Discovery Channel makes up more bullshit for Shark Week. Scientists call them out.
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My fondest memory of old history channel is the nature documentaries that were almost mute- they introduced the animals by their names and diets and then filmed them do things in utmost silence for 120 minutes.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;45656113]People may have give the Discovery Channel shit when it was showing WW2 documentaries all the time, but at least it wasn't making shit up back then.
I stopped watching once they began to focus on 'reality' shows like Deadliest Catch or Gold Diggers. It's just schlock now.[/QUOTE]
Apparently they started showing Mythbusters again. You wouldn't know it though, unless you just happened upon it being on or looked up a programming guide because they've done fuck all to advertise it. Apparently to get advertised on Discovery Channel its gonna be about naked gold digging moonshine making Amish crab fishermen who work with cars and guns during "shark" week.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;45656113]People may have give the Discovery Channel shit [B]when it was showing WW2 documentaries all the time,[/B] but at least it wasn't making shit up back then.
I stopped watching once they began to focus on 'reality' shows like Deadliest Catch or Gold Diggers. It's just schlock now.[/QUOTE]
I think you're thinking about the History channel? Honestly I am not sure because they sort of blended into one after a while.
I blame Deadliest Catch for all of this.
[QUOTE=Thlis;45654898][img]http://i.imgur.com/Ok4TYJ0.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I prefer to get all my information from
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I think the most shocking thing about this is that people think Discovery Channel has factual programs on.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;45655598]What happened to discovery channel? It's like history channel now. A thousand gold digging shows, a million auction shows, a billion bike shows. All of them actors doing actor things.[/QUOTE]And in Finland at least, no less than 6 gambling adverts back-to-back, with some of the same ones repeated for good measure in the same ad break. As well as plugging their dramatic bollocks shows over and over again (seems like artificially padding out the ad break slot)
Only reason I bothered with the channel is for Mythbusters, but it's far less irritating to just watch it elsewhere on the Internet.
[QUOTE=Thlis;45656192]I think you're thinking about the History channel? Honestly I am not sure because they sort of blended into one after a while.
I blame Deadliest Catch for all of this.[/QUOTE]
Both of them had a period where it was WW2 all the time. The History channel went to shit around the time Discovery started showing WW2 stuff prominently.
Discovery has became a redneck tv.
I leave Discovery on all the time because I hate it less than everything else, but its still become awful. Only things I really watch are Mythbusters and occasionally the true crime shows before noon because some of those aren't completely stupid with the drama, and at least they're usually interesting. Most of the stuff I actively hate.
The only good thing on Discovery is Mythbusters.
[QUOTE=Maladroit;45656796]The obly good thing on Discovery is Mythbusters, and even that trues to be funny and appeal to the average joe sometimes.[/QUOTE]Mythbusters has always incorporated humor in to itself since the very beginning.
Fuck Sharkweek. I had my own about 3 weeks ago
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Those are sharks. All of them.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubxD3Jbyyg[/media]
And the video was taken where Jaws was filmed
[QUOTE=Raptors!;45655667]Wait, people actually disliked the Mermaids doc? I thought it was great.[/QUOTE]
It's damn good as a mockumentary, but to air it as "legit 100% truth guys we're not making this up," is complete and utter slosh.
Yeah, they've done that with the Mermaid one, the Megalodon one, the Russian Yeti/Dyatlov Pass one, and this one. I think that there might have been others before the Mermaid one but that is the first I remember. They all are presented as being completely factual, and they adamantly defend them as such as much as possible.
BBC produces some good documentaries, with good reconstructions and multipile point of views from various subjects, not just sharks, lions, guns and auctions. And without overdramatizing!
Some weeks ago my friend linked me youtube doc about American tank and it's service. It literally had a fat guy washing it with some high pressure washer, with over dramatized music playing on the background. And then telling how hard and dangerous job that is.
Also had some false facts: claimed that one track weighted 200 metric tons.
Can someone tell me who actually watches the shit that that the Discovery channel and the History channel put out these days? I mean how much of a retard do you have to be to find Nazi-UFOs or Ancient Aliens plausible?
Even when the History channel does real history they manage to fuck it up. The last thing I watched from them was about Ancient Rome and I was just wondering why any self-respecting professor would appear in it considering the amount of bullshit inaccuracies it had.
The only History show I watched was Pawn Stars, and even then, it got to the point of purposeful drama that I couldn't stand.
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Pawn Stars has more history than most of what's on the History Channel.
It was better when it was the Hitler Channel.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;45655990]I don't watch American documentaries in general, they mostly suck because of the dramatization.[/QUOTE]
The mermaid thing, oh my god. They're making it out like it was some [I]wold shattering incredibly important discovery[/I] for whatever reason. Like, those actors and the music, it's like that mermaid body could shake the foundations of the human race or some shit.
I mean obviously it's bullshit in the first place but still
[URL="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/category/episodes/by-animal/shark/"]http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/category/episodes/by-animal/shark/[/URL]
if you really cared about sharks, I'd recommend anything from Nature from the Public Broadcastic people.
They've never let me down, no matter the episode.
This is why I also don't pay for TV. I can't support dumb shows, so I use an antenna. I only ever watch WETA, tho.
[QUOTE=Raptors!;45655727]Oh, I see, people were taking it seriously.
Not sure who to blame for that.[/QUOTE]
Probably the people expecting educational shit on a supposedly educational channel? Fucking morons right?
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;45657034]The only History show I watched was Pawn Stars, and even then, it got to the point of purposeful drama that I couldn't stand.
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Pawn Stars has more history than most of what's on the History Channel.
It was better when it was the Hitler Channel.[/QUOTE]
American Pickers is better
Only shows on Discovery I watch are Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, and occasionally Deadliest Catch if there's nothing else on.
I hate Shark Week, partly because I really have no interest in sharks, but mainly the ads that try to hype up "SHARK WEEK IS COMING GUYS GET READY" get annoying really quickly.
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