A Great Effort...

I've read through the threads here and they all have valid points. The budget did give the battles a small-scale feel although this was balanced somewhat by the decision to focus on a band of soldiers from one particular Sussex village.

We'd all love to see epic scale battles but as someone else has said, this was for Channel 4.

I loved the way the programmes followed the fortunes of several key characters, none of them holding any political significance...just normal blokes, scared but determined to protect their homes, families and country against particularly hostile invasion. I was caring about these people straight away.

I thought '1066' managed a good mixture of drama, action and humour, and that the script was generally very good indeed. I particularly appreciated the decision to avoid focusing on William and Harold - brave, and it certainly paid off.

Well done to everyone concerned - a very brave and largely successful attempt to bring the military events of that epic year to the small screen. There are a couple of movies in the pipeline dealing with the same theme and it's just a shame that Mr.Hardy and Co. wont be involved with them (as far as I know).





AndyG