"Fake, but accurate" might be a good way to summarize this one, in which some Roswell locals decide to get creative in order to get the word out about the original Roswell event, which was covered up well at the time by General Darhk. Along the way, there are more reminders that the writers are continuing to do a good job of giving the main characters multiple layers, with Darhk, in particular, getting all kinds of shades of gray once again. And the surprise that our Air Force captain returned home to find? Well, THAT's gonna take his mind off of things for a while...
This show does not belong on the history channel, but it sure is damn entertaining. History should do a spin-off channel for shows such as this and pawn stars.
Really good 2 part opener. Shme there are still no conclusive results tho =/
Review by Paladin5150BlockedParent2020-02-04T08:26:13Z
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands: act 5, scene 3. 1963
We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
— Malcolm X, 1965
....By ANY MEANS NECESSARY......., it flows doesn't it? Looks good on a poster or a T-shirt, next to a clenched fist or a civil rights Icon peering out his front window while holding a rifle to protect himself from the violence he feared was coming
But in this age of Fake News, false accusations, sign stealing in Americas pastime, deflate-gate, video-gate and so on, perhaps that statement needs to be re-examined and re-evaluated. Do the ends always justify ANY means? Is winning the only thing that matters if one has to sell their soul to meet the goal?
Some today would say "yes", do whatever it takes. They probably said something similar over the course of August 6-9th 1945, when, to "shorten the war and save American lives", two nuclear devices were dropped over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, instantly incinerating 140,000 and 74,000 people, and severely injuring another 175,000 souls.
I am not here to rehash history, as, the past cannot be undone, and the times and the public's frame of mind were very different then. I simply want to examine the romantic notion that, "by any means necessary" is always an acceptable idea.
It is Dr Hynek who first brings the question up when General Harding is reminiscing about the tough decisions that had to be made before dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, and whether the "lies" that one has to tell themselves to enable them to do something they may feel is morally wrong, yet serves the "greater good" is worth the psychological cost. The rather direct insinuation is that the General "did some things" in the previous Roswell case, that served the greater good of national security, but, may too have been morally wrong.
Yet, when it seems that he has conspired to expose the entire affair, and he indeed is about to have the General dead to rights on live TV, it is Hynek himself that literally pulls the plug, so that the blockbusting expose' wasn't broadcast. Why? Because he realized that the whole thing was an elaborate fraud, a scam, a trickeration, perpetuated by those with knowledge of what had happened, but weaponized for maximum fallout, with fake evidence.
When questioned as to why he would do such a thing, Hynek basically said that to win a victory with a lie was worse than the original cover up itself.
Perhaps some folks were more enlightened back there in the 50's and 60's, than we like to give them credit for..... Just perhaps.