Mermaids Documentary: Answer behind Aquaman and Namor?

[Ultimatehero]

I'm watching this amazing documentary right now, you can see it on the discovery channel website about mermaids. It just seems like a lot of possibilities for the Aquaman and Namor films to play around with. Basically it's saying that mermaids exist and that they have existed for a long time. While neither characters are mermaids, a lot of these elements could seriously ground these films in a sense of reality that seemingly fishermen have known about for quite some time.



Thought it would be interesting to post here and in general, since it could lend itself to both Aquaman, Namor, and a new take on 'The Little Mermaid' "fairytale" if that gets off the ground along with the others. It's just very interesting.

[The Squirrel]

I think they should have tried harder to make all those "found footage" stuff look more authentic. Still a interesting two hours of fiction though.

[Silvermoth]

Sounds fishy to me.

[KalMart]

Originally Posted by Silvermoth

Smells fishy to me.

Fixed.


Fill-in-your-own-reference.

[TheBat812]

I'm watching it now, and I'm not getting it. Are they just making up evidence, like the random bones that were hip bones and hands? If it were real, why the hell would all the governments of the world bother to cover this up? I just want to see if Animal Planet is trying to sell this as a documentary or a movie. For my money, it's clearly just made up for dramatic effect, although at least it is relatively well made. I just feel like there should be a warning or something saying it's not real, I'm sure there are tons of people who legitimately will think this is real.

[The Question]

It's not real. It's a fake documentary about a mythical creature. It's a thing. Fake documentary's aren't illegal if it's never actually claimed to be legit anywhere outside of the film itself. If they were, The Office wouldn't be on the air.

[TheBat812]

Originally Posted by The Question

It's not real. It's a fake documentary about a mythical creature. It's a thing. Fake documentary's aren't illegal if it's never actually claimed to be legit anywhere outside of the film itself. If they were, The Office wouldn't be on the air.

I already edited that part out, simply because it is so clearly not real, but it seems pretty dishonest for a channel that usually runs stuff about real animals to run a program that pretends it's just as real while using false evidence and stuff like that. At least put a warning or something (maybe there is one and I missed it, I only started watching it half way through). There is a huge difference between that and The Office, haha. Not really a fair comparison.

[The Question]

Originally Posted by TheBat812

I already edited that part out, simply because it is so clearly not real, but it seems pretty dishonest for a channel that usually runs stuff about real animals to run a program that pretends it's just as real while using false evidence and stuff like that. At least put a warning or something (maybe there is one and I missed it, I only started watching it half way through). There is a huge difference between that and The Office, haha. Not really a fair comparison.

If it's so clearly not real then why does it need a warning?

[TheBat812]

I just said it in the post before, I'm sure many people will believe it. I'm more surprised they're not covering their asses on it, but I guess it garners more mystery and attention if they leave it ambiguous.