The Brack Report (TV Series) Chapter 2 (1982) User Reviews

Prismark2

[brian-85466 · 7/10 · 5 September 2020]

I'm afraid Prismark2 missed the point of The Brack Report, Christopher Penfold could have written a thriller, but he didn't need to, as Paul Brack, firstly, was illustrating the safety issues of a Nuclear Power station, and look at what happened in a the USA a couple of years later, secondly the report was to look at the various alternative energies in the pipeline, some of which have come to fruition, whilst others, our Governments have kept suppressed!

I loved this series when I first saw it in the 80's, I remember reading anything on Fusion. Watching it again on Talking Pictures TV, I still love it!

I hope the whole of Skipton is watching episode 5 series 1, and feel ashamed for voting Tory in the 2019 election, the gullible morons!

Chapter 2

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 3 September 2020]

My wife is a science type person and she remarked that their is a lot of technical lingo being used here.

I reckon some person who enjoyed this series back in 1982 would had looked in horror when in 2005, Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor holds up a blue vial, calls it 'antiplastic' to fight off the Autons in the relaunched Doctor Who. The dumbing down of British television was complete.

There was so much talking in this episode, it came across as a polemic. What it was not was any sort of drama. I can see a younger me would had never watched this back in 1982. I think there was this thing called the Falklands War going on at the time which caught the nation's attention.

The older me was struggling even now, I think I just started to laugh when they started to talk about nuclear physics and thought this could be primetime entertainment.

Paul Brack comes across as a sixth form idealist who believes in the newer, cleaner and more safer nuclear power. He goes to talk about his future to a pioneer of the industry Max Challen. He turned his back on the nuclear industry and opposed it. Both nuclear power and weapons.

There were some good ideas that are relevant now, such as the future of cleaner nuclear power, renewable energy, hydroelectricity. It just does not make for a good drama.