Jonathan creek started again tonight at 9pm on BBC1.
So far I'm finding the ep boring.
So far I'm finding the ep boring.
Jonathan creek
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Some good episodes in the past, haven't watched any of series 5, but The Savant's Thumb was horribly predictable.
There's a new Jonathan Creek??
I freakin' LOVED this show! What's the new special called? Or is it a whole season?
I freakin' LOVED this show! What's the new special called? Or is it a whole season?
New series, hope it's better than The Savant's Thumb.
There are three, one hour episodes.
Hmm...that was...a bit odd?
So this is how it's going to be now?
It is nice to have him back, but I still miss Maddie, and I'm not sure I like the new dynamic with Sarah Alexander (but I understand the character can't stand still).
So this is how it's going to be now?
We're going to see how the mystery happens before Jonathan figures it out?
It is nice to have him back, but I still miss Maddie, and I'm not sure I like the new dynamic with Sarah Alexander (but I understand the character can't stand still).
That was a bit odd wasn't it? Can't really see the logic in starting off the new run with the new format with a format breaking episode, I think it might have worked better as the plot of the middle episode after it had properly re-established itself. The digs at Sherlock felt a bit glass house full of stones (and hardly fresh, Terry Pratchett was doing jokes about how that "I see you're a sailor" style stuff would never really work 20 years ago), some of the solutions to prior Creek's are just as dependant on making unlikely connections to come up with an improbable way of killing someone.
More worryingly, there were an awful lot of irrelevant sub-plots for an episode only an hour long, (I think Jonathan spent about five minutes investigating the actual case), even with us spending a lot of time with the "Villains" thanks to seeing how it was done they were almost completely uninteresting (and seemed to get away with it at the end? I don't think it really confirmed if the one baddy actually survived what happened in the denouement) and Polly was suddenly a lot less game for it than it seemed at the end of the last special.
It's also odd the whole magicians assistant angle was, IIRC, dropped for budgetary reasons, but the new season opened with a big lush theatrical production that might as well as been a magic show.
More worryingly, there were an awful lot of irrelevant sub-plots for an episode only an hour long, (I think Jonathan spent about five minutes investigating the actual case), even with us spending a lot of time with the "Villains" thanks to seeing how it was done they were almost completely uninteresting (and seemed to get away with it at the end? I don't think it really confirmed if the one baddy actually survived what happened in the denouement) and Polly was suddenly a lot less game for it than it seemed at the end of the last special.
It's also odd the whole magicians assistant angle was, IIRC, dropped for budgetary reasons, but the new season opened with a big lush theatrical production that might as well as been a magic show.
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Yeah it is a bit of a worrying start. Hopefully it's just a little bit of a reboot, with the old house replacing the windmill (which I believe is no longer available anyway) and like I said, I don't mind that Jonathan's life has moved on, I'm more bothered by the early reveal, and yeah the Sherlock stuff was almost painful at times, especially given that it's , what 2 months since we saw a better "How was someone stabbed in an empty room" mystery in the second Sherlock episode.
Hopefully now the house is established (and also Polly seeming to start working things out herself) things can settle down a little.
Also I have to say
Hopefully now the house is established (and also Polly seeming to start working things out herself) things can settle down a little.
Also I have to say
Septimus No one was soooo obvious. To be honest the only mystery worth its salt was the vacuum cleaner/ashes one! Which is a bit sad really.
This weeks ep was a little better than last week's but still not has good as it used to be .
But I don't get why Polly and Jonathan are together I don't see any chemistry there.
But I don't get why Polly and Jonathan are together I don't see any chemistry there.
I can't get used to seeing him in a suit.
What was so embarrassing abut him setting up magic shows and solving mystery's for a living?
I've decided to see these as parodies of Moffat's work and that makes them at least slightly more interesting, but the non-mystery of the first and the bad gags of the second haven't made it particularly worth watching so far. And that doesn't bode well for Alan's wish to do 10 more series.
Well the third one was all right I suppose, not sure if the 2nd or the 3rd was the best one, but it isn't saying much. The watch in the hair was even more contrived than you'd expect from JC, surely you'd feel it there?
As for the whole Josie Lawrence subplot,
As for Sarah Alexander, I'm sure she's lovely, and yes she looks very good in a pair of jeans, but she basically always plays exactly the same character! Polly is effectively Susan from Coupling.
As for the whole Josie Lawrence subplot,
marital infidelity and death, it's a larwf isn't it, and would Polly really get herself embroiled in moving a body like that?
As for Sarah Alexander, I'm sure she's lovely, and yes she looks very good in a pair of jeans, but she basically always plays exactly the same character! Polly is effectively Susan from Coupling.
All a bit odd. They didn't really have much in the way of mystery, and relatively little humour too. All three felt empty. Not very satisfying.
Aww. I was looking forward to this. Meh. I'll still watch it, just because I love JC so much, but now I know not to get my hopes up.
OK, finally got a chance to watch the first two. On the first one, I thought it was OK, kinda funny---the git boy who thinks he's the next Sherlock Holmes, for example. But I found the structure really odd. How exciting can it be if we already know WHO did it, HOW and WHY? Very odd. But I did get a chuckle out the mystical Roomba. The "letters" were a dead giveaway right from the start.
The second one--the whole bit with the bunny unnecessary but I liked the ketchup bottle jokes and the burglars bit. The numbers on the wall was a good mystery but the rest was a bit odd.
These certainly do pale in comparison to, for instance, "The Scented Room," but they're not bad. I'd say, "Just OK" so far.
The second one--the whole bit with the bunny unnecessary but I liked the ketchup bottle jokes and the burglars bit. The numbers on the wall was a good mystery but the rest was a bit odd.
These certainly do pale in comparison to, for instance, "The Scented Room," but they're not bad. I'd say, "Just OK" so far.
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