I was watching a National Geographic program last night (Aussie-time)on the Horten 229 and how craftsmen at Northrop-Grumman had built a replica to test its stealth properties. All good stuff but at the end they had to throw in a sensationalist bit about how it could change the course of the war - cue animation of Horten straffing radar towers and whizzing past Spitfires - and then that it big brother, the Horten XV111 could have dropped an atomic bomb on New York in 1946 - cue animation of mushroom cloud rising over Statue of Liberty. Am I being a spoil sport to suggest that none of these was remotely possible in 1944,45,46 - not enough strategic materials to build the planes, unbombed factories to build them, trained pilots to fly them and as for the Nazi Nuke - plsssssseeeeeeeee
I wrote TV docus off a "graphic novels" a long time ago. NatGeo is just one of the last to go. What really bothers me are the shows on material I don't know very well. Just how FUBAR are they? I don't know because I don't have the knowledge base. (I know when I see Jack Horner that he's going to say something silly, but that's about it.)
Maybe NatGeo is just expressing their loathing of the US subconsciously with those kind of "Nazi technology triumps" animated sequences? I think the Eco-nazis are happily delighted with that series on "Life After People" on the history channel.....humans are suddenly removed and for the next hour man-made things fall apart as time goes by (Play it again Sam)! Earth returns to Eden!
I think the point of that series is that we shouldn't get too impressed with our bright-and-shinies. "Paging Ozymandias."
Yes,OP, that's a possible interpretation as well. OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
All the history type channels are the same, they are all either incorrect or not quite accurate, and people wonder why everyone thinks every German in ww2 was a nazi.
I share your sentiments, guys. I just can't believe that Nat Geo would agree to a WWII docu that mentions that Boyington's VMF 214 was in Guadalcanal. Still, on a postive note, these docus serve to ignite interest in what had gone before. A docu cannot beat a well researched book though.
