tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10659275.post110786002764753452..comments2023-11-04T01:41:23.277+00:00Comments on Memorabilia Antonina: Michael Wood: In Search of Myths and HeroesTony Keenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07125792825206480340noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10659275.post-1108654563877239802005-02-17T15:36:00.000+00:002005-02-17T15:36:00.000+00:00Again, as I remember it, in Conquistadors Wood fol...Again, as I remember it, in <I>Conquistadors</I> Wood followed the routes taken by actual individuals, and followed it one person per epsiode, so that each episode had a clear internal structure. Hopefully the Jason and the Argonauts episode will have the same sort of structure. (I thought the second episode, on Shangri-La, was even weaker than the first, partly because the myth is even more nebulous.)Tony Keenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125792825206480340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10659275.post-1107865838020458242005-02-08T12:30:00.000+00:002005-02-08T12:30:00.000+00:00Most of Wood's earlier television has been either ...<I>Most of Wood's earlier television has been either history (e.g. In Search of the Trojan War, Domesday) or travelogue (e.g. his contribution to Great Railway Journeys of the World). 'The Queen of Sheba' tries to be both, a trick Wood previously pulled off successfully in In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great. But it worked there because Wood was following someone else's journey.</I>I thought <I>Conquistadors</I>, which also combined history and travelogue, worked rather well, too, although that covered a number of separate journeys rather than one, which gave the whole a more fragmented structure.<br /><br />He spoke at a British Museum Friends lecture shortly after the broadcast of the Alexander series, and went into some detail about the various parts of his journey which hadn't made it into the final cut. (I don't think there's any transcript available.) The greatest revelation was probably the small army of OB technicians he had with him, which caused one to wonder how he could possibly have crossed northern Afghanistan without being detected by the Taliban...<br /><br /><I>Joseph</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com