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There's a new preview trailer doing the rounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSCaEijMx3U&sns=em
Exact same names, idea, jokes & script more or less but instead of the frisbee incident, they use a football to make it relevant :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSCaEijMx3U&sns=em
Exact same names, idea, jokes & script more or less but instead of the frisbee incident, they use a football to make it relevant :rolleyes:
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Ho ho!
the scripts could be exactly the same but the feel is all wrong.
From what I have seen of the US Office, they tried to do it like the original UK version and it din't really work in season 1. They then made a lot of changes and it became an "American" show and improved over the next couple of seasons. Direct copies don't work either way. I know they are trying to cash in on the name but it could do more harm than good, why just create a brand new show concentrating on the in-between kids and make no reference to the UK version?
I still think it will fail, for a few reasons
1) It's not that good - It's not 'Last Man Standing' dreadful, but it's certainly no 'Community'
2) Britain Likes Complaining - Regardless of whether the Americans like it or not there will always be a large crowd of British people sagging the show and it's fans off, which is rather off putting
3) It's essentially a rip off (and I don't mean of Inbetweeners UK) - It looks a lot like American Pie (and practically every other teenage film) without the f words, and OTT sex references
4) It's too tame - For a teenage show, there's no swear words, no gratuitous sex references and no realism. The worst you'll hear unbleeped is 'shit' (something which is acceptable at a 12A), and I very much doubt they'll go that far.
You wouldve thought MTV would have learnt a lesson from Skins US
Well if you thought the trailer was ok, then you are not a massive inbetweeners fan.
It was awful. Read all the comments on you tube!
I don't thinks that's a very fair comment to make. It's ok for people to have differences in opinion - it doesn't make them any more, or less, of a fan of something.
My own thoughts on the trailer echo those of an above poster - in that it looks very much like a clean 'American pie'.
Although; I probably will still, at least, watch the first episode.:)
I said I didn't think it was 'that bad', I didn't say I loved it.
Thanks
Does anyone know if the us has seen the full uk version?
All swearwords except shit were bleeped as well as c**k, which was also bleeped
The original will still exist, and the American version isn't suddenly going to irradiate it and the original won't suddenly become crap overnight. Even if the American version is crap, it's their loss as they've shunned the original...
I think we all need to stop having a go at the Americans, cos the only people they've ruined it for are themselves. We don't need to watch it, we can just pretend it doesn't exist, and let's face it,, it probably won't make it to a second season. Even the people that don't hate it, think it's mediocre at the best...
One for me to miss then.
Just an update..
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