When To Leave Things Alone
I grew up with Only Fools and Horses. I loved it so much that it didn’t matter to me how rubbish the gags were, or the latest scheme selling the cheapest leather sofas, or how diabolical Del Boy was to Rodney and Granddad, I wouldn’t hear bad of it. For this reason I was EXTREMELY excited to hear that a prequel had been dreamed up and was to appear on British TV very soon. How good was this! It was fantastic beyond my wildest dreams, even the ones I had when I was a young n and had got my first poster of Pamela Anderson. And even better it had been produced by the very man who had been behind the original show! I watched Rock and Chips knowing it would be good. How could it not be anything but a work of masterpiece genius?
Then, after fifteen minutes of staring at the screen and trying my best to enjoy it, something inside my head went snap and I flew in to an Only Fools and Horses induced rage. “It’s terrible and it can’t be!” I said, getting in a right old state. “This breaks every law under the sun and is morally and in every way WRONG!” I then left the house without saying a word to my bemused wife and kids and went for a very long walk to ponder just what had happened and how I would ever get over it. That was months ago and I am still not over it. It will take DECADES. That was how devastatingly bad Rock and Chips was. The worst thing? I still can’t put my finger on WHY precisely it was so shockingly rubbish. The acting was good, and the story wasn’t bad…but I don’t know…it was just missing something. Sadly, much as I hate to admit this, some things are better left alone.
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