As far as I'm concerned, just show me the bleepin' clips and shut up. Or let a narrator describe them. In a normal tone of voice, without the unnecessary drama. So much over-the-top hoopla. Everything has to be a song-and-dance spectacle these days, poisoned with lashings of moronic Millennial humour.
What I don't need, at all, is "meteorologists" making stupid comments, even cheesy wisecracks employing crappy word-play for example. Or saying the bleedin' obvious such as "I'd hate to have to move through that fog". Yeah, it's dense, because that's what fogs do: they make things difficult, and 99% of the viewership know why. We know what a damn fog is, so don't describe one to us - especially when we'd just been shown footage of it a few seconds earlier.
We not only have to listen to the cornily scripted "opinions" of probably as many as a dozen of these "celeb meteorologists", but the camera actually shows them every time they open their mouths to say something useless, boring or unfunny. WHY must we be subjected to their faces? Since when do these people matter so much? If they were real meteorologists, and I mean serious professionals busy engaged in important things such as trying to save lives and property, wouldn't they be too busy with that stuff to appear on such trashploitationary shows, cracking dumb jokes?
But I do pose dumb questions. These are millennial and Xer meteorologists, hence not to be confused with the earlier generations who weren't such clowns...
Even worse is their persistent grinning. They're told to treat this as a comedy-clips show! Even when a clip involves people or animals being endangered or hurt by extreme weather conditions, these buffoons are smiling, grinning, being happy-go-lucky as if they're doing a Teletubby commentary for toddlers.
What is it with these new "documentaries" anyway? Everything has to be dumbed-down, cheapened, made more commercial. "Bring on the dancing elephants and the half-cow half-lady! The disasters clips themselves aren't enough!" Not that a cheesy show such as this can be even referred to as a documentary, not in a serious way anyway. Everything these days on these "documentary" channels can be divided into four categories: political propaganda programs (usually about "climate change"), staged "reality" shows that resemble sitcoms and soap-operas far more than actual reality, phony anti-science shows about aliens/ghosts/Yeti, and goofy laugh-it-up clip shows. There is absolutely no question that this dumbing-down is an organized, concerted effort, not a result of some spontaneous decadence. It is completely intentional, and the intention is to turn the sheep into complete and utter mindless zombies. It is frightening how quickly this has been achieved, because most people are now just that: compliant, non-questioning zombies who believe every word they're served by the deranged Establishment.
National Geographic used to be a serious brand, just as Disney was, Discovery, and a host of others. Now that they'd all been thoroughly cretinized we can't expect anything from them, anything thoroughly stupid. Take a wild guess who is behind that?
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