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Did anyone else have the (mis)fortune to watch BoneKickers last night on BBC1?
What did you think?
Personally, I thought it was the most pathetic drama the Beeb has made for ages! If two people you know are live murderers are inside a cellar that you have just set fire to, with a piece of the "True Cross" burning inside, do you a) Call the fire brigade, b) call the police, or c) go to the pub? Take a guess where the archaelogists went.
There was also the unintentionally hilarious swinging-on -a-rope-whilst being-slashed-at-by -a-Knights-Templar section, and the fact that noone was slightly concerned that Medieval-sword-holding maniacs are braking into their homes, and following you!!
What did you make of it?
Well as a former Archaeology student I couldn't beleive how inaccurate all the lab stuff was. there is no way in hell that piece of cloth would have been preserved well enough in the open ground for them to see a templar cross on it! Fragments of cloth are sometimes found in tightly sealed lead coffins but that was pretty ridiculous. And the whole "lets do Dendro" on the wood fragment thing - firstly that wood wouldn't have survived either and secondly, Dendrochronology is a very complex process not just something you can knock up in a half an hour. Lol.
And all those 2000 year old Roman crosses hidden in an underground bunker, yeah right!!!
But the story was quite original, the idea of a neo-nazi trying to set up a new order of the Knights Templars as a sort of "counter-Jihad" to fight Muslims, quite interesting, if a little disturbing.
Shame they didn't pay much attention to accuracy. And that whole "oh we've just imprisoned two murderers in a burning cellar full of 2,000 Roman crosses, lets all go to the pub" bit was hilarious!
I agree with the above poster though, its good to see the Beeb try something more adventurous than the average "cop-drama" or "relationship-drama".
It was only the first ep. I'm going to give it a few weeks before I decide if its a winner or not.
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