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I have only ever seen one episode of it and would like to actually read it before I die.

Presumably the Harlem Heroes sequel Inferno and not the Meat Virus Dredd 'epic' Inferno.

Heh, if it is the latter, then death might indeed follow swiftly.  Or rather you may wish it would.

Dear grud, that can't be true!  I had assumed that the fat sexist bloke on Bone Kickers was actually a twisted parody of Horton, I can hardly believe he's their consultant.  I've talked to the bloke at conferences a few times, and while certainly a bit odd in the manner of yer average televisual English academic/eccentric, I would have expected better of him than the technical gaffes in this drivel (I'm assuming he has no responsibility for the plot)...

On another note, I keep waiting for the "intern" to whip out her concealed tape-recorder and announce that she's now going to retire on the vast harassment settlement she is almost certainly due.

[spoiler]Brilliant![/spoiler]

I would love to know what the members of Time Team thought of this, as when I used to watch Soldier Soldier in the block all you could hear was laughing and cries of disbelief throughout the rooms.

As a narkyologist myself, I can report that my lunchbreaks have been endlessly entertaining since this aired, although I can see I'll have even more problems explaining to my clients that radiocarbon dates won't be back for weeks or months, and not by teatime.  I wonder what Gordon's sister made of them carrying out a resistivity survey after they'd opened the trenches, never mind the handy body-shaped figures that appeared on the plot.  Such larks!

I love that Kev squeezed one of the Balls Brothers in there (ooo-err).  You're a lucky man, Steve

Interesting piece in last week's Irish Times entertainment section where Donald Clarke (one of their two main film critics) bemoaned the ever-decreasing lead-in times that reviewers get for major movies, supposedly to make them pirate-proof (as if accredited reviewers were pirating them in the first place), but more likely to make the critical opening weekend review-proof.  IIRC he estimated 2-3 days before general release was now the average, which played havoc with his weekly reviewing schedule.  Never mind the poor Meg.

See, there was me about to wonder what the bloody 'ell you were all talking about

There are some things that droids were simply Not Meant to Know.

The royal family [the Saxe Coburgs ] are descended from german pig farmers.

Which trumps Ethiopian Hartebeest-hunters how, exactly? ;>

Gosh.  This just gets weirder and weirder.

A pedant writes:  There is no arrangement of letters on a screen that can possibly capture my unending internalised cry of horror.

Yes, yes TV-folk you've clearly SEEN Time Team, but did you notice that the sounds the muddy little people make are words in a specific order, and that the sounds that you make your cast utter are, while largely the same, in an entirely different and unrelatedorder - and thus don't make even a vague whiff of sense.  

I'm not going to start a list - I'm a married man with mouths to feed.

But: Since they've adopted a CSI-style incident-room technobabble-section, would it have killed them to let an archaeologist make a single quick pass over the script to iron out the most pointless gaffs?  There are good health-and-safety reasons to do this - they presumably don't want my ruptured aorta on their conscience.

Good fun, though.  Needs more dinosaurs.  What doesn't?

Save us, Chris!

Bloody Jacobeans.  Our beloved King-in-Exile will see the lot of you drowned.

That cover makes all my niggly quibbles seem churlish.  Awesomeness.

I downloaded it. It wasn't too successful in the US, so might be straight to DVD.

Ah, the self-fulfilling prophecy!

True. And I'd say it's a testament to Spielberg's genius that it takes about a million viewings of the movie before realising this.

I'd go a bit further with this theme - Indy has no effect on the outcome of The Last Crusade either. The Grail can't pass the Great Seal, and the Nazis are going to try to take it out anyway, with presumably identical results.  Just as he helps the Sovs with their project in Crystal Skull, he helps the Nazis in Raiders and Last Crusade (albeit more incidentally).   In fact, his recovery of the Shankara stones in ToD is about the only substantial thing he achieves in any of the movies (aside from recovering the Cross of Coronada second time out), and these he gives back to the villagers rather than carting them off a museum.

The point I see being made is actually set out explicitly at the end of Crystal Skull - adventure, discovery and knowledge are reward enough and an end to themselves, not the power of Yaweh over your enemies, eternal life or mind control, or whatever maguffin Indy's enemies are pursuing.  Me like.

PS: One of my favourite things about Crystal Skull is Indy's convincing partial transformation into Henry Jones Snr, and the general acceptance that he's a different man than the one we left in the Canyon of the Crescent Moon.  

At six weeks out, I find myself glad they made a fourth one.