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[hellison]

Yes, it's bonekickers time again! Well, nearly. I will have popcorn.
I have an ICON. I am Ready.

What are to expect tonight? From the BBC -
Gillian risks everything to find the greatest sword in history. Why do clues lead to the poet Alfred Tennyson, who are the Disciples of Good Use and how they are connected to Henry Timberdyne?

Is it just me or do 'the disciples of good use' sound like the lamest cult ever?

Right. Off to make popcorn and get settled for the... enragifying joy.

And we're off!

SPACE, the final fronti... wait. 2222bc? That's handy. and Neat.
Oh god SWORD WORSHIP and now Tennyson. ooh and the Mysterious Intern IS Gilly's sister. Who she's ignoring in favour of talking to herself about Big Swords. As you would.

OMG DEXTER FLETCHER! And Whispering Yokels. In red coats? Is the whole episode going to be star trek themed?

"I don't have a quest!" psshaw ALL archaeologists have a QUEST! Mine is mostly for cider, true, but still.

Metal Detectorists are EEEVIL EVILL I SAY. Wonder how long before the redcoat gets it?

heee the director guy's tshirt 'I dig archaeology' More than the rest of the team ever seem to!
And now, Glastonbury! hahahah giving out about 'sections'. Obviously part of the attempt to make them look like Real Archaeologists.

HAHA slow motion trowelling?? Must be friday morning.

Ooh go Viv "you sad messed up woman". Quite.

Mystery In the Lab! Labs are very mysterious places you know. We have one at work. I'm sure ALL SORTS go on in there.

CAMELOT! Well, it is a Silly Place, it's fairly apt this lot go there.
Bye bye red shirt ;p

So, the table (not round tho, a bit oval) has Mystic Solar Alignments and also points handily to A GRAVE.

OOH HENRY TIMBERDYNE... why is this so scary? Ahh the mystery maske and Cult of the Lame Name. Nasty rich boys.
Rofl Dolly 'things i dare not speak of' ... ah they're obsessed with the Big Sword too. Heh. I bet he WAS one.

Aww Dolly's too scared? WHY is archaeology never this scary when I do it? No-one follows me in scary masks or anything :/

"All the gear, no idea". Well, quite. OOh i think her spidy archaeological sense are tingling... (heh damn clay pipes. THat I agree with). AHA it is FAKE. Or... a reburied original?

Bleh Emo speechtime. and... and almost kiss! Why didn't she snog him? He is pretty fine. Ooh they KNOW about the sisterness. And she's (Viv) Important because of it. Aww. Poor Dexter isn't the big baddy after all.

Woo. It's like a stalker's room, but of Swords. She does like her big weapon. And now for the 'history' part. EVERYONE has used The Sword. OH fuck no, don't drag in Boudicea! Ahh. so every thing they've encountered in the entire series so far leads to TEH SWORD.

Oh dear.
EEEE EEE JESUS RATS EEEWW
There was NO NEED for that. NO NEED. Poor Dexter :/ I mean, I know metal detectorists are EVILBADWRONG, but still. Excessive.

Heh. He's pissed he didn't get his snog and thinks she's insane. He may be right. SHe is a cow ;p
Is it just me or is the plot getting more and more like Buffy? They've all abandoned her, but no doubt will all come running at the end. Singing 'walk into the fire'.

Viv is in teh SCARY room with masks and a silly voice. Wanting ANSWERS.

Hmm. I wonder if the nurse is in on it. Anyone could be by this point frankly. Ah, it's under The Rug. Well hidden there.

EEEEEEEEEE DEAD DEXTER EEEEEEEEE
Seriously. NO NEED.

AHA the nurse WAS in on it. How did she manage to replace the floorboards AND rug from underneath? HOW?

Reconstruction time! they found a SHINY THING. A MAGICAL shiny thing. In the BRISTOL CHANNEL.
I see she's using her Archaeological Imagination! And a magical interwebs to handily find exactly what she needs.

How come Creepy Daniel is in this one so much? Is he in on the whole thing too?
YAY DOLLY comes to save the day! How did he work that out? Who cares! To the Rescue! With a beer bottle ;p 'this is their chapter house', I SAID he was one of them!

Aaaand the Archaeological Scoobies are all back again to help Gilly/Buffy (guffy?).
The sword is in teh grave. Of course the sword is in the grave. Why did no-one think of this before? Oh wait, it's just a Clue. To Wells Cathedral!

HAHAH "They drop all the way down to an underground cavern" hehehehe. And there's water, so technically a lake!

Woo Dolly is baffling them with... history. GIVE ME DATES!

AHAHAH WE HAVE IT

DON'T MESS WITH ME, I'M AN ARCHAEOLOGIST!!

and so is ben!

Um, wouldn't it be better to TIE UP the murderous baddies.

hahah the sword is in STONE? NO no no.
It glitters! like a sparkly vampire ;p

AHAHHAHAHAHA I AM GOING TO DIE LAUGHING HELP ME SOMEONE HELP ME

"MY mother loved that sword!" hur hur hur

and... she BROKE it? OF course she bloody broke it, she destroys everything she finds. Why did the man just vanish into the water tho? It IS a star trek cross over and he teleported away?

(i can't believe she BROKE it.)

heeeee they're throwing it back in? hahahahhaha.

ooh if it's broke, does that make it Narsil now?

Can't
Stop
Laughing

HELP ME

Comments

[moxy-bounce.livejournal.com]

I'm going to watch it and see if I prefer the program or your version.

[tardington.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth I've had to watch that Francesco In a Boat thing. Poor!

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

There's no excuse for Dead Dexter. He would be the best thing in this by default, surely?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

It was very unnecessary. There was DEFINITELY no need for rats.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

The rats were lovely, with their little cute squeaks.
Dexter is obviously just a big jessy.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE NO RATS BAD badbad nastysqueakyscampery with TAILS


um I may have a Thing about rats. I'd be with Dexter on the squealing.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

You may have gathered that I disagree.


In that case you'd best avoid the Tiger Lillies's 'Mountains of Madness'

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning!

I have another rat enthusiast on here, _unhurt_, who keeps trying to convert me to rodent acceptance, but I just can't do it ;p

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

Well the chorus goes along the lines of "Rats, rats, rats-rats, rats, rats, rats, etc"

So is this all rodents, or just ones with bare tails?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Anything mouse/ratlike really. Small and scampering does not go down well, but tails are a particular menace (no idea *why* exactly, but EEE TAILS).

To be fair, the cats have worked tirelessly to help me through this, with a process of desensitising me to the presence of mice (by bringing them in, leaving them cunningly *looking* dead, but with enough life left to try to scurry off when I attempt removal).

[thipe.livejournal.com]

That was so terrible I think it gave me cancer...

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I should feel bad or not for not making the 'Red Shirt' link - on reflection, I feel good, that distances me from Trekkies.


In answer to one of your questions - she just flipped the rug back, which is a shame, I was hoping for comedy moment of nursy stepping on it.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

*grins* i couldn't help it, it was the first thing that came to mind, and (as you can probably tell) i don't think much while typing ;p


ahh. Still, we got a watery underground cavern and Lady of the Lakeness, and artifact breakage. NO fire tho. Or guns.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

Nicol Williamson should have cameoed - "You, aren't Arthur".

And what sort of shonky sword was that anyway?


What for the next series though?
Where will we go?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

They haven't done much with prehistory yet. Maybe she'll go knock down what's left of Stonehenge. She never liked it anyway :p

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

Maybe they'll move to the Hood - Bonekickaz

[moxy-bounce.livejournal.com]

If I were a descendant of Tennyson I'd want a public appology from the BBC for that.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I think we ALL need a public apology from teh BBC for that ;p

[doccy.livejournal.com]

Next season: The Bonekickers team visit the Antiques Roadshow, in search of the head of Bran (obviously, if it's not buried in London, it -has- to have been unburied, and they would have forgotten what a talking head would be for by now, so they'd be trying to get a price for it).

After smashing all the exhibits, they find the head of Bran! Some translation problems ensue, mainly from the fact that the previous owner has been using it to store paperclips. The first - and last - clear words it says are "You are the worst archaeologists I've ever seen, you know that?"

One tragic burning incident later, all is well again.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Hehe, i look forward to that episode. There was a sad lack of burnination this time round. THo there was a lake (well, a well) and an underground cavern, sort of ;p

I still can't believe she *broke* excaliber tho!

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

As my niece would say, 'UH-OH'

UH-OH

It's all gone away!

PS Tried to watch it. Got ten minutes in then Mr T began to sob and begged me to stop the pain.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. It is painful to watch at times. And that was one of the *better* episodes. until the end, when it was just awesomely silly.

[tiny-eri.livejournal.com]

All I could keep thinking was 'The sword is like the PICK OF DESTINY'... also that it now needs to be changed to 'King Arthur and the Knights of the Slightly Egg Shaped Table'.

God it was awful. And masks...aiiieee

[hellison.livejournal.com]

hehe yes. "it's a slight ellipse!" dearie me :p

i didn't know there'd be masks. There were RATS too tho *hides behind sofa*

[whit-merule.livejournal.com]

"We're knights of the Egg-shaped Table, We dance whene'er we're able"?

And what on earth has Tennyson got to do with Arthur? :( Stupid romantic revisionists.

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

That sounded bloody awful.

(You get my Narsil icon.)

[hellison.livejournal.com]

It was hilariously bad. Tho the hilarity probably mostly came from doing this as I went along. Just watching it straight would have been torture (except the ending. There is nothing that wasn't hilarious about that).

[kanaalzahir.livejournal.com]

I can't help but feel you seem less ENRAGED over teh terribleness of it all than you have done previously... *taps nose*

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Doing it via lj definitely helped. I'm not sure I could have made it through otherwise (no-one else in work made it to the end!). Plus, the ending was just hysterically funny ;p

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Are you feeling well? Do you need a lie down?

(That post was insanity of thesmesque proportions!)

[thipe.livejournal.com]

Rofl, I may have to start using Thesmesque in everyday conversation.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I want everything in my life to be of Thesmesque Proportions now.

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Hehehe *makes comments about yer gee*

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I did last night after that. Tho mostly because I couldn't stop laughing. It's STILL making me giggle this mornning ;p

thesmesque proportions? Bugger. the Mask Of Respectability is slipping again...