If you liked the Bloody Sunday format, I can highly recommend the movie “Culloden” which recreates a battle between the english and the scottish. It has interviews with the soldiers and the officers, and offers both an intimate view and a sociological view of the battle.

The question of wether or not using the technology for Beowulf has a point is a tricky one though. On one hand if it’s not there yet, why bother? On the other hand, if nobody keeps using it and tries to bush the limits, how will it ever get there? I personally don’t get why we would ever want a technology like that, but if somebody feels it’s a good way to tell their stories, obviously they will try and push it along at the current stage, so at one point in their lifetime they can do it right. Right?

what was the song in the outro?

All Peter Watkins (Culloden, The War Game) is pretty damn good. I think Watkins was doing the ‘fake doc’ decades before Rob Reiner decided to use the format for comedy. I highly recommend Punishment Park and Edvard Munch too. Both incredibly intense ‘fake docs’.

Btw. I totally thought the intro music for this episode was the badass Unicron theme, untill the ridiculous synthed choir came in. Alan Silvestri pretty much stinks.