I know what you're saying. This show is brilliant, and really makes you appreciate the true wonder of these feats of engineering. If there's any critisism of Seven Wonders, it's that the sheer enormity of many of the projects is often glossed over quickly, with many years work taking place in a few seconds of screen time.
The DocuDrama format and Steve Jablonskys music & it's use in the final scenes of each episode is for me what helps separate this program from a regular run of the mill documentary and a truely memorable show that's actually worth buying on DVD and watching again.
"Nasty French planet, filled with shifty, back-stabbing, croissant-sniffing, nitwits!!!"
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brilliant_michael
17 years ago
Maybe they should make a new series: 'Wonders of the Modern World' or something to that effect? Only one drawback perhaps would be that there would be less deaths to mention and add drama to show! Anyhow.. Some of the Wonders I'd include (Post WWII mostly):
- First Apollo space program
- Personal computer (the Apple and Microsoft story)
- Internet (Tim Berners Lee etc)
- Human Genome Project
Understandably this is moving away from the mostly architectural and civil engineering wonders featured in the original show but - modern times require modern wonders I guess...
Any others???
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andreas-lindmark
17 years ago
I don't think a documentary of this kind can be made without a sufficient distance to the "wonders" in question.
Part of the interest of this documentary was the fact that not only did they manage to build what they set out to build, they managed to do it without our modern day tools.
The "construction" of internet is to me far less interesting than say... The construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
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