I think the nostalgia in the programme has been achieved to a remarkable effect from the trailers to the props.
In the first episode of the 2nd series I was gobsmacked to see an authentic bus from the period complete with correct "SELNEC" logo on the side (South-East Lancs, North-East Cheshire). It took my breath away as not seen that since I was knee high to a grass-hopper!!!!!!
A substitute font on a 10-sec shot wouldn't have spoiled my enjoyment of the programme
Oh dear oh dear. People DO get defensive when someone actually points out a flaw to them that is SO easy to correct?!?!
For goodness sake, if you can't do something properly, why bother at all? What next? No-one will remember if the globe was blue? So, let's take a "pragmatic view" and just choose a colour. Let's have it in purple. After all, it's only on screen for 10 seconds. It doesn't matter.
There's over-analysis and then spotting something damn obvious that is so easy to get right. I really don't see how the former can possibly be confused for one second with the latter.
Mark, this really does make you sound quite snotty, and that's not at all how you come across the rest of the time.
As the point of my post may have got lost in translation, let me clarify. I, *personally*, don't think the impact of a vintage globe is particularly diluted by being accompanied by the wrong font. However, yes, I would have personally liked to see more of a period font used, even if it wasn't the one used at the time, as long as it was a font chosen from the very limited stable used widely in the 70s (like Univers, Futura, Eurostile, Helvetica) etc. Yes, I do think people get lazy by just using Arial for everything. However, that's not really what rankled with me enough to post what I did.
What annoyed me was the response to others who had pointed out the weakness in the recreation, and the rather high-handed 'pragmatic' argument which, I'm sorry, still comes across to me as you saying "does it matter"? What I'm saying is, either it "matters", or it doesn't, and the phrase "does it matter" is something I'm only used to hearing when people switch to "teflon shoulders" mode because they aren't big enough to simply say, "yes, you're right, we missed a trick. Perhaps with a second pair of eyes and the willingness on our part to actually listen for a couple of seconds to someone else's point of view, we could have made something spot on rather than *almost* spot on". *That's* what got my goat, the fact it was the fonts in question was tangential.
Anyone know if tonight's episode on BBC Four is going to be the 4th? Last week because of the footy on One they showed the first episode of the second series and according to the schedule tonight they're showing the second! If so, so much for the "next episode immediately after on BBC Four" idea.
In the first episode of the 2nd series I was gobsmacked to see an authentic bus from the period
complete with correct "SELNEC" logo on the side (South-East Lancs, North-East Cheshire).
It took my breath away as not seen that since I was knee high to a grass-hopper!!!!!!
I'd assume the LoM producers would've got that bus on loan from the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport.
Anyone know if tonight's episode on BBC Four is going to be the 4th? Last week because of the footy on One they showed the first episode of the second series and according to the schedule tonight they're showing the second! If so, so much for the "next episode immediately after on BBC Four" idea.
Yes, the BBC Four screenings seem to have magically changed from being of a "
first-view of next week's
BBC One episode", to being a "
repeat of the previous week's
BBC One episoode" instead.
If they change back to the "
next
episode on BBC Four" formula next week, then Episode 3 will only ever get one screening at all (its BBC One screening, last night). Maybe that's why the BBC Four pattern has changed??? (i.e. it's a knock-on effect of the football, and won't ever change back now, so that each episode can still get two screenings)???
If they change back to the "
next
episode on BBC Four" formula next week, then Episode 3 will only ever get one screening at all (its BBC One screening, last night)
That was Episode 3's second screening - it was the first look episode after episode 2, 2 weeks ago.
If they change back to the "
next
episode on BBC Four" formula next week, then Episode 3 will only ever get one screening at all (its BBC One screening, last night)
That was Episode 3's second screening - it was the first look episode after episode 2, 2 weeks ago.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
I missed the first half as well, I'm sh*te at keeping track of programmes.
I'm surprised nobody has bumped this thread for the slight adjustment to the globe on Wales. It now has the full /B/B/C/ CYMRU IILW /B/B/C/ WALES COLOUR caption.
