andrew pillay

I think they should have made it animated rather than puppets. I kept getting distracted by the dead faces of the puppets as the mouths do not move with the speech. And perhaps the good guy puppets should not have hair. Because the story is about good, peace-loving blonde creatures who are obviously good and their fight against the ugly pterodactyl-like creatures who are obviously evil.

I liked it at first, but it's becoming like Lost where there is an unending sequence of new loopy things happening each episode with no hope of any resolution. People talk about its originality. But it's really just Quantum Leap, or Shifters and before that, The Time Tunnel. Sure it has original stuff built around it, but it's the same idea.

Not a popular opinion, but I think it is over-rated. It's a lightweight show, nothing more. If that's what you want then give it a go. But if you are looking for intelligent commentary and well-rounded characters then keep searching because this is not it. Boiled down, it is a show featuring some choice insults and wit, but that's all there is and this is just a vehicle for Ricky Gervais to show off his superiority. It quickly becomes too sentimental and saccharine. I couldn't believe the one-dimensional characters - why did his wife put up with him, why did his boss persevere with him in the face of his own marital troubles and a tenuous business, why did his colleagues put up with him, how does a guy working for a community newspaper afford such a fancy house? The main character undergoes a major change of outlook and stops dishing out stinging insults and instead hands out presents like Ebenezer Scrooge. Yet this is the same guy who calmly hands over the money to a junkie who needs the money to procure enough drugs to overdose. There are no repercussions for this action and no real remorse for his actions.

Absolutely peerless.