I see Daisy I see me, which is both alarming and brilliant; alarming because she's lazy, poor, eternally procrastinating and not doing enough with her life, but brilliant, because she's such a human, real creation that it's impossible not to love her, and love Simon and Jess for making something so close to people's hearts. They understand it all, man!
If you've never seen it, do. It's wonderful. And I leave you with this montage, edited together by Edgar Wright. Enjoy!
Bloody youtube wouldn't let me embed it. But it's here!