@K2k6
I agree that TV science seems to have been dumbed down in the past few years - too many graphics, too much music, too much reenactment. Fuck that. I want SCIENCE. f that means clever people talking at me, then fine. They're clever, see? (For that reason, Walden on Villains was great: half an hour of a man lecturing directly to a camera. Fabulous television.) I make an exception for the guy who made The Power of Nightmares, though. He's brilliant, even if I can't remember his name. Adam Curtis. That's it.

(In fact, the uselessness of science programmes was one of the reasons why I didn't replace my telly when it died a few years ago. They were pretty much all I watched anyway, and I realised that, if I was interested enough in a topic to watch the programme, the chances were that I already knew a lot more about it than would be shown on that programme. So I stopped.

(That, and University Challenge being too easy as well...)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 11:55, Reply)