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

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

::joins you in the old farts' corner::

I was hanging in there till they got to the rubbish with the worms. The thud you heard was me keeling over with boredom.

I love the Natural History Museum - the blue whale was the first love of my life - so I'll probably struggle through the rest, but I wish they'd stop pratting about.

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

I so almost stole your subject line for the post I just made :)

[cross-stitchery.livejournal.com]

there are some good docos out there. i've been watching quite a few lately, mostly BBC. i find the US ones tend to be 1. very dumbed down and 2. painfully repetitive as they go over the same information after every ad break (i guess Americans have very short attention spans?)

[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.

[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?