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Review of Ancient Aliens S07E05 "Aliens and Superheroes"

8/22/2014

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In this episode of Ancient Aliens, S07E05 “Aliens and Superheroes,” the show decides to plumb the depths of fiction to find evidence of aliens among superheroes. It is all very meta. Why not Star Wars or other space operas? Just as profitably might they have mined science fiction or, dare I say it, the works of H. P. Lovecraft to find aliens amidst fiction. The inspiration for this episode is undoubtedly desperation (they recycle footage from the 2009 History series Clash of the Gods), but there is more than a whiff of H. P. Blavatsky in the conceit that superheroes can tell us anything about actual space aliens. In a footnote to her Secret Doctrine Blavatsky claimed that writers of fantastic fiction received “occult dreams” from nonhuman intelligences on other planets or other dimensions, and thus unconsciously embodied extraterrestrial truths. Ancient Aliens pretty much decides to adopt this as the governing concept for this episode. It is not a pretty sight.
We open with animated images of comic book heroes from the Marvel and DC vaults (I wonder how much the frequent use of classic comic art cost…), which the show immediately compares to the Greek gods. The show fails to disclose that H2 is partially owned by Disney, the parent of Marvel Comics. Gerard Jones of the book Comic Book Heroes (1996) and Dan DiDio of DC Comics explain that superhero stories are explicitly modeled on ancient gods and heroes as sources of quick and free plots. The show then pivots to a recycling of old claims about ancient myths, which Giorgio Tsoukalos tiresomely repeats must actually describe “advanced technology.” He and Jonathan Young both talk around Arthur C. Clarke’s famous third law, that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Tsoukalos concludes that the similarity in hero stories around the world suggests an origin in space aliens all over the world. Jones is edited in such a way that he seems to deny that Indo-European pantheons share a singular origin, even though what’s left makes plain that the show cut out an explicit statement that Indo-European myths are all related, all the better to make it look like aliens were omnipresent.

David Childress cites Superman’s extraterrestrial origin as similar to those of the “Sumerian” gods, who he falsely says came from other planets. The show claims that Superman’s chest “S” and the pectoral symbols of other heroes are similar to swastikas, crosses, and hearts worn on religious figures’ chests—all of which may have been “technology” worn on aliens. Uh-huh. Where else might one wear a symbol for it to be seen? There are only two logical choices: the forehead and the chest, and both are in evidence in myth and comics. David Wilcock and William Henry, though, tell us that we are genetically programmed to remember aliens, who manifest in our collective consciousness as superheroes.

After the break there is much talk about “archetypes” and how various hero stories involve battles to control the universe. The show note that the Marvel comic Thor is based on—gasp!—Norse Mythology. They then talk about the Titanomachy, the battle of the gods and Titans in Greek myth, with heavy emphasis on Joseph Campbell and the Monomyth, which David Childress again states originates in alien visitation.

Only one quarter of the way through the show, we’re already getting pretty repetitive. It doesn’t help that they recycle claims about the cosmic battles of the Mahabharata that we’ve encountered many times before, not to mention Babylonian myths, which are given Sitchin’s false version. Childress claims that the Babylonian Enuma Elish is Sumerian, and he argues that Tiamat and Marduk are planets, and that one of these planets blew up, inspiring Krypton. Krypton, oddly enough, actually predates Sitchin’s exploding planet claims by several decades.

The show, though, keeps dancing around the issue that of course comic books made use of ancient myths, including ancient astronaut theories. This was done on purpose to provide a resonant background for the stories. There is nothing mystical or cosmic about the selection of plot, any more than it’s shocking to discover that West Side Story somehow channels Romeo and Juliet from the Akashic Record because Arthur Laurents was possessed by the alien that inspired Shakespeare.  

After the break, we travel to Lemnos, the home of Hephaestus, described here as the god of “technology.” He is credited with inventing several magnificent contraptions, but the show chooses to identify Talos as a robot, even though… Oh, we’ve been over this. In fact, Arthur B. Cook went over this in 1913, so I’ll leave it to him to explain the details.

Now we’re on to Batman, whom the show declares a “hero of modern technology” and a “pop culture god.” Then they mention Iron Man as a scientific representative of the human-machine interface. Jason Martell then tells us that both are close approximations of what alien gods originally were. It never crosses his mind that he is reading modern superheroes backward into the myths that they rationalize. It’s hardly different than Euhemerus developing elaborate explanations in the fourth century BCE for how the gods themselves were actually humans whose exploits had been misinterpreted from all manner of unlikely happenings: “This he did by describing all the received Gods under the style of generals, sea-captains, and kings…” (Plutarch, Moralia 5.26.23, trans. William Baxter). “They were formerly kings, who on account of their royal memory subsequently began to be adored by their people even in death…” (Cyprian, Treatise 6.1, On the Vanity of Idols, trans. Robert Ernest Wallis).

So we cross the halfway point, and the show talks about the Transformers as technological ancient astronauts. Don LoCicero, author of Superheroes and Gods (2007), mumbles about transformations and archetypes, and then we’re off to the story of Kukulkan (or Quetzalcoatl), who is supposedly an alien who rode in a snake-shaped spacecraft. We’ve heard Tsoukalos give this claim before (S04E02), so this entire episode is pretty much an excuse to rehearse the show’s greatest hits in a different format.

Now secret identities are introduced as alien evidence. Why? “We have a deep inner longing” from “genetic memory written right into our DNA,” Wilcock says. The show fails to note that Wilcock thinks that shape-shifting aliens use these secret identities to plot global genocide. Oh well… The narrator and Wilcock do a full-on Blavatsky and decide, in interrogative form, that fiction writers are receiving extraterrestrial stories encoded in our DNA. This is rather depressing. Aliens planned the craptacular Comics Code-era kiddie comics? So when Batman teamed up with Bat-Dog and Bat-Ape, this was written in our DNA? Aliens suck at writing.

After the break, Stan Lee shows up to explain how he decided to use radioactivity as the way to give Peter Parker spider powers, and the rules he used for giving Spider-Man spider strength, etc. David Childress calls Spider-Man a god, and the narrator tells us that ancient myth set the precedent for comic book radiation’s effect on DNA in stories of “mixing of mortal and immortal blood.” Seriously? Of all the comic book stories that could have some relationship to “mixed blood lines” as the show calls it, they choose Spider-Man’s radiation? I don’t suppose it occurs to them that mixed blood lines yield children born with new mixed DNA, not changes to the impregnated woman’s DNA. The show gives us animal-human hybrid mythic creatures, which it likens (as it has for years now) to genetic experiments. David Wilcock denies human evolution, scoffing at the absent “missing link” and asserting (falsely) that modern humans (presumably he means white Europeans) were created from Neanderthals.

The narrator tells us that we are attracted to superheroes because, as Wilcock claims, we have a race memory of alien genetic hybridization, and this DNA-encoded memory constantly compels us to write and rewrite the same history of our alien heritage. That’s fine and dandy except for the obvious rejoinder: Why did these superheroes not exist before 1939? Why do the heroes of the eighteenth and nineteenth century lack the godlike powers of the superheroes, and why do the heroes only wear spaceman leotards when science fiction decides to put Flash Gordon and the Phantom in them?

Oh well, as this episode grinds to a halt, the show explains how science is planning to genetically modify embryos, and it suggests that this manipulation can give babies superpowers, such as athletic prowess or increased intelligence.  William Henry asks if we are “hardwired or programmed” to do this because we “remember” aliens doing the same.

The show hits again its years-long theme that there is a strain of alien material in our DNA and that someday we’ll unlock to rapturously connect with our beloved alien ancestors, and the show ends with the claim that if we do unlock our DNA then Superman may be the prototype of the human of tomorrow, and I can’t say I have any confidence that this was an intentional reference to the Man of Tomorrow since the narrator buries the phrase while over-emphasizing the words alien ancestors.
59 Comments
BillUSA
8/22/2014 03:34:55 pm

"Oh what a twisted web we weave....."

These fantastic theories about the origin of any superhero gives as much credit to their authors who conceptualized them as the Egyptians get for building the pyramids.

What's so hard to accept about intelligence and the fruit it can bear? Do they not consider shrimp intelligent if they gather pebbles to the opening of their burrow?

I'm beginning to wonder if any of these guys are truly sincere in their beliefs and instead are in it for the money first and foremost.

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Only Me
8/22/2014 04:02:09 pm

If it helps, Bill, I truly sincerely believe these guys are proof their claims of genetic modification to humans by advanced extraterrestrials...is complete bullshit.

No species as advanced as these aliens are alleged to be would leave behind the potential to pop out dumbasses of this caliber on purpose. No one could be that sadistic.

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EP
8/22/2014 04:39:01 pm

Aren't you forgetting about the Jew-... I mean Reptoids!

Sue
10/6/2017 05:33:50 pm

On the Ancient Aliens & Super heroes "David Wilcock denies human evolution, scoffing at the absent “missing link” and asserting (falsely) that modern humans (presumably he means white Europeans) were created from Neanderthals."

Actually, despite what he said about Neanderthals, they had bigger brains than Cro Magnons. All you have to do is look at the human body types to see that Neanderthals were assimilated into modern man. Besides what ancient man is going to waste a perfectly good woman. The original term was Neandertal, no h.

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EP
8/22/2014 04:00:26 pm

"(I wonder how much the frequent use of classic comic art cost…)... The show fails to disclose that H2 is partially owned by Disney, the parent of Marvel Comics."

Jason, it kinda looks like you've failed to make the obvious inference here... :)

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Jason Colavito link
8/22/2014 11:27:14 pm

They used DC Comics images, too, and even if the network is half-owned by Disney, Prometheus Entertainment isn't!

The sad thing is that I suspect they got a pretty good deal because DC and Marvel saw this as a promotional opportunity.

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EP
8/23/2014 06:05:32 am

It could also explain why they don't discuss some of the thematically more obvious examples - Marvel and DC aren't really interested in promoting them.

EP
8/22/2014 04:53:25 pm

"Why not Star Wars or other space operas?"

Or, for maximal reductio ad absurdum, why not Scientology?!

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Only Me
8/22/2014 05:10:54 pm

Because Scientologists have a reputation for aggressively filing lawsuits against those who have something negative to say about their beliefs?

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EP
8/22/2014 05:23:21 pm

Nothing negative! Only that their mythology of aliens was inspired by aliens. Which is kinda what Scientology itself says. And that's the point.

They wouldn't do it not because they'd get sued, but because the more obvious a contemporary case of alleged alien inspiration, the more ridiculous the whole thing appears.

ijanwbvcilea
5/14/2015 07:45:50 am

They can't talk about Scientology because Scientology is actually about aliens. The Ancient Alien people have to be as inaccurate as possible and if they said that Scientology is about aliens then they would actually be correct about something. By "inaccurate as possible" I mean like when they said that mars was the brightest object in the night sky other than the moon. It is not the brightest and they showed a picture of Betelgeuse to be even more wrong. Or when they said that modern science has never replicated greek fire while they show the video of scientists replicating greek fire.

clefhcie
8/23/2014 02:29:43 am

It is one thing when Ancient Aliens screws with the ancient stories and asserts they all must have been recordings of actual events. Those ancient writers are long gone and can't defend themselves as having an imagination and the ability to make things up. But these are current comic book characters with writers that are alive today, like Stan Lee who shows up on the show! I notice that AA didn't bother to ask him if Spider-man was somehow pumped into his brain from the collective unconsciousness of the human race, despite straight out saying that during the entire episode.

It is also ridiculous to constantly make these comparisons between the ancient stories of gods and the current comic book characters as if it was somehow amazing that they have any similarity. I assume comic book writers have the ability to READ. Why is it strange they might use these stories as inspiration?

By the way, Ancient Aliens if you are reading this post, Hawkman is not a human-hawk hybrid. If you bothered to look beyond his name, you would have known that.

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Clint Knapp
8/23/2014 04:15:18 am

I know Stan can't help himself. He loves publicity and has been more than willing to do just about anything for the sake of drawing more attention to himself, his work, and those to come after (in that order).

The man loves comics and every chance he gets to talk about them, but I really hope he watches this episode and sees that they basically use him as Patient Zero for that ridiculous bullshit about alien influence.

With you on the Hawkman thing. He's the reincarnation of Khufu, and they couldn't do anything about that? He's actually got the soul of the guy who commissioned the Great Pyramid. That's more AA fodder than anything rightly should be.

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EP
8/23/2014 05:24:50 am

Also Aquaman is the king of Atlantis. I'm pretty sure Madame Blavatsky would have found it significant.

Clint Knapp
8/23/2014 06:12:03 am

Indeed! Though even Aquaman (1941) must bow to Marvel's Namor (1939); who predates him by two years, and is more clearly a human/Atlantean hybrid. Aquaman's Golden Age origin (since mangled many times) is that of a human child who grew up in Atlantis after his father discovered its ruins.

Only Me
8/23/2014 10:45:09 am

Clint, don't forget Namor's alliance with the Axis Powers at that time!

Atlantis, Nazis...an AAT's wet dream.

EP
8/23/2014 11:02:53 am

Fact: Aliens used occult dreams to tell the creators of South Park about the Crab People .

CHF01
8/23/2014 03:52:22 am

This episode is absolute rubbish. The History Channel should be ashamed of broadcasting crap like this.

I'm glad I found this site. Thanks Jason for opening my eyes. I actually thought there was some actual investment into research being conducted.

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charlie
8/23/2014 05:12:30 am

This episode was the worst one ever for the entire series. My opinion and that of the wife who had an interest in the subject. She said it was the most dull and boring episode ever. OK, she is not into comics, but still, for a person who has watched every episode of the entire series to this one sucked is good news to me.
I could not see how they would pull off the current "new" season and now, I have absolutely no clue how they will be able to get another season out of this repeating, repeating, repeating of the same tired old crap they have been pushing since the very first episode of season one. They have nothing at all new to say. Very much like every other religion known to humanity.
Turn off the lights H2, the party IS over. Pull the plug on this poor excuse of a TV show when the current season ends.

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Zach
8/23/2014 05:20:07 am

They actually made an episode like this? Really? REALLY?! Please someone tell me that there aren't actually people that actually takes this assinine episode, of all there episodes seriously. These are fictional characters for Christ's sake. I think it's saying a lot that Christopher Knowles did a better job at taking this subject on, and his book is horrendous, based on Jason's review of it alone.

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EP
8/23/2014 05:22:45 am

Any of their talking heads to better in their respective works then they jointly do on the show. Tsoukalos is the catalyst of stupidity.

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8/23/2014 05:37:03 am

Shades of the Raelians with all the talk of DNA, cloning, superior breeding, etc..

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Clint Knapp
8/23/2014 05:54:22 am

Wouldn't that make a great series finale? They could "investigate" Raelianism, deem it the world's one true religion since it agrees with them wholeheartedly. Then Rael himself could be trotted out for one big group hug, declared the Second Coming- and the reason they've been playing it cool on the Jesus card for so long.

Childress will weep openly, Wilcock will begin shouting in tongues (I mean... Russian), and von Daniken will begin to float as he ascends to alien-godhood (possibly pulled up by Sitchin's extended hand). Everyone watching will change the channel, curse openly for five minutes, and the whole thing will die on the spot.

Ahhh... wishful thinking...

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EP
8/23/2014 05:56:20 am

That's another way of getting at my point - There are actual religions based on aliens, which one would think are better way of supporting the episode's claims. Of course, saying that we should take Scientology or Raelianism seriously would amoung to a reductio ad absurdum even by the AA standards.

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8/23/2014 06:01:20 am

I also watched this episode last night. Holy cow. First of all, most of the footage where they allegedly interview comic book writers is taken from stock footage, if not all, and cribbed into the episode. Stan Lee was probably doing a promo for his Superhumans show. He said the same Spider Man thing many times before. He might look at his footage later and go, what the heck? I didn't ask to be on that.

It is patently hilarious they mention Transformers, and for probably the first time ever, misquote me! I'm not even famous. They didn't get apparently that the movie reviews of Transformers on my blog are kind of tongue in cheek and I don't seriously think that the ancient aliens show makes sense. I even blogged about the show, mocking it for being ridiculous and also for the 2012 hoax. I'm not famous like you, JC, so I find this funny. I'm guessing they know about my blog too, and are mocking it back, which is weird because again, I am not famous. I just write a blog. I don't even have the street cred to be on their show. Ha. Then again, they don't have any cred either.

In my review of Transformers 4 I indicated that the movie implies the Transformers were there in ancient times and met dinosaurs. It's in the trailer! This is stupid. In the original comic book and cartoon in the 1980s the Autobots find the dinosaur bones and make Dinobots out of them.

Also in the cartoon they are 4 million years older than humans, but that was always silly, even to me. The movies kind of imply there is an ancient connection too, but it is not plugging the AA show because it did not influence the other.

The comic books were so much as said taking from ancient myths, not some kind of coded DNA, like in that awful Mission to Mars movie.

Neanderthal DNA is present in Europeans and not most Africans. This means that some 20,000 years ago we were close enough to them in genes to mate with them and interbreed. We're all hybrids then, and ironically the African DNA tells actual science that all of humanity originated from there, from a female homonid but not necessarily Lucy, according to theories. It wasn't aliens. It was mutation. Stan Lee should like that. The X Men should have been covered more.

Some Neanderthal DNA is stronger in some people, like thick headed sports players, but the war hawks and politicians lack the genes and are just aggressive. Just kidding.

How about next time they do a connection between Walt Disney and space aliens, as they do have space mountain! Aha. See!



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EP
8/23/2014 06:10:16 am

Kal, could you link that Transformers review, please?

Also, I think you're on to something with Walt Disney. The only way I can see this show generating more material is by transitioning (even more) into urban legends and popular fiction.

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pravda
8/23/2014 11:16:26 am

how can i talk about "deja vu" all over again without
being at all contritely redundant or blandly repetitive?

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EP
8/23/2014 07:43:35 pm

Christopher Knowles also has an opinion about Ancient Aliens:

http://secretsun.blogspot.ca/2014/08/ancient-aliens-buries-lead.html

"I could be wrong, but Ancient Aliens comes across as a show for people who've never had an alien experience, for people who've never tripped balls and ripped at the coffin lid of infinity, or for people who've never had such an experience forced upon them."

Also, Knowles takes note of the fact that this Tsoukalos guy sure has crazy, crazy hair...

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jase
8/24/2014 03:51:39 am

There have been quite a few book written about the origins of the Superman character. The Jewish component was a big part of the formula. I am pretty sure that ancient aliens and swastikas and the Sumerians and Blavatsky do not figure into it.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/16/superman-is-jewish-the-hebrew-roots-of-america-s-greatest-superhero.html

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EP
8/24/2014 04:36:22 am

Not to mention Wolverine:

https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1396/34/1396346355230.jpg

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Only Me
8/24/2014 06:37:55 am

"I'm the best there is at what I do. And what I do isn't very kosher."

Only Me
8/24/2014 06:21:25 am

What about the bashful, blue-eyed idol o' millions, Benjamin J. Grimm?

Yep, the ever-lovin' Thing is Jewish. Funny isn't it, some of his greatest enemies are from the shape-shifting, somewhat *reptilian* race of aliens known as Skrulls?

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EP
8/24/2014 06:23:17 am

On the other hand, I bet Thing's inspired by the Golem. Which may or may not make the whole thing racist.

Only Me
8/24/2014 06:48:05 am

Actually, Jack Kirby was Jewish and modeled the Thing's good-natured grumpiness after himself, IIRC. The Fantastic Four could be considered another version of his earlier DC work, Challengers of the Unknown.

EP
8/24/2014 06:50:24 am

He may have modeled the Thing's personality on himself, but his body on the Golem... But if that's not the case, I defer to you comic book nerds.

Shane Sullivan
8/24/2014 02:35:31 pm

I don't know how reliable this is, but I know I read that his mannerisms were at least partially derived from Jimmy Durante. Jimmy was Catholic, thus making The Thing the ultimate slap in the face to Protestant fascist groups. So, he's got that going for him.

EP
8/24/2014 04:07:13 pm

One man's ultimate slap is another man's ultimate proof of the global Catholico-Judeo-Masonic conspiracy...

Shane Sullivan
8/24/2014 06:33:53 pm

True, but to those people, a bad tuna sandwich is the ultimate proof of a global Catholico-Judeo-Masonic conspiracy.

gabriel darke link
8/24/2014 06:34:47 am

It has to be that the AATs have run out of source material. By now they've covered every topic in the canon, and since everything they have is based on material decades old, and no new 'research' is taking place or even planned, they've arrived at an impasse.

The only strategy they have left to follow now to keep alive public interest is to protest that governments and academia are determined that the truth of ancient aliens not come out, which is what is posited in America's Book of Secrets S02E01 The Ancient Astronaut Cover Up.

Their claims of persecution are as ludicrous as the AA 'theory' itself. What sort of a cover up is being perpetuated by governments and scholars which and who don't care one lick for their half-baked theories to begin with?

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Ralph E Vaughan link
8/24/2014 08:39:51 am

Certainly, super heroes have an appeal to the masses, like the pulp heroes who came before, and the dime novel/penny dreadful heroes who preceded them, and the master swordsmen and corsairs who came before, and the swashbuckling adventurers...all the way back to the demigods and divine warriors who had much more in common with their "fans" than their divine parents. The yearning for beings unfettered by our limitations and gifted with the skills we do not possess is engendered by a natural need within ourselves for justice and adventure, not a "hard wiring" by ancient astronauts. Though the medium is now unabashedly fictional, as opposed to building up the exploits of some warrior, we still treat our heroes as if they were real...attend any comic book or Doctor Who convention and you'll see what I mean. Remember: Fans are Slans!

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EP
8/24/2014 12:07:01 pm

Ralph, has anyone pointed out that your homage to Lovecraft is really about yourself? :)

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Richard "Dick" Neimeyer
8/24/2014 11:09:26 am

This was the most terrible production since "Superman III: The Quest for Peace".

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frank
5/8/2015 02:20:20 am

That would be superman 4! Sorry to be a pedant but number 3 wasn't all that bad

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Richard "Dick" Neimeyer
5/8/2015 03:03:45 am

I stand corrected. in its defense I thought "4" was so campy I had to rewatch it a couple more times. The best was when Lois Lane was deposited on the moon alive with no spacesuit.

Tony Marino
8/24/2014 01:10:24 pm

It seems that the people who make "Ancient Aliens" aren't even trying here. A lot of this stuff seems to have come from science fiction,not reality. Now,I've written more than my share of fiction and THIS is just ridiculous. I hate to rain on the "Ancient Aliens" people's parade but stuff like Superman,Spider-Man,Batman,Sailor Moon,Wonder Woman,Hawkman,and other superheroes like them are most likely created from the imagination not from a genetic memory from a long distant time.
They may have taken inspiration from other sources but claiming that it's some genetic memory is going a bit too far for me. "Ancient Aliens" has done better episodes,but it seems that the show is REALLY stretching here. H2 have done better shows like "Ancient Discoveries,""Ancient Impossible,"and other stuff. This may be just a goofy speculation show,but this has little grounding in reality. Both "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who" are more grounded in reality than this show. I may get inspiration from different places for my stories (none of which have ever been published,by the way),but none of them are from memory from my DNA.

This show doesn't just insult those of us who write fiction,but also those who are creative people in general. To say that the human imagination plays no role in how humanity created our modern world is ridiculous,stupid,and dumb. The "Ancient Aliens" people can believe what they like but dismissing human creativity and imagination is just plain insulting. The evidence for this is extremely thin at best almost to the point of non-existence. I don't rely on some genetic memory to write my stories. Just my imagination and hard work getting it right. It's a shame that "Ancient Aliens" doesn't realize that. It gives short shrift to human imagination and demeans people like Stan Lee,George Lucas,and others like them all over the world. It's a shame."Ancient Aliens" seems to be based more on speculation and science fiction rather than any facts or evidence in it's presentation.

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Only Me
8/24/2014 03:00:54 pm

Only in the Ancient Aliens lexicon are words like "facts" and "evidence" considered vulgar.

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EP
8/24/2014 04:28:55 pm

You're sounding like one of those neckbeard nerds who's never ripped at the coffin lid of infinity...

Only Me
8/24/2014 05:49:59 pm

Considering some of the chemicals I've been exposed to during my career, who needs to trip balls?

Besides, if infinity is a coffin lid, that mean's there is more lying beyond...and infinity is actually finite.

EP
8/24/2014 05:55:46 pm

What if it's an infinitely thick coffin lid? :D

Only Me
8/24/2014 07:28:52 pm

Then it would be Knowles's skull!

CFH
8/24/2014 06:19:47 pm

On my On Demand Pawn Stars ends and is followed by AA, with out having to pick it or anything. Ratings myst be low

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CHF01
8/25/2014 07:19:56 am

This episode is sloppy, plain and simple. It's stuff like this that ruins credibility. Now I'm questioning everything they've said up to now.

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CHF01
8/25/2014 07:20:49 am

Correction: This episode is sloppy, plain and simple. It's stuff like this that ruins credibility. Now I'm questioning everything they've said up to this point.

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CHF01
9/10/2014 10:51:08 am

Am I a major thread killer or what?!?

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Dan D'Silva link
9/12/2014 03:13:28 am

If this show's standards sink any lower, one day you'll turn on the TV and see Giorgio going, "And so we have to ask ourselves, could the History Channel have decided to air a series called Ancient Aliens purely by coincidence? I think not!"

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UfoUnionTv link
9/25/2014 03:23:55 pm

SHOCKING: Swastika & ancient aliens fossils discovered on Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHNGH2onSNs

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Richard "Dick" Neimeyer
9/25/2014 04:02:53 pm

I see nothing but rocks, craters and mesas.

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CHF01
10/23/2014 11:36:18 am

Jason, get your typing fingers ready for 'Forbidden Caves' on Halloween night :)

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Clete
10/28/2014 11:21:13 am

I await their next offering..."Aliens and Blackberry Pies".

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          • Termier on Atlantis
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        • Lost Cities >
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        • The Many Wives of Jesus
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          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
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          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
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        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
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        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
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        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
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        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
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        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
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        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
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        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
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        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
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      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
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        • The Moon Hoax
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        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
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      • Orville Wright on UFOs
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      • Flying Saucers Are Real
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      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
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      • Defining a Zombie
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      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
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      • The Mysterious Stranger
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      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
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        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
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      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
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      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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