Abandoned Engineering

The subjects are potentially very interesting, the format is just painful. Rather than clearly explain the structure, it jumps to a series of 'experts' who have clearly never been there, but read some scripts. It takes three or four disconnected 'experts' to read the story. I know its a cheap way to do it but if you can't afford to send people there, just get one to read it out.

Abandoned Engineering had the potential to be a really interesting series about historical ruins and places of interest. Unfortunately the presentation is so bad it's practically unwatchable.

There's a constant backing track of "mood music" which is usually heavy on percussion. This often drowns out the voiceover, which switches between loud and quiet depending on the scene. It's all quite distracting.

Just as bad is the input from the narrator and many of the specialists, whose vocabulary mostly consists of melodramatic comments such as "almost alien", "something bad must have happened here", and similar inanities. With the honourable exeption of Roma Agrawal, who comes over very well, the presenters are all rather odd characters. There's the one with the intent, bulgy eyes, the one with the slow, mangled syllables, the slightly awestruck American... after not very long, it just grates. Too much gee-whizzery all round, I'm afraid.

I love this show. Beautiful places captured in great ways on camera with just enough background info.

Unfortunately this show isn't available anywhere! It was on discovery channel for some time, but unavailable online. I missed quite s lot of episodes and can't watch them.... shame!

This is a very interesting show, however, it has one extremely annoying aspect. During the introduction to each piece of abandoned engineering to be viewed and discussed. It has these amateur dramatics where the experts put forward ridiculous scenarios as to what has occurred. It also dumbs down the discussion and treats the viewers as idiots. Otherwise it shows some very interesting subjects

Some really interesting locations and curious relics. However the overly dramatic pseudo mysterious dialogue is highly irritating. There is no mystery, just fairly typical historic stories. Cut out the nonsense drama and the program would be much more watchable. That's assuming you can get past the grating 'expert' monologues!! Overall an interesting topic and visuals ruined by the assumption that theatrical presentation is required to sustain viewer interest!