I like Pawn Stars, I think it's relevant because most of the items they feature are historical, antiques, art, or significant modern history. It's sort of like a more fun and more diverse Antiques Roadshow.
I agree about many of the other shows, though. I HATE their armageddon shows, Nostradamus crap, Brad Meltzer's Decoded, Ancient Aliens...all that stuff is such crap. They of all people should have a duty to report things accurately but the information in those shows is so skewed and is hardly true at all, they fit things to whatever agenda they have.
You have to keep in mind that some of their newer shows are history in the making though. History IS made every day, some of the shows are just documenting history being made. There's also recent history that's interesting, like Modern Marvels.
They want viewers so they had to diversify, I think most of it's good, just those stupid shows like Ancient Aliens (uggh, how fucking dumb) and of course the whole 2012 Apocalypse crap they run often, it's just to get viewers. I don't get why they do the gator hunting show though, seriously, what IS that?
Ancient Aliens is RETARDED. At least those shows are good. It's called MODERN HISTORY or history in the making. They're documenting things that will go down in history. That's how we get history books and crap, someone's documenting shit. Now we have to guess at a lot of historical happenings because they didn't document it as well as we do now (or more recently, rather). It will benefit our kid's kids and beyond. Those shows aren't uninformative, they show why thy're doing what they're doing, how, how it's different (or the same) now, and shit like that.
Ax Men-the Swamp Man is pulling logs out of the water that sunk from a couple-hundred year old log raft....for example. Then there's teams that use horses and oxen for logging, and no machinery. It's relevant.
Ice Road Truckers, it shows modern ways of transporting goods, and also dips into the oil industry. That WILL be history one day.
Ancient Aliens is a JOKE, all they do is say how aliens had to have built shit because the people back then were too stupid. Yeah, OK. Then they skew facts to make it fir their alien agenda. It's all bunk.
Those shows you speak of do not depict history. If there were a "History in the Making" channel, they would be great candidates- but that's not our current history. History in the making is called 'the present'. Recording information in present day is very important, but it's not history. It's current.
Only when they pull these hundred year old logs out of the water is it relevant to history. Otherwise, it's useless in terms of history.
I agree that some people who push out their theories on Ancient Aliens are quacks- however, those theories are pointed out strictly as theories -not facts- by the narrators, and they are important in depicting possible historical outcomes. More importantly, the objects and information themselves are historical and are therefore perfect for the History Channel.
Much of what we see as history, even recent, is misconstrued. We need the discussion of events to keep flowing, no matter how ridiculous the parties are.
That's been their tagline for the past couple years 'History: Made Every Day'. What's shown today was taped months or years ago so technically it IS history. Recent history, but still history and will be historically relevant.
Yes, I'm aware of the slogan. I think it's absurd. If that is the point of the channel, they might as well record me pooping tomorrow morning and air it the next day as an important part of history. Me pooping tomorrow will technically become history the next day, but I wouldn't recommend it for a history professor's teaching curriculum.
I guess you have to be smart enough to see the history in the making and why it's relevant.
Can you imagine if we had video of any historical event instead of MOSTLY guessing? Guess not. Ice Road Truckers, yes, they do play up some drama but it mostly documents very relevant things. Remember, there was a time when what they did was impossible, then done by horses, then done by smaller machinery now done by them, and also NOW done in part for the oil industry. It's definitely relevant. 100 years from now, would you think things will be he same? Why? They aren't the same as 100 years ago, so it's apparent things will change by then. What will become of the oil industry and oil dependence? What ALL truckers do is reliant on the oil industry. Surely this is absolutely relevant to that, the end of an oil era will demand much information and history. Documentation is nice. They're doing something 'newer' but major and relevant in many ways.
That's all they show now is gator hunting, and chopping trees with axes. Where's the American Revolution? Where's world war two? Where's the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where's autobiographies of FDR and john Adams? I'm writing them a letter, they're dumbing down our youth. How are some southerners who can't even speak complete sentences more important than Ulysses S. Grant? So annoying.
They play more of those kinds of shows on H2 (History 2), plus there's the Military Channel, Military History, etc. There's pretty much 2 huge networks that own a lot of other channels....A&E and Discovery. They diversified and specialized, and have so many different channels for more specific types of shows. The more popular and everyday crap is what they put on the main channels like A&E, Discovery and History. Then all the more specialized stuff and less popular shows, they put on their specialized channels. A&E used to run a show called Biography, but they even specialized that into it's own channel called Bio.
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I like Pawn Stars, I think it's relevant because most of the items they feature are historical, antiques, art, or significant modern history. It's sort of like a more fun and more diverse Antiques Roadshow.
I agree about many of the other shows, though. I HATE their armageddon shows, Nostradamus crap, Brad Meltzer's Decoded, Ancient Aliens...all that stuff is such crap. They of all people should have a duty to report things accurately but the information in those shows is so skewed and is hardly true at all, they fit things to whatever agenda they have.
You have to keep in mind that some of their newer shows are history in the making though. History IS made every day, some of the shows are just documenting history being made. There's also recent history that's interesting, like Modern Marvels.
They want viewers so they had to diversify, I think most of it's good, just those stupid shows like Ancient Aliens (uggh, how fucking dumb) and of course the whole 2012 Apocalypse crap they run often, it's just to get viewers. I don't get why they do the gator hunting show though, seriously, what IS that?
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Ancient Aliens is a lot more historical than Ice Road Truckers and Axe Men.
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Ancient Aliens is RETARDED. At least those shows are good. It's called MODERN HISTORY or history in the making. They're documenting things that will go down in history. That's how we get history books and crap, someone's documenting shit. Now we have to guess at a lot of historical happenings because they didn't document it as well as we do now (or more recently, rather). It will benefit our kid's kids and beyond. Those shows aren't uninformative, they show why thy're doing what they're doing, how, how it's different (or the same) now, and shit like that.
Ax Men-the Swamp Man is pulling logs out of the water that sunk from a couple-hundred year old log raft....for example. Then there's teams that use horses and oxen for logging, and no machinery. It's relevant.
Ice Road Truckers, it shows modern ways of transporting goods, and also dips into the oil industry. That WILL be history one day.
Ancient Aliens is a JOKE, all they do is say how aliens had to have built shit because the people back then were too stupid. Yeah, OK. Then they skew facts to make it fir their alien agenda. It's all bunk.
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Those shows you speak of do not depict history. If there were a "History in the Making" channel, they would be great candidates- but that's not our current history. History in the making is called 'the present'. Recording information in present day is very important, but it's not history. It's current.
Only when they pull these hundred year old logs out of the water is it relevant to history. Otherwise, it's useless in terms of history.
I agree that some people who push out their theories on Ancient Aliens are quacks- however, those theories are pointed out strictly as theories -not facts- by the narrators, and they are important in depicting possible historical outcomes. More importantly, the objects and information themselves are historical and are therefore perfect for the History Channel.
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That's been their tagline for the past couple years 'History: Made Every Day'. What's shown today was taped months or years ago so technically it IS history. Recent history, but still history and will be historically relevant.
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Yes, I'm aware of the slogan. I think it's absurd. If that is the point of the channel, they might as well record me pooping tomorrow morning and air it the next day as an important part of history. Me pooping tomorrow will technically become history the next day, but I wouldn't recommend it for a history professor's teaching curriculum.
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I guess you have to be smart enough to see the history in the making and why it's relevant.
Can you imagine if we had video of any historical event instead of MOSTLY guessing? Guess not. Ice Road Truckers, yes, they do play up some drama but it mostly documents very relevant things. Remember, there was a time when what they did was impossible, then done by horses, then done by smaller machinery now done by them, and also NOW done in part for the oil industry. It's definitely relevant. 100 years from now, would you think things will be he same? Why? They aren't the same as 100 years ago, so it's apparent things will change by then. What will become of the oil industry and oil dependence? What ALL truckers do is reliant on the oil industry. Surely this is absolutely relevant to that, the end of an oil era will demand much information and history. Documentation is nice. They're doing something 'newer' but major and relevant in many ways.
If you don't get it then I'm sorry.
That's all they show now is gator hunting, and chopping trees with axes. Where's the American Revolution? Where's world war two? Where's the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where's autobiographies of FDR and john Adams? I'm writing them a letter, they're dumbing down our youth. How are some southerners who can't even speak complete sentences more important than Ulysses S. Grant? So annoying.
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They play more of those kinds of shows on H2 (History 2), plus there's the Military Channel, Military History, etc. There's pretty much 2 huge networks that own a lot of other channels....A&E and Discovery. They diversified and specialized, and have so many different channels for more specific types of shows. The more popular and everyday crap is what they put on the main channels like A&E, Discovery and History. Then all the more specialized stuff and less popular shows, they put on their specialized channels. A&E used to run a show called Biography, but they even specialized that into it's own channel called Bio.