The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Things we've learned from Bonekickers: suspension of disbelief doesn't cross the Atlantic" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/09/things_weve_learned_for_bonekickers_suspension_of.php Comments for the entry "Things we've learned from Bonekickers: suspension of disbelief doesn't cross the Atlantic" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:13:44 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry Bonekickers wasn't any good.

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24680 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:13:44 +00:00 Comment from Dan Well, Bonekickers was on primetime BBC1 (the #1 channel in the UK, in most peoples' opinion), whereas Relic Hunter aired on a minority Canadian channel. You automatically expect more from a BBC product. If Bonekickers was made by Bravo and aired in the afternoons, it would probably be a cult hit. Also, the creators were the team behind Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes, so anyone aware of that expected higher quality. Anyway, Bonekickers was quite good fun if you approached it as preposterous "what if?" entertainment. Just a shame its pedigree had everyone expecting so much more.

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24681 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:18:50 +00:00 Comment from Rev Oh some of the stuff written by TheWordBoy is brilliant. This in particular had me laughing for a good minute or so:

"How about television reviewers? Not that there are many left now, poor loves. As relevant to the machinations of contemporary broadcasting as a dodo is to space travel."

Even now that makes me laugh, so much so that I'm going to use the last sentence as my new sub-header for my blog.

You've made my day, thanks.

*goes off for a good laugh*

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24683 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:55:02 +00:00 Comment from Aaron I think it's a case of a bad show simply being a bad show. I'm just glad my snarky livejournal recaps of the show weren't seen by Ashely Pharoah!

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24684 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:57:29 +00:00 Comment from Rev But they were seen by those lovely people at www.burn-gorman.com :P

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24685 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:08:56 +00:00 Comment from Aaron It's all true, I am jealous of Burn Gorman and his monkey face.

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24686 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:06:58 +00:00 Comment from Melissa Prove it. Post a picture of yourself! :p

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24687 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:26:07 +00:00 Comment from Aaron Unfortunately, I'm so hideous that my image cannot be captured by conventional photography. This is why I spend my time lurking in the sewers of Cardiff, living on a steady diet of rat whilst blogging about TV and being mean.

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24688 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:25:23 +00:00 Comment from Persephone Is that Hugh Bonneville pretending to be the Fourth Doctor?

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24689 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:12:10 +00:00 Comment from Aaron It's more Hugh Bonneville pretending to be Tom Baker down the pub.

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24690 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:00:26 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob So the question is, if the show had been in the same time slot on BBC1 but had been made in the US by Aaron Sorkin, say, and had a US cast, would it still have been regarded so badly?

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24691 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:48:15 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry I'm not sure that it would be comparing like with like, the Yanks are so much slicker at these kind of shows then us that we probably do suspend our disbelief more. Also they have a way of making SF/fantasy stuff which makes it seem more real then ours (well they did till Nu Who came along) - Buffy/The X Files etc was always more compelling then similar stuff in Britain at the time. So, I think, Rob, the answer is yes, it would be better, but I also suspect they'd have had better scripts too.

It works with books too. When I was editing teen fiction everything I published from the States was 10X cooler then the stuff I published here, I think we suffer from being too realistic. We probably don't suspend our own disbelief enough. It's still the case in kids books. My ten year old reads about domestic abuse in Jacqueline Wilson and the moral complexities of Doing It in Meg Cabot. One seems far too close to home, the other just lala land (well Meg Cabot's heroine is a princess after all).

]]> 4329@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24692 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:06:21 +00:00