Things I learned from the History Channel this weekend

[Philadelphia Patriot]

Watched some show on that channel over the week end and I saw a world war 1 British soldier carrying a M1 Carbine.


Oh well after watching the so called history channel it appears as long as a soldier is carrying some sort of weapon that is all they require to do the show. I only commented on the Carbine as to me that was a new goof up that I had not seen before.

The WWI "documentary" they made a year ago was horribly done. I think there is/was a thread on this forum that pointed out the several inconsistencies.

 

[model70hunter]

Anyone watched any of the current "Oak Island" or "Hunting Hitler" series? All use the same HC plot formula - lots of suspense building, but it never results in any substantiated firm conclusions. Just like all of the HC UFO and Bigfoot series.

Precisely stated.

I did not do Oak Island but all cable shows now take a 5 or 10 minute program and stretch it out to 45 Minutes plus 15 of advertising.

While watching Hunting Hitler, remember same scenario on all cable shows, They give the tease, then flitter around until the 1st commercial and repeat what they just showed. Same till the next commercial.

Really do they think we all have short term memory problems?

At some point in the show I yelled get to the exletive point to which my wife agreed but again as you said was left hanging as the sort of want to to fill in the blanks. So the bunker they found in Argentina, Brazil or wherever that the local owner piled logs on and would not let them look at it was the end?????

Expletive again. I don't know what they expected when they talked to the farmer, what was his name again, Hans?

Gute Nacht herr Dewalt.

 

[CCantu357]

I miss the old History Channel. Circa 1990s to mid 2000s. I think Mail Call was the last show I enjoyed on there. Too many reality shows and simplified shows not really explaining history with any sort of substance.

 

[Shark Bait]

We need a Smith and Wesson channel.

 

[Bad_Andy]

I used to enjoy the "Pawn Stars" show. I know it is all set up and fake, but did like that they tried to teach a little history about each item.

I was interested in the Oak Island show at first. I had long heard the rumors of Oak Island, and was curious about it. After watching one show, I realized it was almost all bogus. Especially since they "think they are on to something", then the episode ends. The next episode starts a different theory. What happened to last week's theory? Total BS as far as I am concerned.

Most reality TV is completely scripted and fake. I helped out a friend film a pilot for a reality TV show based around a bar. It was all made up, including the fake "drama".

I guess my favorite "reality" or history type show would be Jeopardy. Makes me realize just how much I don't know, but one can never stop learning. Plus it is kinda-like gambling, and who doesn't love gambling?

 

[finesse_r]

It certainly was not Bubba Bob and his beer drinking buddies that built them ¼ of a mile high sky scrapers. I mean can you imagine designing and erecting a building that reaches ¼ of mile or some even higher straight up in the sky? What audacity to even think of such a thing. Well I will give it to those architects that design and supervise such a building. Those guys are pretty smart.

Wonder why only one NFL quarterback was an architect that built sky scrapers and other expensive homes and buildings? I suspect he was sharp too, which is why even Tom Landry let him call his own signals.

 

[BC38]

Reality TV is an oxymoron. Mostly filmed for, by, and about human morons.