The world's most incredible engineering projects are revisited to uncover why places full of mysteries and untold secrets are now abandoned ruins.The world's most incredible engineering projects are revisited to uncover why places full of mysteries and untold secrets are now abandoned ruins.The world's most incredible engineering projects are revisited to uncover why places full of mysteries and untold secrets are now abandoned ruins.
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This is almost the same as What on Earth? It's hard to say which is better because they're almost the same thing. I guess the difference is in who gives you the information -- What on Earth's experts are better in my opinion, but it's a toss up. This is more historical, while WOE is more about modern day aerial images, while this is about old structures. That's where the differences stop, but this may not be a bad thing (I like the format of these shows). Hope they keep it on TV and explore more places I don't know about.
EDIT: Just watched the first episode of the 2019 season. Still has some of the same people commenting, with a couple of new faces. The show feels a little fresher, but the biggest thing is the coordinates for the places they're talking about. I checked out all four in the premiere episode of this season and they are all absolutely spot-on! Don't know if they got enough feedback from viewers, or if somebody at the top finally said something, but the coordinates match the locations, and that is huge for me. So I will continue to watch this show and enjoy it as I have in the past.
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I agree with most people about the personalities, not experts, that appear on the show. I have to admit that the minute I saw Lynette Nusbacher, I knew what everyone else did although I looked it up to confirm my suspicions. Andrew Gough, oddly enough, also appears quite often on History Channel's Ancient Aliens as an expert. There are a couple of people who are at least articulate enough to seem interesting with their comments so they and the content actually keep me coming back. My biggest pet peeve with this show is the coordinates that they show for each segment. I finally decided to look them during one episode and I was shocked at how incredibly inaccurate they were. One segment was about Tyneham Village in Dorset UK and the coordinates they gave were near Calais, France! The next segment was located near or in Lake Michigan in the US, and laughingly, the coordinates gave me China! I can't understand why they do this.
Narrator Kaspar Michaels on the Duga Woodpecker segment repeatedly says nuculear instead of nuclear! Really annoying...Funny no one caught that during production.
PLEASE, can the producer advise Andrew Gough to tone down his insufferable dramatic description of each and every detail!!! The man appears to be head over heels in love with the sound of his own voice.
The narrator simply cannot pronounce the word "nuclear." Instead, it's the ear-grating version: "nucular." All the more off-putting since the on-camera experts know how to and do pronounce it correctly. That the producers, AND Science Channel (part of Discovery) let this stand discredits both entities.
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