Child Star Syndrome
Child Star Syndrome
Bill Mumy is most well-known for being Will Robinson in the 1960s sci-fi TV show Lost in Space and the boy who wishes people into the corn field in that Twilight Zone episode (I can't remember the name). He was also Lennier in Babylon 5 and co-wrote the song Fish Heads with his band Barnes and Barnes.
Apparently he's been producing Ancient Aliens for years. 130 episodes from seasons 11 to the upcoming 20th season. As far as I can tell, there's not even a good reason to have him involved with the show. His only other producing credit is for a documentary about Lost in Space.
So now you know who to blame for keeping that show going.
I liked his involvement in all of the things I listed above too. Makes me sad.
I'm shocked for two reasons:
I thought this show just fell off the earth around the time that dude with the stupid hair became the biggest meme a long time ago, though now that I think about it, the extra attention probably gave them tons of new viewers.
But also, after 19 seasons, are the pyramids really the only thing they talk about? I would have assumed they moved on to discredit the hard work that went into Stonehenge or the Moai statues or something. Or are the pyramids more of a visual identifier for their show, similar to the purpose a logo would serve?
I think it's a visual identifier.
It would feel weird having an image of something else under the title, UFOs and pyramids are like bread and butter, a necessary base for an alien conspiracy sandwich.
https://youtu.be/cn73Wtem0No?si=XPF3QW9JKTohlqGP
Rolly polly fish heads
Seems like he has a pretty solid sci-fi resume. It's fitting for a show that should only be treated as entertainment.
He also guest starred on an episode of deep space nine
I like ancient aliens. I don't believe everything in the show, but I'm glad there are people still willing to ask "what if?" even if ridiculed mainstream science and history needs this in my opinion. sometimes fringe theories change the world it's happened a bunch of times in history. if we didn't challenge mainstream ideas we'd still think the sun revolves around the earth.
There's actually a lot of really interesting science and history in that show, stuff thats actually legitimate. Early seasons atleast, havent seen the recent stuff. But then they would get 2 seconds away from a logical science/history backed answer and make a hard left into "aliens". It's like they wanted to make a show about history and obscure/futuristic tech but needed the aliens angle for the studio to sign off on it. Sort of like how numbers was a decent police procedural with a mathematician shoehorned into it.
Marvel makes a series all about unlikely "what if" stories concerning comic books and nobody bats an eye.
But History makes one thing about unlikely "what if" stories concerning reality and everybody loses their mind.