Who watched Bonekickers last night?
Posted by FerrisCollier on 9 July 2008 - 1:01pm.
Apropos the discussion going on in another thread on the merits of Dr. Who, did anyone watch Bonekickers yesterday evening? Its been getting a bit of a kicking on the Guardian TV blog, and deservedly so. What an awful programme. It was all there: daft premise, ludicrous plot, cliché-ridden dialogue, stereotypical characters - but in spades. The BBC might just have got away with a version of it in the Saturday evening Dr. Who/Robin Hood slot,as a rival to that ITV show where dinosaurs come through a rip in the space-time fabric and chase people.
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Saw
the last ten minutes; looked as awful as you said, and I thought the Beeb might be laden with complaints about the finale this morning (burning crosses etc.).
Of course, it's all incredibly plausible; I too have a three storey dovecote at the bottom of my garden with a hidden Templars graveyard below it.
Thought it wasn't possible to do Dan Brown lite, but just goes to prove you learn something every day...
Was very bad
..but fun all the same. Awful writing, transparent plotting, but worth it for the David Cameron lookalike out to make Britain Christian.
WHAT!
Britain isn't Christian?
looked like Cameron...
...sounded soooo like Michael Howard, but yeh - it were mildly amusing crap. The last 10 mins was ridiculous, but I quite liked the nurse who got a splinter from the cross in her finger, then could heal people by touching them.
I lasted 15 minutes...
...and frankly, I want them back. Very disappointing, particularly as I loved Life on Mars so much.
i'll give it a chance, though...
the story was piss-poor last night and, as somebody said, Dan-Brown-lite, but the characters (whilst stereotyped) might be enough to carry it off. From the taster for next weeks episode, it seems to be summat to do with politics (american) and that might have a bit more bite.
I don't mean this to denigrate the output of Kudos, who produced this, but all their stuff has been fairly formulaic, simple and pretty much fileable under 'enjoyable hokum'. Spooks, Life on Mars, Hustle? A lot of it is naturally going to be style over substance.
The feisty scottish team leader is eminently watchable, and so long as the old geezer with the drink problem doesn't turn into an Uncle Disgusting with the young lass, i'm sure it'll be fine!
Ah the lovely Julie Graham...
...being the feisty scottish team leader. It's probably why I lasted until the end. It was (unintentionally) good comedy though!
Dear oh dear...
Direct from the BBC PC cliche bag wasn't it...
Mad bad Christians, good prosaic Moslems...burning crosses - genuinely surprised that the bloke from EastEnders character did't have Skrewdriver blasting out of the iPod dock...
Truly appalling.
This sounds fab!
I love schlocky telly like this but missed Bonekickers as I'm hooked on Shameless at the moment, and I'm ploughing through the boxsets borrowed from the library.
I'll catch up on Bonekickers on iplayer these evening (along with Francesco's Med, which I also missed because I was on the Chatsworth Estate). And look! There's loads of history and stuff to back it up http://www.bbc.co.uk/bonekickers/history.shtml
Mind bogglingly awful!
How did this get commissioned?! It was absolutely atrocious, but at the same time hysterically funny.
And where on Earth do you go when you've found Christ's cross in the first episode?!! How do you top that?
Bonekickers?
Shitkickers more like. What a load of bollocks. Even my wife moaned at it, and she'll watch any old shite. We only watched because it was filmed in and around Bath, where, until last year, we both lived. Nothing like that ever happened to us, though.
Everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
were you channeling the spirit of
Brian Potter when you typed that? The word 'shitkickers' shouldn't be inherantly funny - right there it was. Wonderfully so!
Well I've watched it now
And I'll definitely be watching next week.
Good bad telly is the greatest gift that the medium can give, and this is good bad telly of the very highest/lowest order: clunky exposition, stock characters, creepy religious nuts, and, above all, dreadful dialogue that the cast cannot resist SHOUTING ALL THE TIME!
Absolute bliss!
Just caught up meself…
Couldn't resist it after reading all the plaudits.
Utterly priceless stuff. Truly, the spirit of Ed Wood is alive and well (albeit with a bigger budget).
But are these people supposed to be archaeologists? The way they were mauling the specimens, tugging them out of the ground, wiping the mud off with their hands etc, they'd have been dismissed on the spot.
Can't wait till next week.
Time Team the video game...
Yes indeed... tosh tosh tosh. But, c'mon, surely I wasn't the only one who kept expecting Tony Robinson to pop up and tell us how we only had two days to rid the land of the heathen hoards and, in the meantime, let's go over to the one out of Hustle who's going to make his own true cross out of squeezy bottles and sticky backed plastic!
How did it get commissioned?
Simple, as a loyalty bonus for past hit series/high-grossing DVD sales.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/08/nosplit/...
Mind you, can't begin to imagine from where they got the idea in the second episode for a black American presidential candidate. (Just as well Hillary didn't win, eh?) Hark, is that the sound I hear not so much of a barrel being scraped but one being smashed into a million pieces?