You know, I've really come to hate the History Channel.
It used to be, well, exactly what you'd expect from a History Channel: a seemingly unending stream of World War II documentaries. And I was fine with that. And they branched out into other things, and started adding shows like Mail Call, which all seems to celebrate the military, but you know, I can be fine with that too.
Their new tactic seems to be playing the perennial Johnny-come-lately.
Remember when The Da Vinci Code was big and new and controversial? The History Channel ran a program called Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By. In 2004 the movie Troy came out, so the History Channel ran a program about Troy. Some of this you can forgive, because even though the Trojan War is more literature than history, it has important historical significance. And codes aside, Leonardo Da Vinci was an important historical figure.
I can't for the life of my give them the same lenience for running programs about the Mayan calender and the end of the world in 2012.
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I can't for the life of my give them the same lenience for running programs about the Mayan calender and the end of the world in 2012.
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1 comments:
Sadly, History Channel has picked up a lot of questionable shows, like people who hunt ghosts, or monsters, or other strange phenomena. But they do still have good shows, you just have to sieve through a few crappy ones to get to the good stuff.
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