The Story of Easter Island

[flasher]

After a week of utter garbage on TV, BBC2 saved the day tonight with this superb, fascinating documentary. Brilliant!! Well done the Beeb. Just shows how great, informative and educational the telly can be....

[fatsteve]

Indeed, thought provoking stuff.

Perhaps these lentil munching greenies have a point about depletion of re-sources!!

Steve

[flasher]

fatsteve said: Indeed, thought provoking stuff.

Perhaps these lentil munching greenies have a point about depletion of re-sources!!

Steve

My thoughts entirley. Half way through the programme I realised that Vegetarians are destroying the Earth!!

[Simonelite501]

That may be true, but it seems theat the Dutch's lifes work is to infect the world with STD's

[flasher]

Simonelite501 said: That may be true, but it seems theat the Dutch's lifes work is to infect the world with STD's

That's another good point. After surviving totally ruining themselves by cutting all the trees down, civil war, starvation and cannibalism, these poor sods were then shagged to death by the dutch...

[kenny chim 4]

Enslaved by the Peruvians got them in the end- only 15 survived!
Flasher, your'e right about the programme. A rose amongst boring televisual thorns..

[Tony Hall]

Enjoyed the prog too, informative and thought provoking

[daver]

It would certainly spice up the Athens Olympics if they can get the new swimming event introduced in time: 2 mile individual medley in shark infested waters - 2nd mile to be completed with frigate-bird egg balanced on competitor's head.

[JMGS4]

Glad to see they wern't speeding and poluting the atmosphere with, dare I say it, CARS!!!
Good prog, but not as informed as at first sight, the majority of the theory is in Thor Heyerdahls Aku Aku, just the geneticist has put a new slant on it, as it's "proven" now that they were Pacific Islanders and not balsalog boat people.......can recommend Aku Aku if anyone wants to read it. Almost 45 years old but still (with above exception) THE reference book, as he spoke to the last "pure" Rapanuians before they were completely wiped out/inbred by the incoming ecuadorian sheep farmers.

[mdh]

There is a dodgy feature film which is based on all those theories.

Called Rapa Nui. Its on Amazon.com ( not uk though ).

Its an alright film. Has the birdman competition and all that. It stars the bloke who played Bruce Lee in the totally awful 'Dragon' in it.

To be honest the documentary last night was better than the film. Don't know why Im telling you about it really.

You'd be much better off getting the 'Heidi' videos featured on Eurotrash last night.




>> Edited by mdh on Friday 10th January 11:15

[yertis]

I missed this one, but thought the "Empire" programme on C4 was excellent. I really expected a load of hand-wringing apologist type stuff but if fact the show was, if anything, pro-what-had-done. I found myself quite embarrassed about how little I knew about how we came to have the pink bits.

Shame we've turned our backs on the commonwealth and thrown in our lot with the continentals. Makes no sense to me really.

[rich 36]

Fascinating story, but you have to agree, that at the point they actually chopped down the last palm tree, someone might have said, "hey, thats like the last tree on this frickin island, do we really want to do this?, I mean when we start eating each other, someone might need that tree to hide behind or something"

[mdh]

The 'Rapa Nui' film I mentioned is actually on BBC1 on on Wednesday or Thursday night.

( Shame they'll never show the Heidi one from Eurotrash though.)