The Curse of Oak Island Season 5 Episode 14 Review
Stretching this out waaay too long
The narrator is a living meme. "A rock...?! 78 anxiety beneath the surface...?! Could this be the key to the fabled treasure...?!?" Other than the stretching things out waaaay too long and the cleaved record narrator, the testify is interesting and fun, and I like most of the characters. Merely set up to see it wrapped up, for Pete's sake. 😉
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Interesting story destroyed by repetitive canned narration.
I'd give the story eight-9 stars but the production is just awful. Hey Rick, step on that rock over in that location. "A stone? On Oak Island? Could this exist a rock stepped on past renowned pirate John Laffete? Or slept on by the Knights Templar who may have brought treasure from Jerusalem similar the Arc of the Covenant? Or mayhap information technology was used in writing the Magna Carte, or to identify the location of other cached treasure?..." Criminies.
And side by side fourth dimension yous become diving in a murky pigsty you think is connected to the sea, maybe a good idea to pump a 100K gallons of clean water in starting time? Just sayin...
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Never have so many done so little with so much time!
This show is the Lagina treasure. We're 3 seasons into this thing. And little to nothing has been establish. Null has been proved. And if this was anything just a TV show that had sponsors paying the bills, information technology would accept been shut down after the first flavor. Episode after episode does not deliver. The writers of narration and the narrator himself exercise equally much as they tin can to maintain our interest. But with three seasons in. This show has proved to exist a complete bust. Episode after episode nosotros take to sit down through seemingly endless discussions by all those involved. I don't know whether these guys legitimately believe there is annihilation at all on this island. But I myself accept begun to feel like we are beingness strung along. We all similar to run across historically pregnant treasures found. And while this show is making money, hooking us, week after week. With aught. In that location's no in that location-in that location. They keep dragging out little bits and pieces of history, and "experts" to keep usa interested. But it's gotten tedious. There are but virtually 10 to fifteen minutes of new content per week. The rest is flashbacks and graphics. I read the same article in Readers Digest. But I read it in the 70's. And I thought "Oh Boy". Someone's going to finally address this. THEY Oasis'T. And I'm 99.999% sure they won't.
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Too Much Speculation
I'll sum up this unabridged show: Marty "Would you say that's manmade?" Proficient "Maybe." (Marty and Rick look at each other.) Narrator "A manmade structure? Could this exist the final clue in the Oak Isle mystery? Could it hold gold? Pirate treasure? Or something far, far more than of import?"
It'due south an alright prove only they're connecting things on that isle that are results of hundreds and hundreds of years of visitors leaving their own traces behind. The guess work in the digital video recreations paint a fake paradigm to the viewer.
In a manner Rick and Marty did find golden, since they've invested a petty over $5 mil and the testify has made over $100 mil. In that way they were very clever.
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Stop the narrator
The narrator has to exist cut from the show or at minimum reduce his nattering by 75%. He must say "brothers Rick and Marty Latina" 10 times an hour. Information technology's ridiculous! Stop the insanity.
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Tired of the narrator.
I think hearing the story of Oak Island from my dad over xl years ago. I really enjoy the show. But I am sick and tired of the narrator " could it exist!" And his repeating of what was but said past the searchers. I actually wish he could talk well-nigh half as much. He manages to ruin a really good show. I'chiliad watching the programme now, paused it and created an account only and so I could complain about Robert Clotworthy. We discuss the evidence at work every week and everyone would similar to hear a piddling less from him. Delight heed to your audience.
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Entire story could exist told in a one hour documentary
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I tin't blame the History Aqueduct for trying to elevate this out for at least a flavor. A serial will certainly bring in more money than a documentary.
Only for whatever serial to be successful, there has to exist substance.
On the episode I but watched (number three, I believe?) the whole 60 minutes was about finding coconut fiber on the island. At the end of the show, they received data about how old the cobweb was.
That was it. That's what happened on this week's episode. Really? An hour for that? Well-nigh of the allotted time was filled with dramatic music punctuating events that weren't dramatic, and the narrator repeatedly reminding united states of america of possible theories of the island.
I actually don't mean this review as a dig confronting the people on the show. I think they're sincere and they probably have no control over what the network deems the final edit.
At this pace, this evidence has no promise. I hate to admit I find myself continuing to watch, hoping for something large. What my hour amounts to is about ninety seconds of watchable television while I fight the urge to fast forward through more than the commercials. I had high hopes for this "real life" mystery show, only after this calendar week, I'm out.
I've thought most starting a drinking game to play as I watch simply I'1000 non certain I'd desire to go that drunk. A drink every time they show the graphic of the booby-trapped pit, a drink every time the narrator mentions the Knights Templar or other theories, a drink every time at that place'due south a dramatic setup for absolutely zilch, a drinkable for every time the guys are sitting around the table drinking. Unfortunately, this testify isn't worth the hangover.
I will gladly read the episode summaries afterward the series is over. And if there's a prissy, condensed documentary, that'south fifty-fifty better.
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Far Also Much Repetition!
I have loved the mystery of Oak Isle since reading most it in an onetime copy of Readers Digest in 1975. I was so excited about the show and accept watched every episode in hopes of something being discovered.
I agree wholeheartedly with the other review - it is far far far too repetitive. Easily ninety% of the prove is rehashing and repeating what has already been shown, talked about, etc. Equally a event, in an entire season you lot get Mayhap one episode worth of new data. It's pathetic actually.
I have wasted enough of my time on this show, I won't be watching any more than seasons. I wish it were different as I really similar the brothers and their passion and dedication to the quest, and I would dearest to picket information technology unfold in anything but what amounts to frame by frame dull motion.
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"Could exist or it could be..."
The narration of this show is absolutely terrible. Never accept I heard so many "perhaps", "information technology could exist or it could exist..", "suggests", "might be"... and on and on, the writer must be a lawyer. The bandage will throw some stupid suggestion out there and the narrator annoyingly turns information technology to a question like it'southward the nigh mysterious thing in the world. " This looks like a spear." Narrator "A spear?" Blah apathetic. One time yous hear it you can't unhear it. In that location are endless recaps in the evidence; it could easily exist a thirty minute series. These guys are tenacious, I'll give them that, they have spent so much money over the last 7 years that I doubt finding the treasure at this point would get them in the black.
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Talk Talk Talk Talk and Then a Commercial
Hideously slow, repetitive garbage built around some possibly interesting history.
These "treasure hunters" dig and gouge their way through Oak Island, instantly assuming everything they find is Norse or Roman and another clue to the treasure they seek. Each episode has a nugget of story stretched out to fill a 1-hour time slot. They stand around and talk and talk and talk.
There'due south an old cross, an onetime money, a physical wall, a mysterious cavern, a stone with "carvings," etc. With every "discover," they jump to an array of conclusions that always hark dorsum to the mythic Roman or Norse explorers from two centuries agone. Nothing is ever substantiated. The "experts" they consult add zippo to the endless blather.
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8 Seasons of zero, just like Seinfeld this show is about nothing!
A full fourth dimension waste of time show it is like Josh Gates on speed except Josh travels to unlike places, but like this show at the stop you lot know no more then you did at the start! Yes in that location is treasure and it is being fabricated by the History Channel who we pay to sentinel and hopefully learn something. Yet on this testify in 8 seasons at that place is no more really proven so was known at the starts of Flavour 1.
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Prove is shameful waste of fourth dimension
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Had high hopes in watching this later all who doesn't savour a true treasure hunt. Sadly this ain't information technology. Episode after episode spending 45+ minutes of each bear witness discussing what they are going to do or desire to do and spending five minutes actually doing said act. So another x well-nigh how swell or deplorable their "detect" is.
By the way 1 coin is non a "significant" find. I could probably observe one in my backyard hither in Florida if I dig plenty.
If we suspend reality for a few moments nosotros are to believe that pirates or Knights Templar were present in mass along the coast of about of North America 100 years plus before Columbus landed. It is not plausible for such an industrious endeavor to occur when the engineering science to sail was not even present..... we were notwithstanding in flat globe social club and so people! But lets say they did...... so we are led to believe that these masters of the ocean sailed from Europe without maps sailed at some point to Florida grabbed ship loads of coconut cobweb.... sailed dorsum due north to Oak Island.... dug massive mine shafts with "boobie traps" no less buried their treasure and sailed away.
Now dorsum to reality.... in that location are a million unlike ways that coconut fiber and an former Spanish coin could take ended upward on that island. Picking the most ridiculous ane and making a show based on that is lamentable. When you have evidence present information technology, otherwise this is complete fluff.
Don't waste product your time watching unless yous enjoy disappointment.
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the pinnacle of mind-crushing futility
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In which intrepid explorers dig up parts of an innocent isle in order to search for treasure.
An average episode goes somewhat similar this : People talk about a shoe sole from 2004 they constitute - and which, sadly, turned out to be a shoe sole from 2004. While digging and searching they talk about other digs and searches, by, nowadays and future. And then, a centre-stopping moment ! Someone has discovered a piece of blackened wood ! Could this be, maybe, possibly, a clue ? Will this piece of blackened woods show our intrepid explorers the way to the wondrous treasure ? Alas, it turns out that the piece is just a souvenir of a 1998 Male child Lookout camping trip. Meanwhile someone shows upward in society to explain that the said wondrous treasure might be the Holy Grail, inscribed with Viking runes and filled with queen Marie-Antoinette'southward jewels. Or information technology might be a mummified Knight Templar dressed in bits and pieces of the lost Amber Room, or a gold-covered Inca ruler suffocated to expiry in a pirate chest. Who knows ? Anyhow, it's a marvelous marvelous treasure that is going to blow Humanity's collective heed. The excavations continue.
At present lather, rinse and echo, for season later on season. Nil of value is always institute but it's dig, dig, dig, interspersed with nonsensical blather about treasure maps, Knights Templar, curses.
Once upon a time a Greek philosopher stared into the altitude and proclaimed sagely : "Everything flows, aught remains". Judging by the series I would venture to suggest that he was incorrect.
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Kinda Stupid Simply I Can't Stop Watching It
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I can't stop watching this bear witness in spite of how ridiculous some of these theories are. Marie Antoinnette? The Knights Templar? The Mayans?! What?! I just don't understand why anyone would dig some deep-ass tunnels, to bury their treasure 200 ft down, in some difficult-donkey rock on some random-ass island. Why would anyone go through all that trouble when you could just bury it 6 ft down so you tin easily get it later. Or peradventure, don't coffin information technology at all. Spend it you idiots! You lot know, like normal pirates do.
But then I start thinking, "If it's a religious site mayhap there'southward treasure there. You lot know, like the pyramids or something." And I hold onto that small intriguing thought in spite of my logic screaming, " That'south stupid! There's nothing there!" The just mystery is why people proceed sinking their money into this island. I mean, come on, 1 guy's theory is that the Mayan'south sailed from South America all the way to Canada merely to booby trap and bury their treasure. That sounded then cool I would've slapped the dude who said that in his face. I tin can't believe some people purchase this stuff. Withal there are some that are plausible. The one almost the British soldiers burying their plunder of war at that place; I can come across that possibly happening only not 200 ft down in an elaborate tunnel organisation. That's ridiculous. No i who wants to get their treasure dorsum is going to bury it that deep.
And I likewise don't similar how the show makes a big deal about the most mundane things. "I found a handle that's a treasure chest handle." Cue dramatic music Considering it tin can't possibly be a handle for anything else. They find a log. Cue dramatic. They notice a stone. Cue dramatic music. Anyone mentions the word treasure or golden. Cue dramatic music. If any documentary guys are reading this please end with the dramatic music cues every ten secs. It's getting out of hand. Non everything is dramatic.
Despite all this I can't stop watching it! Fifty-fifty though my logical mind tells me this stuff is BS at that place is that modest bit of intrigue that'due south taken me viii episodes and I'll very likely finish the residuum. And then I give it a vi. There are things that badger me nigh it but information technology's kept my attending.
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Honestly? nine Seasons of Absolutely Nothing
This series is the biggest scam and thwarting on television set. Expect. Was Geraldo opening Capone's vault and finding zero a bigger scam?? No Oak Island is far worse! 9 seasons of repeatedly identifying Joe Nobody, and Who'south Jones with "potential" game changing finds makes Geraldo look similar a super star by comparison. How long tin these morons keep this up, and how dumb are the viewers who are glued to their TVs for the next heady, game changing not-event. Put this garbage out of its misery, please. No tenth season. Nosotros tin can't accept the hurting any longer.
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the same as "Ancient Aliens", a lot of bs
What is wrong with History aqueduct? Why does this show exist and why do people watch it? Practice they actually think that some people in the 1400's could dig a hole 70 meters deep in soaking wet ground?? And really Templars??? Why the heck would they go all the way to Canada to coffin stuff?? Come on, actually?? All the problems in the globe and a bunch of rich people waste money on this nonsense....
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The narrator gave my ears aids
And so far I am half way through season iii and it is ok, but to be off-white the corporeality of crazy theorys is beyond a joke, the brothers are a great duo and pretty well equipped but at the aforementioned fourth dimension seem happy to take a positive from about cipher, such as a plank of wood. HOWEVER the narrator is now probably my nigh hated person on earth, if I had £1 for everytime he says " could it be that...." I would accept made more than coin than any corporeality of treasure value that is rummored to be on the island. And he LOVES to repeat the exact words that someone on the show has just said except he likes to throw in a dramatic vocalisation with long pauses. I recommend you give the show a bash if your kind of affair
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sound familiar?
This show reminds me of what happened last summer, as I prepared to mow the lawn, and went on an expedition to remove obstacles. I found a sock. A sock? In my backyard? Is it peradventure a sock that one of my kids removed so they could jump on the trampoline? Or...could this sock have belonged to Abraham Lincoln, whose body is rumored to have stored at the local Berwyn PA railroad train station afterward he was assassinated, because they had ice? (show fancy graphics). Or...could this exist the "other" sock, that famed bullpen Curt Schilling wore when he pitched in the World Series? Curt used to exist in Philadelphia. A coincidence?
We brought in famed British sock researcher, and amateur harmonica player, William DeFosinoa with his sock finder 2000 to search the expanse for other socks. He has years of experience searching for socks, yet ironically today he is only wearing ane sock as the other one is lost in his suitcase. He found several items that maybe, just maybe, are from Tutankhamun's grave, but we actually have no legitimate reason to call up and so, other than the fact that we thought it sounded absurd.
Today we follow the team of Billy and Harry Vagina, along with their nephew Cody, plus Zak Blankeyface, every bit nosotros take the sock to the Nova Scotia Academy Paleontology department's Doctor Jules Windemere, forth with assistant who merely goes by "beef", to have the sock carbon dated, and take the Dna scanned. The scientist is set to share his results:
"This is definitely a sock. Carbon dating reveals it was fabricated like iii months ago and sold at Target. We found a label that says Target on it right here." (Harry Vagina looks perplexed, still he pledged to bear on, convinced in that location are other buried socks in my lawn.)
Adjacent episode...a black piece of dirt, in my backyard? Could it be remnants from when King Louis XXII and the Knights of Templar had dirt brought to the U.s. to ward off evil demons? Or...could information technology be the neighbor'due south dog stopped by? Come back next week and discover out!!!
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Oak Isle Goggle box Testify is Cursed
Ridiculous, they've proven naught , found little , and wasted viewers time with fast cutting editing and back tracking cuts . I like to call this whiplash goggle box , considering your mind keeps getting dragged dorsum to points and scenes already viewed . Testify should accept concluded after 1st flavor .
These is nothing there
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Possibly, Only Hundred-to-one
Since I haven't read all 189 reviews that's shown to exist, I cannot know if anyone else has thought of my admittedly wild theory. I am glad that Rick & Marty Lagina decided to undertake the ''mystery'' of this isle with the kind of equipment to endeavour to achieve something along with the know-how to operate this equipment still, due to the structure of the island, I honestly don't believe they'll uncover everything they hope to. In my opinion, about of the island is not naturally formed. I do believe at that place was a small isle in the showtime, but that original existing island was built up, out, and around over time to build this pit & truly be able to bury or hide??? I cannot see how the original ''Coin Pit'', every bit it's at present known as, could have been built to the depth it is unless the island was structured around it. Forth with the depth of the pit, all of the inundation water booby traps also could non have built unless the island was congenital upward by layers. The ''Lagoon'', every bit it's referred to, is another detail of the island which I cannot see as being natural. The fact that there are then many flood water traps at located at several levels in the pit clearly indicates to me that the island had to exist built up in layers. In the episode showing the dye exam which located several openings which the dye flowed out of into the surrounding water, in my opinion, conspicuously indicates that the island had to be ''DESIGNED & structured'' past someone. Yep, I'll concur that it could exist possible that if & when the pit might take been dug, these water channels could've been discovered & their effluents or outflow channels & openings might've been enlarged to create these traps even so, I honestly believe it would be extremely catchy to successfully dig a pigsty that deep with all of these ever present openings. With the island being 36ft. higher up sea level (I'1000 guessing the superlative of the pit is a few feet below that) & with theories saying the pit could exist 200ft.deep, the water pressure from the ocean would be approx. 72psi (200ft. minus 34ft. equals 166ft. X .433 = + or - 72psi). Even at depths of 90ft. which had previously dug down to, the force per unit area would be around 23-24psi. With my 20 some years of feel working in the water treatment & distribution field, I know that only 23psi is enough pressure to break open an already present & weak mud/sand opening to an extremely free-flowing channel of water. To me, all of these details seems to brand it nearly impossible (anything'southward possible) for people to accept successfully dug a pit so deep into an existing isle. When they discovered what appeared to exist an obvious homo-made opening in the ''lagoon'' was the 1st nevertheless final detail that clinched it for me that the island had to have been built up effectually the pit. Will anything of any significance ever exist found? As well the occasional coin, bones, more coconut cobweb, and timbers, , , ,I don't run across how. However ''Annihilation'S POSSIBLE''.
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Stupid, never ending speculation
This is a curio story that should be wrapped up nicely in one 1/2 hour testify. Instead information technology's a series that continues to hint at some resolution that we all know will never be realized. Information technology is non actually what I'd call amusement. I consider this to be a (generally harmless) killer of time.
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When it's all said and done a lot more gets said than done.
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OK I have to be honest, I both beloved and hate this prove at the aforementioned time. Similar the Lagina brothers, the stars of the show, I read about the Money Pit as a child and have been fascinated by information technology for years. I'm going to agree with a lot of other posters and say that this would exist better suited to a documentary just hey, it's the historic period of reality TV and this is how the mystery is going to exist served to the states.
Despite the problems I accept with this show, similar the irksome progress of the show I'll probably keep tuning in but in example they actually observe something. I find the constant shifting of theories; look a infinitesimal, theories isn't the right word here, peradventure wild hunches might exist a better manner to draw it; annoying especially since most of the tangible bear witness contradicts itself and could be random.
Ane of the near repeated legends they offering up is that 7 must die before the underground of Oak Island is revealed. Merely the origins of the curse are never explained, unlike the other possible origins that are explained so many times during a single episode that I detect myself waking in the middle of the night with them playing in my mind. I'm oftentimes left to wonder if this isn't something a producer dreamed upward. Its' not something I recall reading in whatever of the earlier articles.
Some other explanation that is not covered is that the whole affair is a naturally occurring sinkhole, oh and i more than, Ancient Aliens, which is surprising since this is the History Channel afterwards all. Maybe they could practise a crossover episode. I'm sure that crew could go to the bottom of this.
The most dubious piece of evidence is the stone found well-nigh the bottom of pit with the inscription that say who knows what, just has somehow been translated to ready something to the issue, 2000 lbs buried below. The stone has somehow been lost to history, possibly on purpose and thus not available for modern analysis. And then we are left to wonder how or if this is any a part of the mystery.
It's a plodding show at best with lots of talk and not a lot of action, great for say a man cave during a brake chore since you're not likely to miss annihilation should y'all have to get up for a drinkable or clamber under the automobile.
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500 means to blow millions of dollars
What a joke.
This prove is a bunch of interim and so that the people who invested in this coin pit tin make some coin back. There is no buried treasure. These people have massive machines to dig and drill, notwithstanding the they is that people over 500 years ago dug 150 to 200 feet with tools made from wood, copper or iron?
Stupid, stupid, stupid
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The Expletive is being sucked in
I have watched every episode from yr 1 and I'm bowing out. This is a full farce. How many crackpot theories tin they come up with? They obviously have spent more than looking for nothing then they will ever find in rusty ox shoes and rotting wood. Those shots of everyone looking at each other in the "war room" are maddening! The cutting aways to commercial every time Gary digs up a push button or an ox shoe are the final harbinger. Don't waste your time. I DO feel bad for Rick and Marty because I believe they thought something was at that place and now they can't seem to extricate themselves from their mess. Maybe they can say the Canadian government won't let them dig anymore.
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My god, this show is trash.
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Pure garbage. Infinitely endless exposition, repetitive and extremely annoying narration, reused clips over and over and over once again to make full episodes of nothingness, hundreds of theories introduced that get nowhere, and nearly importantly never any answers or treasyre found.
My breaking betoken is when they are metal detecting, find bullet shells, and the narration and tone is similar theyve just found aboriginal gold..."a bullet crush?! Fired by gun?! Maybe some time ago?! If then, What. Was. The. Prey?"
Dont waste material your time. Testify shouldve been cancelled a long time ago. Even skipping through all of the filler and exposition is mind numbingly irksome and annoying realizing that nix e'er comes of this testify.
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