Alfred J Kipper
Tuesday 16th May 2023 9:37pm [Edited]
Aldershot
8,012 posts
Not at all, these days they just write about sex. Joke. Well I know I wasn't being sexist if no one else here does. 'Womanly' didn't sound right so I used 'girlie' and in inverted commas, and isn't always meant as demeaning or patronising but unfortunately has been hijacked just for that purpose now, but wasn't used that way here. 'Feminine' was what I meant but doesn't convey the context of female hotel worker in the 1970s environment, which we know was sexist, and was why I plumped for that word, to hopefully convey the context tongue in cheekily. But you can't win these days.
And I'm partly referring to and echoing what has often been written about the balance of the scriptwriting partnership within the work, with Cleese's huge body of work preceding and following FT given, forensically in some cases, as evidence of his dominance in the style or more. I'm not sure there's ever been a delcaration by either refuting or confirming this. I know she came up with some good plot ideas but the general tone of the sitcom and style of dialogue screams Cleese to me (and I believe many others).
But I only said it to suggest there's no great reason why it shouldn't be as good, or nearly as good. Unless age and lack of motivation has dimmed his ability. But I somehow can't see him spending six weeks on each episode script, which is the reason he's been giving for the last 40 years for not co-writing another series of it.
