Planet Dinosaur, The Fades

[poliphilo]

In ye olden dayes dinosaurs were big, thuggish brutes who hung out in swamps against a background of exploding volcanoes. Now, thanks to some extraordinarily well-preserved specimens from China, we know they were also pretty, little, feather-wearing critters that glided (glode?) from tree to tree. How lovely!

I could have followed Planet Dinosaur with How to Build a Dinosaur over on BBC 4. Instead I got seduced by The Fades. I'm still not sure I made the right choice. The Fades is a slice of paranormal miserabilism about dead people wandering round looking for a way to get off planet Earth and turning nasty when they don't find it . The hero is a bed-wetting sociopath and the gun-toting female vicar (who I rather liked) got deaded in the final reel.   I enjoy a scare- but the question is how much ugly, heartless nonsense am I prepared to put up with to get my fix? The more I think about it, the more I regret turning aside from the dinos. Dinos are uplifting. 

Comments

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Especially dinos with bird of paradise tail feathers.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes. Weren't they delightful!

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I loved the fact that I finally got an answer to my question of how they determined what colours they were. Fascinating!

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I watched all the dinosaur programmes that night. Fascinating stuff

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There was a good one last night- documenting how much we've learned about them in the last 40 years- using film from the Horizon archives.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Watched that one too!

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

The Fades sounds dreadful. It's bad enough to be alive and looking for a way off of this rock, I should think.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I liked the gun-toting vicar, too. I forgot to watch it last week - I think the demise of the gun-toting vicar was the demise of my interest.