12-09-2012, 10:06 PM
Unlike Duncan, I stuck with it to the end. It was guff.
The previous programme in the series/strand, about the campaigns of Montrose and MacColla, was much better. It was presented by Prof. Ted Cowan (no relation) of Glasgow Uni, who is even more Scottish than Neil Oliver! He was an engaging and informed presenter. But the weak point was the filler footage of Pike and Shot-type re-enactors.
Some re-enactors look the part. But when a programme cuts to a slow-motion and grainy segment of lamely battling re-enactors who, despite accurate kit, are physically nothing like the young, weather-beaten, fast-marching and hard-fighting historical soldiers the presenter has just been enthusing about, it's more than a little incongruous.
The next episode is Last Battle of the Vikings.
The previous programme in the series/strand, about the campaigns of Montrose and MacColla, was much better. It was presented by Prof. Ted Cowan (no relation) of Glasgow Uni, who is even more Scottish than Neil Oliver! He was an engaging and informed presenter. But the weak point was the filler footage of Pike and Shot-type re-enactors.
Some re-enactors look the part. But when a programme cuts to a slow-motion and grainy segment of lamely battling re-enactors who, despite accurate kit, are physically nothing like the young, weather-beaten, fast-marching and hard-fighting historical soldiers the presenter has just been enthusing about, it's more than a little incongruous.
The next episode is Last Battle of the Vikings.
