Comments on: Life After People - This TV Show Was a Real Dud

By: hqq

hqq — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:09:21 +0000

but that would raise other questions. Is it possible that between us and the Egyptions or the Aztec there might be a civilization that would have reached a level of technology that we have or more? And the reason we don’t know about them is because they also used perishable means of records like we have paper and CDs? After all we only know about the past civilizations because they had engravings on rocks and stone!

By: hqq

hqq — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:00:07 +0000

i watched it completely to the end. True there are some inconsistencies to the story, the reason might be that many people have different views about them. For example, how people vanish all at once? Some would say a plague, others would call it armageddon. Some would even say alien invasion/abduction and some would believe that humans’ time was up. What ever the cause, the show described the *after effects* of the human absence. The way other creatures deppend on us and to what extend. How we surpressed nature to make our civilizations and, most importantly, what are the factors behind our successful civilizations. But most importantly, how our marks of us ruling the earth arf so vulnerable, that they would not even last a thousand years!

By: In Plain Sight Episodes Online

In Plain Sight Episodes Online — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:14:20 +0000

Yeah the show was a dud, I seen this and it was pretty horrible I couldn’t stand this at all.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:22:40 +0000

Yes, no one ever tell you the whole story, never know may be he does have this magic wand, lol. Anna

By: Will

Will — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:17:58 +0000

I know and I wonder how many failures he has to go through before he gets a good one for his show?

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:46:00 +0000

Will, if it was played once a week I can understand, but every day I don’t understand - I think the dog whisperer is too too confident. Thanks, Anna

By: Will

Will — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:32:19 +0000

Hi Ken - Thanks for that. I did not know about the book. As with many TV spin-offs, it sounds like the book was better than the show. That is also a good point about the impossible premise that we all just disappear, thus creating a unique situation for the book to explore. If it really was that close in theme, the History Channel should have worked with and credited the author of the book.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:58:59 +0000

I had just finished reading the popular book “World Without Us” by Weismann, and this show was directly related, so I did sit all the way through it. The book intentionally starts with the impossible premis that we all just disappeared. This focus is essential, or you have a completely different set of issues. The issue in question is what survives us, and the answer, unsurprisingly, is not much that we value.

I was disappointed that they didn’t even mention the author, or his book, that clearly influenced the making of the show. It felt like a dishonest rip-off. That being said, I think it was okay - in the scale of generally pablum TV, with sensationalist repeating graphics and overly dramatic score.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:41:04 +0000

Hi Madison! Sorry you were disappointed also. I have seen other posts about the lack of quality in that show. Hopefully The History Channel gets the message. So much of their programming is great and they had the opportunity to do so much better!

-Will

By: madison

madison — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:41:12 +0000

teah i watched that show last night it really did SUCK i’m not trying to be really mean but it did and my dad is ussally glued to the history channell but he wasnt last night so i think it was the big thumbs down