RichardIC wrote:SKB wrote: I suppose the documentary was made for a general audience
Who the heck dI’d you think it was going to be made for? Of course it was made for a general audience and it worked really, really well. It rightly focussed on people. Mainly because most people like watching programmes about people. Fewer like programmes about engineering.
When you’re making 120 minutes of prime time programming the biggest challenge is always going to be what to leave out.
I broadly agree, but I do think they could have spent more time providing a greater insight into the engineering feat through the eyes of the people who designed and built her - along the lines of the 'How to build a nuclear submarine' programme which followed and interviewed many of the people who work at Barrow before going on to introducing the crew who could then feature in the next two programmes.
It feels like the documentary was only filmed over the last 12 months and therefore there was no way to feature many of the key people who built QNLZ - e.g. Ian Booth, Geoff Searle, David Downs, etc.
Still, I enjoyed the programme and I'm looking forward to watching her sea trials from inside the ship...