The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Review: Bonekickers 1x1" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/07/review_bonekickers_1x1.php Comments for the entry "Review: Bonekickers 1x1" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:54:12 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry We caught the last fifteen minutes of this. Both of us were keen to watch it as a) we like history/archeology stuff and my husband is really into Templar history and b) the cast list looked fantastic... But.... oh dear oh dear. If the rest of it was like this last fifteen minutes (and from your review it would seem so) we won't be watching again. Paul Nicholls swinging insanely about on a bit of rope, waving a sword (and STILL somehow not managing to cut Julie Graham down)? The whole place going up in flames at the end, and two people are dead, and the cast response is to go to the pub???

The Muslim/Christian thing sounds as if it was handled incredibly badly. Yes... Ferdinand and Isabella were pretty foul to the Moors in Spain (Granada went from being an incredibly enlightened place where Jews, Muslims, Christians got on rather well under the Moors, to a hateful Catholic You Will All Love Jesus kind of place - and I say this as a Catholic). But. The Crusades weren't all about evil Christians slaughtering peaceful Muslims - everyone was pretty much slaughtering everyone else for a lot of the time. You can't judge what they did by the mores of today, and I always get really cross when TV does a glossy number on these things. (Witness the direness of Robin Hood).

Anyway you've saved me bothering to watch it again - unless you tell me next week is better!

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24411 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:54:12 +00:00 Comment from Peter Jones Look, you didn't need to watch this (I didn't) to know it would be rubbish. The trailer and time of year were enough! However, had to say that though I didn't have a clue who Phil Willis is (I do now), clearly he is much closer to the opposite of Bruce than, say, Bob or Ted or any other Willis. Completely brilliant!

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24412 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:35:13 +00:00 Comment from Marie I didn't watch it because I thought it looked awful, but I am almost disappinted that I missed it now, so that I could have reveled in its direness. Of course, when I say "almost" I mean not quite, ie not enough to look it up on iPlayer...

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24414 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:54:32 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob There's always next week's episode.

Am tempted to suggest, after thinking about it, that the writers might have been trying to capture 70s and 80s nostalgia again by aping action shows of the time that are now universally derived. Might be reading too much into it though.

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24415 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:24:03 +00:00 Comment from Rullsenberg I feel the line "I laugh and point at archaelogists" has never been more apt...

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24417 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:30:20 +00:00 Comment from Stu Nathan It has actually displaced 'Cyberwoman' as the worst hour of TV 'drama' ever transmitted on the BBC. We were really, really hoping it was supposed to be a comedy. And next week's looks worse, if anything. Eamonn Walker! What are you thinking?

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24419 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:12:39 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry Crikey. There IS something worse then Cyberwoman? I am really glad we only wasted fifteen minutes on this then...

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24420 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:38:39 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob I've said it before and I'll probably say it again: at least Cyberwoman was interesting. I'd much rather be subjected to something that's interesting but ultimately rubbish than something that's actually much better written but boring (cf the episode that preceded Cyberwoman).

I'd prefer, on the whole though, to watch something that's both well written and interesting.

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24425 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:24:45 +00:00 Comment from stu-n I'd say 'grimly fascinating' rather than interesting.

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24428 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:55:35 +00:00 Comment from Chris Copp Wellll I stuck with it for 2.33 episodes. Then I just felt sorry for my poor brain and gave up. If the actors think it's bollox...and you can see they do, then it IS bollox!!! Now I know why Ashes to Ashes was so bad...

]]> 4225@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24584 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:45:31 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob You poor, poor man.

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