Sunday 14 February 2010

Sorry Another Virtual Revolution Rant

I don't know why I keep doing this, but once more I find myself watching The Virtual Revolution on the BBC.
From my previous two posts I think folks know how I feel about the series. I do feel that a more apt title for the show would be "stating the bloody obvious".
For me the show is full of tired cliche shots that I have taken the mickey out of in previous posts. I mean they have so many shots of the woman walking down a busy street as if she was in the Matrix (see that Youtube clip I embedded in the previous post). Each show does get more and more like a real life parody of the Spike Milligan sketch I also linked to in the first post about this series. It's almost as every sentence she says to camera is filmed at a new more exotic location than the previous one. Or to mingle it up she is seen staring off into infinity in deep thought.
Dr Krotoski tries to qualify herself as an expert on the subject by claiming to have researched and written about the web over the last ten years. Who hasn't? So she is as qualified as me and most techies on this subject then. Where is our all expense paid filmed global holiday cunningly disguised as a "documentary" about the internet?
So I am going to leave you with the same shot that they finished this weeks show with. Me sitting on the beach with the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance tapping away on my laptop, followed with me strolling along the shoreline looking lost in thought as the waves break on the beach.
Yes the shots were as tacky and pointless as that. And at our expense!

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