I have to agree with youalyburnsJanuary 10 2012, 03:55:14 UTC
I'm gone from the show, just as I left Primeval. My head can only swim so much. For teens, no problem, they have so many hormones, these kind of changes are SOP, but for me. Nope. :(
Re: I have to agree with younialla42January 10 2012, 14:57:22 UTC
I especially don't like it when there seems to be a "we'll swap this character for this one, they're pretty much the same" attitude at work. I can already see they've got the new vamp ready to romance Annie, and I'm sure Tom will be picking up the werewolf slack once George and Nina are gone.
Primeval sort of found a new ground, but too many changes at once resulted in such a tone change that it went from actually making it seem like Cutter was going to figure out an answer about the anomolies to "Fuck it, more dinosaurs! More of Cutter's insane ex-wife trying to eradicate humanity before it begins, which includes her, the idjit. More!"
This is very common for our programmes (assuming this is the Brit version you're talking about?). Our actors don't tend to stick around on one programme for more than a few years (assuming the programme lasts that long, which is rare for non-soaps). I assume part of it is because an awful lot of our actors are both theatre and telly, so they're used to changing frequently, and another part is that they'll only spend a few months of the year filming any particular programme so will have a lot more time off to do other things. The 9 months of the year thing you have for filming in the US just doesn't happen
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It wouldn't bother me so much if they were just dealing with the fallout of Mitchell's demise the end of the series, maybe have someone else leave at the end of this series, but so much at once is making my brain hurt
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I don't think there's much of a difference between theatre and tv work, but there's likely a scale of work in terms of crappy afternoon soap versus Shakespeare at the Globe. I'm not knowledgeable about this, though.
Our series tend to be short, so instead of having 22 episodes you have 6 or 8 or even 3. It really doesn't take that long to film, so an actor could do several programmes in a year if the timing were right. We also don't have the kind of season that you have, so new stuff comes throughout the year (less over the summer) and can be filmed quite a while in advance of it actually being shown.
The other thing is our telly doesn't have anywhere near the budget your telly does, so most actors can't afford to just do one programme each year.
Also, yes, the Doctor Who changes have an effect on me, too. Took me a really long time to like the last guy because I'd been so impressed by Ecclestone. The current guy hasn't really grown on me to any great extent, but he's okay and I'm watching. I can't stand whatserface who played Donna, so I didn't watch those episodes, and I was fine with that.
I don't watch Being Human, but the idea of having replacement characters that viewers will find just as good really doesn't work. Doctor Who is unique, particularly as one is the same character all the time. The whole Daniel Jackson debacle was a classic example of thinking the audience won't notice what's happened. I understand why show makers want to do it - they often don't have a choice but to make do with choices actors make (or are forced to make) - but they can't be surprised when it backfires on them. Sorry it's happening to yet another programme you like.
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Primeval sort of found a new ground, but too many changes at once resulted in such a tone change that it went from actually making it seem like Cutter was going to figure out an answer about the anomolies to "Fuck it, more dinosaurs! More of Cutter's insane ex-wife trying to eradicate humanity before it begins, which includes her, the idjit. More!"
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Our series tend to be short, so instead of having 22 episodes you have 6 or 8 or even 3. It really doesn't take that long to film, so an actor could do several programmes in a year if the timing were right. We also don't have the kind of season that you have, so new stuff comes throughout the year (less over the summer) and can be filmed quite a while in advance of it actually being shown.
The other thing is our telly doesn't have anywhere near the budget your telly does, so most actors can't afford to just do one programme each year.
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I don't watch Being Human, but the idea of having replacement characters that viewers will find just as good really doesn't work. Doctor Who is unique, particularly as one is the same character all the time. The whole Daniel Jackson debacle was a classic example of thinking the audience won't notice what's happened. I understand why show makers want to do it - they often don't have a choice but to make do with choices actors make (or are forced to make) - but they can't be surprised when it backfires on them. Sorry it's happening to yet another programme you like.
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