Opps, turned into a TV ramble
Aug. 31st, 2004 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stellar_muddleSo, not a bad evening. Kangaroos, incl mother and joey outside office, very nice strong double rainbow on town while waiting for bus (with accompanying heavy rain:) and since the Olympics have finished (yes, I know, heresy), decent TV programs.
The one thing they can do over here is show good documentaries. In this case SBS had a very good doco on the Teutons, Goths, Vandals and Huns (1st of a 4 part German made series). Yay barbarian hoards invading, waving weaponry. It suffered the general TV problem of being a little light on evidence to back up various generalisations but did have a brief interview with Inga Hagg, one of the worlds leading experts on textile archeology (especially wrt Viking excavations). And showed various textile fragments and Danish bog bodies. Yay for archeologists not just going after the shiny stuff.
Next on SBS, John Safran vs God... hmmm, when he is bad he is very very very cringifyingly bad (most of the time) but the occasional sparks were just glorious... The atheism rant at the end was classic.
Then over to ABC for MediaWatch (always good) and Enough Rope.
This does unfortunately conclude most of the week's good viewing, bar CSI, random docos and "At the Movies", until Sun, where a Regency era binge can be indulged with Regency House Party (reality TV group of men and women given 2? months in a Regency Era manor, with Regency era etiquette rules, clothes and EVERYTHING - rather fun, especially since the aim is to make the most advantageous social match) and Pride and Prejudice:)
Especial yay to state run channels that only have ads between programs.
Edit: LJ spell checker wants to replace "cringifyingly" with "gratifyingly". Nope.
Right, will be good and not say more until n1978 J is callibrated...
The one thing they can do over here is show good documentaries. In this case SBS had a very good doco on the Teutons, Goths, Vandals and Huns (1st of a 4 part German made series). Yay barbarian hoards invading, waving weaponry. It suffered the general TV problem of being a little light on evidence to back up various generalisations but did have a brief interview with Inga Hagg, one of the worlds leading experts on textile archeology (especially wrt Viking excavations). And showed various textile fragments and Danish bog bodies. Yay for archeologists not just going after the shiny stuff.
Next on SBS, John Safran vs God... hmmm, when he is bad he is very very very cringifyingly bad (most of the time) but the occasional sparks were just glorious... The atheism rant at the end was classic.
Then over to ABC for MediaWatch (always good) and Enough Rope.
This does unfortunately conclude most of the week's good viewing, bar CSI, random docos and "At the Movies", until Sun, where a Regency era binge can be indulged with Regency House Party (reality TV group of men and women given 2? months in a Regency Era manor, with Regency era etiquette rules, clothes and EVERYTHING - rather fun, especially since the aim is to make the most advantageous social match) and Pride and Prejudice:)
Especial yay to state run channels that only have ads between programs.
Edit: LJ spell checker wants to replace "cringifyingly" with "gratifyingly". Nope.
Right, will be good and not say more until n1978 J is callibrated...
