Bonekickers, BBC1, Tuesdays

[Pyan]

Did anyone else watch this? Are you asking yourself "Why?"

Billed by the BBC as

a thrilling adventure series packed with historical mystery and contemporary relevance,

I personally would describe it as possibly the most unintentionally hilarious programme I've seen this year.

Here's a selection of other views about it...
  First Impressions? by Bonekickers

 

[iansales]

It was bobbins. Hard to believe it was dreamt up by Ashley Pharaoh. Some really cringe-worthy dialogue, and a climax that was reached far too easily and was wholly unbelievable. Let's hope it gets better...

 

[Susan Boulton]

Total enjoyable "cheese" So bad it was in fact good.(I hope that makes sense.)

 

[Perpetual Man]

Oh I don't know. It was total hokum, the actors were stretching themselves - the pieces of the cross did better in places, there were silly plot holes, it felt rushed and some of the 'special' effects were less than special, but it was somehow enjoyable. A nice silly thing to curl up and watch and not have to think about.

 

[Ursa major]

Given who made it, the show could have been far worse: A 21st century "long con" conman is shot/hit by a car and wakes up in the early 14th Century, where he meets a Templar who doesn't play by 21st century rules....


I'm with SJAB: it was such tosh, it was watchable.

 

[HardScienceFan]

I watched 25 seconds of it.
Amazing,with the Beeb rep for quality drama.
My teeth still hurt from the gritting

 

[Ursa major]

So you didn't see the ending where someone (not one of the clever archaeologists, mind you) got round to calling the police, Ben?


(I have to admit that I was also accessing the Chrons while Bonekickers was on - there was no point in wasting 100% of my concentation on the programme.)

 

[HardScienceFan]

er,no

those 25 seconds will scar(e) me for life.

i thought the BBC had quality control

 

[Ursa major]

You did? How long have you been having these delusions, Ben?


(It's better than ITV, though, e.g. "Primeval", which gives tosh a bad name.)

 

[Perpetual Man]

(It's better than ITV, though, e.g. "Primeval", which gives tosh a bad name.)

Yeah, I hear the creatures are on strile next year, requesting better scripts, acting etc or they're going back to walking with dinosaurs

 

[Ice fyre]

I've not watched this yet but am going to upload it on my digi box, as to the creatures on Primeaveal going on strike they are going on strike because they are not happy at the computer generated "hero's" they have to work beside ,they feel they are completley un belivable and poorly rendered, or is that just the whole show

 

[Ursa major]

it's the characters in Primeval: if the world is under extreme threat, why choose these people when there are about 4 billion people more capable of doing a good job (40 million of them in the UK).

 

[Connavar]

What is it about really ? Some sort historical mystery or some supernatural series ?

Wondering since most BBC shows make the jump east eventually.


I hope though its not as lame as Torchwood. Despite Spike is in it....

 

[Perpetual Man]

It's basically a group of archaeologists who through their dig get dragged into an 'adventure' with religious overtones. It seems to want to try and be Indiana Jones with a little more realism and instead misses more than hits. Although entertaining it is not really good at all - it makes the first season of Torchwood look top notch telly..

 

[Ursa major]

I'm not sure it was fantasy.

Spoiler Alert (kind of....)


* I wasn't giving the first episode 100% attention, but I don't think anything strange really happened, not that couldn't be explained by normal science. *

 

[Connavar]

Wasnt those guys in Torchwood archaeologists too yeesh.

Too much Indiana Jones lameness without HF for my taste it sounds.

Why does brit tv suck so much with supernatural series ? Hex proves that point more than anything.

I think i will stick to Wire in the blood,Spooks,Life in mars kind of brit tv shows....

 

[Perpetual Man]

I'm not sure it was fantasy.

Spoiler Alert (kind of....)


* I wasn't giving the first episode 100% attention, but I don't think anything strange really happened, not that couldn't be explained by normal science. *

Ahh perhaps and spoiler alert:


I was going with the whole secret society thing, history twisted to suit the needs of the story (It could be argued that some of the story points were so unreal as to be fantasy!) but the real fntasy element was the girl who got a splinter from the cross in her finger and could suddenly heal the terminally ill. In a story fantasy - if you dragged it into the real world a faith based miracle!!!

I can't bring up some of the not fantasy points that made the show so entertainingly bad, because they are spoilers - but I'll probably watch it next week just to be entertained by it's corniness all over again!

And Connavar don't give up on Torchwood Season 2 is a massive improvement on season one and it gets better and better as it goes along.

 

[Ursa major]

The splinter thing:

* Remission can occur for all sorts of reasons; one as short as described - a day was it? - can easily be accounted for without resort to a miracle. *

 

[Talysia]

I missed it, although I'd been meaning to see what it was like. I'll have to see if it's repeated any time, so that I can give a proper opinion, though from what I'm hearing it won't be too much of a hardship if I miss it again...

Maybe it'll improve. Doesn't sound like a good first impression, though.

 

[Ursa major]

Maybe it'll improve. Doesn't sound like a good first impression, though.

It's hard to say whether it will improve, but it was a first episode: trying to show all the main characters; making it as exciting as possible, etc.


And there is a lot of room for improvement....



I'll be trying to see the second episode.