Mr Kenneth
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Hang on! Twenty-six planets? Innumerable Daleks? I make that Pimm's O' Clock!
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Post by Mr Kenneth on Jul 8, 2008 20:37:58 GMT
Oh my Bod!
I think it's so bad it's good! So far it has reminded me of Acorn Antiques, Footballers Wives, Pantomime, Picture Insurance Ads, and even Nadine Baggott's Olay!
Given the actors involved who have generally been impressive in other things, I can only think it must be the writing and direction - although there are definitely a couple of real panto villains!
Crikey there's been a comedy beheading of a man from Dudley! I can't get enough of this!
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 8, 2008 20:43:35 GMT
I'm leaving this for iPlayer so I can get screencaps of Hugh Bonneville and Adrian Lester looking incredulous.
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Post by Ugly Netty on Jul 8, 2008 21:05:37 GMT
I particularly enjoyed the beheading and the baddie's dramatic descent into the chamber, long coat flowing behind him and then battle on the bungee ropes.
I was very disappointed the old man didn't turn out to be Gomer Parry though.
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nixxxon
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Post by nixxxon on Jul 8, 2008 21:35:27 GMT
The bungee rope swordfight was comedy gold. But when did Paul Nicholls turn into Jake from Hollyoaks?
The ending was so blatantly Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade I expected there to be a dozen gold crosses and one little wooden one. And was a bit disappointed when that didn't happen.
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Post by Ugly Netty on Jul 8, 2008 21:38:47 GMT
But when did Paul Nicholls turn into Jake from Hollyoaks? And he didn't get his kit off once! Disgusting! |
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Post by al on Jul 9, 2008 8:37:28 GMT
Ugh. After he waggled his pecker right down the lens during the hideous Clapham Junction, I've seen enough of Paul Nicholls to last me a lifetime.
Is he actually capable of playing anything other than a comedy psychopath? I was almost expecting Lorraine Wicks to pop out, all "PLEASE JAW! I told yer not to be'ead Muslim folk!"
Other than that, I actually rather enjoyed this. It was tacky as hell, and I can imagine hordes of Time Team types squirming with embarrassment, but it was all good fun. And, most importantly, Tish Jones was ace.
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Post by jode* on Jul 9, 2008 10:59:25 GMT
I was having trouble at the beginning deciding whether it was a spoof or not.
Why does the UK have such trouble with making good TV programmes? I'd be embarrased to be British if this gets shown on BBC America and is compared to Lost and Heroes and ER and everything else.
The whole thing was comedy awful. The writer of this episode should be nailed to a crucifix. Terrible terrible dialogue. There's a difference between being fast-paced and skirting over everything.
It was all so easy, all so obvious, all so predictable and not in a good way... first Primeval, now this.
Gah.
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Mr Kenneth
Jane Asher
Hang on! Twenty-six planets? Innumerable Daleks? I make that Pimm's O' Clock!
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Post by Mr Kenneth on Jul 9, 2008 12:50:41 GMT
My favourite bit was where, the goodies worked out where they had to go to find the rest of the cross and said, 'Garway Herefordshire', cut to comedy psycho Paul Nicholls in another place also working out his necessary destination, saying 'Garway' and then cut to the goodies in their Landrover driving past a sign which said 'Garway'. That helped me be sure that my assumption that the denouement of this story would happen in Garway was correct.
I also liked that upon the dawning of the idea that the bit of cross could have been from Jesus's very own cross, the leader lady leafed through some papers and found an old drawing of Jesus on the cross, just to show that Jesus did indeed die on a cross. That helped me rid myself of the idea that it was a freak sewing machine accident.
It was all topped off by the scene where she was on the phone finding out someone's name and wrote the name Stephen down, so as not to forget and especially so the camera could see. I so wish it had been Pentapeptides though.
Next week the the team will be travelling overland to Morocco (where they can get really nice jump suits!)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2008 18:26:45 GMT
It's Martha Jones' sister right?
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Post by Nick on Jul 15, 2008 20:39:03 GMT
"Why am I standing in the middle of a rugby pitch?"
"Because it won't be bugged."
I could happily watch this amazing programme for the rest of my life.
And now: DOREEN MANTLE!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2008 20:44:04 GMT
It's just a better version of Relic Hunter, with added camp!
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Post by Nick on Jul 15, 2008 20:44:32 GMT
ALSO, wasn't there a perfectly-preserved diary kept by someone from back in the history of time that basically explained what happened in the past and solved the history mystery in the present last week as well?
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Post by Nick on Jul 15, 2008 20:46:17 GMT
"My God, it's a door!"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2008 20:55:06 GMT
"Oooh look a firefly!"
"That's no firefy! Take cover!"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2008 20:59:02 GMT
In the preview for next week, as soon as Marthas sister said "Boadicea!" I was ready to kill, but then it was all made better by the Braithewaites neighbour correcting her.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 15, 2008 21:40:11 GMT
Bonekickers is not on iPlayer! SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!!
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Post by Nick on Jul 16, 2008 6:14:04 GMT
It is now! Thank fuck.
Best bit of exposition in last night's episode:
"My husband said something about how some important slaves may have escaped and made their lives in England, or near England."
Subtle and seamless, convenient and concise (etc).
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Post by Steven on Jul 16, 2008 9:06:45 GMT
Oh, thank goodness. I was beginning to think I was the only person who quite enjoyed watching this, given the general "worst programme ever"/"please refund my licence fee" reaction to the first episode. If it makes it to a second series (I suspect it's unlikely, but I've not seen last night's ratings yet), I will be petitioning the programme makers to let me write an episode, because it looks like SO MUCH FUN.
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jerriblank
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Post by jerriblank on Jul 16, 2008 12:07:48 GMT
Fuck me this is astoundingly bad - I'm in heaven.
"Look manacles!"
"Slaves do you think?"
AMAZING, I haven't been this stumped trying to solve the question of "is it a spoof or serious?" since I first saw Bugs.
Did anyone else expect the team to burst out laughing after Mrs. Warboyce had explained how her husband died?
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Post by Joel on Jul 16, 2008 14:52:39 GMT
I know nothing on lowculture is so bad it's good, but come on...
'And risk losing archaeology?!'
'He didn't kill himself!' Well, no, given that his throat was cut. Oh man.
Julie Graham has had her teeth capped.
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Post by Steven on Jul 16, 2008 16:44:12 GMT
Maybe we could coin a new term to use in conjunction with this series: archaeLOLogy.
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Post by JoanSmith on Jul 16, 2008 19:55:43 GMT
While it's certainly entertaining, I'm also finding Bonekickers very frustrating. As other people have noted, it can't decide if it's a Bugs/Robin Hood-style, knowingly silly family show or a serious, adult drama about what might happen if a group of archaeologists stumbled upon a historically significant, contentious find and subsequently become embroiled in a media frenzy and/or ancient conspiracy. It offers glimpses that it could be properly good if it went down either of these routes, but switches style just as you've started to engage with it on the basis that it's something completely different.
Personally, I think it could have been great as a drama stretching one, multi-layered story over a whole series and set within a more recognisable reality. The plot of either of the first two episodes could have been drawn out in this way.
Either way, I would have hoped for enough character development at this stage so that I could remember what the main characters are called, but I am still to referring to them by the actors' names (apart from Tish Jones, who is still Tish Jones).
I am clearly being way to analytical about a show which is obviously entertaining us all and does have moments of brilliance, intentional or not. "And risk loosing the archeology?!" was my favourite line last night. Adrian Lester must be wishing he'd stuck with the gritty realism of Hustle and Spooks.
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Post by Joel on Jul 16, 2008 20:00:47 GMT
Either way, I would have hoped for enough character development at this stage so that I could remember what the main characters are called, but I am still to referring to them by the actors' names (apart from Tish Jones, who is still Tish Jones). The characters...have names? |
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Post by Nick on Jul 16, 2008 21:43:41 GMT
I'm OK with the names, mostly, although I keep accidentally thinking Gillian Magwilde (Julie Graham) is called Magwitch.
I couldn't possibly have been arsed to watch it if it was just one story over many weeks. I'm more than happy with the weekly find / media frenzy / messy deaths format, followed by a few minutes of Julie Graham sitting in her secret Panic Room Of The Past, silently pondering her inevitable personal quest to find the sword of Excalibur / Holy Grail / something along those lines. I expect that will be the series finale. Exciting!
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Jul 16, 2008 23:52:32 GMT
I've just caught up with it on iPlayer. Surely it's more tongue in cheek than as actually insane as it first appears?
It's Torchwood for Archaeologists!
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