Alien Gods starts off with an interview with an individual who, having engaged in festivities on the day of the prophesied day of doom in 2012, became enamoured with Aztec culture, especially their myriad of gods, the depictions of which seem to suggest to the lad an extraterrestrial origin. This, then, suggests that ancient butlers mixed with aliens who they decreed to be gods. So, so far, so Ancient Aliens, but from there no other commentators appear, and in their stead is a never-ending almost stream-of-consciousness narration over equally never-ending random images and CGI (often of a rudimentary quality) with never-ending music that links biblical tales and countless various ancient mythologies and cultures to alien antics, with an obsessively recurring focus on snakes and snake folk from outer space. Indeed, there is a fixation on snakes and how snake terms influenced place names and sundry other things (like galaxy spirals and religious artefacts), but wouldn't an obvious answer here be that ancient people were in thrall to snakes rather than aliens, which seems a logical conclusion? But no, it is all about the 'serpent deities,' which the show categorically commands can be the only conclusion to be reached and accepted. At one point, somewhat eccentrically, the voiceover intones over the words Alien Gods filling the screen in different fonts and colours amidst a variety of flashing background graphics, which has nothing to do with what is being intoned and so is very odd. So, while Giorgio A. Tsoukalos' dubious claims try my patience, I would happily indulge in a non-stop 24-hour Ancient Aliens marathon than endure the bewildering Alien Gods again.
Review of Alien Gods
