England Expects

Yeah, I saw that too. I didn’t like it either but not for the same reason.

The portrayal of the crossbow-toting National Front type lead character I thought was too trite and oversimplified. You found out that his bigotry was ‘just’ a way of covering up his various personal inadequacies and I think that was a factor which immediately shattered the characters credibility. Sort of like saying ‘people are only racist because of seperate and unrelated personal agendas’.

I dont agree with that. Most of the racism I’ve seen (and believe it or not the worst I’ve personally witnessed has been from subcontinent-extraction Asians directed at W.Indians and whites!) has been more to do with closed-minded ignorance and family/culture imprinted hatred than anything else. ‘England Expects’ showed that to a degree, but, glossed over it in favour of the socially-dysfunctional-wacko branding stamped on the main character. IMO a big mistake and not something that will help shine the spotight on the real causes of these problems as it could, nay shoud, have done.

The acting wasnt half bad though!.