Spooks nitpick
Season one, episode five: opening scene is meant to be a bunch of Middle Eastern types being Middle Eastern round a campfire. There are tents, there's sand and there are hawks. The hawk that the camera lingers lovingly on in the opening shot is a bloody European Buzzard.
seriously! this is the equivalent of filming a greyhound racing scene and substituting miniature poodles for the greyhounds, or the Grand National with zebras for horses. It's even more absurd when you think how many professional display hawks in this country (i.e, hawks that would be perfectly tame and unworried enough to be filmed without making drama) are Lanner falcons, which would have been perfectly appropriate for a Middle Eastern hawking scene.
/end nitpick. back to the episode now.
seriously! this is the equivalent of filming a greyhound racing scene and substituting miniature poodles for the greyhounds, or the Grand National with zebras for horses. It's even more absurd when you think how many professional display hawks in this country (i.e, hawks that would be perfectly tame and unworried enough to be filmed without making drama) are Lanner falcons, which would have been perfectly appropriate for a Middle Eastern hawking scene.
/end nitpick. back to the episode now.