Comments | azalaisdep: Einstein and Eddington

azalaisdep

Einstein and Eddington

Nov 23, 2008 22:22

Shock horror, there was actually something on terrestrial TV in prime time on Saturday night that I wanted to watch!

( why... )

einstein, ww1, eddington, physics, tv, david_tennant

Comments 4

blech November 24 2008, 13:51:00 UTC

[this is good]

azalaisdep November 24 2008, 16:06:40 UTC

Thank you! Did you see E&E? Did you enjoy it?

blech November 24 2008, 18:33:08 UTC

I both saw and enjoyed E&E, and I was going to write a post of my own, but since you asked, I'll put some of my thoughts here ( ... )

azalaisdep November 24 2008, 22:03:41 UTC

I'm sure you're right about various of those details, like the deaths at Ypres, having been elided/changed/treated with artistic license in the interests of a) simplicity and b) symmetry. I think I decided fairly early on to treat it very much as a drama "inspired by real events", as the saying goes, and I would certainly be a bit suspicious of real life turning out to be quite that symmetrical ( ... )