Jeremy Wade explores the sinking of the mighty SS Fitzgerald. Can new discoveries finally tell us what led to one of the biggest catastrophes on the Great Lakes?
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Jeremy Wade explores the sinking of the mighty SS Fitzgerald. Can new discoveries finally tell us what led to one of the biggest catastrophes on the Great Lakes?
Nobody begrudges Jeremy wanting a paycheck in his golden years, but the rest of the points still apply They seem to be more aimed at the producers of this drivel than at Jeremy anyway. His only crime was letting the money they were paying him outweigh any kind of personal integrity about what his name and face were being used to sell. The producers look like they were just trying to get some Apple TV money without putting any effort into it. But that can be said about a lot of "documentaries" these days.
@FargleBargle - The man was 64/65 years old at airtime. Maybe it's about the time he didn't feel like being on camera when having his personal adventures. When you get up to that age, some people are still spry and ready to do action on camera, but they're the exception, not the rule. I'm personally happy for the guy. He's no longer a dancing monkey, and he's still getting paid. Good for him.
This series is just lazy. Wade used to actually go places and do things in previous series. It was part of why I watched his show about fishing, when I have no real interest in fishing. He made it interesting, and made it about more than just fishing. In this, he just stands on the same rocky coastline, wearing the same clothes, and provides a few lines of introductory and filler dialog for each episode, and narrates the rest unseen.
His guests, the same group of interchangeable "experts" in each episode - again wearing the same clothes for the whole series - just say the kind of inane things that anyone might say after getting a 5 minute briefing on each "mystery" - certainly nothing that demonstrates any real expertise on the subjects: "Nobody really knows what happened"... "It's a mystery"... "This has never happened before"... "We may never know". It makes me wonder if they were all just recruited off the street, and given lines to read - they could have filmed all of their contributions for the whole series in about an hour each.
Finally, there's the b-roll visual filler that makes up most of each episode. While they do get a few sequences specific to each episode's subject matter, there's a lot of generic stuff mixed in. In this episode, to illustrate a supposed encounter between a navy carrier group and an underwater UFO, footage of soviet fighters was substituted for American F-18s. With all the generic footage they had to choose from for these brief sequences, they couldn't find a half dozen shots of the correct type of airplane? I could have done better after a 10 minute search of YouTube. Like I said - a lazy, formula TV documentary, that doesn't have anything new to contribute.