I want my Hour back. I really expected more out of National Geographic but it looks like they are in a competition with The History Channel with who can come up with the most hyperbole in pseudo-scientific speculation.
First strike is the cinematography, it looked like they were trying to do "The Bourne Archaeologist" with fast edits of people looking at satellite pictures and computer screens. Sorry but they should of left that technique to "CSI", they do it much better.
Next they waste 10 minutes talking about the Minoans to then say, "Oh, it wasn't them anyways" (I'm paraphrasing)
Only actual physical evidence was two little stone statues found on the site.
They tried to convince the viewer that satellite images showed concentric circles, a distinctive feature of Atlantis' as described by Plato, by superimposing a graphic of concentric circles over what looked like a simple plain marshland.
I could keep on going but honestly don't feel like wasting more time on a show that was sloppy with its science, badly edited, full of misdirection and that in the end didn't answer anything.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
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