I've written about that time in several reviews of mine, and I've always maintained an appreciation for growing up during that decade when, through naked-yet-artful media and pop culture manipulation, it seemed possible to a kid growing up in the Midwest to believe that the Bermuda Triangle was swallowing up airplanes and ships whole, that the Abominable Snowman was stomping around the Andes (or was it the Himalayas?), that UFOs were constantly circling the world, that it was only a matter of time before the Loch Ness Monster was finally netted, that Noah's Ark was real and run-aground on a Turkish mountaintop, and that Bigfoot could be right outside your wooded backyard.after he was finished battling Steve Austin, of course.
Now, just to be clear: I've never made any bones about adoring that moment in the early-to-mid seventies when so-called "pseudoscience" was all the rage.
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The pilot for the series is included as a bonus for this good-looking program.
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Of course it's all probably hokum, and yes, there's no end of huckstering going on with some of the dubious people involved in this movement, but interesting questions are raised here, and more importantly-it's all quite fanciful and entertaining.and that's what TV is supposed to be. Hartel, I quite enjoyed History's Ancient Aliens: Season One, a goofy, scattershot 2-disc, 5-episode look at the "pseudoscience," "pseudoarcheology," and "pseudosocio-political" evidence and theories that claim alien astronauts either visited Earth at the dawn of civilization, jumpstarting ancient man's evolution, or that we ourselves are the direct offspring of our alien forefathers, who rocketed down to Earth to mate with our gorgeous, stacked, yet slightly backward women. Contrary to my two esteemed colleagues here at DVDTalk, Mr.
Each of these extremes is a serious impediment to the study of UFOs."Ĭome on, John and Nick.you know you're star children. There are two sorts of self-deception here: either accepting the idea of extraterrestrial visitation by space aliens in the face of very meager evidence because we want it to be true or rejecting such an idea out of hand, in the absence of sufficient evidence, because we don't want it to be true. "The idea of benign or hostile space aliens from other planets visiting the earth an emotional idea.