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MonsterQuest cancelled

But where will we go for our weekly dose of trailcam placing and murky underwater filming?

It's kind of a shame, because this season seemed to have a more skeptical outlook. Joe Nickell's segments were always fun. And my jaw about dropped when they exposed the Gable dogman footage as a hoax.
 
Apologies if this is a derail, but this thread reminded me of a trailer I saw for a show called "Destination Truth". Being mildly familiar with "Monster Quest" it seemed just as, if not more mindless.
 
kittynh said:
wait that dude IS our New England Bigfoot (we call him "BIG HEAD" though)
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I see a strong anatomical similarity among MQ squatch experts. Anyone have a pic of the star expert from Critical Evidence?

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Drewbot wrote:
I watched the rest of WEREWOLF Episode.

Gable film was played and analyzed, and the DJ that promoted it came clean as Spektator said. They even had the film maker go through step by step how he made the film. Guess what? He wore an off the shelf Ghillie suit, and he recreated the impossible locomotory gallop that couldn't be done by a human. I'd like to find out if that same film maker was in the Cascades of Washington on a memorial day back in the 90's.
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Is this the MQ Werewolf episode?
 
This is good news. Anytime woo like this is exposed for the bunk it really is can only be a good thing for rational thought.
 
Isn't Ghost Lab still going though? That's another show that needs to go. They say they conduct "scientific" investigations, when they are anything but.

A shadow on the side of a tree at a large distance, on grainy video? "This is a shadow person."

They take the approach of, "These people are saying this house is haunted. What evidence can we uncover to support that fact?". If it were truly scientific, they would use the approach of "Do ghosts even exist?" or "Are anomalous events happening here? If so, what mechanism is causing it?"

Meh. Even the Science channel is allowing homeopaths to place commercials on their channel.
 
dudalb said:
MQ died not because of skepticism, but because of Low Ratings.
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Is it not likely that those low ratings were due to skepticism about laughable "research" and a distinct lack of evidence to back any of the ludicrous claims? I think skepticism is precisely why the show was canceled.
 
I suspect people got bored with the same old format every week. Hype, repeat, speculation, hype, disappoint.
 
RhodyDave said:
Is it not likely that those low ratings were due to skepticism about laughable "research" and a distinct lack of evidence to back any of the ludicrous claims? I think skepticism is precisely why the show was canceled.
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Could you provide the details of just what's wrong with it? From what I can tell, they don't seem to say oh yeah, the monster is really there even when they come back with no hard evidence.
 
mike3 said:
Could you provide the details of just what's wrong with it? From what I can tell, they don't seem to say oh yeah, the monster is really there even when they come back with no hard evidence.
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I guess you can't expect that they'll end every show with "yeah, again, we found zilch."

But it'd be honest.

Or maybe once in a while, "Why do we keep wasting our time like this?"

But it's precisely the lack of such admissions that keep them going. In this case, it appears their viewership made the admissions for them by not watching.
 
kittynh said:
I like to point out if "Monster Quest" ever found any real proof, it wouldn't be at the end of the show. It would be headlining on CNN the day they found it.
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That's why the show has never been interesting. You always no the outcome before the show starts.
 
idoubtit said:
I suspect people got bored with the same old format every week. Hype, repeat, speculation, hype, disappoint.
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Personally, I think it was another facet of the format: Because each segment of the show began with extensive recapping of what went before, in, say, an hour of watching MQ one would have viewed a grand total of 10-12 minutes of original footage.
 
idoubtit said:
I suspect people got bored with the same old format every week. Hype, repeat, speculation, hype, disappoint.
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Flipping nailed it.

One thing that struck me: Wouldn't we hear about a giant ape/relict Plesiosaur being caught on the news long before we get to see it on some lame infotainment "show"?

Don't get me wrong, I love this stuff for some reason. I stick around to the bitter end of each episode I happen to catch.
 
foxholeatheist said:
One thing that struck me: Wouldn't we hear about a giant ape/relict Plesiosaur being caught on the news long before we get to see it on some lame infotainment "show"?
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That's the exact same argument against conspiracy theories.
"If there was proof about X, wouldn't we hear about it on CNN or something
Rather than some lame infotaiment "show" like Jessee Ventura?


And yet for some reason, people still tun in for those shows.
 
MQ lost me when the narrator couldn't even pronounce place names accurately.
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mike3 said:
Could you provide the details of just what's wrong with it? From what I can tell, they don't seem to say oh yeah, the monster is really there even when they come back with no hard evidence.
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No offense, but have you ever watched even just a promo spot for the show (or any like it)? They make it sound like they've discovered some incredible evidence, yet when the show concludes there is nothing. Zippo, zilch, nada, a big goose egg...you get the idea.
 
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