It was a great fun ep, but yes, it had its hopeless moments. I do think if they'd worked a little harder they could have done better things with Burton and Connor, too - probably if Adrian H had been a little more involved in the writing than he seems to have been, it might have worked better.
S4 and 5 suffered somewhat from having to introduce new characters once again, and give them all something to do. S1 and 2, and to some extent even S3 seemed to handle this better. They also had a slightly better grasp on the passage of time - half the trouble with the Connor-Burton thing is that if you observe the series carefully enough, it appears to have developed in a very short space of time, rather than the weeks or months that would have helped it make more sense.
I'm not sure they'd have had much chance to corral the bugs, even if they'd wanted to - there were far too many. But yeah, on the whole, I'm not going to waste too much sympathy on a horde of beetley things! ;-)
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Date: 2011-07-06 04:57 pm (UTC)S4 and 5 suffered somewhat from having to introduce new characters once again, and give them all something to do. S1 and 2, and to some extent even S3 seemed to handle this better. They also had a slightly better grasp on the passage of time - half the trouble with the Connor-Burton thing is that if you observe the series carefully enough, it appears to have developed in a very short space of time, rather than the weeks or months that would have helped it make more sense.
I'm not sure they'd have had much chance to corral the bugs, even if they'd wanted to - there were far too many. But yeah, on the whole, I'm not going to waste too much sympathy on a horde of beetley things! ;-)