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Ancient Aliens-Season 2 just as bad as 1

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Sean Elifritz

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Watched the first two episodes of season 2 and goodness, they ain't improved a thing. This show makes UFO Hunters look sober. They certainly take a throw-a-bunch-of-shit-at-the-fan approach. Every passing idea, no matter how absurd or meaningless, is given serious consideration and the result is always the same. "Hey, this is kinda' weird. Must have been aliens." Or "That looks heavy. Aliens." "Look, these structures are arranged in a straight line. Blasted, fargin', bug-eyed aliens!" "What a strange story. Gotta' be literal and gotta' be aliens." The last one especially gets my goat. I suppose it's totally impossible that the ancient world could have had Stephen King, Richard Matheson, or Issac Asimov types. Yet I keep watching this terrible show, lol. The networks simply refuse to give me anything better. With UFOs or anything related it's dreadful or nothing. :(

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Seems like those guys can take absolutely anything and twist it around into evidence for aliens. At one point some guy with one of the most ridiculous looking haircuts I've ever seen took what sounded like a perfectly good description of a typical volcanic eruption and perverted it into a statement about alien spacecraft taking off. Then in another segment they were marveling at what looked to me like nothing more than big ass rocks and claiming that they were carved into animal shapes. I couldn't make the connection, just looked like natural formations to me. But even if they were carved what in the hell does that have to do with alien beings? Guess ya' gotta' be an ancient astronaut investigator to get it. The guys on that show could enter a person's kitchen and somehow transform a soup can lid found on a tabletop into evidence for ET visitation.
 
I hate the guys that sell all this garbage. It wilfully makes people ignorant by exchanging real knowledge for made-up fairy tales. I got to the introduction and bailed out of AA2.

There's a usually great podcast called 'Mysterious Universe' which I always listen to and enjoy. I had to turn this week's episode off in irritation after they featured 'ancient aliens/forbidden archaeology.'

Even they didn't believe the BS, because you could hear it in their voices. Who in their right mind would honestly offer Klaus Dona's opinion about archaeology? Yonaguni underwater 'pyramids?' The godamned 'Corso Artifact?!'

Pfffft.
 
You guys are tough critics. I don't compare these shows to what I think they should be, I compare them to what else is on . . . . Jerry Springer . . . . Real Housewives.

By TV standards they're winners.

Live hockey game? . . . catch ya later Von Daniken!
 
Thanks Eddie. I generally enjoy your posts, and your take on things is usually close to the mark.

A cynic might say that TV shows like this are just about channel-surfing entertainment for the ignorant, and not intended to be taken seriously as anyone genuinely interested in the subject matter is gonna read the books, meet the researchers themselves and do their own work.

A paranoid conspiracist however, might say it's all deliberate disinformation intentionally put out to muddy the waters so the real issue is harder to see.
 
Frank Stalter said:
You guys are tough critics. I don't compare these shows to what I think they should be, I compare them to what else is on . . . . Jerry Springer . . . . Real Housewives.
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You've just doubled the amount of reasons why TV shows like 'Ancient Aliens' can be considered useful. The other one is maybe people will check some facts and discover the wonders of genuine academic research. :D
 
Kandinsky said:
You've just doubled the amount of reasons why TV shows like 'Ancient Aliens' can be considered useful. The other one is maybe people will check some facts and discover the wonders of genuine academic research. :D
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That's exactly right. They can be a spark that lights a fire, but never anything more.
 
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