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Feb. 7th, 2005
The Da Vinci Code revisited
Feb. 7th, 2005 10:29 pmAs some of you may remember, I don't LIKE the Da Vinci Code. I think it's badly written, and the theology and history in it is fanciful bunk.
Channel 4 in the UK broadcast a 2 hour documentary on the 'history' behind it, presented by the always-watchable Tony Robinson, who apart from being Baldrick in Blackadder, is the presenter and voice-of-the-common-man in their excellent archaeology series "Time Team" (US readers - find a channel showing this and WATCH IT, it rocks).
I commented, jokingly, to Anne as it started: "you realise that if he buys into the rubbish, Mick and Carenza [the professional archaeologists on Time Team] will never let him back?'
I needn't have doubted: he did (within the constraints of a dumbed down 2 hour TV documentary) a stellar job of intelligently and reasonably rigourously debunking the Grail, the Cathars, the Templars, Rosslyn Chapel, the Priory of Sion (man, what a hoax THAT was) and the whole 'san greal' vs 'sang real' thing.
And to cap it all, the moment that made me laugh out loud and applaud the TV: as he summed the whole thing up, having just come back from Paris on the Eurostar, he said: "...and in fact it's not even particularly well-written."
:)
Channel 4 in the UK broadcast a 2 hour documentary on the 'history' behind it, presented by the always-watchable Tony Robinson, who apart from being Baldrick in Blackadder, is the presenter and voice-of-the-common-man in their excellent archaeology series "Time Team" (US readers - find a channel showing this and WATCH IT, it rocks).
I commented, jokingly, to Anne as it started: "you realise that if he buys into the rubbish, Mick and Carenza [the professional archaeologists on Time Team] will never let him back?'
I needn't have doubted: he did (within the constraints of a dumbed down 2 hour TV documentary) a stellar job of intelligently and reasonably rigourously debunking the Grail, the Cathars, the Templars, Rosslyn Chapel, the Priory of Sion (man, what a hoax THAT was) and the whole 'san greal' vs 'sang real' thing.
And to cap it all, the moment that made me laugh out loud and applaud the TV: as he summed the whole thing up, having just come back from Paris on the Eurostar, he said: "...and in fact it's not even particularly well-written."
:)