Anyone watching Cities of the Undergound on History Channel?

[Hand of Evil]

Some has been on other shows before but some great stuff: http://www.history.com/minisites/citiesoftheunderworld

 

[Grymar]

i caught the one on Istanbul. Incredible stuff. I found the host to be a bit full of himself, but overall the show was really well done.

 

[jaerdaph]

Haven't seen it yet, but this does look like an interesting series (especially considering the main interest that brings us all to EN World ). I plan on watching the Rome episode tonight and let the DVR box catch Heroes.

 

[sniffles]

I saw part of one episode in Rome, but found the host really irritating and switched channels.

 

[Eridanis]

I've seen the Edinburgh and Istanbul (not Constantinople) episodes. Good stuff, and good gaming fodder, too!

 

[jaerdaph]

Yeah, the host is a definite turn off...

 

[Cthulhudrew]

The host was definitely irritating. I did watch last night's Rome episode though, for a little bit. When I was there with my dad a couple of years ago, we stayed right off the Piazza Navona, and actually saw the ruins that were being excavated there- but I didn't realize until last night that it was Domitian's stadium that we were seeing, nor that the piazza had been completely built on top of them. That was pretty cool to learn.

 

[Chimera]

Dagnabit!

I missed those!

 

[Wonzling]

I live in Germany in the Ruhr Metropolitan Area. It's been a major industrial area for about one and a half centuries. Last year I happened on a tour through one of the old steel works. One that tour I learned that since before WW1 a big part of the production had been moved into an underground complex with several miles of tunnels. I even learned that I practically lived above a cave system that was used for shooting and calibrating artillery in secrecy.
I never would have thought that I had a dungeon right beneath my feet all the time.

And the tunnels are still there, if sealed off. The tour showed some of the upper rooms and corridors. It looked just like the tunnels in Doom3 (they even played the same sound effects )

 

[James Heard]

I love the show, but I agree that if they were intent on getting an annoying host they'd have done better to have gotten Peter Woodward. He's at least grown on me.