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glynwinter's rating
This had potential, good cast, good idea - could have been great. But first the script utterly sucked, one expects a powerful and elegant monologue from Satan himself, instead he comes across as a grumpy old man and basically a dull sterotype. Next, the story telling was jumpy and badly edited - just didnt flow or hold your interest after the first 20 mins and the band tried so hard to be cool and riotous that they felt more like the Spice Girls reincarnated. How you can have a bunch of good actors and get such poor and woody performances from them is beyond me - I guess ultimately the director let everybody down as the raw materials had promise but the result was a dull trope which oscillates between cringe-worthy and boring.
From the opening credits you know this is no normal historical drama, Donovan's groovy 1960s hit single and the psychedelic graphics must have made the history pedants have a coronary. The truth is, we dont know much about the pre-history of Britain, all we do know is that the forces of magic, folklore and pre-Christian beliefs were as real, if not more real, to these early people as the events themselves - this is an entire side of history mostly ignored by our academics and this show does a wonderful job of rediscovering that - just as the hippies of the 1960s attempted to do with their interest in all thing pagan and "earthly" - and those 2 things work together very well in this show.
The production quality is excellent given the budget, the acting is good and the story is thrilling. History bores merely enjoy pointing out what they can but they entirely miss the point. Some even complain about the modern language - laughably ignoring that English wasnt even a language until about 500 ad - so what were the actors supposed to speak? Shakespearean English? Or aybe even old Brythonic and Latin?
The show is as much about magic and the forces that made Britain unique as it is about history. There was and still is something about the British Isles that is not entirely describable in the history books - and this show somehow captures a bit of that.
The production quality is excellent given the budget, the acting is good and the story is thrilling. History bores merely enjoy pointing out what they can but they entirely miss the point. Some even complain about the modern language - laughably ignoring that English wasnt even a language until about 500 ad - so what were the actors supposed to speak? Shakespearean English? Or aybe even old Brythonic and Latin?
The show is as much about magic and the forces that made Britain unique as it is about history. There was and still is something about the British Isles that is not entirely describable in the history books - and this show somehow captures a bit of that.