nsb68
Joined Sep 2010
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If you like a lot of earnest, desk-thumping middle aged men dressed mostly in brown or orange, shouting in each other's faces in a small room, being horrifically condescending to the token sensitive hysterical lady, with lots of overplayed 70s head-clutching, bulging-eyed hysteria on top of all that, plus a sprinkling of casual racism...you'll absolutely love this.
I should make it clear that the 70s is my favourite period for film and television, but this is very difficult to watch. I don't know whether those earnest men were actually shouting 'DAMN IT, man!' but it felt as if they probably were. There was definitely some 'fist slamming down on desk' action during all the SHOUTING. It's in a similar style to Doomwatch which I also find very hard to enjoy, for the same reasons. Unfortunately it has none of the subtlety or creepiness of the BBC's Christmas Ghost stories from the same era.
Not even a tiny bit frightening.
I should make it clear that the 70s is my favourite period for film and television, but this is very difficult to watch. I don't know whether those earnest men were actually shouting 'DAMN IT, man!' but it felt as if they probably were. There was definitely some 'fist slamming down on desk' action during all the SHOUTING. It's in a similar style to Doomwatch which I also find very hard to enjoy, for the same reasons. Unfortunately it has none of the subtlety or creepiness of the BBC's Christmas Ghost stories from the same era.
Not even a tiny bit frightening.
...but for all the wrong reasons. I find this series very difficult to love, and believe me I've tried. I bought the whole boxed set, optimistically hoping I'd enjoy it more than on my previous viewing many years before. Generally I love 70s tv, I don't mind the poor effects or the slow pace. But Doomwatch is like the tv equivalent of Radio 4 plays: lots of boring men pacing up and down in offices, shouting at each other, being terribly EARNEST and CROSS, addressing each other by their surnames (unless it's a woman of course), saying "Damn it man!" and either comforting hysterical sobbing women or being patronising towards them. The scripts are often concerned with 'terrifying' issues of the day which we now accept as 'normal life' (Tower blocks! Plastic! Jet lag!) It's all rather humourless and preachy, and the acting style is frequently pitched at borderline hysteria which can be extremely grating and often had me reaching for the volume control. Having said all that, it's well made in most respects, just very much of its time - a 'criticism' which can be levelled at many examples of archive television of course, but plenty of those stand up better today than Doomwatch does.
Like a local junior school remade Star Wars. Slightly redeemed by the easy-on-the-eye robot of the title...