Kidskycom
It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
stickbender
Love the show...I started metal detecting in 1971 at the age of 14. Ringy and the King were using words that I can relate. They are down to earth,Sure they get a little crazy....so what. I felt the same way when I was pulling treasure out of the ground.... I still hunt at 60..Great hobby... great show....
poetlynn
I enjoy this show for the artifacts they find. But sometimes I have to change channel. I can't stand seeing two grown men act like stupid drunk monkeys. All that screaming is so annoying, and not at all necessary. They need to grow up while they still have some viewer's. Screaming for the other one to come running over to see what they have found. That is very poor acting and also annoying. How many of those items have already been dug up then buried again to make it seem like they just found it. Items don't seem to be very crusted for so many years having been buried.
CherryBlossomBoy
I remember when "metal detecting" was portrayed as a hobby for losers, done by sidekicks in lesser comedies. It's usually some half-witted asocial kid, roaming the beaches after the summer, searching the sand for jewelry misplaced by tourists using an army surplus metal detector. Quite surprisingly, the hobby has made it into prime time documentary television. Not so surprisingly, the protagonists retain the said mentality."Diggers" is a pseudo-reality show aired on National Geographic. It features two losers roaming the countryside and people's yards with their metal detectors, in search of valuables they hope to sell. Just to mask the banality of it all, they've been set to search for items of "historical" value. Hence, the show is set in the region of the thirteen colonies where such items are most likely to be found.The pair doesn't seem very bright to begin with, judging by the way they look, talk and behave. But when they start hollering and leaping up and down the lawn, like two monkeys unleashed, whenever they find something, they really look like they belong to an asylum. And they do it way too often to bear. It's somewhat understandable, though, seeing that there appears to be a large collectors market for all things antique, and there'll be paycheck for the both. However, it would be better that all the celebratory scenes were left on the editing room floor. And, mind you, there isn't any comical intent in their demeanor - they really mean it.Unfortunately, there isn't anything better to fill that half hour's worth of an episode with. All they ever find is bullets, army badges and parts of cannonballs, basically. One gets the sense that the market is slowly but surely being saturated with these kind of findings, so their commercial value is not particularly impressive. Without a proper historical context, which is rarely given in the show, nothing they find has a real historical value either. Compare this show to BBC's "Time Team" where professional archaeologists systematically dig out items on a designated site, piecing the whole story together into something rewarding for the viewer. No such thing here at "Diggers'".Having said that, the show's general fault in my mind isn't the superficiality or the gold digging aspect of it. I actually like watching shows where something forgotten or abandoned is given the new value. I cannot have enough of numerous "container battles" or "storage hunters". This show is basically a flip show but with metal detecting instead of auctioneering. No, the show's fault is having two complete retards run it. They are woefully hopeless, bar-lowering pair of human beings. There used to be a standard, perhaps unwritten, of who is fit enough to host a TV show. Not anymore, I guess.
ian959
I don't watch TV ordinarily but on a recent trip overseas I got a little bit hooked on the National Geographic Channel as they have some really cool, interesting and entertaining shows.Diggers is not one of them...On the plus side I guess the guys are VERY enthusiastic and they do visit some interesting locations.On the down side, the show is boringly monotonous and the endless 'Diggers jargon' soon grates like crazy as there is not much in their dictionary. How many times can a viewer possibly be expected to suffer phrases like 'I see round in the hole' in any 30 minute period, no matter how enthusiastically delivered? By the end of the first show I watched I was ready to smash the TV the next time I heard another one of the 'Diggers dictionary' phrases. The enthusiasm starts to grate too when the guys go off when they discover something 'awesome' - rolling on the ground, running through the forest or whatever. They remind me of 8 year old kids let loose from school for the first time in months... Oh and just about everything they seem to find is awesome. Hint: it usually isn't.This is a fine example of exactly why reality TV is killing the medium. Pure rubbish of the highest (or should that be lowest?) order.
