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

[sheenaghpugh]

I'm still amazed at how one Brian Cox managed to make the entire solar system boring to me. And infuriated that a historical programme I would otherwise have watched was presented by David Dimbleby; what brand of historian he?

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my first reaction, less than five minutes into the solar systen thing, was that this was aimed at an audience of ten-year-olds - it was definitely a blue-peter presentation. Heck, Blue Peter was *better* presented, back in the days when I watched it!

I can understand that the repetition of stuff after every commercial break is aimed at telling the folk who have been channel hopping and just flicked on to it what has been covered; personally I think the channel hoppers don't need to be catered for. They probably won't stick with the programme for more than five minutes anyway.

And Gilly? You are *not* 'elderly'. I'm elderly (I refuse to admit to being old). You've a fair number of years to go before you catch up to my age! :-)

I'm afraid I'm going to dissent here

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

because I rather like Brian Cox and I'm enjoying Wonders of the Solar System, myself. |I agree, there's a fair bit of slack-jawed Wonder in the show, but the science is there and Brian C is highly bona-fide, a repected particle physicist at CERN and Manchester Uni. Of course, he got the gig, not for being a respected scientist but because he's relatively young and personable and because he was the keyboard player for D-Ream, but he does know his stuff.

Dimbleby's show is watchable, I think, but I prefer Dan Snow's current effort. My favourite historian/presenter though is Michael Wood, who could talk you through 3 hours of paint drying and make it impossible to look away.

Re: I'm afraid I'm going to dissent here

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

I'm not denying that Cox seems to know his stuff, but did he script this? I'd doubt it, or if he did, I think he was told to gear it towards an audience of children. I expected to enjoy the series, and so far I haven't. I feel I'm being patronised by the producers.

You are *not* 'elderly'.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, I don't know about that. I do feel, once you've crossed the half-century post, you're well on your way to biddie-dom. But you know what they say, you're only as old as the man that you feel, which makes me 54, haha. Or as old as you feel (= at least 85. ::laughs like loon::)