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thesweetcheat wrote:
aargh.

What was a brilliant opportunity to present some relative new discoveries in a factual way became the usual opinion-as-fact "ceremonial" blah blah blah.

Disappointing, despite the excellent landscapes. And too many hairy CGI people. One of whom was Robert Plant.

Totally agree Alken. Going to watch it again to see if it's better second time around. BTW, you left out the favoured word...ritual :-)

I've recorded it as missed some of it. I did see the bit about Grimes Graves and was puzzled that Easton Down Flint Mines weren't mentioned (maybe I missed that bit) as just a few miles from where Salisbury now is I would have thought the flint used by the Stonehenge people would have come from there. One of the presenters also implied that adolescents went down the flint pits as a rite of passage. I don't think that would have been the case anymore than it was for young people going down the coal mines in the good old days of more recent times. More likely they were slaves.

Sanctuary wrote:
thesweetcheat wrote:
aargh.

What was a brilliant opportunity to present some relative new discoveries in a factual way became the usual opinion-as-fact "ceremonial" blah blah blah.

Disappointing, despite the excellent landscapes. And too many hairy CGI people. One of whom was Robert Plant.

Totally agree Alken. Going to watch it again to see if it's better second time around. BTW, you left out the favoured word...ritual :-)
I was also disappointed by the way they portrayed the hunters as near savages. Thought we'd moved on from there.