This was what we'd been led to expect – Dobson, starring in the reconstructions, had been trailed as the mature foil to youthful presenter Dan Snow, who steered the documentary segments; much of Armada's pre-publicity consisted of Dobson granting "exclusive" insights into the four hours she'd spent in makeup each day, layering on wrinkles, "leather-spots" and blackened teeth.
Down by our feet is the melted and blackened nub of the hose which was in Terry's hands when Sharen pointed to the lava-like sky in horror.
The embassy's reinforced five-storey structure survived but its rear-facing rooms were reduced to blackened shells.
But the chairmen decided that to allow Airdrie United to emerge from the blackened ashes of Airdrieonians would be setting a dangerous precedent that might see cash-strapped football clubs disappear only to reappear under a different guise.
Standing in the burned-out wreck of the renowned Mackintosh library, where the symphony of cabinetry has been reduced to blackened brick walls and a few charcoal stumps, it looks as if Vesuvius could easily have erupted.
The winning piece was a large tombstone themed on climate change, blackened by oil and carrying the words "Lest we forget those who denied".
"It's like dealing with a precious text," says David Page of Page\Park architects, the conservation practice charged with the daunting task of reconstruction, as he stands in hard hat and high-vis, a fluorescent sliver of hope in the blackened scene.
The Canadians, for example, have decorated cigarette packets with repellent images of blackened gums and cancerous lungs.
If they crave blackened catfish and prawn gumbo like mom used to make in Louisiana, they can have it.
Most of the 66 customer complaints that Mitsubishi Electric had received since the sets were made in 1987-90, officials explained, were not so serious, although some involved singed curtains and blackened walls.
The closure of their businesses has disrupted food distribution, as well as causing shortages of, for example, spare parts for tractors and generators.In Jakarta's Chinatown, some shopkeepers are rebuilding their smashed and looted shops under the shadow of the blackened shells of burnt-out shopping malls.
