“The problem is that knowledge and science generally take second place to B-movie spectacle.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
“12 years on from Walking with Dinosaurs, techniques in CGI have come on quite a bit…The problem is that knowledge and science generally take second place to B-movie spectacle… Perhaps I’m alone in this and most people tune in for a scientifically grounded version of Godzilla versus Rodan. But I find it hard to believe that anyone mutters, “I wish the dinosaur fights had been longer and there’d been less facts”, when the credits finally roll.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
“It’s actually animated Top Trumps. The CGI dinosaurs lumber across our screens accompanied by boxes detailing their vital statistics.… Ideal pre-watershed television to ensure that your eight-year-old is too excited to sleep… And one other thing: I’m probably the only one who thinks this, but to me some of the CGI looked pretty ropey.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
“I was hoping to enjoy Holland’s anthropological history of palaeontology more than I did but it got bogged down in Ancient Greece and the notion that its ancient myths were attempts to animate the huge bones they kept finding.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
Grand Designs, C4
“From beginning to end, this was pretty much the ideal Grand Designs house. A Polish marketing exec who fancied himself as a builder; a project that over-ran by more than four years and went three times over budget; a credit-crunch lending freeze; a wife struggling ever harder to be patient after spending her honeymoon in a tent and giving birth to two children long before the house was remotely habitable; a final design that Kevin deemed to be a bit of a pig’s ear.”
John Crace, The Guardian
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