Isn’t this the episode everyone hates for no reason?
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“For no reason” is perhaps a bit of a generalisation, but it is quite widely disliked.
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I have plenty of reasons lol
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What are they?
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I don’t like the story.
I don’t like the characters.
I don’t like Peter Kay.
The purile innunendo at the end is in poor taste & doesn’t belong in the show.
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I completely agree with you. Any given story may not be someone’s cup of tea. It may even be unpopular with a lot of people but the likelihood is that someone somewhere will either love it or, at the very least, have a reason why that story resonates with them emotionally.
I actually find it quite hurtful when people use such definitively negative and essentialist language like that (yes, even with stories I might not be that fond of myself). It doesn’t help anyone. It also solidifies opinions, ossifies minds and reinforces the idea that there is only one way you should take a given story. Arbiters of other peoples subjective enjoyment. Nope! 
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I love it, right up until its third act when the Absorbaloff starts chasing Elton. It goes awry then, even though I don’t particularly mind the design of the Absorbaloff. It’s generally good fun. I hated it in 2006, but I’ve grown to like it a lot more since.
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It’s so funny to me that the Abzorbaloff is the 6th most viewed video on the official YouTube channel. Let’s get it to 9m views!
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Is it weird to say that I enjoy Love and Monsters,I think its a 7/10 episode and not nearly as bad as other people take it for,idk elton is kind of likeable and i love that music segment with ELO.Jackie also icon in it.
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Not really. It’s mostly the bad paving slab joke at the end that brings the whole thing down, and being at the end, it’s what you tend to remember. ELO and Elton and Jackie are great.
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Not weird at all. There’s several posts above yours in this topic that says just that… 
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That is amazing, with the perfect ending where Rose slapps Eltin
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I don’t remember Rose slapping him. She definitely told him off, but I think that was it.
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Just looked through the Series 2 episodes again and realized this one is probably in my top three this season… Only GitF and Doomsday score higher for me (and you don’t have many other options when you think the Satan Pit two-parter is just kinda okay).
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I think that you are right, that might have been me misremembering.
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To be fair, there’ve been a lot of slaps. Hard to keep them straight sometimes.
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I don’t mind the paving stone gag, even if it’s a bit weird, but I don’t think it makes a satisfying ending to the episode. Overall though I would say it’s a pretty great episode until the monster is revealed
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I mean, the idea is great; a lot of the narrative beats are great. Elton is great, ELO is great.
And then there’s the monster designed by a child…
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I usually hate the monster design, but I think letting a kid design it is sweet, so I’ll be nice to it
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ELO’s just straight an amazing band, with lots of great songs and plenty of hits. Their whole album “Time” is one I love listening to back to front…
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