28 October 2007
Watched Brat Camp last week, swiftly followed by Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy. Both programmes about 15-year olds - but one was a feckless, spoilt 15-year old with a feckless, spoilt mother who both thought the world owed them a living.
The other was about a thoughtful, discplined 15-year old who, in an effort to improve himself, was prepared to travel halfway across the world to study for two years in a place where he doesn't speak the language and has completely different training methods to those he was used to. Generally, he displayed all the attributes to which one would hope we would all aspire. I am glad to see that shouting and the odd sharp tap on the leg are techniques that have not gone astray at the Bolshoi. Never did me any harm and Henry Perkins certainly seems to come out none the worse for wear for it. Anyway, he's still sticking it out for the next year.
Both were pretty riveting TV. Brat Camp is a tour de force. I love seeing pathetic excuses for human beings forced to endure the travails of living in the 'wilderness', with nowhere to run or hide and not being waited on hand and foot, for once in their lives. I can't wait until 1950's School comes back, where you get to see present-day kids forced to re-live 1950's educational methods.
I like being redundant - shame I have to start work again on Monday.
The other was about a thoughtful, discplined 15-year old who, in an effort to improve himself, was prepared to travel halfway across the world to study for two years in a place where he doesn't speak the language and has completely different training methods to those he was used to. Generally, he displayed all the attributes to which one would hope we would all aspire. I am glad to see that shouting and the odd sharp tap on the leg are techniques that have not gone astray at the Bolshoi. Never did me any harm and Henry Perkins certainly seems to come out none the worse for wear for it. Anyway, he's still sticking it out for the next year.
Both were pretty riveting TV. Brat Camp is a tour de force. I love seeing pathetic excuses for human beings forced to endure the travails of living in the 'wilderness', with nowhere to run or hide and not being waited on hand and foot, for once in their lives. I can't wait until 1950's School comes back, where you get to see present-day kids forced to re-live 1950's educational methods.
I like being redundant - shame I have to start work again on Monday.
# posted by gilamonster : 08:12
