Expedition Unknown raises my eyebrow. Destination Crap makes my eyes roll. Cryptozoology might be considered a crackpot science, but no show makes it so entertaining like Destination Truth. Headed by photographer Josh Gates and his young and hip production crew, they get the travel the world in search of the unknown creepy crawlies and creatures nearly every country seems to have in its culture.
The show has been around for about a season and half and we still don't know if lake monsters or Bigfoot actually exist. So if you want exact science stay away from this show but watch it if you just want a have a good ol entertaining time. My biggest problem with this is the high and mighty attitude that the host has. The problem is the truth better come out in the one night they spend researching a case.
I can see coming into an area and doing the research with a healthy dose of skepticism, but they basically clown around, making more fun of the locals than anything, then spending only 8 hours or so doing any actual research. They NEVER find anything, but they certainly do a lot of running around chasing the illusive whatever they are hunting that week.
Then as soon as day breaks, no matter how close they were to getting some real answers, they pack up and head out. It takes them longer to get there than to investigate. Plus my biggest issue with this show and with Ghosthunters is all of the stuff that they both claim to see and hear, but by the time the cameraman points in the right direction its gone.
The cameras worn by the team are a great idea, but I didn't tune in to see your damn faces! Let us see what you see, when you see it! I know what you look like, and I prefer not to see you up close! Very good show. Josh and the team are entertaining. My biggest complaint is that the episodes are broken into two investigations. I think it should have focused on just one topic per episode.
They are too quick there in and out. But still it is very fun. They make things interesting and fun. It has lots of "dad jokes" and silly but still teaches you things and informs. Cast mates like Ryder, Jael, Ali and so on are good as second leaders. Josh is the entertainment and heart of the show. The series gets better.
I do not like the intro voices and Josh seems rushed on some of the episodes to get out what the page says quickly. Feels a little forced. He gets better on Expedition Unknown but I miss the team feel of this series. First of all i find the host extremely inadequate, unfunny and even racist when treating some of the people of smaller villages and different towns, you can see exactly how ignorant he really is. And for the show itself. Instead of refuting these myths they prefer to propagate the false idea that something is there and happening in order to gain more attention.
Every show is exactly the same, they always find something but they can't confirm nor deny what it was. There's no credibility whatsoever in this show. Nothing is conducted with seriousness and a true scientific approach. Avoid at all costs. Every week when I'm flipping through the channels I see the same old cryptozoologic show, where the hosts and hostesses don't seem to care about what they are researching, and hardly even try for evidence.
This is not the case with Destination Truth. Destination Truth is a great show, following cryptozoologists across the world as they look for evidence of many undetermined species, in other words, cryptids. Every week I bear witness to some bone chilling evidence, although mostly there isn't quite enough to prove the existence of the cryptid and the hardy, trying work of the hosts and hostesses.
Destination Truth is a terrific show, and I would recommend it to any fans of the genre. I feel like I really do know Josh Gates, and that I'm tagging along with him during his globe trekking adventures to search for cryptids worldwide. I loved this show from the get go. It just gets better each season. I wait impatiently for the next season every year. Josh is by far the best reason to watch. He's funny, adventurous and down right entertaining. His current crew is relatively new, so there's some "getting to know them time" that's necessary but typically, the crew seems to work well together.
The show's not about absolutely finding what they're looking for although they have found some interesting evidence that gained world-wide attention of the scientific community , but it's about the journey, visiting new places via the TV and interacting with new and different cultures. It's about the adventurous spirit for those who don't have it or the finances to travel the world looking for themselves. By far this is the best SyFy show and the best cable reality show!
Those that don't like it probably have a poor sense of humor, adventure and lack the inquisitive nature of the human spirit. A romping travelogue full of fun facts, comedic turns and the occasional monster! And who doesn't love monsters?! The fist two or three episodes are a little rough, with the intrepid host coming off a little more mean- spirited than he ever does again but after these initial tender attempts the show takes off just fine, finding its unique voice.
So do they ever find anything? Well, that would be telling. Lets just say that some things remain undiscovered simply because nobody seriously looked for them. And you should look for this show. You'll enjoy it. And mysteriously, for all its cleverness and adventure, it is somehow very comforting. Utter garbage count-slackula 13 August Over-hyper rubbish made for the ignorant and superstitious. The presenter is a supercilious, self-important publicist who cares not a whit for the truth or even a destination unless he can get some gullible production company to subsidise his trip there.
The editing is woeful and 30 years out of date and the use of cuts to bring an impression of drama is pathetic. These clowns have not, and will not, ever find anything interesting because if they ever did we'd have heard about it from proper researchers, not bloviating cretins like this crowd. The blatant product placement is yet another reason to find this insult to the viewing public reprehensible television at its worst.
This is one of the worst things my TV has ever spewed at me. I've watched a number of these and the hour long searches always contain a lot of trekking through jungles and oceans in both day and night conditions and aside from a lot of hyperbole, nothing is ever found All right, so they really don't find anything, but maybe that isn't the point.
Something that is missing from investigation shows is a little bit of humor and Destination Truth has plenty of that.
I find this show absolutely hysterical and would watch episodes for that reason alone. However, DT does introduce many lesser known myths about animals around the world.
Maybe, just maybe, this is the true purpose of the show, to reveal stories and legends of other cultures. Maybe in Season 2 they'll find some exciting evidence, maybe they'll continue to come up empty, but I will learn something about a foreign culture and laugh a little in the process. My suggestion is take the show for what it is and enjoy it for what it offers, an entertaining hour of television. It's entertaining on some levels but what it sparks in me the most is that I learn about local myths around the world and I begin to read up on them.
If you watch the show, use it as a starting point to read and learn about local legends and myths that you never knew was out there if you're into this stuff and care to look it up for yourself. It's amazing how myths spring up all over the world and have similarities no matter the people, culture, location, or even the number of skeptics; it's all connected in some way and I find that very interesting seeing how so many people notice differences in all races and cultures but ignore the similarities in our origins.
I never expect these guys to find anything but I like the show. WiscGuy 29 October Let me first explain that I find cryptozoology fascinating, notwithstanding that most of the more famous specimens are either hoaxes e.
Loch Ness Monster - The "Surgeon's Photo" has been clearly proved to be a hoax or are very unlikely to be real e. However, the world is indeed a large place with large tracts of wilderness that can hide significant sized animals for extended periods of time, such as the coelacanth and the Okapi which was just photographed in the wild for the first time this year.
So, while I have a healthy dose of skepticism, I also do not reject all claims of unknown creatures as nonsense. Where to begin? Let's start with Josh Gates, the star of the show and so-called leader of the merry gang of cryptozoologists.
Gates might be the most obnoxious person on television these days. It is rare to find a person whose ego is so unjustifiably bloated, even more so than his gut hanging over his safari belt. Gates leads his team of "investigators" on trips to various parts of the world where, if the local people are unsophisticated, Gates takes great pleasure in mocking them, sarcastically quizzing them on little bits of 21st century Americana, getting satisfaction from the blank or puzzled looks with which they respond.
Another favorite subject of Gates' scorn is the rudimentary transportation they take, which seems to break down in almost every episode. As soon as they get to the region where they think their cryptid is to be found, Gates has them set up their "base camp" with their tents and equipment. What kind of cryptids do they investigate? So far, they have discovered exactly zero concrete proof of anything. They have some extremely inconclusive videos and tape recordings of movements and noises in the dark, and some unknown footprint casts but nothing more.
There is a very good reason why they do not uncover any real evidence: they spend a lot less time investigating these mystery creatures than it takes for them to travel to these far-off locales. Generally, they spend the end of an afternoon and part of a night traipsing around in the forest and then call it quits. Often, the reason given for why they have abandoned the search after only a few hours is because their batteries have run down on their equipment.
Apparently, no one on the show, Gates included, is smart enough to think to bring extra batteries or maybe lug a gas generator with them in their jeeps that can recharge their batteries. A viewer is more likely to get motion sickness from all of the shaky camera work than to become either scared or convinced there is a genuine point to anything that they do.
Most episodes feature someone named Erin Ryder, whom Gates refers to just as "Ryder" on their team of investigators. Ryder appears to have been involved with a bunch of third-rate reality TV shows including one with the Pussycat Dolls , has no scientific credentials and seems to have only two qualifications for the job: she looks pretty good in tight camp shorts and she screams as well as any girlie-girl in a B-movie horror flick any time a large bug, small bat or large gust of wind passes nearby.
If you like a show that actually has some connection with the truth and a real attempt at an objective, scientific-based documentary, then you will find that Josh Gates' show is a complete waste of time. I honestly gave this show enough time and viewed enough of this nonsense and discovered they should be doing something else.
Well not according to the description of this show by this site. They have made it a sad comedy, unable to track anything effectively. Ryder is already known to fans of the unexplained by her work as co-executive producer and on-camera adventurer on the Syfy monster-hunting show Destination Truth which debuts its fifth season on July 10 at 10 p.
Along with UFOlogist James Fox and skeptical scientist Ben McGee, Ryder serves as co-executive producer and field researcher in a pursuit that often takes them into a dark territory of extraterrestrial sightings, alien abductions and government conspiracies.
In the first episodes alone, the team heads to Texas and encounters a town where more than 30 residents claim they saw mysterious lights flying above them. And yes, there is a lot of investigating and running around in the dark - which is a fun draw of the show. But instead of only pursuing theories and eyewitness accounts - and playing with lots of cool gadgets - Chasing UFOs also attempts to pursue the science behind E. Signal" of Erin Ryder joined us to discuss her leap from monsters to aliens, and open up about the science, skepticism - and lots of bleeped-out swear words - of Chasing UFOs , along with some inside info on the new season and future of Destination Truth.
After the jump They would talk about sightings. It was so intriguing and I wanted to see something for so long. And I actually saw something. We saw something in Kazakhstan that I really cannot explain. And that just kind of revved up this love again. Q: Since Chasing UFOs and Truth are produced by the same company, did this sighting in Kazakhstan lead you to pitching them a show or was this already in the works over at Ping Pong and it was just serendipitous?
Courtesy NatGeo A: It was serendipitous. It was one of those things where the guys are heavily into cryptozoology and paranormal. UFOs are just an extension of that just in the field of mystery. Those guys are kings of it. They had wanted to do something. A: No, I wish I did. And that is definitely while I was there. I had my uncle who saw things and my grandfather, and it was so something that I wanted to happen. And luckily we were renting vehicles that actually and heated seats.
The way we do things is very similar. There are a lot of similarities. So I did have a little foray into that. But staring at the sky is definitely something new for me. The lenses and the telescopes we had at our fingertips were incredible. It makes the universe seem a little closer than it probably should.
But when you go out there - and you film as long as we do and then you have to cut that down with into 42 minutes - you realize that a lot of that boring stuff hits the cutting room floor. Q: How would you say the show is overall different from a lot of other paranormal investigative shows out there?
A: I would say the one thing I hope people see that sets us apart is that we do have three completely different points of view. Ben is an open and honest scientific skeptic. Deep down he does want to find something but, until we do, he does have to take a real strong scientific look at everything when we go out there. James is on the other end of that spectrum and he is a true believer. Then I kind of land somewhere in the middle because I have had a sighting, I have talked to these people and felt that they did see something.
I want to believe same as all three of us. Q: You go to a town hall, talk to an entire community, and then get a lot of eyewitness accounts. Is there a concern people are just telling you the coolest stories and saying they saw something just to get on TV — especially when the elements of eyewitness stories are so familiar and easy to draw from?
A: Absolutely. The one thing that we pride ourselves on is that we seek these people out. Very rarely do we talk to anyone that has sought us out because we want to speak to the people that have a lot to lose. We want to talk to the people that have been hiding for years and years and years.
And we have to pry the story out of them. In Texas, the town hall meeting that we threw, yeah, you have to worry that these people are coming because they want to be on TV.
McGee, Ryder, Fox. Courtesy NatGeo Q: When you encounter overenthusiastic believers of any phenomena, does it sometimes make you more skeptical? A: Sometimes.
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