Caution: Elderly person gripeing and ranting.

[panik]

I'm watching Museum of Life on BBC2. Fascinating subject and I was actually hoping for a proper documentary but alas, it's just the usual bollocks with the usual over-excited Blue Peter-type presenters giggling and squeeing all over the place and everything dumbed down and over-produced and explained and...

::pauses to sigh::

Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just getting terribly old but I ache for an adult documentary that respects my intelligence, where a proper presenter like Ken Clark or Michael Wood or James Burke, someone who has a personality rather than is a 'Personality', can take us on a journey without needing to involve us quite so much in the whole wretched process, presenters who don't act like clowns making balloon animals at a children's party.

And here's David Attenborough! But don't worry, he's only being interviewed. He clearly can't be trusted to present the damn thing; too old, probably, too crusty and tweedy and prone to use Big Words that might frighten some viewers.

::sigh:: I fear I may have lived too long.

Comments

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

Documentaries are a never ending source of disappointment these days. The dumbing down, the constant recapping just in case you didn't get it first, second or third time. I particularly hate all those documentaries about the natural world with their intrusive soaring/majestic music and a presenter who sounds like he's in a constant state of awe and ecstacy. Look mate, I want to say, just get a grip and calm down. I know it's not the same thing but... can I come in the crabby and crusty corner too.

an I come in the crabby and crusty corner too.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Oh please do! I have warmed the cushion on the naughty stool for you.

The hideous and unbearable Blue-Petering of documentaries is a source of constant rage for me these days, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. About the only presenter of the ilk I can tolerate is Neil Oliver; he can dumb me down anytime he wants to Fnrr fnrr. ::rude gesture, naughty smirk::