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purplecthulhu at 10:19pm on 28/02/2008
purplecthulhu at 10:19pm on 28/02/2008Wasn't that a little too... Edge of Darkness, right down to the tube station map? Of course Alex and Gene couldn't go down a nasty damp mine so they get to go through a maze of twisty little BBC service corridors, all alike because it's the same one from different camera angles.
And I'm sure their chronology is off... I don't think the real paranoia with the security services under Thatcher got going until 84 or 85 and the miners' strike. And while Greenham was started on 1st Sept 1981 (isn't Wikipedia useful?) the Neutron Bomb had only just restarted development at that point and the GLCMs didn't arrive until 1983.
As with the music they seem to be compressing the whole decade's history into the one year. Maybe they did this with LoM but I couldn't tell. I was paying more attention in the 80s so this time I can and I'm not entirely happy.
I guess you could say they're trying to recapitulate a whole decade's TV in one series and they're bound to pick the good stuff like EoD and pay homage but... You can't do justice to 6 hours that changed British television with one episode in an entirely different format. It just won't work so you shouldn't try.
And I'm sure their chronology is off... I don't think the real paranoia with the security services under Thatcher got going until 84 or 85 and the miners' strike. And while Greenham was started on 1st Sept 1981 (isn't Wikipedia useful?) the Neutron Bomb had only just restarted development at that point and the GLCMs didn't arrive until 1983.
As with the music they seem to be compressing the whole decade's history into the one year. Maybe they did this with LoM but I couldn't tell. I was paying more attention in the 80s so this time I can and I'm not entirely happy.
I guess you could say they're trying to recapitulate a whole decade's TV in one series and they're bound to pick the good stuff like EoD and pay homage but... You can't do justice to 6 hours that changed British television with one episode in an entirely different format. It just won't work so you shouldn't try.
disappointed