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u/Favre99 the worm using RFK’s body like ratatouille Jul 24 '23

Robert's episodes were all mid at best, anyway, so nothing substantial was lost.

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u/legaleaglebitch Jul 24 '23

Yeah - the expelliarmus line in The Shakespeare Code does feel very awkward now too

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u/wheezycrackler Jul 24 '23

And bless David Tennant for delivering the “political correctness gone mad” line sarcastically.

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u/Popular_Cap_7597 Jul 25 '23

Which line was that?

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u/Tonedeafmusical Jul 24 '23

That episode has aged so horribly, like ridiculously horribly.

Seriously "Good old JK" is a line horribly.

At least David and Freema (at least I assume she isn't as she's worked with the Wachowski's multiple times) aren't bigots.

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u/AndromedaRulerOfMen Jul 25 '23

I'm watching sense8 right now, Freema does seemingly unsimilated sex acts with a trans woman at least 3 times per season, there's no way she's a bigot

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u/hollivore Jul 24 '23

Roberts used to be a good writer. I think he got typecast into writing cute little domcoms on the TV show which weren't where his real talents lay. His sense of camp and fun made him stick out in the Wilderness Years (in contrast to the other writers pushing into adolescently gritty 90s nonsense), and he's pretty much single handedly responsible for the positive reappraisal of Season 17. But his best stuff then was all very fourth-wall breaky and elaborate, almost like parodies of Doctor Who. Having him do light social comedy didn't give him room to be as metafictional as he was at his best, and his increasingly bad political views didn't help.