Last week, the BBC aired a new TV series titled “Bonekickers” touted as a “groundbreaking” show where “history comes alive,” and a series that is “Based in fact.” The premier episode, though features an odd thing if “fact” is the aim of the Beeb’s new TV series: a Christian beheading a Muslim. Yeah, THAT is really a “fact” based premise, isn’t it? Of course, the few remaining Christians in Britain have found themselves a bit put out by this “fact based” show where it is a Christian beheading a Muslim instead of the other way ’round. And it isn’t just a beheading, the entire episode turns our current “fact based” reality on its head as the plot gives us a group of “right wing Christians” bent on purging England of its immigrant population, a group the TV series is fictionalizing as the “White Wings Alliance.” In a day when extremist Muslims the world over are killing people for not being a Muslim, this show features the exact opposite situation. Christian “extremists killing innocent, moderate Muslims. For what reason? Only the Beeb knows for sure.
Those are the opening paragraphs of a review of a new show airing in the United Kingdom. Read the whole thing. At least it offers an interesting take on things. Hey, come to think of it, maybe the Lutherans should apologize for Radical Islam and Radical Christianity too!
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By: MetaCatholic » Bonekickers: when critics are nearly as daft as a show on July 16, 2008
at 5:30 pm
an “interesting take” on all sorts of things. What a wacky website. Ick. I have to wash my hands now.:-)
By: steph on July 16, 2008
at 9:42 pm
I saw the first episode. I won’t be watching the 2nd. It was based upon the finding of a chunk of 2,000 year-old wood, carrying pollen and stuff which meant it could be part of the true cross, which was being hunted down by aformentioned right-wing twits, leading to the discovery of a cellar full of crosses. The idea that the Templars had been unable to decide which was the true cross, so had collected all of them (all of what???) and brought them to England. I mean, where do you start in unravelling such daftness… “Bonekickers” is to archeology what the Simpsons is to sociology.
By: Tony Buglass on July 17, 2008
at 4:56 am
I didn’t see it but I just checked out the cast and the writers … aren’t they all generaly into comedy? Of course American Republicans don’t understand British comedy. Either way if you don’t like it and can’t laugh, move over and turn it off.
By: steph on July 17, 2008
at 7:47 am
The thing is, Steph, I’m a Brit, and I do understand British comedy. I also understand that this isn’t intended to be comedy. And it isn’t bad enough to be funny.
It’s rubbish, and I won’t be wasting any more time on it.
By: Tony Buglass on July 18, 2008
at 4:53 am