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13-01-2011, 06:14 PM
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BBC1 at 8pm tonight. Looks worth a watch. |
13-01-2011, 06:36 PM
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13-01-2011, 06:49 PM
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Thanks Susie then Hugh is on after on Channel 4 at 9pm..
Will be watching both..  |
13-01-2011, 07:00 PM
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Thanks, just turned over to watch it. |
13-01-2011, 07:07 PM
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.... but then, we'd miss BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Men of Rock, Deep Time - decisions, decisions, why do they do this to us?
Thankk goodness for the iPlayer! |
13-01-2011, 07:15 PM
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I had to turn this off...
I hate the way the presenter bloke is sensationalising the fact that the whale got harpooned.
I felt uncomfortable watching this program. |
13-01-2011, 07:23 PM
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I started watching with mounting irritation and gave up after 15 mins!
Why? The narration by John Hurt was fine, but it was constantly interrupted by a breathy female voice describing glaringly obvious details of the scene eg. there was a scene of rocks with waves crashing onto them and the voice said "Rocks with waves crashing on them". Another scene showed a man looking out to sea with binoculars, and the voice said "A man with binoculars looking out to sea". And so it went on!
What was _that_ all about - was the extra narration for the benefit of the blind?
I don't think I'll be watching any more episiodes!
Jim |
13-01-2011, 08:11 PM
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It looks like the narration was only with HD. What's the point of that then - why have a facility for the blind (or partially sighted) on a visual High Definition channel? I found I could switch it off though.
Jim |
13-01-2011, 08:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Ford  I started watching with mounting irritation and gave up after 15 mins!
Why? The narration by John Hurt was fine, but it was constantly interrupted by a breathy female voice describing glaringly obvious details of the scene eg. there was a scene of rocks with waves crashing onto them and the voice said "Rocks with waves crashing on them". Another scene showed a man looking out to sea with binoculars, and the voice said "A man with binoculars looking out to sea". And so it went on!
What was _that_ all about - was the extra narration for the benefit of the blind?
I don't think I'll be watching any more episiodes!
Jim | You might have pressed a red button, I just has John Hurt.
But the programme was typical of what we get on BBC1 documentaries
now - snazzy camera footage used in the place of any narrative or cohesion. It was just a collage of expensively-captured and nice-to-look-at images. What was it supposed to be saying? Men catch whale, man catches shark, man get the bends on the end of a compressor. None of it was actually inter-linked at all, except in the loosest possible sense of it being wet.
It was also full of guff - if those people living on boats only go to shore to trade for fuel and food, then what are they drinking? And the suggested 'aquatic human mammal' would only be a realistic evolutionary prospect if it came equipped with a modern harpoon gun.
Vacuous drivel, nicely shot.  |
13-01-2011, 08:15 PM
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| | | Re: Human Planet
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Ford I started watching with mounting irritation and gave up after 15 mins!
Why? The narration by John Hurt was fine, but it was constantly interrupted by a breathy female voice describing glaringly obvious details of the scene eg. there was a scene of rocks with waves crashing onto them and the voice said "Rocks with waves crashing on them". Another scene showed a man looking out to sea with binoculars, and the voice said "A man with binoculars looking out to sea". And so it went on!
What was _that_ all about - was the extra narration for the benefit of the blind?
I don't think I'll be watching any more episiodes!
Jim | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Ford It looks like the narration was only with HD. What's the point of that then - why have a facility for the blind (or partially sighted) on a visual High Definition channel? I found I could switch it off though.
Jim | What a grumpy old man you do sound like!  
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