This kind of makes sense depending on how you view the purpose of the show. He starts off, right off the bat, talking about how he is going against the establi

This kind of makes sense depending on how you view the purpose of the show. He starts off, right off the bat, talking about how he is going against the establishment of “Big Archeology” and is subject to persecution by their shadowy machinations. It’s a very sensational idea, and my personal impression of the show was more about him trying to prove his DaVinci Code style narrative that centers himself than him trying to actually prove that Atlantis exists. His “archaeology” is tangential to (though in support of) his persecution narrative in that his thesis is about a shadowy conspiracy to hide Atlantis. For example, Behind The Curve was a _documentary_ about silly kooks that are trying to prove that the earth is flat. It was not an exploration as to whether or not the earth is flat. It would have been pure entertainment to take them at face value, like a Christopher Guest movie.