17th July 2008, 01:23 PM
I too had felt a little guilty at the slating that Mark Horton had received, thinking that his input had been side tracked by the programme makers etc. Now I can happily bitch about this programme to my heart's content!
As I have set the pedant free again..... I hope that Mr. Horton does not deduct marks from his students for poor spelling and grammar as his is bloody attrocious! Attention to detail, sir!
If he'd taken time to look at the caliber of many of the critics, he'd have noticed that there's more than a handful of quite reputable members of our industry who rarely see archaeology from their armchairs commenting on Bonekickers. I have noticed several people on one of the Facebook groups alone!
It's obvious that all industries that have programmes made of their day-to-day jobs will whitter on about the inaccuracies as members-of-the-general-public WILL take the TV version as read, but I can't quite imagine the medical advisor to Casualty pi$$ing off his colleagues like this! OK, we have the 'sci-fi' (please note the inverted commas!) element which they have had a bit of a poor stab at, but the real-life details could very easily be made accurate.
The sexism issue seems to have touched a few nerves: I do not 'do' PC and even in the thirteen years I spent in the building industry before I hopped over into this world I can honestly say that bra remarks are pretty rare and would be greeted with a clout with a well-aimed, toe-tector filled welly!
As I have set the pedant free again..... I hope that Mr. Horton does not deduct marks from his students for poor spelling and grammar as his is bloody attrocious! Attention to detail, sir!
If he'd taken time to look at the caliber of many of the critics, he'd have noticed that there's more than a handful of quite reputable members of our industry who rarely see archaeology from their armchairs commenting on Bonekickers. I have noticed several people on one of the Facebook groups alone!
It's obvious that all industries that have programmes made of their day-to-day jobs will whitter on about the inaccuracies as members-of-the-general-public WILL take the TV version as read, but I can't quite imagine the medical advisor to Casualty pi$$ing off his colleagues like this! OK, we have the 'sci-fi' (please note the inverted commas!) element which they have had a bit of a poor stab at, but the real-life details could very easily be made accurate.
The sexism issue seems to have touched a few nerves: I do not 'do' PC and even in the thirteen years I spent in the building industry before I hopped over into this world I can honestly say that bra remarks are pretty rare and would be greeted with a clout with a well-aimed, toe-tector filled welly!