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Crispy said:
It's repeated on Saturday I think.
Planet Earth, Sunday 9pm on BBC1
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It's repeated on Saturday I think.
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BiddlyBee said:It was.. what were the falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina? A mile wide I think he said... that was
Missed it last night but have it on video. Iguasu (or however they spell it?)
Reno
The In Kraut
For me the most amazing moment last night was the croc dragging the wildebeest to a watery death (didn't it say the struggle took an hour?). The extreme slow motion shot was amazing and my leg still hurts in sympathy for the poor animal.
A lot of the landscapes yesterday looked so unusual, I had to remind myself that they weren't created in a CG.
A lot of the landscapes yesterday looked so unusual, I had to remind myself that they weren't created in a CG.
Orang Utan said:
otters are the best! At Jersey zoo, for some reason they've got the otters in the same enclosure as the bears, which are clearly being bullied by the otters!
We saw an otter sneak up behind the bear, bite it on the ankle and run off laughing (OK well it looked like it would have been laughing, if otters laughed).
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
Subaquatic monkeys, gangs of otters, crazy ice-bound Russian lakes with big fat freshwater seals, blind salamanders relying on changes in water pressure to hunt, 400,000 geese in one place...
nice.
nice.
lighterthief
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Good, but the lightest of the episodes so far. I can't help thinking they are repeating some of the most memorable scenes from previous beeb docs, eg:
Angel Falls, plus the weird raised landscape above it;
crocs chomping on the thirsty wildebeest;
otter family hunting in groups and seeing off larger predators;
...etc, all of which have been seen before.
Also, I know baby bears are cute n'all but that's three weeks in a row now
Angel Falls, plus the weird raised landscape above it;
crocs chomping on the thirsty wildebeest;
otter family hunting in groups and seeing off larger predators;
...etc, all of which have been seen before.
Also, I know baby bears are cute n'all but that's three weeks in a row now
Louloubelle
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Reno said:
that was incredible
I was most in awe of the swimming baby monkey (moved me to tears
) and the underwater shots of the grizzly bear. That grizzly looked dangerous, much more so that getting shots of piranhas, which isn't really very dangerous so I wanted to see how they managed that in the diary section I loved the otters although I've seen either that or similar footage before
great telly though
wiskey
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various things are bothering me about this now
1. the music, i dont need it to sound like a disney film and i'm hacked off with the value judgements the music makes, tinkly music = nice animal, dum dum dum duuuuuuuum music = bad animal.
2. whats the narrative?? what links all these animals? and whats the reason for the episodes (1. sun, 2. mountain, 3. fresh water, 4. caves), why divide it up like that?? the entirety of last nights episode i wanted to know what connected salamandas, pirhanas, otters and snow geese (other than fresh water), its all just a bit random. and its not as though they happened to ahve a nice pretty bit of film sitting around they thought they'd use, they had to shoot it all fresh with digital cameras.
its very pretty and i fully support the series but its lackof structure is bothering me
oh and incidenatlly has anybody seen any of it in HD?
wiskers
1. the music, i dont need it to sound like a disney film and i'm hacked off with the value judgements the music makes, tinkly music = nice animal, dum dum dum duuuuuuuum music = bad animal.
2. whats the narrative?? what links all these animals? and whats the reason for the episodes (1. sun, 2. mountain, 3. fresh water, 4. caves), why divide it up like that?? the entirety of last nights episode i wanted to know what connected salamandas, pirhanas, otters and snow geese (other than fresh water), its all just a bit random. and its not as though they happened to ahve a nice pretty bit of film sitting around they thought they'd use, they had to shoot it all fresh with digital cameras.
its very pretty and i fully support the series but its lackof structure is bothering me
oh and incidenatlly has anybody seen any of it in HD?
wiskers
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Judging but what the previews have said about Planet Earth, next week's episode about caves is probably going to be the gem of the series. They gained access to closed caves and well very deep into areas that have probably never been filmed.lighterthief said:Good, but the lightest of the episodes so far. I can't help thinking they are repeating some of the most memorable scenes from previous beeb docs, eg:
Angel Falls, plus the weird raised landscape above it;
crocs chomping on the thirsty wildebeest;
otter family hunting in groups and seeing off larger predators;
...etc, all of which have been seen before.
Also, I know baby bears are cute n'all but that's three weeks in a row now
Episodes 1 and 2 contained some 'firsts', such as filming hunting dogs as they hunt or obtaining intimate footage of a snow leopard. Yesterday wasn't so groundbreaking though (I'm sure it's not the first time divers have filmed piranhas). Still some beautiful shots.
treefrog
Saddle up
I was thinking along the same lines. I enjoyed it last night but it did strike me that there's very little linking what I'm watching and that it's telling me nothing I didn't already know (with the exception of the revelation that sharks have learned to fly from the first episode). It's Natural History for Dummies, and lovely to watch for the rest of us.
Swearing Nonna
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Funny you should say that wiskey. . . the soundtrack's had me clucking a bit too.
So far so good, tho' got a bit bored last night, suppose it didn't smack you in the face quite like last weeks mountains which was breathtaking, even called my son down from his teenagers den to catch that one.
So far so good, tho' got a bit bored last night, suppose it didn't smack you in the face quite like last weeks mountains which was breathtaking, even called my son down from his teenagers den to catch that one.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Who cares though? It's delicious eye candy designed to make the viewer go wow and it certainly does that.treefrog said:
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Again, none of this matters. It's ideal Sunday evening viewing - you don't want to be educated, you want to be impressed by amazing looking nature.wiskey said:
Crispy
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Me and sparrow watched an episode of Life on Earth the other day (ta Treefrog!) and the differences are very noticeable. The photography has come on in leaps and bounds since then. Colours are brighter, focus is tighter, the subject is in frame for the whole sequence, plus they can put cameras in places where they couldn't before. However, LoE is just so full of facts - they pause the tape and talk you through the mechanics of what's going on, or overlay a diagram of the bones etc. Much more educational and interesting.
But not half as good for a sunday evening comedown
But not half as good for a sunday evening comedown
I just saw episode 2 last night and WOW - just the footage of the mountain ranges alone was enough to keep me hooked - I could sit watching footage of flying over mountains all day.
agree episode 3 was the weakest so far, but still very good.
I agree it is not particularly informative, but it is just perfect Sunday night TV as others have said. I'm even quite partial to the overly dramatic music.
agree episode 3 was the weakest so far, but still very good.
I agree it is not particularly informative, but it is just perfect Sunday night TV as others have said. I'm even quite partial to the overly dramatic music.
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
What an enormous pile of shit
there was in the batcave this week.
I'm down with the anthropods. *walks blindly through the dark*
there was in the batcave this week.
I'm down with the anthropods. *walks blindly through the dark*
Agent Sparrow
AGENT TRAITOR; fools 8 year olds
Bugger, missed this again.... 
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
On again on Saturday
lighterthief
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Hmmm.
After raving about the first two episodes, again no. 4 didn't really do it for me. Too much stuff we've seen already - the bats, the shit, the cockroaches, the snakes eating the bats and so on.
After raving about the first two episodes, again no. 4 didn't really do it for me. Too much stuff we've seen already - the bats, the shit, the cockroaches, the snakes eating the bats and so on.
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