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''BRINGING 'HOT TOPIC GLAMOUR' TO GLOBAL WARMING!''
When makers of Drama want us to know that something bad is about to happen they have a number of tricks at their disposal.Scary music, characters going to investigate strange sounds, are all traditional harbingers of terror.
But if you want to suggest modern terror, as in ''war on terror'' typeterror, then one way to it is to have someone using a Laptop in the desert. Believe me, we have a built-in set of assumptions -or at least I do- that tell us that characters using PCs in remote sandy areas are either instigating or about to fall victim to some kind of politically stimulated violence.
If this happens in the opening scenes of a drama then the whole thing turns doubly true. If they are perspiring at the same time, then it's a done deal, there's nothing to do but sit back and prepare for annihilation. Hahaha!
There's a chap, perspiring using a Laptop in the desert, to ''encrypt data'' no less, in the recent opening scene of Two's new thriller, Burn Up. Rest assured, destruction follows, as does a lavish montage of locations, two oilmen laughing in a helicopter over Canada, a man vomiting on a Golf course in Atlanta, a house in London -all of which just tells us that follows is a tale of urgent modernity and global importance.
Burn Up's message is straight forward: The Planet is Overheating and We will All Die, unless the Oil business cleans up its act, which it will not and will never do because it's making too much money.
The lack of subtext is probably a good thing seeing how here, as in Syriana et al, the oil business is also the CIA and otherwise a cipher for all the evil in the world. The show's heroes have only two feature-length episodes to save the earth from Petrochemical Satan. The clock is ticking, and Burn Up features plenty of melting ice cap footage to remind us of that.
To reinforce the tone of top-level iniquity, the show featured Bradley Whitford from the West Wing and Studio 60 as a shadowy figure called ''Mack''. Mack knows everything and is everywhere, but more terrifyingly still he is friendly with children. Especially the children of Tom, played by Rupert Penry-Jones, who probably turns out to be the shows hero.
This is a well made show with noble aspirations, The BBC was expected to take flack for this, given that the climate change is perceived by some as debatable phenomenon.
Not so anymore. This ''inconvenient truth'' about global warming has begun its relentless stir and we all must heed or perish!
Good Night & God Bless!
When makers of Drama want us to know that something bad is about to happen they have a number of tricks at their disposal.Scary music, characters going to investigate strange sounds, are all traditional harbingers of terror.
But if you want to suggest modern terror, as in ''war on terror'' typeterror, then one way to it is to have someone using a Laptop in the desert. Believe me, we have a built-in set of assumptions -or at least I do- that tell us that characters using PCs in remote sandy areas are either instigating or about to fall victim to some kind of politically stimulated violence.
If this happens in the opening scenes of a drama then the whole thing turns doubly true. If they are perspiring at the same time, then it's a done deal, there's nothing to do but sit back and prepare for annihilation. Hahaha!
There's a chap, perspiring using a Laptop in the desert, to ''encrypt data'' no less, in the recent opening scene of Two's new thriller, Burn Up. Rest assured, destruction follows, as does a lavish montage of locations, two oilmen laughing in a helicopter over Canada, a man vomiting on a Golf course in Atlanta, a house in London -all of which just tells us that follows is a tale of urgent modernity and global importance.
Burn Up's message is straight forward: The Planet is Overheating and We will All Die, unless the Oil business cleans up its act, which it will not and will never do because it's making too much money.
The lack of subtext is probably a good thing seeing how here, as in Syriana et al, the oil business is also the CIA and otherwise a cipher for all the evil in the world. The show's heroes have only two feature-length episodes to save the earth from Petrochemical Satan. The clock is ticking, and Burn Up features plenty of melting ice cap footage to remind us of that.
To reinforce the tone of top-level iniquity, the show featured Bradley Whitford from the West Wing and Studio 60 as a shadowy figure called ''Mack''. Mack knows everything and is everywhere, but more terrifyingly still he is friendly with children. Especially the children of Tom, played by Rupert Penry-Jones, who probably turns out to be the shows hero.
This is a well made show with noble aspirations, The BBC was expected to take flack for this, given that the climate change is perceived by some as debatable phenomenon.
Not so anymore. This ''inconvenient truth'' about global warming has begun its relentless stir and we all must heed or perish!
Good Night & God Bless!
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