Titanic: The Mystery & The Legacy - Titanic Remembered

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Summary: So boring it makes you want to forget the Titanic
Review: All five videos in the Titanic: The Mystery and the Legacy series suffer from a common affliction: they somehow seem to avoid telling the story of that dramatic night in the mid-Atlantic and end up degenerating into insufferably boring presentations. Titanic Remembered is particularly hard to sit through. Things start out all right; we hear some really meaningful tales of the sinking from a couple of elderly survivors; then, we start hearing some interesting stories from relatives and descendants of those who sailed on the Titanic; eventually, we start hearing from people who have no personal connection to the drama at all. The majority of this video covers modern-day Titanic conventions and memorial services. A whole crowd of people pile onto a small boat, and we are forced to tag along on the dullest scenic tour ever conceived, a jaunt around the dockyards from which the Titanic sailed. There is nothing at all interesting about this. Working our way inland, we are shown several memorials erected in memory of the Titanic's crew and passengers, but what might be interesting for a couple of minutes becomes extremely tiresome as it drags on interminably. To make the whole experience completely galling, things conclude with us being shown a number of objects that did not come from the Titanic at all but perhaps were very similar to what might have been found there. I can't get excited over an extended discussion over a tea kettle that admittedly has no link to the Titanic at all. I found myself wanting to scream as this video became completely irrelevant halfway through yet continued to drag on and on and on. Titanic Remembered is enough to make you want to forget about the Titanic altogether.