10th July 2008, 10:39 AM
Having now watched it due to the miracle of iplayer i have to say it was ace! Clearly complete tripe and not at all reflective of genuine archaeology (or is that Time Team/Meet the Ancestors/every other archaeology programme on TV?) but at least fun. Indeed, some of the dialogue was terrible, the plot pretty silly, and the commentary on modern society heavy handed and laboured, but these were far worse problems than the depiction of archaeology. It did look a bit like they'd tried in that area.
Anyone who's read the Kathy Reichs books and watched Bones will see how loosely based in reality the world of TV is - she is a highly respected Foresic Anthropologist (or whatever her proper title is) who acts as an adviser to the programme and it still has quite ridiculous things like a 3D hologram machine (or do they really exist? I want one!)
I think a lot of the negative comments about Bonekickers were a bit unfair at the end of the day; it is a drama after all. I'm sad enough to say that I enjoy any programme about archaeology, no matter how bad, with the exception of Extreme Archaeology, Treasure Hunters (or whatever it was called), and Lost Treasures with Mark Olly, in which people who supposedly know what they are talking about, perhaps with one exception in that list, make complete berks of themselves.
Anyone who's read the Kathy Reichs books and watched Bones will see how loosely based in reality the world of TV is - she is a highly respected Foresic Anthropologist (or whatever her proper title is) who acts as an adviser to the programme and it still has quite ridiculous things like a 3D hologram machine (or do they really exist? I want one!)
I think a lot of the negative comments about Bonekickers were a bit unfair at the end of the day; it is a drama after all. I'm sad enough to say that I enjoy any programme about archaeology, no matter how bad, with the exception of Extreme Archaeology, Treasure Hunters (or whatever it was called), and Lost Treasures with Mark Olly, in which people who supposedly know what they are talking about, perhaps with one exception in that list, make complete berks of themselves.