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Anonymous08/20/26, 04:25No.5154071
Anyone else feel this year's Shark Week was really bad?
>Sharkzilla Takes New York tried to convince us a ten-foot mako shark was responsible for killing and eating whales, with the lead guy claiming this average mako was Sharkzilla even after a twelve-foot mako showed up later
>Jurassic Sharks had the most retarded AI-generated scenes to grace a TV show and still thinks Dunkleosteus was a 30-foot giant, and it never used the actual names for the Helicoprion and Edestus
:Thresher Shark: Stun to Kill had a lot of badly-done composites of sharks trying to make them look like they were interacting with the divers and their stupid inventions
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Anon08/20/26, 05:43No.5154092
Shark week's mostly been slop for a long time.
I last watched it a decade ago and even then I remember everything being over sensationalized garbage.
>Jurassic Sharks had the most retarded AI-generated scenes to grace a TV show
Did they actually use AI? I didn't think the bar could go so low.
>it never used the actual names for the Helicoprion and Edestus
First Prehistoric Planet and now this? Why is newer paleo media so allergic to saying the scientific names of things?
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Anon08/20/26, 09:50No.5154115
As usual I only watched Jaws.
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Anon08/20/26, 16:34No.5154182
I've got episodes of Shark Week from ye olden days of 1996, one of them being the episode talking about mako intelligence. It was very well-made, with lots of long scenes focused on the scientists interacting with the makos, discussion of actual science, and the music and narration was very chill. Nowadays the episodes are shot, scored, narrated, and fucked with like Discovery is trying to make the next Hollywood blockbuster. It's incredibly sad.
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Anon08/20/26, 17:14No.5154193
My parents were watching it over the weekend and one of the episodes was about orcas eating great white shark livers. As far as I know, this behavior has never actually been observed in person, but it made plenty use of AI shots of orcas hunting great whites featuring:
>orcas randomly growing second tails
>orcas suddenly splitting into multiple orcas
>the false eyes on orcas blinking
>orcas somehow inducing tonic immobility in a GW by tipping it upside down
>a liver that looked exactly like a human liver being ripped out of the throat of a great white
>orcas fighting like dogs over said liver as they tore it between each other's mouths
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Anon08/20/26, 17:52No.5154199
Yeah but AI is based
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Anon08/21/26, 03:24No.5154303
The boat is Quint's, Hooper and Brody are along for the ride.
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Anon08/24/26, 07:03No.5155118
I just pop in the DVDs I made of recorded episodes from the earlier years of Shark Week. It's been crap from a while now, which makes me incredibly sad.
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Anon08/25/26, 00:37No.5155277
I tuned into history channel for my fist watch of cable in like, almost a decade, and was shocked and saddened to see it had ai in this one show
it was really bad AI too, and I guess they didn't bother to generate much cause they replayed genned scenes over and over and over even when it couldn't get shit like banking planes right at all
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Anon08/26/26, 07:13No.5155586
Shark Week has to appeal to normos first, of course its bad
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Anon08/28/26, 04:02No.5156146
The thresher episode was so fucking dumb. They kept claiming that how thresher sharks used their tails was some deep mystery when older shows and random fucks have filmed it plenty of times. And it was obvious neither of those retarded devices they built attracted any sharks because every single shot of them with a shark in the frame you could tell the sharks were composited in and badly at that.
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Anon08/28/26, 22:28No.5156385
Dunkleosteus was a giant you fag, the new body shape makes no sense
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Anon08/29/26, 06:15No.5156506
https://youtu.be/9v2Dxp5QFgc
>First documentary to air during the first shark week.
>The scientific name of the Great White used before mentioning its common name
>Long, unedited chunks of footage of actual sharks
>Nothing is sensationalized or edited to make it worse than it is
>No actors, the divers and crew members are all who they say they are
>Highlights real things occurring in the real world instead of making shit up
>Still manages to provide exciting footage of sharks attacking the dive cage
>This was all done by a couple dozen people
Caged in Fear wasn't exactly a masterpiece as far as nature documentaries go, but the difference in quality between it and modern Shark Week is night and day.
What caused this decline?
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Anon09/02/26, 16:51No.5157587
Did Shark Week start going to shit with the Mythbusters episode?
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Anon09/07/26, 06:38No.5158804
Even our yearly celebrations have gone to hell, it hurts, bros.