I agree, i really like this show, with all its flaws too.
While i sure do lean towards the "non-believers", and i have my share of ridiculing, but i never took this show very seriously, i have seen too many serious documentaries to know that this is not in the same league, but i cant deny that i love the entertainment of this and seeing the ancient structures is always nice, they are beautiful and automatically makes people wonder about how and why they made them.
Alien theories are a nice addition or sometimes even a compliment to the mysteriousness of the monoliths, but it would take me a bit more than mainstream alien-talk to get me to believe in them.
My ridiculing mainly comes out of annoyance or disappointment, because as i said in my earlier post, i really wished this show was educational and more in depth.
Then the people like Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress mostly just make me laugh instead of hanging on their lips to wait what their genius minds can tell us more.
But i would actually love to hang out with them, just to be brainstorming about "What if", but i dont expect to be taught a lot.. mostly just having fun.
What i meant with it being shown on the History Channel, is that the History Channel used to be fact based and educational, but with shows like these, the lines become blurry.
Which creates the different "camps" of people in here too.
Some believe all of it and will defend their theories with all they can, some dont believe it and dismiss and ridicule the theories etc.
I think that this show should step it up, because theyve ran out of material anyway, weve basically been watching new seasons that are reruns and rethreads of previous seasons.
Those blurry lines should not be there, at least not on this level, we have not even met a consensus, other than constantly hearing about "Ancient Alien theorists say YES", but who are they? Aside from the same faces we keep seeing on the show.
It just... not enough, not enough for me to think that theyre really onto something.
Alien theories are not new, and AA does not help things when they tell us that they think their theories are facts, when we still have to see actual evidence.
They make it seem like they are connecting the dots, but ... connected dots are meant to form something in the bigger picture, but they connect dots to make full circles, rehashing and retelling the same things.
Their closed loops (or bubbles) are not what fits into serious research, they just arent the kind to do their homework properly, other than adding things to their visions (or illusions).
Having said all that.. i still will watch the show and hope for more to come, because to me its entertainment, like a weekly sy-fy flick.
The show peaks two of my main interests, but they dont go far enough to make me "one of them".
I do think it would be awesome if Aliens did visit us, or might even be coming back, but to actually hang my theories to it with such devotion as the people do on AA, is rather foolish in my opinion.
They overlook or dismiss/patronize ancient civilizations too much, we are curious beings, we might not know the full story, but we can rationalize and think, we can make inventions along the way that might not kickstart us into space, but we add them to the collection of tools and to the pool of knowledge.
But flat out denying that people could have built the Pyramids, therefore it had to be Aliens... i dont particularly like to think in those extremes.
For example, despite that i really dont believe in religions, i still consider myself Agnostic, because nobody truly knows THE answer, i just dont agree with what people have made of the Deity concept so far.
I really dont think people had to rely on Aliens to make the Pyramids, or for example, as the AA show even dares to claim, that Aliens gave the Japanese blacksmiths the secret to make perfect Katana blades, or instructed Hitler, or was the cause of Zombies in some cases...
The concept of Alien contact is very interesting, but many times i just ask myself: "why would they choose this subject to highlight Alien contact??!", like the Jobs episode for example.
Many times i loudly disagree with the people and theories while watching the show, i think its funny a lot of times, but more of a guilty pleasure.
I guess the problem is that not everyone actually sees this stuff as theory, and i partly blame the show for it too, the Narrator(Robert Clotworthy, who i funnily enough saw in a really old Columbo episode by coincidence, the episode is "By Dawn's Early Light", you can see him as a young teenager soldier boy haha. i saw his name in the opening credits and remembered it from Ancient Aliens, check it out if you can :) either way..) he is the neutral guy who only deals in "What if"s and speaks about "according to", but Giorgio & Co. often proclaim to know the facts.
The subject is a bit too grand or influential to be casually taken as fact.
The world would change if this Alien stuff was really true, and i highly doubt that there are conspiracies going on all over the world to try to stop us from knowing the "truth".
Ancient Aliens is just not the "end all", it might be credited for opening people up to the idea, but there are hardly any answers found here.
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