Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Goodness, it's been a bit wet lately. We had hailstones yesterday, amidst the thunder and lightning. Hailstones! In July! Whose good idea was that?!

Not that I really mind the rain, I actually like it during the summer, cos you can walk in it and not freeze to death. I'm a real water baby, I like getting wet :) And I love watching the rain - it's one of my life goals to live in a house that has a window seat where I can curl up and look out on grey, wet days. But I don't like it when my shoes decide to leak and I have to sit at work in wet socks. This vexes me. Sadly, new shoes will have to wait a bit longer, so please to be having dry weather for a while now, kthx?

In other news, you know it's not going to be a good day when you wake up, peer at your alarm clock and it says 9:04am. And it's a work day. *sighs*

Snag is, it wasn't meant to be a comedy.

Bonekickers, BBC1 9pm

So, someone's a big fan of Time Team at the Beeb and they've also noticed the huge success of films (and books) like National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code.

"We need something like that on the Beeb!" they cried. And lo! Bonekickers was born.

What they actually GOT was Relic Hunter crossed with CSI:Miami. (In case anyone's wondering, this isn't a compliment.)

Where to start? Umm. Well first of all, they've ripped off Time Team by having a grumpy bloke wearing a hat a bit like the one Phil on TT wears. The coin that was found in the opening minutes of the show had something that was suspiciously like the show's logo on it! Secondly, they've decided archaeology needs to be sexy, so there's explosions and adventures and Stuff (tm). Thirdly, the script is clunkier than Elton John's old platform heels.

And the science is appalling. Seriously, it's worse than CSI:Miami, and let us remember this is the show that gave us "we can catch the murderer by enlarging this photograph of the victim and see the reflection of who she was looking at in her eyes. So that's the standard by which I'm judging this. And it was bad, horrific, appalling *gets thesaurus*, diabolical, a travesty etc. etc. I'm not sure what bit was worse: when they found a leather sole studded with nails that supposedly belonged to a 14th century Knight Templar OR the bit where they found intact white cotton attached to some chainmail and were able to treat the cloth so that the Knights Templar cross became visible. It's a close call. Oh no, wait! The huge lump of wood, that wasn't a soggy mess and was still hard enough to give splinters. That was my favourite bit. Remember, all of this stuff was supposed to be 700 hundred years old - 2000 years old in the case of the wood. And it was intact. And found in a trench that was a foot deep if that!

That noise? That's every person who's ever watched Time Team sharpening the pitchforks and lighting the torches. I am so hoping that the newspapers line up Tony R, Phil, Mick et all for comments on the show for their reviews. Oh please, please let this happen.

I refuse to even go into the whole "Cross of Christ" storyline or the climatic scene in the burning dovecote. Just refuse.

I'll watch again next week, on the grounds I gave Robin Hood an entire series to improve, I can only do the same. And for nothing else, it's a hoot and a half :)

I don't think halcyon_shift or doccy are going to forgive me for suggesting they watch it though :P