I thought I might like it when they started with a pastoral landscape and boy choirs - love choir music and the English are the best in the world at it. But when the smokestacks were raised I was like, if you’re going to raise a tower 100 feet above the ground, why make it a dirty smokestack belching smoke - two of them.
I think the idea was a potted history, and the smokestacks represented the coming of the industrial revolution over “England’s green and pleasant land”.