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 Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:40 pm
You known you've seen at least one where the alleged historical documentary was full of nothing but outdated (or just plain wrong) tripe. If you've been subjected to the History Channel during the Da Vinci Code Week that qualifies. Here's a nice thread where we can share about them and point at laugh...because the only other option is to cry.
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:42 pm
There was this one time where an 'archaeologist' said that the mask of Agamemnon from the Schleimann excavation at 'Troy' is real.
I was pissed.
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:52 pm
In Medias Res IV There was this one time where an 'archaeologist' said that the mask of Agamemnon from the Schleimann excavation at 'Troy' is real. I was pissed. Man, I went to a really crappy (crappy even by American standards) school and THEY even taught otherwise. ADD: Speaking of, that was something in a documentary that made me laugh. They were trying to show how some hicks from Kansas represented the whole state on evolution. In truth, most of us believe in it, it's just we're dumb enough to keep voting for the idiots who want to merge Church and State.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:56 pm
Man, I was ready to call in last month. I was watching Cities of the Underground, and the idiot host was rambling crap that was...well... it was crap.
What tipped it for me and made me finally snap was, right before the commercial break they asked a question about a newt, and when they came back from a commercial break and answered the question, they called it a reptile....
I suppose that that wasn't the thing that should have made me rail at the History Channel, I guess it just became the proverbial straw. I had spotted 6 blatant mistakes in the first 15 minutes of the show alone, and I was able to keep my cool. I just couldn't believe that they could get something wrong that every first-grade little boy knows.
(and for anyone who doesn't know, newts and salamanders are amphibians)
I am so glad to get that off of my chest. I understood after that, that the History Channel is not here to inform us anymore, it is only there for entertainment purposes.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:13 pm
There was an episode on the discovery channel talking about 2012.
Thing was, they either got religion involved or completely mixed in retarded ideas.
One section was talking about how "plausible" Planet X was. Please...
The History channel of all places.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:42 pm
Captain_Shinzo There was an episode on the discovery channel talking about 2012.
Thing was, they either got religion involved or completely mixed in retarded ideas.
One section was talking about how "plausible" Planet X was. Please...
The History channel of all places. I think I saw that...there was one about how the world was going to end, and it was all the religious peoples arguements for why. I recall someone saying something like 'we can't stop this happening because god has decided it will be so.' Needless to say we laughed and put on a star trek DVD, if we want to watch sci-fi it's not going to be on a documentary channel. Having said that, I've noticed alot of 'shockumentaries' lately. One in particular about people who could be considered therian, pointing out how abnormal, and crazy they must be, and yet it lends the uber-devout christians some sort of credibility in another doco. rolleyes
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:39 am
I hate those "secrets of the bible" (or something like that, it's on NGC) documentaries, where they try as hard as they can to somehow convince you that the events in the bible were actual historical events, when there isn't a shred of evidence (the exodus is a nice example). I mean, it's a ******** science channel!
Discovery, NGC and the like have really lost quality over the last few years. Especially Discovery. It's all pop science and reality shows about people building cars and motorbikes...
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:21 am
Yeah, I miss when Discovery used to have documentaries.
I liked "Banned from the Bible" and Tony Robinson's "Dan Brown Sucks and Here Is Why" but the Mayan Code bullshit got me pissed. Conversely, though, I've also seen a doco on History about how the Mayan heiroglyphs were translated and that was great.
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:40 am
Captain_Shinzo There was an episode on the discovery channel talking about 2012.
Thing was, they either got religion involved or completely mixed in retarded ideas.
One section was talking about how "plausible" Planet X was. Please...
The History channel of all places. The History channel isn't all that wonderful anymore. They've failed me a few times. Huge let down it was.
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:28 pm
I rarely watch any of that crap any more. When you have to ask yourself wtf the "history" channel is showing "documentaries" of things that haven't happened yet, you know it's time to stop watching. stressed
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