User:ZooGuard/Watching Ancient Aliens

I don't know how far I will be able to push this, because I have very limited free time and I find watching such "documentaries" generally off-putting. In the case of AA, it's made extra harder, because watching it makes me want either to play X-COM: Enemy Unknown, or to go read some real history, depending on how much the episode is dominated by UFOnuttery or ancient civilizations. Most of this will end up in the Ancient Aliens article in some form or another.

Season 1, Episode 3: The Mission

 * Around 8m: the token scientist talking heads started babbling about things outside of his qualification, claiming that gold is a good spacecraft construction material, and they ran with it, showing a series of spacecraft stuff that didn't actually show anything made of gold, including the golden-colored foil on the leg of the Apollo LM (actually, alluminized plastic). The talking head then misused a term ("heat shield", something you really don't want to be made of a low melting-point metal like gold) and they decided to double the fail by showing the foil-covered back shell of the Huygens probe (see wp:Huygens probe for the image and an explanation what the thermal blankets are made of).
 * After 22m30: Or perhaps, the real alien mission on Earth was to hunt the greatest prey in the universe -... MEN! (human skeleton as a background) And then they jump directly to a case of a mutilated horse. :D
 * Von Däniken's accented voice describing how aliens had sex with "young Earth women" must be one of the dirtiest-sounding things I've heard recently.
 * 83m: David Childress repeats the "hollow Moon" bullshit, crediting it to NASA....

Season 1, Episode 4: Closer Encounters

 * the structure shown towed through the desert is not the Trinity nuclear bomb, but the "Jumbo" containment vessel, the actual bomb was much smaller
 * Mohenjo-daro: Computer-generated graphics of a radiation counter. Tsoukalos: "In certain areas of that site, you find increased levels of radiation." Guess why they don't have footage of an actual one.
 * Mohenjo-daro: the pictures between the 10m and 11m marks are pictures of a in France, nicked from Wikipedia: File:Mur vitrifié 2.JPG and then File:Mur vitrifié Ste-Suzanne.JPG. But the voice-over is talking about Mohenjo-daro, so...
 * 27m: Tsouki starts talking about "medieval" paintings (when did the Middle Ages end, Giorgio?) that according to him show "what looks like to be UFOs". Yeah, right...

Season 1, Episode 0/6: Aliens, Gods and Beyond
The crazy background editor strikes again. This time, narration about scientists making experiments with "simple electrical devices" is backgrounded by a picture of Thomas Edison with his phonograph, a purely mechanical device.