Atlantis Uncovered
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shipperxOkay... so that was completely cheesy, but I don't care!
First you've got to know that I'm a sucker for this stuff. Ancient Egypt? The Minoans? Ancient Troy? I watch this stuff. I ticked it off once and between World History, Tech & Civ, Art History, Architectural History, Interior Design history, and study abroad I've took at least 6 varieties of ancient history in college. I've also listened to Modern Scholar Trojan War lecture series (which I rec. It was cool). Which is all to say that I saw an advertisement for a Science Channel covering the Minoans and Atlantis, and I was so there.
And it was so cheesy! :) I didn't realize that they weren't just doing computer-animations. They were having people sorta-kinda act it out. With dialog (guess what, ancient Minoans are sexy, sexy and speak with English accents! Their outfits were impeccably sewn, and no matter what their artwork depicted, their women didn't have their tata's hanging out. ) And there was some sort of apocalyptic storyline - the young beautiful lovers. The good father. The mystery bound priestess who decides she must make a sacrifice to the angry gods... one of the young lovers. Good father places beautiful young girl on a ship to escape the volcano and rushes to save his beautiful son from being sacrificed by the priestess... just as the volcano blows up, stopping the priestess from sacrificing the son as they witness (and then are devoured) by the volcano. But the young, beautiful girl is on a ship at sea, the only ship that got just far enough from the pyroclastic flow to not be incinerated... but is then caught in the tsunami that's rushing toward Crete, so she lashes herself to the mast and rides out the tsunami and is the only person to survive! (Hee!) I'm going to go out on a limb here and say they were making that up. :)
But, hey, bulls! Disaster! Huge volcanic boom. Tsunami. Terri O'Quinn with computer animated diagnostics of Santorini blowing up and Crete being wiped out. I'm a sucker for this stuff.
First you've got to know that I'm a sucker for this stuff. Ancient Egypt? The Minoans? Ancient Troy? I watch this stuff. I ticked it off once and between World History, Tech & Civ, Art History, Architectural History, Interior Design history, and study abroad I've took at least 6 varieties of ancient history in college. I've also listened to Modern Scholar Trojan War lecture series (which I rec. It was cool). Which is all to say that I saw an advertisement for a Science Channel covering the Minoans and Atlantis, and I was so there.
And it was so cheesy! :) I didn't realize that they weren't just doing computer-animations. They were having people sorta-kinda act it out. With dialog (guess what, ancient Minoans are sexy, sexy and speak with English accents! Their outfits were impeccably sewn, and no matter what their artwork depicted, their women didn't have their tata's hanging out. ) And there was some sort of apocalyptic storyline - the young beautiful lovers. The good father. The mystery bound priestess who decides she must make a sacrifice to the angry gods... one of the young lovers. Good father places beautiful young girl on a ship to escape the volcano and rushes to save his beautiful son from being sacrificed by the priestess... just as the volcano blows up, stopping the priestess from sacrificing the son as they witness (and then are devoured) by the volcano. But the young, beautiful girl is on a ship at sea, the only ship that got just far enough from the pyroclastic flow to not be incinerated... but is then caught in the tsunami that's rushing toward Crete, so she lashes herself to the mast and rides out the tsunami and is the only person to survive! (Hee!) I'm going to go out on a limb here and say they were making that up. :)
But, hey, bulls! Disaster! Huge volcanic boom. Tsunami. Terri O'Quinn with computer animated diagnostics of Santorini blowing up and Crete being wiped out. I'm a sucker for this stuff.
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Date: 2011-10-05 12:12 am (UTC)At any rate, I enjoyed it superfluous storyline and all. It's basically a history/vulcanology thing... with a totally superfluous soap storyline in what they're narrating. But, I did think it was sorta neat to see the clothes and hairstyles from Minoan art interpreted to things people might wear (though women had covered breasts on science channel).
At any rate, I found it enjoyable just was rather surprised by the soap opera added to it.