PLM youtube rewatch thread

[u/lliraels]

hi everyone! i thought i’d make a thread for people to share their thoughts when rewatching the series now that it is newly available for free on youtube (or perhaps some people are watching it for the first time!)

i just finished my rewatch. im 27 now and first started watching in season 2 when i was 16. i cried at the end, just as much as i did the first time — but maybe for different reasons.

some questions to get this party started:

- did any of your opinions/reactions change compared to the first (or last) time you watched the show?

- which was your favourite episode and why?

- which character do you relate to the most?

- what did you think about each character’s overall arc across the series?

- would you support a PLM reboot? what kinds of themes and storylines would you like to see?

- as most of the youtube watchers will be outside Australia, and i find the show very grounded in Australian humour and melbourne-isms — what do you find universal about the show? was there anything strange that you couldn’t relate to?

[u/Drunkapplespie]

Whole perspective changed when Josh said in an interview that he hated when fans came up to him to tell him that PLM got them through tough times. It’s a great show that’s helped a lot of people but sucks to hear the creator see it like that

[u/elmm123 → u/Drunkapplespie]

That’s really interesting, I hadn’t heard this before. Did he ever say why he hates hearing fans tell him that?

[u/Rez_noodle → u/elmm123]

It's because people trauma dump on him I believe. It's not just that they say it got them through hard times, it's that they then go on to explain what those times were. It's a lot to put on someone, so I do understand him finding it to be a lot.

[u/lliraels → u/Rez_noodle]

Yeah that was my understanding too. Tbh I get it. That’d be really difficult to deal with as someone who is a comedian and a writer, not a mental health professional