Yes, well that was Time Team meets the Da Vinci Code! They've tried a lot too hard to make archaeology really dramatic for non-archaeologists. I'm sure archaeology is fascinating for people who know all about it but dramatic? not often I would think. And is it just me or could you drive a bus through some of the plot holes. First of all this fight between the Knights Templar and the 'Saracens' in Bath was an amazing discovery and then, all of a sudden, everybody knew about documentary evidence and where to find it from the Grandmontine monk, written in books, and the fact that the 'Saracens' were English mercenaries. So how come the fight was such a mystery in the first place?.
Young archaeologist gets trapped in flat by modern day Knight Templar with huge sharp sword - and she didn't grab her mobile and ring the police?!!
Group of moslem students seriously threatened by guys with big sharp swords in a mosque - and neither did they!
Heroes win in the end by trapping the baddies burning to death in a newly discovered vault and decide to go to the pub - even in Midsomer Murders Barnaby would have required a few statements before people were allowed to get the rounds in.
Kinghts Templar (the originals) collected loads of crucifixes from the Holy Land in case one was the true cross - OK but the KT's were collecting at least 1000 years after the event - masses of crosses had been lying around that long? and the locals hadn't incorporated them in buildings or cooking fires in ten centuries?
Ah well, I like a new drama - unlike a school report though I think we should say 'don't try so hard'. Think its about slavery next week.
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