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

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.