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Offline DREDIOCK

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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #30 on: November 03, 2008, 06:28:04 PM »
Aggreed with both the History Channel and Military history channel.
As annoying as anything.
On the Military history channel the little sniipet presentations they do during the commercial breaks.

Was cool at first.
Was ok after the first 50 times I saw them. started getting old at 100.

They dont come out with any new ones.
Its the same ones over and over and over again.

Anyone but me sick of hearing about Shermans march to the sea?
Does anyone care anymore about that guy and his fragment from the 88?
I'm at the point where I would like to take it from him and hit him with it just to put him out of my misery.

Lately I've been finding myself watching alot of "CSpan 3 History"

Not bad stuff there. None of the flash of History channel
But pretty informative and interesting stuff.

Last night was something they were doing at the WWII museum and news coverage of WWII
An interview with Andy Rooney  and someone else talking about how the war was covered. Including about the mistake broadcast by NBC that the invasion had started on June 3rd.
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Offline Curlew

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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #31 on: November 03, 2008, 06:56:52 PM »
Bring back mail call!!!
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Offline glock89

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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #32 on: November 03, 2008, 07:14:40 PM »
Quote from: Curlew on November 03, 2008, 06:56:52 PM
Bring back mail call!!!
Yes please do i miss watching that show and heavy metal to.  :mad:
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Offline RipChord929

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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #33 on: November 03, 2008, 08:31:21 PM »
Back in the day..
There was a great docu called "Battleline"...
It was chock full of (period correct) film, and the
narration is FACTUAL and quite exciting as well..
RARE film, as the intro said, "from both sides of
the BATTLELINE"... Each episode focused on a
single battle of WWII, Crete, Dieppe, Alamein,
Tarawa, etc etc.. Had combatants from both
sides give testimony, and boatloads of awesome
film.. NOT incorrect generic filler... The real thing!!!
Amazing 20+ episodes, the best!!!!

Definately a must have!!! If you can find it...
These days it seems neccesary to preserve
some of it, before its ALL gone...

You guys remember any others?
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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #34 on: November 03, 2008, 09:24:27 PM »
What the Mil History channel should do is re air "The World at War" as a series.

There are probobly a ton of younger folk who have never seen it
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Offline BiPoLaR

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« Reply #35 on: November 03, 2008, 09:29:41 PM »
This is the very reason i dont have cable.
I refuse to pay for garbage like this.

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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #36 on: November 03, 2008, 10:20:43 PM »
we should all watch some victory at sea, that show is the shiznit
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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #37 on: November 03, 2008, 11:52:13 PM »
 What I hate is this..


  "Next on the History Channel...The B-29 Superfortress. (Short clip of B-29s taxiing and fire bombing Japan)

  then the inevitable...

 (B5N rolling of Japanese CV)

  "December 7th 1941..."


   55 minutes of the same rehashed stuff, and if your lucky you see 5 minutes of the B-29


  Same goes for Europe..."The King Tiger..next on the History Channel"

  "Hitler invades Poland...blah blah blah"
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« Reply #38 on: November 04, 2008, 12:06:12 AM »
There's also the endless repetition of the same points after every commercial break.  It's enough to drive ya crazy!
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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #39 on: November 04, 2008, 12:07:16 AM »
No one has any origionality. Even youtube is getting boring.
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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #40 on: November 04, 2008, 10:28:45 AM »
You all have Deadliest Catch to thank for these new reality shows on HC & Discovery, they saw what a hit it was and had to jump all over the genre.
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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #41 on: November 04, 2008, 10:48:18 AM »
Quote from: trax1 on November 04, 2008, 10:28:45 AM
You all have Deadliest Catch to thank for these new reality shows on HC & Discovery, they saw what a hit it was and had to jump all over the genre.
That's a real shame, because Sig and the gang on DC are great. Frankly there's little to no originality on TV anymore. Oh, and while I'm venting... What idiot decided that anything shot with night vision gear is automatically "scary?"

Typical scene from "Ghost Hunters" (predictably moronic green tint  :rolleyes:)
"Here we are on the condiment isle of Tom Thumb after-hours in search of paranormal activity... OMG!! what was that?"  (camera shakes, grown man screams)

Puleeze :rolleyes:
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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #42 on: November 04, 2008, 01:26:33 PM »
Quote from: sluggish on November 03, 2008, 06:05:39 PM
Unless you lived inside 8 Mile, why on earth would you ever be a Lions fan?

(they played a hell of a first half Sunday...)

I grew up around the street that could be called 4.5 mile (but instead has a real street name) ... but west of Detroit in the 'burbs.  I'm a Lions fan still because I'm loyal to my teams... Direct TV Sunday Ticket for the past 8 seasons... a timeframe during which the Lions have lost more games than any other team in the NFL.  And I've watched every game but two. 

A few years ago when the Lions went 1-15, they had the second highest attendance in the NFL, so I'm not alone in loyalty.

Its ok, I have the Red Wings, Pistons, and sometimes Tigers.
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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #43 on: November 04, 2008, 01:30:28 PM »
Back on topic, my favorite all-time WW2 doc TV show was The Color of War, where they only showed footage shot in color.  Focused a lot more on the troops than on the battles.  They need to re-run that.
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Re: Shape Up History Channel!
« Reply #44 on: November 04, 2008, 01:32:06 PM »
Quote from: Curval on November 03, 2008, 06:09:20 AM
Completely agree...wtf Ice Road Truckers has to do with history is beyond me.
Discovery Channel has become more interesting than History Channel.


Not enough truckers fall through the ice which makes for very bad TV
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