I never implied that I didn’t want to be reminded about the deaths of the victims; instead, I objected to the manner in which their deaths were presented. Maybe you need to look up the word gratuitous, Early Out.
Where exactly are you getting these “vibes” of yours? Outer space? I think I was pretty clear what I didn’t like about the show, and nowhere did I mention that my motivation was simply to be entertained.
For my part, I’m getting a definite vibe that you are reading assumptions into other people’s motivations that simply do not exist. Even after this was brought to your attention, you still persist in the same vein.
You can therefore take your suppositions and guesses and shove them up your ass.
I’m well aware of what “gratuitous” means - from the link you provided, it means “not called for by the circumstances.” I thought the descriptions of these deaths were merely accurate, and not uncalled for in any sense. In fact, most discussions of pyroclastic flows seem to shy away from accurately describing what happens to anyone caught in one.
Simply from the overall tone of your post. You’ve now clarified that your written words and my interpretation of your written words suffered a serious mismatch. It happens, all the time, especially in board posts. Sorry if I misunderstood you. You may now return to your regularly scheduled pit thread.
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I sort of liked the show - sort of. The whole thing could have been presented in half the time. It was far too long, and it felt too repetitious. Too much of “The Plinian eruption triggered a pyroclastic flow” over and over. Don’t get me started about all the commercials. Also there were times when I wanted to physically reach through the screen, grab some Romans by the collar and tell them “run away! run away!”.
If this is the programme that i’m thinking of, it was originally a BBC production - so there were no advert breaks at all and as a result it was, naturally, shorter.
I certainly don’t remember a journo chunk at the end either - which makes me think that it was wacked on for the American Version to “even out” the length of the show once the adverts were added.
I prefer scientific documentaries as opposed to docudramas. Take the guy who was stealing the coins. We got 10 minutes of him digging around, grabbing a snack, being confronted by the guy who owned the place, dropping his coins and struggling to pick them back up.
And all just so his teeth could shatter like glass and his brain vaporize and explode. All the little dioramas were just fluff. Not to say I’m an inhuman bastard who doesn’t care about the loss of human life, but they could have easily just done a short bit, “And this poor fellow was carrying a bag of coins, possibly stolen from the owner of this villa, as he tried to escape the pyroclastic flow.”
