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[iainjclark]

Things that annoy Iain¹, Volume 1, Chapter 2:

Dear diary

2) Idiot documentaries that assume you haven't seen or retained anything before the last commerical break, and waste achingly long minutes recapping the things they explained in great detail not five minutes earlier. And they do this after every single break. It's like one of those "Previously on the first half of Tru Calling" things that would insult the intelligence of a Sky One viewer.

Come to think of it, this documentary was on Sky One, which would probably also explain why it was the most low-brow and salacious documentary on the Roman Empire that it's possible to imagine. But it's not just this one. I've noticed an increasing trend on all documentaries to assume that the audience has the mental reasoning capabity of a Celebrity Love Island viewer.

(Spinning off on a different tack, hurray for Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica ditching the spoilery "This Episode"-style credits sequence!)


¹Don't worry, there won't be many more of these. Hardly anything annoys me. I'm like a mild mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper, only without the silly underwear.

Comments

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

it was the most low-brow and salacious documentary on the Roman Empire that it's possible to imagine

Strangely enough, I'd somehow guessed that's what you were talking about :-p

I'm like a mild mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper, only without the silly underwear.

Commando?

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Commando?

low-brow and salacious

:-)

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

This bugs the hell out of me, too. Though I am perhaps somewhat less mild-mannered than you are, and will not comment on my wearing of underwear, over or under my trousers. They started doing it on property programmes (one of my not-so-secret vices), of all things. AND giving you a sneak peak of what's in the next segment before they go off on the break, so when the real thing comes around, you get deja vu. Insulting, indeed.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's very annoying. I realise it's supposed to keep you watching, but frankly if you didn't enjoy what you just watched, a preview of part 2 is hardly going to stop you channel-hopping!

[icundell.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, there won't be many more of these. Hardly anything annoys me. I'm like a mild mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper, only without the silly underwear.

Strickly speaking, Supe's underwear is outerwear.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Except when he's Clark Kent, which it doubles up as a stylish set of long johns....