Discovery Channel: Megalodon.....

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If you didn't catch the intro to Shark Week last night, you missed a tremendous insult to your intelligence. I was stoked to see a 2 hour show on Megalodon, my favorite animal as a kid. It was billed and advertised as a documentary, what was shown was bad acting played off to be real, and even worse photoshops played off to be actual evidence. It was embarrassing, the Bigfoot and Mermaid shows do a better job faking than this show did.

As the show went on, I had to google some of the "actual events" that took place and not one single news article, twitter post, hashtag, Yahoo clip of ANYTHING they claim as evidence showed up. I'm fine with mockumentaries, but don't try to pass off crap THIS bad as real. If you're going to lie to me, at least put in the effort.


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I saw it...and I'm a megalodon fan as well. At the end when they were chumming, I was curious why nothing made the news. I mean, if something was large enough to knock the ship around as they claimed, and large enough to throw two divers that far out of their diving cage, and could dive that deep, that fast...why wasn't it all over the news??? Shoot, a guy in a bigfoot costume in Georgia a couple years ago got more news coverage.
 
Here's a tooth I found last year at a jobsite just west of Hilton Head... we actually found 4 that day with very minimal effort... shallow water borrow area that we drained... people used to come onsite and dive for them... there's some HUGE teeth down there. The one below is pretty near perfect even with the serrations still on it.

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Half way through I looked at he wife and said, "this is the Blair shark project"
 
Didnt see this but I know for a fact that their are Great Whites on east coast. News crew chased one that was only about 10 feet from shore in a helicopter in Kill devil hills. I dont go in the ocean so im good,lol.
 
I was disappointed too, was hoping for more of a documentary on them, or atleast something informative.
 
I only caught the end of it and I kept thinkin they needed to be drug tested or have a psych eval.


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I've seen " news channels " :lol: lately talking about how gobs of sharks are swimmin right past the breakers and swimmers have no clue and all this buzz about Sharkweek and some other silly sci.phy sharks fallin from the sky after a tornado show, bla,bla,bla like they're tryin to scare folks away from the beach..................... if it works that'd be cool, then maybe it won't be too crowded to find an oceanfront place to rent in the summer, and I could go down there and get ate by a shark while swimmin around in the surf like a drunken, bright red and white Seal :D
 
yeah..... last nights show was worse than the whole mermaids crap, sad part is people believed that crap too.... oh and BTW sharknados can happen too....
 
Did they run out of real intellectual people for the Discovery Channel? I mean really, I thought it was a channel for slightly more intelligent TV? I guess every channel needs some toothless, half educated, morbidly obese, mullet sporting idiot to be entertaining. Or worse yet, educational?
 
I love shark week but was disappointed in the show last night.


Actually, the worst part is the live Shark after Dark chit chat/poor comedy they have at 11pm. That's a waste of program time
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Did they run out of real intellectual people for the Discovery Channel? I mean really, I thought it was a channel for slightly more intelligent TV? I guess every channel needs some toothless, half educated, morbidly obese, mullet sporting idiot to be entertaining. Or worse yet, educational?
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You hush your mouth...Paul Walker was on there yesterday...adding about as much credibility to shark hunting as 88Jeepster does to building XJs

rockcity said:
Actually, the worst part is the live Shark after Dark chit chat/poor comedy they have at 11pm. That's a waste of program time
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But Mark Cuban was there...I liked when they asked why he felt he was there...he said, "I'm rich".
 
Well, Tuesday night's Shark After Dark was actually not bad. I like Mark Cuban, so that was cool. Plus, Tara Reid is HOT. So, last night's show wasn't nearly quite as bad as Monday. Just try not to have so much stupid attempts at bad humor. Bob the Shark is dumb and a waste. Only Jay Leno could pull that off and be successful
 
rockcity said:
I love shark week but was disappointed in the show last night.


Actually, the worst part is the live Shark after Dark chit chat/poor comedy they have at 11pm. That's a waste of program time
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I saw that for about 2 minutes and shut it off. That had that big dumbass Blimp on there talking about what sharks are more agressive :rolleyes: he's a damn shrimper.
 
Ron said:
Half way through I looked at he wife and said, "this is the Blair shark project"
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This^^

I got in trouble because I was watching something else and she wanted to watch that. I said "they will trick you into watching that show for 2 hours then at the end they will say 'MAN WE WERE SO CLOSE TO POSSIBLY SEEING MEGALODON MAYBE SOMETIME A FEW MINUTES AGO'"

I think I got in MORE trouble because I was right....:D
 
I still find myself clearing my schedule at 9:00pm to watch whatever Discovery is going to feed me :D. But like what was mentioned above, I watch this stuff to be entertained through exciting education (if that makes any sense), not to be duped by a hack job drama fake documentary.

Discovery made the decision to sell out to get more ratings. I get it, it's all about getting people talking. But it still pisses me off they present it in a true attempt to fool people. Now I have to deal with the conversations at the gym of "well explain what else could have taken the beacon down to 6000ft", "it could exist, we've only explored 5% of the oceans", "didn't you see the whale bitten in half?"
 
^^^Just ask them if they saw the disclaimer at the end saying the footage wasn't real and it was a re-enactment, based on true events. Which probably means, they did see a big shadow...probably a large great white, the chick missed the shot (go figure) and the beacon simply sank down to 6000 ft.
 
Discovery Channel Getting Hammered by the fans...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Discovery network special that speculated about whether a giant prehistoric shark could still exist has drawn a passionate response from viewers and starkly raised the question about the worth of big ratings.

The program, "Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives," opened Discovery's annual "Shark Week" during the weekend. With an estimated 4.8 million viewers, it had the largest audience of any show in the 26 years that Discovery has made "Shark Week" a part of its summer programming, the Nielsen company said.

Yet it drew a heated response online from viewers who said airing a "mockumentary" compromises the network's reputation.

"It's the ultimate 'Shark Week' fantasy," said Michael Sorensen, Discovery's senior director of programming. "The stories have been out there for years, and with 95 percent of the ocean unexplored, who really knows?"

Discovery's "Shark Week" Web page and Facebook and Twitter sites filled after the show with complaints from fans who objected to the program, saying they were surprised a science-based network seriously discussed the existence of a fearsome creature when there is no evidence it exists today. The "Megalodon" special was reminiscent of two shows on sister network Animal Planet about mermaids, which also got big audiences.

In a blog post, actor Wil Wheaton said he is a regular viewer of "Shark Week" but he was disgusted by the show. He said Discovery owes an apology to viewers who have grown to trust the network for its presentation of science.

"Discovery Channel betrayed that trust during its biggest viewing week of the year," Wheaton wrote. "Discovery Channel isn't run by stupid people, and this was not some kind of a mistake. Someone made a deliberate choice to present a work of fiction that is more suited for the SyFy channel as a truthful and factual documentary. That is disgusting."

Discover magazine's Christie Wilcox wrote that the show's "evidence was faked, the stories fabricated, and the scientists portrayed on it were actors. The idea that Megalodon could still be roaming the ocean is a complete and total myth."

Wilcox wrote that "You used to expose the beautiful, magical, wonderful sides of the world around us. Now, you just make (stuff) up for profit. It's depressing. It's disgusting. It's wrong."

At the end of the special, Discovery aired three disclaimers. Discovery said that none of the institutions or agencies that appear in the film is affiliated with it in any way. The network also said that "though certain events and characters in this film have been dramatized, sightings of 'submarine' continue to this day." Discovery would not say what events that referred to.

"Megalodon was a real shark," Discovery told viewers. "Legends of giant sharks persist all over the world. There is still debate about what they may be."

For Discovery, the question is whether the short-term achievement of high ratings is worth the risk of alienating long-time fans.
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"For Discovery, the question is whether the short-term achievement of high ratings is worth the risk of alienating long-time fans."

This is exactly what they need to be careful with.......they are toeing the line.
 
To be quite honest...the only thing I really cared about during shark week was air jaws...always thought that was awesome. I'll continue to watch that...I don't really think one mochumentary will make or break a network. They got the message, they pocketed their cash...and they figure out how to dupe the common viewer next year too, but in a way that makes him happy to be duped.
 
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