Oh, dear God...

[desperance]

I just watched an episode of Bonekickers. That was ... um, crap? Of the first water? Watery crap? Just absolute mad incoherent patronising contemptible bollocks...

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[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

It's crap.

I watched the first one and thought it was terrible but convinced myself it was just first night jitters. So I've just watched the second one to see if it had improved.

It hasn't. Soooooo disappointed. I'm not risking a third.

[ephiriel.livejournal.com]

I would like to say snap.
Actually I didn't watch the entire first episode and didn't want to watch this one but my other half thought we should give them the benefit of the doubt and then ran off screaming - 'cause it's rubbish that won't be worth digging up!!

[jeremy-m.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm with Adam Smith on the virtues of specialisation. The greatest good for the greatest number occurs when everyone does the one thing they're especially good at, and somewhere in the world there had to be someone with a remarkable talent for making rubbish archaeological shows.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

They really need to give up on having ill-defined and rather ineffectual secret societies as the big bad every week. Also, possibly stop making the show before they make me cry.

(I love Boadicea. I don't want to watch soft porn of her sexing up some random Roman.)

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

I've got a feeling I'm going to have to sic Manda Scott on them after that trailer.

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

I'm just hoping it was before Prasutagus' death and the annexation of the kingdom.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they (the perpetrators) should read the scene of the battle at the ford and see what Manda means by 'bone kicking'.

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

I suspect they're using wikipedia as their historical source - and that the topical figleaf next week is going to be star-crossed lovers.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

You think they're being that rigorous?

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

Either that or Hell-Boy comics.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

(I love Boadicea. I don't want to watch soft porn of her sexing up some random Roman.)

Just en passant, have you read Manda Scott's Boudica series?

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

Not yet, but they are part of my TBR shelf. I went on a historical fiction bender over Christmas: Spartans, Macedonians and Celts. I'm still working my work through them all (after a brief delay caused by a rather bizarre digression in the Attila the Hun novel where he was whisked away for a bit of traumatising paedophilia by a Roman kerbcrawler.)

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

You thought it was that good, eh? It made me long for the high quality of Relic Hunter.

[timill]

Shoulda watched Jimmy Doherty on farming on BBC2. Now that was interesting.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

You need the bone_kickers lj community. Founded during the first episode by someone who hadn't actually watched all of it. There's a drinking game. And already a substantial body of slash fiction.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

The slash fiction involving hacking at the writers with machetes, rather than Adrian Lester porn.

[wishus.livejournal.com]

I haven't even seen this yet. I strangely feel as though I should...

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Oh go on, say what you really think.

I'm glad I fell asleep before I got round to thinking about watching it. Though, bizarrely, I heard the first episode reviewed by, among others, the archaeologist Mike Pitts, who actually seemed to like it, in parts. Which worried me a lot as I thought the basic premise was ... not something I really wanted to think about.

[glass-mountain.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha...you should have seen LAST week! Insane modern knight templar beheading innocent Muslim guy in Bath underpass (Bath...wait? Isn't that where I live?) not to mention a dove-cote in Herefordshire which just happened to have a stash of Roman crosses buried beneath, including THE true cross (cue unearthly lights and heavenly music).
Wooden acting and unadulterated b*llocks.

[annathepiper]

absolute mad incoherent patronising contemptible bollocks

HAR. I'm scared of whatever this phrase might be describing. That said, it's a phrase with a certain piquant rhythm. Well said!