Ancient Aliens season 9

release year: 2014-2015
genre: TV documentary (12 episodes)
viewing setting: home DVD 2/xx/22 - 2/28/22

synopsis: Aliens might have been involved in our world's history, as can be seen if you look at all the various potential evidence.

impressions: The producers have taken a basic concept (aliens visiting Earth in the past) and explored dozens of ways it could be tied to past and current historical events. Rather than list all of the season's episodes, I'll just point out the ones I found to be the most interesting:

episode 4: The Genius Factor (the world's most brilliant minds might be tuned into otherworldly knowledge)

episode 6: Alien Resurrections (possible cases of afterlife and immortality)

episode 8: The Great Flood (theories about aliens periodically wiping out life on Earth to reset things)

episode 12: The Alien Agenda (aliens have been destroying advancing technology/learning for thousands of years)

acting: The narration is strong and consistent, and the interviews are always interesting and entertaining.

final word: While some of these ideas may be unlikely or impossible, it's hard to believe that ALL of them are. The guests/speakers aren't asking you to believe what they say - just to think about it with an open mind and do your own thinking. On the flip side, their logic is often the kind that begins a sentence with one direction and finishes it in a completely different one - the transition is subtle, and sometimes they just forge on ahead based on an earlier claim-as-fact that really hasn't been proven to be such. Either way, the show discusses some cool and weird ideas.

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