I've already gone off on this series as well as "History" channel's current format in my review of the now-infamous Skinwalker Ranch series, and prefer not to waste much more time or brainpower.
If the spawn of our current culture weren't such slaves to the draw of internet fame, I doubt any credible professional would agree to share a platform with someone dubbed "explorer in residence", e.g. YouTube 2-day-beard-growth guy who trespasses on abandoned piles of rust while banging on about it as if it were the find of the century and he the modern equivalent of some sort of Indiana Jones romanticism.
One of the episodes even includes one of those Brits of the most insufferable ilk; the dreaded 60-something hobbyist scrounger, commonly known as the "detectorist", on auto-replay bragging about HIS "horde" of ancient Viking coins located in some field. How utterly vile! Are we supposed to applaud these people, when in all likelihood there was a great deal of suffering and sorrow attached to these? And that's not including the pain of his family, as well as pub co-patrons who are forced to hear about it, ad infinitum.
What does this old saddo, and his thieving pastime have to do with anything??
Let's get this straight: Archeology is just another word for well-funded thievery, and historically, "exploration" has brought nothing but misery to indigenous peoples while more "advanced" (read: well-funded and ARMED) people annihilated entire communities and cultures, all in the name of some God-given (literally, so they thought) entitlement to "expand"; what they call colonialism and colonisation was really just the result of decades of inbred insanity.
Yeah, and knowledge + wisdom (ahem...AGE!) can lead to bitterness.
Anyway, back on track. Enough with the ear-bleeding bombastic blaring music that never lets up, the scenery-chewing, over-the-top facial expressions, the yelling, jump cuts, the endless filler/ repetition and continual previews and recaps of literally the only interesting detail-which equals about 2 min of meat on the bare bones each episode every 3 minutes...if they are even able to dig one up.
