- Tue May 15, 2001 11:00 am
#98784
Euan - I've just read back through some of your reviews and to be honest, they're probably not as good as you like to think they were. <br>At the risk of making myself unpopular with some people on this board I just want to point out that I think most of the reviews focus too much on listing what happened on the show rather than providing opinions or comment. Ben's reviews make comment, but on his antics rather than the show which is entertaining but perhaps not the point of a show review. I've only singled Ben out because his are the reviews that stand out in my mind the most, not because I have any particular problem with them. Also, as Moyles himself pointed out in his email to Chris (MW), I don't think there's alot of point doing them if you can't listen to, and concentrate on the whole show. If you tune in late et cetera you may be missing out on jokes that are running all the way through the show, features/phone calls/links that stand out as brilliant, and the overall feel of the show. I don't have time to do the reviews but I will suggest a few pointers that you can either sneer at, reject or think about. I personally think that looking at the role of each team member in the show would be of interest, for example, the way that Will and Lizzie seem to alternate in who speaks the most. Has the departure of Rhys and Melinda, and the arrival of Will and Lizzie upset the balance of the show? Rhys seemed to be more comfortable with the laddish atmosphere. How the show worked as a whole, did it seem disjointed, unplanned, well-thought out, smooth? How the interaction with guests changes the show - the people who drop in, Jon on a Friday. How listener participation affects the show. I may be thinking about this all too much but I'm doing an arts PhD and spend all day having to have thoughts like these;-)<p>[This message has been edited by Guess (edited 15 May 2001).]
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).<P>Get well soon Chris!