As one of the resident non-believers on this website, I was of two minds whether to watch this last night or not. Coming hot on the heals of Russell Crowe's "Noah", it seemed a little too soon for another rendering of this Biblical story. Anyway, nothing much else on any other channel at primetime viewing last night, so I decided to give it a go, especially as I am quite interested in the flood myths, and apparently every ancient civilisation has one.
Tony Jordan, who writes Eastenders did the script, and I suppose as a Christian he wanted to reflect the present problems and evils of the world with those of around 4500 years ago in a religious context, and this he managed to do quite well. After that, everything fell apart and the whole one and a half hours was pretty laughable. Noah, played by ex-Shameless David Threlfall, had a nice Manchester accent, and bits of Geordie were thrown in here and there for good measure.
Anyway, we had the building of the ark to look forward to, the gathering storm clouds on the horizon, and of course, all the animals walking two by two into the ark. Expecting the BBC's CGI team to go rampant with this material, we were treated with a couple of minutes of graphics off set, that could have been put together in a school computer room. No animals at all apart from the odd goat and horse. No scenes of the waters lifting the ark, men women and children drowning, etc, just an image of a few waves that instantly appeared, totally out of context, something that was supposed to represent some cracks under the sea, and finally, an image of the earth from outer space covered with hurrican type smudges all over it. Then, equally out of context, we go back to set with Noah picking up bone dry sand, with a few pools of water airbrushed in the distant sand hollows.
Well, I am not surprised that the ark was not shown floating, as it resembled an outsized larch lapped square garden shed, firmly rooted to the ground.
Tony Jordan apparently has six more of these Biblical stories to offer to the BBC. As long as you enjoyed "The Life of Brian" then you have a treat to look forward to.
Tony Jordan, who writes Eastenders did the script, and I suppose as a Christian he wanted to reflect the present problems and evils of the world with those of around 4500 years ago in a religious context, and this he managed to do quite well. After that, everything fell apart and the whole one and a half hours was pretty laughable. Noah, played by ex-Shameless David Threlfall, had a nice Manchester accent, and bits of Geordie were thrown in here and there for good measure.
Anyway, we had the building of the ark to look forward to, the gathering storm clouds on the horizon, and of course, all the animals walking two by two into the ark. Expecting the BBC's CGI team to go rampant with this material, we were treated with a couple of minutes of graphics off set, that could have been put together in a school computer room. No animals at all apart from the odd goat and horse. No scenes of the waters lifting the ark, men women and children drowning, etc, just an image of a few waves that instantly appeared, totally out of context, something that was supposed to represent some cracks under the sea, and finally, an image of the earth from outer space covered with hurrican type smudges all over it. Then, equally out of context, we go back to set with Noah picking up bone dry sand, with a few pools of water airbrushed in the distant sand hollows.
Well, I am not surprised that the ark was not shown floating, as it resembled an outsized larch lapped square garden shed, firmly rooted to the ground.
Tony Jordan apparently has six more of these Biblical stories to offer to the BBC. As long as you enjoyed "The Life of Brian" then you have a treat to look forward to.
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