The Fires of Pompeii

[armb]

It was nice to see in Doctor Who Confidential that they took David Tennant to Pompeii and taught him some history. A shame they didn't teach anything to the scriptwriter. I know it's not about the history, but that's no excuse for gratuitous ignorance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etna#Historical_eruptions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius#Before_79
http://www.aeoliancharme.com/islands/vulcano/eng.html

(The end was a bit poor too - either he can interfere then on a small scale, or not, but claiming he can't and then changing his mind?)

But good fun on the whole.

Comments

[armb.livejournal.com]

Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but I thought at the end he was claiming he couldn't rescue even just the family, then went back and did so, not just that there were risks to even small interference.