Bonekickers, BBC1, Tuesdays

I just thought it displayed the Firemen of Bath in a poor light. They spent all that time digging through (what? 60ft of rubble?) when all they needed to do was to speak to someone from the site management of the Roman baths, go down in that tunnel and dig up a few feet (they might have even found that "well-hidden" door.) Where the dim girl and old prof were is easily accessible and open to visitors - my son recognised it, though we went there a good few years ago.

I could go on about whether that explosive would be sufficient to cause cracks in the floor like that. Originally, they said it might be an Earthquake. That is the same plot device they have used before - first making something fantastic out to be something reasonable and fairly plausible, then completely changing the reason, but never going back again to explain how it was now still possible.

Or even the crystallised bodies! (Which I expect they were trying to explain as a Petrifying Well like the one at Mother Shipton's Cave, except for the lack of any water.)

But now I'm trying to believe it again, instead of keeping it in that strange alternative reality in which it exists.
 
Oh no!
Calamity!
We forgot it was on and missed it last night (29th)! How are we going to cope?
 
Very well, I'd have thought...especially as, unbelievably, it managed to fall short of the sheer quality of the first couple of episodes...:p
 
You mean it's slipped after being so stunning for it's first few weeks? I did wonder if they could keep the sheer quality up.
 
Perpetual Man said:
Oh no!
Calamity!
We forgot it was on and missed it last night (29th)! How are we going to cope?
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It's repeated on Fridays I think (though might only be on freeview/cable ) if you secretly want to see it ;) .That's when I saw it the first time. I did see a bit on the one this last week - of them in the caves with the firemen about to blow the place up.

"Stop! The drilling isn't working....let’s blow it up" (oh no! they had me on the edge of my seat there :rolleyes:....then the quirky guy and the dumb student save them - OH NOO!)

mmm. Every time I watch the news when there is and earthquake and people buried alive, they always seem to try and keep quiet to see if they hear anything. That was my first expectation. So I think you're right, and it's about time to take it a lot less seriously.

I don't bother with the show anymore. I keep forgetting about it anyway. Perpetual Man 's right - it's as if they want to be like an Indiana Jones but keep missing the mark. It's a shame - there's obviously a market for a better produced show. We all seem to want it.

Another thing with dramas like this is the picture quality working against it. Picture quality is pretty damn good nowadays, but it just shows how fake everything can look in a 'drama' like this. - The cave scene is a good example. Lighting usually looks unnatural half the time - or using CSI style lighting every where to make it look contemporary (though often only aesthetic )

There is a blurriness you get on films compared to TV dramas which soften things a bit that helps - might be just me. Subconscious conditioning on what 'works'
 
It maintained the standard of the previous week's episode.


(It was always somewhat unrealistic to have Jessica Fletcher around when there was a death (or two), but why a bunch of hopeless archaeologists from "Wessex University" should be involved with so many international incidents beats me? It makes Murder She Wrote look like docudrama.)
 
Ursa major said:
It maintained the standard of the previous week's episode.


(It was always somewhat unrealistic to have Jessica Fletcher around when there was a death (or two), but why a bunch of hopeless archaeologists from "Wessex University" should be involved with so many international incidents beats me? It makes Murder She Wrote look like docudrama.)
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LOL! yeah you don't want to be associated with those people or you'll turn up dead. What was that other one? 'Rosemary and Thyme' - the gardener detectives (see what they did there? :rolleyes:).
 
And if Rosemary buzzed off, no doubt they'd have a sequel up their sleeve, such as "Thyme Traveller" - perhaps, for one week only, getting some of the more ignorant amongst the Dr Who audience to watch.
 
Be careful what you say, Ben. I live in Hardy's Wessex.


But yes, I think Wessex Uni's where there meant to "work".
 
I imagine that some of those who work there feel sick to their stomachs, Py; and who could blame them?



I'd guess that, like me, the writers of Boneheaded had no idea Wessex Archaeology existed: but they really should have checked.
 
how long until they have a notice saying

"NO. We are not affiliated with the BBC drama 'Bonekickers' !!!!" ???



"Thyme Traveller" LOL - I can see it now .... "Felicity Kendell as a horticulturist adventurer in her very own Glass-house Tardis, weeding out the wild evil that has been seeded across the universe!" *ahem* apologies for the puns.

actually it has been thought of already... (of sorts);)

"Felicity Kendall of The Good Life fame will also be included in the show as a senile, but somehow sexy, old [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]wellingtons[/FONT][/FONT]-clad environmentalist lady who helps the Doctor to save the planet from destruction by polluters"
 
Okay, I dared to watch it. Are we seriously meant to believe all three of them were undergraduates together 15 years ago? I guess Ms Magwilde was a mature student then.

But that Viv is the child of Gillian and Ben would be too much!
(sorry I stared but I knew straight away: you did too!)

And what was all that with Lord Voldemort?

I think Wessex University must be an old Polytechnic.
 
Polytunnel, more like, given the hothouse, not to say febrile, environment that it seems to provide.
 
Well after giving us so much entertainment the announcement came from the BBC yesterday that Bonekickers is to be cancelled:

TV.com: BBC1 buries Bonekickers

No other show has entertained us so much, than this one and in some strange way I'm sorry to see it go. Perhaps. Not at all.
 
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