#3768540 - 04/16/13 05:01 PM
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I made it through about 10 minutes of the program before I changed the station. To me it seemed to be so hastily put togther and contrived. http://military.discovery.com/tv-shows/bullet-pointsI think the the final straw was when they exhibited a 3d model of a Hellcat and presented it as the Wildcat. You can also tell that some of the narrators were coached beforehand concerning expressive and or dramatic speaking. I rather doubt that anyone who knows their WW2 aviation history would have found any reason to stay tuned.
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#3768567 - 04/16/13 05:39 PM
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I think many of these "documentary" narrators get the same training that tv news anchors do. It's all about sensationalizing as much as you can so you can grab and maintain the attention of viewers. Well a laughable attempt was made here if they were trying to make anything seem compelling for me. Of course I've read so much about and watched so many military documentaries on Midway..
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#3768605 - 04/16/13 06:30 PM
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Well a laughable attempt was made here if they were trying to make anything seem compelling for me.
That's because you're not the demographic the execs over at Discovery Channel are trying to cater to. Ok.. I'm game. Who then?
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#3768619 - 04/16/13 06:47 PM
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All of the formerly niche cable networks like Discovery, TLC, A&E, Military, etc. are aiming for the 18-35 demographic. Some networks like TLC more specifically are going for the female 18-35 demographic. The 18-35 demographic is what tv advertisers covet the most so hence that's where most of the potential advertising revenue lies. And when it comes to things like military documentaries, it's my belief that the networks are going for a more casual viewer who knows little to nothing about the hardware and/or the historical context.
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#3768634 - 04/16/13 07:19 PM
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So it's a 'hard to please' crowd. Nothing wrong with that. But most people are just easy to fool, so they don't do their homework.
Correct and the main point here is that the members of the "hard to please crowd" are greatly outnumbered by the members of the "easy to fool" crowd so you can see why the cable tv networks do what they do.
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#3768654 - 04/16/13 07:44 PM
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I agree with Murphy - it's frequently better than just about anything else that's on, even with the flaws. Yeah I know. There's not much room to be choosy anymore. It's also a niche viewership - just like most in this forum. But golly day... This really was one of the poorest efforts I've seen to date. And they always show the same old mid to late war film clips out of context with the story at hand. Maybe I've just seen too many of them.
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#3768655 - 04/16/13 07:50 PM
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Maybe I've just seen too many of them. I know what you are talking about. One flaw of most of the really well made WW2 documentaries of the 70's and 80's is how they overused a lot of the same footage.
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#3768845 - 04/17/13 03:36 AM
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I just watched the old Wings of the Luftwaffe series. Freaking masterpiece compared to the crud they're putting out now. Great narration too. That one and Wings of the Red Star are classics IMHO.
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#3768858 - 04/17/13 03:58 AM
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Maybe I've just seen too many of them. I know what you are talking about. One flaw of most of the really well made WW2 documentaries of the 70's and 80's is how they overused a lot of the same footage. I have seen the same footage used in dozens of documentaries since the 70s when I first started watching. But, in the last few years I have noticed a lot of previously unreleased footage from WW2. I read a small book on WW2 censorship and there is hundreds of miles of film shot during the war that was censored mainly due to the vivid casualties the scale of the losses in some cases and identifiable GIs. That is why we have seen the same footage over and over again.
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