Bone Kickers

[Banana]

or Bone Knickers as I thought it was called before I put my glasses on! :lol:

Anyone watch?

I thought it was okay, I didnt think I would like it, but was pleasantly surprised..

I wasnt sure about the mans head being chopped off, I certainly wasnt expecting it either! :lol:

[DizzyJenni]

I read your thread title as bone knickers, too :lol:

I'm hoping Carl will have downloaded it for me :D

[Mochali]

I've downloaded it as I forgot to set the PVR :)

[Carole]

It was weird :eeeek: ........ and I don't think if it hadn't come form the creators of Life on Mars it would have stood a hope in hell's chance of getting commisioned.

Well, in the first episode the archaeologists have done The Da Vinci Code, a cellar full of Roman crosses going up in flames, Indiana Jones, a religious maniac wanting to rid Britain of Moslems by lopping their heads off - what's left for episode two?

It's a long way from Time Team :eeeek:

I'd like to know what Syann made of it :lol:

[Banana]

I thought of you and Syann when I was watching it actually... :lol:

I liked the 'healing' nurse.. makes a change for this country to have one of them these days... splinter or not! :lol:

[Leah]

Follow the gleam...... :angelic

[Lucia]

I didn't watch it - but I have read the 14 pages of posts on Digital Spy slagging it off! ;)

[Leah]

I love Hugh Bonneville normally.....

[TinaB]

don't think I'll watch it again..

[Carole]

I love Hugh Bonneville normally.....

I'm so tempted to type I love Hugh Bonneville abnormally......

...... I'm not sure it was his best ever choice of part :roll: but I really liked him in that comedy thing on BBC2 recently - Freezing - where he was a ex-publisher with an American actress wife, he's a great comedy actor as well as being very cuddly.

Lucia - you really should watch it .... it was mind boggling :lol:

[Leah]

Now I have an awesome mental picture of you loving Hugh Abnormally...... :runforthehills:

[Carole]

Episode 2 tonight - if I drink a couple of bottles of wine perhaps it won't seem quite so daft? :roll: :roll: :roll:

[Leah]

Embrace it Carole! Let the ridiculosity wash over you! :lol:

[TinaB]

well, I gave it another look in, nice to see Weston again :lol:

[Willie]

well, I gave it another look in, nice to see Weston again :lol:

It's nice to see a bit of the west country on the tele, & especially my old home town of Bath. They are supposed to be doing something around Glastonbury in one of the episodes, I realise the programme is a bit daft, if you suspend disbelief, it is quite good.

[Carole]

A bit daft? :eeeek:

I am trying to suspend disbelief, but it's difficult ... it looks like Boudicca and a Roman in the the Baths at Bath next week - I can hardly wait :roll: I expect the Glastonbury one will feature King Arthur and Hitler :roll:

I like the way at the end they say if you want to know more about the history visit the website .....

[Willie]

A bit daft? :eeeek:

I am trying to suspend disbelief, but it's difficult ... it looks like Boudicca and a Roman in the the Baths at Bath next week - I can hardly wait :roll: I expect the Glastonbury one will feature King Arthur and Hitler :roll:

I like the way at the end they say if you want to know more about the history visit the website .....

Come on Carole, relax a bit, it's called drama, it isn't real. The plots are make believe but it isn't badly written & the acting is good. If the writing & the acting were bad, I might agree.

[Carole]

I think there are some good actors in there struggling with some really awful rubbish ....

I don't expect to see there be a series 2 - but they'll have covered the whole of history by then anyway :lol:

[Banana]

[quote=Carole;484982] :roll: I expect the Glastonbury one will feature King Arthur and Hitler :roll:

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:lol:LMAO

[Leah]

You'd think one of the bright young things would take a piccy on their mobile before the evidence gets destroyed week after week..... :angelic

[Carole]

You'd think one of the bright young things would take a piccy on their mobile before the evidence gets destroyed week after week..... :angelic

Strangely enough that was what Roy kept saying the whole episode ... what's the betting when they dig up the Holy Grail (probably in episode 5 when they also find real evidence that we were visited by aliens 1,000 or so years ago) that they will fail to photograph that before it either goes up in smoke/ gets covered by 50 tons soil/rots to nothing ?

Still it was nice to see the Baths again .... I can still remember from when we visited all the signs telling you not to touch the water incase it had bacteria in it :roll:

[Leah]

'I've got an etruscan spear in my hand and I'm not afraid to use it!'

My life suddenly seems so dulllll :angelic

[Willie]

What I love about this programme, is it just gets better & better, after this weeks episode we really know that the writers are taking the p--s. If ever you wanted to take something seriously, this isn't it.
One lovely bit of nonscence was the idea of tunnels under the Roman baths, there is no way that they could or would be dry, the land is too low & is just above river level.

[Carole]

They would probably have found any tunnels by now anyway .... still it beats the idea of Boudica being buried under platform 10(?) at St Pancras Station :roll:

I've just discovered why they have signs telling you not to touch the water, although naturally it didn't stop me, still you live and learn:

"The water that flows through the Roman Baths is considered unsafe for bathing, partly due to its having passed through the still-functioning original lead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead) pipes, and up until World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), it was advertised on the basis of the radioactivity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactivity) it contained. However the more significant danger is now considered to be infectious diseases. In 1979 a girl swimming in the restored bath swallowed some of the source water, and died five days later from amoebic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebic) meningitis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis).[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Baths_(Bath)#cite_note-24) Tests showed that a species of amoeba, Naegleria fowlerii,[26] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Baths_(Bath)#cite_note-25) was in the water and the pool was closed, and remains closed today."

[Willie]

They would probably have found any tunnels by now anyway .... still it beats the idea of Boudica being buried under platform 10(?) at St Pancras Station :roll:

I've just discovered why they have signs telling you not to touch the water, although naturally it didn't stop me, still you live and learn:

"The water that flows through the Roman Baths is considered unsafe for bathing, partly due to its having passed through the still-functioning original lead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead) pipes, and up until World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), it was advertised on the basis of the radioactivity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactivity) it contained. However the more significant danger is now considered to be infectious diseases. In 1979 a girl swimming in the restored bath swallowed some of the source water, and died five days later from amoebic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebic) meningitis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis).[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Baths_(Bath)#cite_note-24) Tests showed that a species of amoeba, Naegleria fowlerii,[26] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Baths_(Bath)#cite_note-25) was in the water and the pool was closed, and remains closed today."

Sometime after the girl died they drilled down to a different level & take the water from there, which is why you can still drink it in the pump room. Prior to that just outside the Roman bath was an out door very ornate drinking fountain for public use but that was demolished in the late sixties. During the Bath festival in years gone bye they used to have a roman evening & you could swim in the baths. They also used the water in one of the public swimming pools, but it was so hot to be much fun.

[Carole]

The water I put my hand in (running into the main bath was quite hot). I don't know why I didn't drink any (the proper drinking kind) because I've drunk the water at Tunbridge Wells (yuk - very irony) and at Cheltenham (yuk yuk, very salty) .... it might have had something to do with not wanting to be sick :lol: