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Troll scene aside, I am just bored that it seems Disney and Amazon Studios share the same writers when it comes to their strong female leads.

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Americans should, I think, not be allowed to write fantasy because none of them know fairy tales well enough, and worse, none of them are capable of dry humor. I assume if I watch this Rings of Power show it'll turn out to be written by Joss Whedon and everyone will constantly be quipping at each other and looking at the camera like on The Office.

I'll watch it if the writers room turns out to be staffed by weird old British Catholics though.

none of them are capable of dry humor

Bill Murray, Nick Offerman, and Steven Wright would all like a word.

We must have very different definitions of dry humor if those three are your examples.

Steven Wright is dry, at least his powdered water joke is.

If we are talking individual jokes sure. He is the closest of the three and keeps the dead face unlike Nick Offerman who’s brow is integral to the comedy.

However he regularly expresses emotions through gestures and subtle body language, so yes it’s close but not there over a full routine.

Now this was a good chuckle

> Americans should, I think, not be allowed to write fantasy

Aye! They write Fantasy like action movies.

the British office lasted one season, while the American version lasted 9. Gervais also wrote much of the American one.

There were two seasons of the British version of the Office, and a Christmas special.

I don't think you should take the longevity of each as a mark of popularity or quality. The British version wasn't cancelled - Gervais and Marchant ended it deliberately with a proper conclusion. I don't think anyone doubts more British series would have been commissioned if they'd wanted to carry on.

When Gervais was asked if he likes the American version his response was "Yes of course. It's made me very rich." That's his dry sense of humor, but I suspect it also hints at why they stopped doing the UK version and started on the US version instead.

Gervais has writing credit for literally one episode of the American Office https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?role=nm0315041&job_type=wri...

And it has been said multiple times by people working on the American version that besides the inital setup, Gervais and Merchant had very little if any input and everything was done by the American wtiters/show runners.

They should take a cue from the Expanse. Like the wire, they just made the characters epic, male or female (having amazing actresses helped)

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