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Season 3? What are you talking about? This season doesn't even exist!

Also the most disappointing episode when it comes to the theme. Oh, did I forget to mention that Torre Mayor makes its appearance here and forgot the existence of Lake Texcoco? At this point, the scientific fact and credibility of this season is becoming more questionable.

Season 3? What are you talking about? This season doesn't even exist!

Depths of Destruction is the one you are looking for!

Season 3? What are you talking about? This season doesn't even exist!

Also weird title, did you mean Home Wrecked Home?

I just saw the episode now, just to see the collapse of the Burj Khalifa and the Las Vegas transformation. (skim reading to be precise)

My fears are correct, the collapse of the Burj Khalifa is dogwater AI slop, making the Burj Khalifa depiction in Home Wrecked Home a superior version. Hell, even Las Vegas fate (and Los Angeles) are kinda rushed.

I would love to give a final wording, but not right now. I'll be continue monitoring each of every discussion and pretending that it doesn't even exist. Until then, this season is an AI slop, tainting the legacy of this show. I believe this is more than just a revival, but rather going cheap and trying to hit big with profit, and what better ways to be more cheap and efficient by using AI on this series,

I'll say it again:

Fuck AI and Fuck this season!

Season 3? What are you talking about? This season doesn't even exist!

And Sands of Time? Do you mean Sin City Meltdown?

As expected, the timeline is shortened. But instead of 100 years, its 200 years. Instead of just long text walls, I'll be providing images, even if it cost me a copyright warning.

Now instead of the obsession of ship collisions, we got lightning obsession in this episode, and landslides. Still not keeping realism in mind btw, this is AI. If I had to correctly scale the timeline, lets say 200 years is scaled to 500 years, 100 years is scaled to 200 years, 2 weeks scaled to 1 month. It feels the entire show is just Aftermath: Population Zero but without the sudden disappearance which lead to plane crashes, etc.

Now, we got explosion fest in Orlando, landslides in Rio de Janeiro, and the domino effect collapse in New York City in this episode. Lets begin in Orlando.

Orlando explosion and inferno fest from fireworks mortar were bullshit. While the depiction of fireworks explosions were a bit accurate like the Enschede Fireworks Disaster, having them twisting rollercoasters FROM an concrete area FAR away from rollercoasters looks like they want to accelerate the destruction. Also the shot lacks fireworks, and they use AI to depict fireworks explosion.

Also, this isn't even Orlando from this shot, just a random city up in inferno thanks to its vast natural gas pipelines. Orlando is just the reverse of Atlanta, but its pacing were bad and the depiction doesn't make sense.

Next we got landslides in Rio de Janeiro, destroying the favelas. Sure, its a right accuracy, but why 1 week? Shouldn't be suppose to happen in a few months or few years? Also, the landslides looks too liquified. Not forgetting the fact they use AI on some shots that weren't suppose to be used, like some views of the favelas or in previous episodes, overview shots of London.

As for the depiction of the decay of Rio de Janeiro in 100 years. Its so clean and inaccurate enough that the depiction of Sao Paulo from Latinamerica sin Humanos better than this.

New York City... *sigh*. Lets compare two images.

This is the New York City we know, as seen in Heavy Metal from Season 1, circa 200 years after people.

And this is the wide shot of New York City after 100 years. See the difference? Other than the image of Season 3 is too clean and too realistic, its depiction looks not realistic when it comes to detail. Heck, I'll even admit there is no good shot of an aerial view of the decaying New York City to compare the image from Heavy Metal to this episode. The building in the background, the Secretariat Building of the United Nations Headquarters, is entirely hollow and looks a lot worse compared to its depiction at Take Me to Your Leader in Season 2.

I am not gonna discuss animals again, because I don't want to repeat my previous thoughts on the previous episodes. But I'll mention about the only major change from the previous 2 seasons. In The Invaders, it is stated that the invasive Burmese Pythons would beat the alligators and dominate the Everglades. But in this episode, it is state that the Swamp will always win. Huh?????

After a disappointing collapse of the Ceasar's Superdome, the many ships collision that the AI documentary keeps showing, and the super clean animals that you know its super fake, we finally get to see the collapse Central Park Tower (Understandable about the depiction of One World Trade Center), and the "reincarnation" collapse of Christ the Redeemer and Statue of Liberty.

The collapse of Central Park Tower is disappointing to say the least. Its wobbling unrealistically and its collapse feels weird. What's worse is that its location depiction is inaccurate, such as this shot on what appears to be the Grand Central Terminal, which is not located in Billionare's Row. Also, do I have to tell you that there is explosion after its collapse across Billionare's Row? Yeah, thats what happen when there is AI. It collapse after 25 years btw. Would've been 100 years to be a bit more accurate and make sense.

This is the only depiction of the collapse of Christ the Redeemer. It looks similar to the Latinoamerica sin Humanos, but instead its collapse is attributed to lightning strikes rather than gravity. Its collapse is still disappointing. And I notice that the Corcovado Mountain looks like its lowered.

As for the Statue of Liberty...

What in the fuck of this collapse of the Statue of Liberty. Instead of the torch, its the BASE of the statue. The first time I've seen this, they never even thought of realism in the first place. And instead of being amazed, its like comedy on how unrealistic the collapse is.

After seeing 3 episodes, it has become more cracked like Ancient Aliens unfortunately. Sure you could drop it off at anytime, but I'll drop off the show at episode 3, following the 3-episode rule like I follow in anime, due to being only 10 episodes in the season and its just different theme on each episode. Continuity is out of place here. Lastly, there are more Physicists and Journalists in the entire show than Engineers and Biologists in the previous seasons and they've kept discussing on things on they're not suppose far from their expertise, like Physicists and Engineers discussing Biology. These things might be one of the reasons (along with History themselves and the usage of AI) why the quality of Season 3 looks like shit.

When I first known that Season 3 is announced via from this wiki, I appreciate its return. But when I start researching and following logical reasoning on why its returning, it seems like Season 3 return would not be the same faith as the previous seasons, would not be made by the same production company, and would not be using original CGI artists. AI are suppose to be tools, not replacing the logical reasoning, creativity of the artists or the artists themselves. Sure, the original narrator return when the 1st episode release, but it doesn't mean the show is good. Then again, its History Channel, the same company who believes Aliens are history.

Its the final nail in the coffin and I am not going to contribute to Season 3. Motivation is what keeps me going, but it doesn't gonna stop me from protesting this AI slop shit.

Final scoring? AI dogwater shit out of Mona Lisa.

Fuck AI and Fuck this season. Lets start pretending it doesn't exist in the 1st place like Pacific Rim Uprising or the Megamind Sequel.

I'll speedrun my thoughts:

The animals is extremely clean enough that it looks so bad enough, not even helping that the fact that is AI.

Guide dogs that were featured in The Last Supper has better care and shots than the K9's featured in this episode.

First blackout scene in Season 3. I give it a praise for them not using AI- Actually nevermind, they still use AI after the blackout scene.

This season surely love ships collision, surely the added action in this episode wouldn't affect the horrors in the grocery items.

The Last Supper, the episode where grocery stores were heavily featured in, has more tense and horror feelings, and less action tense, than this episode, not joking. The added action creates the lack of balance. Even the mention of the Mexia Supermarket enough in that episode makes it an icing on the cake. Which leads to the next point:

The lack of case studies are plaguing this season, making it feels less educational and more of a research paper with lack of proper sources and heavily relies on experts being interviewed.

Speaking of experts, why do some experts are talking about a subject they are not expertise in? Why a physicist is talking about biology out of the sudden?

They could've just record on a lake and fill it with flip flops rather than use it with AI.

Ok, I'm betting that all of the episodes will end in 100 years, seems variety in the future are no longer possible in the future. Also the episodes are becoming more generalized, with fewer landmarks featured in the series. AI could've explain why they didn't feature more. I fear how will they show the collapse of the Burj Khalifa.

It's bad, I'm telling you. First impression is so bad that it feels action packed, with its tone has change dramatically. Its like when you mix Life After People with Aftermath, but make it more sloppy. The way the experts talks makes me think if they want your attention, it kinda sounds familiar to a certain alien "documentary". I also notice that there are few or NONE of real world examples, examinations, or incidents being used, with the most notable being the exploration of real world abandoned places. This episode also breaks the record of having the shortest timeline in the series by ending it in 100 years, surpassing Holiday Hell in Season 2 which ends at 130 years.

AI is still up there and it feels soulless and lack of consistency. Hell, the collapse of the Superdome was never depicted, the waves feels like an exaggeration, and as a ship person (thank you Kancolle), the Icon of the Seas is literally not depicted correctly. Hell even New Orleans and London, which has already established in the series, gets retcon dramatically thanks to AI if we are talking about the background here. The lack of collapse is also gonna be more concerning. I would want to rant here all day but I rather save it up later.

Its like an insult to the older viewers and a way to please the new younger viewers.

Thank you. I have already sent a request of data dump and the waiting game begins. Although the post is merely a proposal, I haven't made any long term plans for the migration though. Either way, the future for this wiki is still unclear.

Transferring data seems to be a privilege to wiki administrators due to it requiring an XML dump (or database dump) and to the extend, the wiki doesn't have a single XML dump since its creation. It can be found in Special:Statistics if you are curious.