Bonekickers. Why??

[retiredgoth]

.....I rarely watch tv. Maybe 3 or four hours a week. When I do watch, it is usually quality light BBC drama. Dr Who, or Life on Mars perhaps...

....so when I noted that the series "Bonekickers" was produced by Ashley Pharaoh (who was involved in Life on Mars and the follow up 1981 thingy) I earmarked it. The fact that it was set in Bath, just down the road, was an added interest.

.....so I watched one.

I am now investigating the possibility of taking the BBC to court for depriving me of an hour of my life that can never be reclaimed....

...and I am sure I would have won, but for the fact that I went back and watched a second, incredulous that anything could be so strikingly awful.

Clunking, obvious plot twists, declaimed by one character to another repeatedly lest we miss them (it would be easier, and preferable, to hold up a cue board instead with the plot clues whilst the entire cast gave a knowing wink).

..... I initially thought one episode (about a saintly black presidential candidate, who somehow ends up in a gun battle on Lundy. Don't ask) might have been penned by the Barack Obama campaign team. Except that I think they would baulk at anything so gut wrenchingly mawkish.

....as for this week's tosh involving Joan of Arc and a WW1 tank.... well. Words fail me.

So that is two hours I am owed by the BBC. Time that I could have spent in a more productive fashion (like, for example, curling into a foetal ball and emitting low moans)

ooh no, don't want you to give away any trade secrets. I'll wait .

you'll pysl.

I get cross about this show.

It's just shite. On every level.

In fact I think it's INSULTING. Why are they serving up this half-baked tosh and pretending it's drama? Someone should be fired.

It's not just a bit of fun, it's BAD.

And if they do another series. I shall have to Write A Letter, but I don't know who to.

It's just bad. Why don't they know it's bad? Why didn't they do it better? Who let those scripts be filmed?

Lazy.

See, I'm quite irate about it.

Also WHY show us a children's show and pretend it's for adults. And if we don't get it it's because we're too serious?

I think it's probably the Worst Programme I Have Ever Watched. And I used to like Shortland Street, so I know about Bad TV

I love the bits about her mother

the way that everyone knows about her mother including the national press as if her mother used to be in Heat magazine a lot or something

like anyone knows or cares anything about 'famous' archaeologists

no-one gives a shite

the only ones we know are on Time Team and still no-one gives a shite

her mother did used to be married to Sting, to be fair...

[splutters]

If I start thinking about this show, I get all knotted up inside and my eyes burn in my head. Everything is bad and wrong and boring and just bad. Just bad. And we deserve better. I am going to put all that in my letter, except perhaps the eyes burning bit because otherwise they will think I am mad, or have conjuctivitus and that might undermine the seriousness of my argument.

And is whatserface, the young girl, Magwitch's sister? I was totally confused at the end of last week's.

lolol favour

she is indeed, jackie. born just before mummy Lost Her Miiiiiiiiiiiiind. [careless]

I am still loling at favour

THank you Dilly - thought I was losing miiiine.

Well that was laugh-out-loud funny in loads of places. I haven't guffawed so much at something supposedly serious, oh, since I watched the last episode of this.

Particularly like the bit where they found the 'table', and someone said 'oh no, you're not going at it with a spade are you?', then the next shot showed them digging it up with a jcb. And when Magwitch went down in her scuba gear, DH correctly predicted that she'd come up hand first, holding the sword.

Don't tell me I was the only one watching this.

We love hate it. Dh is puzzled that they managed to assemble such a strange group of actors:

• the older woman who cannot act
• the younger woman who cannot act
• the young black actor who is very good and should not be here at all
• and the older man who seems to be acting in a totally different show altogether.

Lol - they are a diverse group, definitely.

Well, I actually really like it. If you take it for what it is meant to be (a bit tongue in cheek - I read it somewhere in a TV crtics review but can't remember where ) then it's quite funny.

I know it's all a bit far fetched but it's still pretty entertaining. I liked the theory story running through it and all linking up i.e. the travels of the sword.

Personally I looked forward to it each week, but then again I do watch Big Brother too

Maybe I'm just a sad bunny ...

The only ...and I mean only....bit that rang true in any way whatsoever, was the bit in the very first episode when the older bloke asked to go to the pub. Everything else was just overblown, overexcitable tosh.

Quite good fun mind you. DH enjoyed it once he'd inserted a cushion in my mouth to stifle the constant explosions of irritation and scorn.

Last nights was in Wells. Kept seeing glimpses of the Bish's palace where DH and I had our wedding reception. And I took the DCs there to see the Tempest last week. Lots of happy memories of that place. Not extinguished by archaeo-drama crap.

You should have watched the conducting thing on bbc2 at hte same time .That was fab!

Oh, don't get me wrong, I completely enjoyed it, but I really was just laughing out loud at so many points last night. At one point Magwitch said, in a defeated kind of way 'What am I doing?', and I thought: 'We're all wondering that, love'.

I have really enjoyed the whole series apart from last nights one.... that was a bit much even for me!!!!

actually I have enjoyed this much more than I should have, made me giggle all the way through the series
and it had pretty scenery and Adrian Lester talking