A formal complaint
Jun. 30th, 2016 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakLet's face it, the producers/headwriters of this show called "British Politics" have finally lost it. They suck. There's such a thing as shades of grey characterisation and flawed characters, sure, but they still need to be believable. Look, we'd have gotten the point about how that lame Francis Urquart wannabe, Boris Johnson, just was after power already. But leading a breaking Europe campaign so he could be PM, with the plan being that the vote doesn't actually go through, that's already over the top. Now his face at the first public appearance when the vote actually went Breaking Europe, that said it all, that was good tv. However, him quitting the resulting Tory leadership contest because he really doesn't want to deal with the resulting mess, that's just too much of a caricature.
Speaking of caricatures: what's with the Michael Gove characterisation? He already was set up to defy belief with his stanning for World War I and blaming WWI's bad public image on Blackadder, while being minister for education, no less. Did we really need that "we don't need no stinking experts" appearance? That's just a lame imitation of the main villain in the overseas spin-off. Cut it down, please.
But where the show has really lost the plot is this: downer episodes of apocalyptic dimensions are all very well, but then we need someone to rally. Where's the subsequent episode where the Labour people use the golden opportunity to denounce the government party who is responsible for the unholy mess? Where's the part where one of them, preferably the head of the party, uses departing villain Cameron's first appearance in Parliament after the Brexitocalypse to eviscerate him and the party he represents verbally? Instead, you give us Labour busy eviscarating itself, all of them screaming at each other how vile they were, no one giving an airtime minute of criticism directed at the Tories. And when Cameron - CAMERON - tells the supposed head of the good guys that he needs to quit, there's not even the teensiest weensiest reminder on the part of our hero that if Cameron had quit ages ago and had devoted himself to the joys of necroporkophilia in private, the current mess might not be happening at all. Nor does anyone else point this is out. Too busy with the infighting. I suspect the scriptwriter of this episode to be a secret Tory itching to spread the incompetent leftists stereotype, except for the part where the conservatives are made to look just as incompetent, and craven to boot. (Again: Boris' disappearance act.)
In conclusion: fire those writers and producers. And the cast as well. This show needs a complete overhaul.
Speaking of caricatures: what's with the Michael Gove characterisation? He already was set up to defy belief with his stanning for World War I and blaming WWI's bad public image on Blackadder, while being minister for education, no less. Did we really need that "we don't need no stinking experts" appearance? That's just a lame imitation of the main villain in the overseas spin-off. Cut it down, please.
But where the show has really lost the plot is this: downer episodes of apocalyptic dimensions are all very well, but then we need someone to rally. Where's the subsequent episode where the Labour people use the golden opportunity to denounce the government party who is responsible for the unholy mess? Where's the part where one of them, preferably the head of the party, uses departing villain Cameron's first appearance in Parliament after the Brexitocalypse to eviscerate him and the party he represents verbally? Instead, you give us Labour busy eviscarating itself, all of them screaming at each other how vile they were, no one giving an airtime minute of criticism directed at the Tories. And when Cameron - CAMERON - tells the supposed head of the good guys that he needs to quit, there's not even the teensiest weensiest reminder on the part of our hero that if Cameron had quit ages ago and had devoted himself to the joys of necroporkophilia in private, the current mess might not be happening at all. Nor does anyone else point this is out. Too busy with the infighting. I suspect the scriptwriter of this episode to be a secret Tory itching to spread the incompetent leftists stereotype, except for the part where the conservatives are made to look just as incompetent, and craven to boot. (Again: Boris' disappearance act.)
In conclusion: fire those writers and producers. And the cast as well. This show needs a complete overhaul.
