Directed by
Mike Slee
As you may have gathered, I’m sometimes ‘way behind the
times in watching things, even things I want to see, sometimes things I have
queued up to see – such as this, which has been sitting on my TiVo for at least
a couple of weeks since it aired on BBC-America. Turns out, however, I’m even further behind
than that, seeing as I discover now that this movie actually debuted last year
on The History Channel. Actually, the
fact that I missed it there is not that surprising to me. Even though – more probably, because – I’m a
historian, I actually watch very little of The History Channel. Yes, there’s some good stuff on there. There’s also some very bad stuff. (That’s besides the ridiculous stuff like Ancient Aliens and the
uh-why-is-this-on-The-History-Channel? stuff like Ice Road Truckers.) And of
course, it seems that the closer the subject matter is to something of
scholarly historical interest to me, the more superficial and downright mangled
their treatment of it is. So I just don’t
watch very much. And hence The Great Martian War flew entirely
beneath my radar last year.
