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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 195991" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>There's a sense of continuity and forward movement to <em>The Fenn Street Gang</em> as it plods merrily along. The second series was consistently enjoyable and ended with Sharon and Eric's engagement. While the third has seen them buying a home, getting married and taking a honeymoon, all with varying degrees of sitcom cliche.</p><p></p><p>My biggest gripe about Sharon and Eric's wedding were the conspicuous absences of Maureen and Dennis. They've been absent from the series' landscape for the whole of the third series, with just an occasional hint about the reasons (Maureen's studying gynaecology somewhere. Dennis is doing something. Probably something to do with horses. Whinny, whinny). Mostly it's been OK. But the idea that Maureen wouldn't be bridesmaid to her bestest schoolfriend, no matter where she was, is highly untruthful. It's particularly disappointing because of how carefully we've said goodbye to characters before. Even Bernard Hedges spun off into the Gang's first series to wrap up his story. Which brings me to another disappointment: the gang all attended his wedding. Why was there no suggestion of him being invited to the wedding of two of his favourite former pupils.</p><p></p><p>Not that the third series is bad. It's just become more standard. It's a good, standard sitcom. But it lacks the detail I've come to associate with this franchise. Part of me wondered why not simply recast the two characters as they previously did Sharon and Peter. But it's probably best they didn't. Sharon was recast for a different series, and has generally worked. Peter has always felt like a lower-key character so his recast wasn't so prominent, but even then the recast never completely won me over.</p><p></p><p>Instead, Dennisisms find their way into several of the male characters (perhaps Frankie Abbott most of all), while Sharon's former boutique assistant, the dopey, indecisive Miss Celeste "I Dunno" Lockhart has had her role gently boosted. She's different to Maureen, but that's no bad thing, otherwise why bother.</p><p></p><p>With a whopping forty four episodes behind me and a piffling three remaining, I'm now definitely on the home stretch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 195991, member: 23"] There's a sense of continuity and forward movement to [I]The Fenn Street Gang[/I] as it plods merrily along. The second series was consistently enjoyable and ended with Sharon and Eric's engagement. While the third has seen them buying a home, getting married and taking a honeymoon, all with varying degrees of sitcom cliche. My biggest gripe about Sharon and Eric's wedding were the conspicuous absences of Maureen and Dennis. They've been absent from the series' landscape for the whole of the third series, with just an occasional hint about the reasons (Maureen's studying gynaecology somewhere. Dennis is doing something. Probably something to do with horses. Whinny, whinny). Mostly it's been OK. But the idea that Maureen wouldn't be bridesmaid to her bestest schoolfriend, no matter where she was, is highly untruthful. It's particularly disappointing because of how carefully we've said goodbye to characters before. Even Bernard Hedges spun off into the Gang's first series to wrap up his story. Which brings me to another disappointment: the gang all attended his wedding. Why was there no suggestion of him being invited to the wedding of two of his favourite former pupils. Not that the third series is bad. It's just become more standard. It's a good, standard sitcom. But it lacks the detail I've come to associate with this franchise. Part of me wondered why not simply recast the two characters as they previously did Sharon and Peter. But it's probably best they didn't. Sharon was recast for a different series, and has generally worked. Peter has always felt like a lower-key character so his recast wasn't so prominent, but even then the recast never completely won me over. Instead, Dennisisms find their way into several of the male characters (perhaps Frankie Abbott most of all), while Sharon's former boutique assistant, the dopey, indecisive Miss Celeste "I Dunno" Lockhart has had her role gently boosted. She's different to Maureen, but that's no bad thing, otherwise why bother. With a whopping forty four episodes behind me and a piffling three remaining, I'm now definitely on the home stretch. [/QUOTE]
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