I just watched an episode of Bonekickers. That was ... um, crap? Of the first water? Watery crap? Just absolute mad incoherent patronising contemptible bollocks...
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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Date: 2008-07-15 09:07 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-07-15 09:31 pm (UTC)(I love Boadicea. I don't want to watch soft porn of her sexing up some random Roman.)
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Date: 2008-07-16 12:19 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-07-16 01:01 am (UTC)Wooden acting and unadulterated b*llocks.
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Date: 2008-07-16 01:58 am (UTC)HAR. I'm scared of whatever this phrase might be describing. That said, it's a phrase with a certain piquant rhythm. Well said!