I would advise people to avoid this show. I only saw it once and I don't have any desire to see it again.
Production of the show didn't make any sense to me. It described how bicycles were developed during the mid-1800's. To show this, the producers of the show had really goofy people portraying the actual people that were involved with the bike evolution; they were acting really moronic and, well, just plain goofy (for lack of a better word).
I don't see any point in making fun of these people, it took a lot of ingenuity to do what they did.
Also, these actors were shown in what was obviously some sort of 'Video Toaster' form of editing to give the appearance of being a Black & White film. Why?
It resembled something from the 1930's and 1940's, when talking films had just come of age. This show was produced in the 21st Century, and was showing it with mid-20th Century style imagery, but the subject matter dealt with information from 100 years prior to that. It didn't make any sense to me, why not just show it in color; I mean, people back then could see in color, right? They didn't see in Black & White.
And some of you may say that it's only a children's show; but what kind of message are we sending our children? That it's okay to laugh at older technology?
I would like to see how many people from this era (without any fore knowledge of how it was done) create some of the things that we take for granted in our society today.
