A grown-up, grossout approach to history

Admittedly, one hopes that wizards and dragons are still not quite on the GCSE History syllabus (and sadly absent from the Malory-free English one), but given Camelot does feature rather a lot of clothes-shy Bond Girl Eva Green engaging in a lot of, er, essential–to-the-script work, we can safely assume which show wrapped up the teen demographic. If so it would have been a shame, because there was an interesting tale being played out across the two other programmes about the state of contemporary history education.

Not that ‘interesting’ would have come instantly to mind while watching The Kennedys . Having courted controversy from the word go for its ‘warts and all’ portrayal of the American political dynasty, the show exploded into popular consciousness having been dropped by The History Channel US for perceived inaccuracies (a damning verdict indeed from the channel which brought us The Nostradamus Effect ). Yet with a prime cast including Greg Kinnear, Tom Wilkinson and Katie Holmes, this glossy, HBO-style miniseries seemed impossible to resist as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis and the sudden resurgence of Sixties styles in the wake of Mad Men .

There really should be a name for the genre of TV series which effectively present themselves as classy and sophisticated dramas that you would never have given a second glance to if advertised as the forgettable TV movies they are. I’ve never really forgiven Brothers and Sisters for putting together an all-star cast of quality drama actors (plus Ally McBeal) and advertising itself as the spiritual heir to Six Feet Under , before emerging as the unholy twenty-first-century mix of Dynasty and, well, Ally McBeal .

Certainly, The Kennedys is not quite as bad as that, but it takes a special skill to devote eight hours to a blandly workmanlike trawl through the heady Aeschlyean family drama of the Kennedy clan. The truly depressing thought is that one day, probably not far from now, they will make something like this about the Clintons (a ‘cigars and all’ account?) with Kosovo recast as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Oh, they already sorta did, in the shape of Peter Morgan’s The Special Relationship . Well, at least the suits are better here.

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The issue we have as Human Beings is our nature to become emotionally attached to an idea. There can be no subjective analysis of something that doesn’t exist until we give it life through an idea. If Nostradamus or anyone else wanted to warn us of impending doom, and they knew the players in the game, why the riddles? We as Humans have the great ability to make something out of nothing with the gift of imagination. We just need to balance it with our gift of logic and deductive reasoning.

Yellowstone Park volcano, Meteor in 2200-something, Maya calander, Nostradamus… so much fortune telling.

Isn’t the Yellowstone Park volcano over it’s peak aswell? Shouldn’t it erupt anytime “soon” because it’s overdate? These things boggle my mind, as it seems every moron nowadays believe everything that is told.

Wasn’t the Maya calander based on a different counting of days/weeks/year instead of our current one?

@Thyalwaysseek Because those in power, those who created us as slaves, want to erase their experiment before anyone finds out what they have done here. My understanding of our history tells me that the Draconians (lizard people), the Annunaki (those who come from the sky) have wiped the planet several times in the past. Only a small percentage of the populatin survived every time. The Draconians had planned to wipe us out this time also but this time they will not be allowed to do so.

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