Just wasted another hour of my life tonight watching this nostalgic and melodramatic nonsense produced by the BBC.
Apart from some beautiful in flight footage of a combat veteran MK.9 Spit (all of about 4 minutes out of 60) there was absolutely nothing new of interest here. The usual inaccuracies and all too obvious intentional flag flying and emotional tear jerking scenes were embarrassing to watch.
I mention this only because I'm always paying for this kind of lazy and pointless documentary out of my own pocket by way of the TV licence fee and it makes me so angry.
Give me the half million quid it probably cost to make and I'll give you something interesting.!!
I just don't understand it. Just like most documentaries on BoB, Stalingrad, Kursk or U Boats etc etc, this one fell into the same old cliches. Why do TV production companies continue to re-tell the same old inaccurate and uninformative crap time and time again and think that it's a worthwihile project?
Just out of interest, Has any one here ever been approached by a TV company?
The most interesting fact I've ever learn't on TV about the Spitfire in 30 years appeared on a programme last year and lasted about 30 seconds. I forget the programme but a newly rebuilt flying Spit wasn't flying level so the pilot got hold of a mallet and started banging the traling edge of one of the aerilons so that it had more surface area into the airflow. He turned to the camera and said, "That will do the trick!"
Maybe I'm a total geek but that caught my attention and I was screaming at the TV, tell me more please!!
Apart from some beautiful in flight footage of a combat veteran MK.9 Spit (all of about 4 minutes out of 60) there was absolutely nothing new of interest here. The usual inaccuracies and all too obvious intentional flag flying and emotional tear jerking scenes were embarrassing to watch.
I mention this only because I'm always paying for this kind of lazy and pointless documentary out of my own pocket by way of the TV licence fee and it makes me so angry.
Give me the half million quid it probably cost to make and I'll give you something interesting.!!
I just don't understand it. Just like most documentaries on BoB, Stalingrad, Kursk or U Boats etc etc, this one fell into the same old cliches. Why do TV production companies continue to re-tell the same old inaccurate and uninformative crap time and time again and think that it's a worthwihile project?
Just out of interest, Has any one here ever been approached by a TV company?
The most interesting fact I've ever learn't on TV about the Spitfire in 30 years appeared on a programme last year and lasted about 30 seconds. I forget the programme but a newly rebuilt flying Spit wasn't flying level so the pilot got hold of a mallet and started banging the traling edge of one of the aerilons so that it had more surface area into the airflow. He turned to the camera and said, "That will do the trick!"
Maybe I'm a total geek but that caught my attention and I was screaming at the TV, tell me more please!!
power to the people
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