So I had a post semi-written for today, but I got distracted by mermaids and the gullibility of people, and decided to post about that instead.
Mermaid: The Body Found.
Apparently it aired last week (not having cable, I hadn’t heard about it until now). Since we spoke about conspiracy theories a few days ago, it only seems fitting I address this. I couldn’t find the trailer on You Tube, so here’s the link to it (and please note the comments, which are the best part). If you didn’t just watch the trailer, then skip the rest of this and jump to the video. Have I mentioned I am deathly afraid of sharks? I can’t even look at a picture of one without getting goose bumps. Ridiculous, but true. Even the crappy cgi sharks in the trailer gave me the heebie jeebies, which is absurd, because one part of my brain is thinking, how did anyone believe this? While the other is saying, watch out!
And here’s the snippet of the mockumentary in which some kids find a mer-creature washed ashore:
The first clue people should have had that this was a fake was when the kid poked the half-dead merman. The initial reaction to seeing a never before seen creature is not to poke it, that only happens in movies. And we all know poking something that appears dead will lead to you being eaten alive by a monster/zombie/crazed serial killer.
The point of my post is that people watched this and thought it was true.
Mermaids. True.
Yes, I’ve openly stated I believe the Loch Ness Monster could exist, so I suppose if you want to argue there are mermaids too, then okay (but seriously, you really believe that? Nessy is a leftover dinosaur, which is logical. Half man, half fish creatures? Well, if you say so). I’m not bothered that there are folks out there that apparently believe in mermaids, my problem is that they think they watched a documentary that revealed some mermaid cover up by the government, on Animal Planet.
Geez, I’m not even sure what to say, except that Orsen Welles would be proud. Look, I didn’t watch the show. However, it is my understanding there were disclaimers that it was science fiction. And honestly? Even if there weren’t, who believes that something as fantastical as the existence of mermaids is going to be introduced to the world via a cable television show? I don’t know how scientists, or the government, or whoever would be in charge, might decide to release such information to the public, but I’m guessing it would be something a tad more official than Animal Planet.
I think we need to give a big ass kudos to whatever exec gave this show the green light. It was the most watched show they’ve aired since the Steve Irwin memorial. Two million people tuned in, and it has spawned a number of articles written by people upset with the channel for giving credence to what is essentially science fiction. You know what the network peeps are saying? Nothing, they had a record viewing, and now they are all doing a money dance.
I think we’ve just seen the future, my friends. I am seriously considering making all the characters in my new book mer-people. Who cares if almost none of it takes place in water? Did you see the merman in the video? He was alive, and if Animal Planet says they can live out of water, then it must be true. Screw zombies and vampire hunters, mer-creatures are where it’s at.
It’s going to be a best seller.
I hope that when the day comes that someone captures real footage of a half-dead merperson, they have better cinematography. I couldn’t even make out what was supposed to be the merperson until it moved. It just looked like a kelp pile on the sand.
Too funny. I actually saw some discussions of the cinematography, and naturally thought of you!!
I received an email from someone expressing shock that the government was obviously covering this up. Besides being overly credulous, I felt he had been done a disservice by a network that really should have done more to clearly label the “mockumentary” as fictional, just like that whole moon landing thing.
Wait, the moon landing wasn’t real?
I only heard about this via friends on my Facebook news feed. Wow do I have some stupid friends…..
…they thought it was real?
I just rolled my eyes so hard I almost gave myself a seizure. Since I’ve been slightly obsessed with the fact that Jessica Simpson claims to weigh 170 (I’m all, in which thigh, Princess?) and has the fattest baby I’ve ever seen, I missed the whole dead mermaid debacle.
I need to pay closer attention.
Loch Ness Monster I can get on board with.
Aliens? Not so much.
Merpeople? *snort*
Oh Dani, If I had a dollar for every time I googled imaged something based on one of your comments…
Is that baby is or she not the fattest little butterballl you’ve ever seen??? Or did my scrawny children mislead into believing that babies don’t look like that unless they’re being fed butter on a regular basis???
Since this does not involve any super heroes, I was completely oblivious to its existence. That being said, I so very much wanted Atlantis to exist when I was a child. The show, Man from Atlantis, most horrible crap on TV, I LOVED IT. Patrick Duffy, webbed fingers and toes, be still my heart. I want mermaids to exist. I want the Irish folklore about seals turning into humans to be real. I love the idea of a human like creature living in the sea. Aquaman MUST exist.
I am STILL laughing over your last post!
If merpeople exist it would be exciting. But I would probably never get in the ocean again. The thought of a webbed hand reaching out to grab me would be too much.
My kid provides hours of entertainment, but that one takes the cake so far.
And the merpeople are not grabbing, they are welcoming you to their home.
Aquaman, schamaquaman. Namor the Sub-Mariner must exist! “Imperius Pisces”, and all that. Yeah, I know he’s an undersea metrosexual, and I don’t care.
I can get behind that.
Who doesn’t love an undersea metrosexual?
Dude, “no dislaimer” that it was science fiction? Remember War of the Worlds? Well…not “remember” exactly, but you know what I mean, that people actually thought there was an alien invasion because of the radio program.
People sometimes amaze me in their …um…credulousness. Sure. We’ll go with that.
Yeah, that’s the first thing I thought of too.
Wat….there was science fiction on a channel that shows wildlife documentaries and animal shows? Is the retaliation for the the Syfy channel showing wrestling? It is as bad as the History channel showing alien shows and biblical stories as if they are documentaries. However, that being said, if I knew about it I would have watched it just for the OMG I can’t believe this factor.
Oh believe me, if I had known it was on I would have watched it too!
Pfft. Merpeople are totally the new vampires. Or the new werewolves? Maybe the new zombies. I don’t know. They are obviously hip and cool is what I’m saying. I know! The new black. That’s what they are. Yep.
Yup, merpeople are where it’s at!