I see that SciFi has finally corrected the title of the episode to read Namibian rather than Nambian although if you do a search you can still see a number of sites having it the original way, including my own TV grid.

Anyway, in this episode, Josh and crew drive up the road to investi…sorry, Josh and crew, after having flown 7500 miles from Namibia back to Los Angeles, now turn around and fly BACK another 7500 miles to Namibia to investigate the Night Stalker. This time they are in northern Namibia near the Etosha Pan which is a dry lake-bed. The color is from the salts in the area…think of the great salt flats in Utah.

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Here the team searches for something that is scaring the locals and attacking them. This almost seems to be a Made for DT creature, but they find hairs which they will analyze and let us know.

Jungle Temple Ghosts has the team flying over to Thailand (so expect at least one more Southeast Asia investigation this season) to investigate giant ghosts in a temple. Looks to be more of the same, chasing after things that may or may not be there, and some more "getting touched"

The Giant Spirits probably comes from the Yaks which are the temple guardians and can be seen in statue form at many of the temples. Presumably the team will be looking for one that is not quite as statue-like as the rest.

We seem to be running about 50/50 with the ghost episodes, I wish they would dial it back a bit and get back to more of the cryptid investigations. There are at least two reasons for this wish, one is that we already have at least 3.5 ghost hunting shows to watch. The second is that every time they go after ghosts, there's a good chance they may bring the evidence to people from a show that starts with G.

All in all I'm hoping this one will be better than the last pair we watched which, for me, was quite a low point for the series.

Post edited 8:35 pm – April 5, 2011 by Nosfer

And Rex does it again.  I agree, starting to wonder about this guy.  The red marks couldn't have been from his hands could they?  His hands were up pretty high…until for some reason we could only see the top of his head from his camera…his hands went pretty low.  When have we ever not seen the person's entire head from their personally-mounted camera?  Hmmmmm

Rex = Evan?  Almost a Classic Romanian Circle of Death Replay

Post edited 9:17 pm – April 5, 2011 by Nosfer

This show has lost whatever credibility it had left.  They had a breach on the southern leg of their triangular perimeter.  Well, I went and measured the distance of the sides of their perimeter, would anyone care to guess how long their southern perimeter edge supposedly is?

Answer: A little over 70 MILES!  Uh huh.  The minimum distance from base camp to the southern perimeter is 26 miles or so yet Chris runs from base camp and finds the goat a few seconds away  (obviously had nothing to do with the breach) (Josh narrates that it was slaughtered near their base camp)

I don't think they ever are going to get to their "Destination" if they keep this up.

Keeping resolution constant, as you get larger area (and depending upon your distance from the screen) you run into more degradation as perceived by the eye.  One has to consider the angular resolution of the human eyeball and the effect of distance.  Think of running 800x600 on a 14" monitor vs a 21" monitor and viewing both from the same distance.  (Lest you laugh, years ago i had a case of someone running 640x480 on a 17"!)  14" is going to be more pleasing and useful since you're not even close to out-resolving the human eye.  Move the 21" back far enough and they will be pretty much on par quality wise.  Viewing up close on a good small HD monitor is going to be pretty sharp.  Not that she saw anything on her monitor, either!

I think the limiting factor here is the resolution and quality of the cameras that they were using and the lighting and angle.  Is Evan's, sorry, is Rex's personal-cam HD?  (Serious question, I'm not sure, just because something is broadcast in HD doesn't mean it was shot in HD, could have been 480 or 720 and upscaled)  For what they are filming with and the conditions, a good review monitor is probably on par with a 52" HDTV when viewed up closer and going larger isn't going to help things out.  Not that she saw anything on her monitor, either!

Additionally they are in NV mode which is adding some grain.  But, I don't think you'd see skin being pulled back on a 20" HD monitor OR a 104" HDTV at any distance since I wager the only skin being moved around was from Rex's own hands after he dropped his neck below camera range.  As soon as he starts his antics, he tucks his head down and he is face on to his camera, hiding his neck.  He then proceeds to duck his neck area completely down out of range of his camera. 

Not that she saw anything on her monitor, either!

Seeing the footage AFTER editing?  Yes, it's possible, but how do you know Josh wasn't playing the original for them?  What signs do you see of editing?  Yes, there is the chance of editing being done before they see it, but do you KNOW?  Unfortunately without seeing a CoC (which I doubt there is) it's hard to trust any of what we see.

When you think of it, on ANY of these shows, the only stuff there is a halfway decent chance that we are guaranteed to be seeing the "raw" is during a live show if it's truly live.  But, just because they pan away to Kris and Barry after we see Rex on the monitor doesn't mean that anything playing on the monitor was edited…yes, what we see is edited, but what they see COULD be raw.  Or it could be edited.  We don't know one way or the other.

A bug or dust is not going to give that reaction, and least not the way we saw it complete with Rex's explanation of hands around his throat.  His looks just prior to it happening have an air of "someone getting ready to do something" about them.

Revenant said:

And really, I hate to be this way.  It's the typical skeptic crossing the cynical line type of thing. 

I can't believe that Josh is buying into Rex's schtick.

Stick a fork in DT because it's done.  This, for me, was the final straw.  They have now sunk to the depths of the rest of them. 

Crossing to cynical…very true…I was very cognizant of that as I was watching last night and I still just didn't buy it.  Past actions both of Rex and on the show in general have to come into play and when you look at things as a whole, I couldn't accept it.  Especially when you suspect something like that is going to happen.  And look at his expressions just before he goes gag.

Josh buying the schtick…this is so very similar to Evan it's not even funny except in a sad way.  Haunted Forest, and then Easter Island.  Josh seemed to (at least on camera) buy it in Romania.  The same thing on Easter Island Josh just dismissed as Evan going !#$%$^ crazy.  Soon after, Evan was no longer on the show.  I wonder if this will be the fate of Rex.

The fork.  Agree again.  The straw was getting pretty heavy last week and this week sealed it with all the made up stuff in Namibia.  "Something just entered basecamp"  Not according to their map.  They set up the perimeter before Jael shows up and they do it with THREE line of sight devices.  First of all, it would have taken over a day to set up the perimeter assuming different people hike off to each apex of the triangle.  And line of sight 5 feet off the ground is not going to work over a distance of 70 miles for two reasons.  One is the amount of vegetation in the way and two, the earth curves. 

Look how many animals were around, with a perimeter that size, that alarm would have been going off every 4 seconds.

Now, I suppose their diagram could have been off by a factor of about
1000 but then what does this say to the accuracy of anything else?

Where did they have the boats stored when they were driving?  They did not get them from the Himba village.

Then add Rex and the fork goes right through it.  Really a pity, too, because this show had potential.

And you know what REALLY scares me?  The way they worked Jael into the story…they said she was filming an FoF episode.  This means a Season 3!