Planet Earth

[dano]

I don't suppose anyone saw the new Planet Earth series on Discovery.
Incredible scenes, amazing photography, blah blah...

[Knuckles]

I love it! It is great. My favorite animal now is the African Wild Dog, but there is much more show to see.


BTW I have only seen the first two shows.

[MattWaterman]

I've seen it....and I kept thinking they were trying to trick me!

I could swear some of it was CGI. I mean, is all of it supposed to be actual, filmed, real life stuff? I could swear the camera went through one of the rays' mouths at one point.

But yeah, the parts I've seen have been pretty cool (if real ;))

[C. Wallace]

Absolutley LOVE this series....going to have to buy the DVDs.

[Jon Dahl]

I'd like to watch it if they didn't show it at the same time my other favorite shows are on. :man:

I only watch about two hours of television a week.

[dano]

I can't get over how they got the shots they did. Like the gray whales getting eaten by the killer whales, wtF?!

I keep having flash backs to the Marty Stouffer scam where he baited all the animals and forced them into unnatural situations to get THE shot.

I like how it explains not just the wild life but the geography too. Such as WHY the Gobi desert is a suck ass place.

[kdmelrose]

I saw an interview with the documentarians: It took them four years to shoot all of that footage, and another year to edit it.

Also, they had a very high-tech camera that would begin filming seconds before they actually hit "record"; that's how they got the shots of the great white jumping out of the water and, I presume, some of the others that were impossible to predict.

[dano]

I really like that arial cam too. It's always wierd seeing the ebb an flow of heards or flocks interact.

[Biofungus]

I'd like to watch it if they didn't show it at the same time my other favorite shows are on. :man:

I only watch about two hours of television a week.

And then you apparently spend about 48 hours a week speculating on said two hours... :p

[Paul Sanderson]

It's already aired here in Australia. Great series.

[Knuckles]

I really like that arial cam too. It's always wierd seeing the ebb an flow of heards or flocks interact.

That was really interesting to see how the predators separated the one animal from the rest of the herd.

[Comix Obsession]

I saw an interview with the documentarians: It took them four years to shoot all of that footage, and another year to edit it.

Also, they had a very high-tech camera that would begin filming seconds before they actually hit "record"; that's how they got the shots of the great white jumping out of the water and, I presume, some of the others that were impossible to predict.

This was aired over here last year, and came out on DVD in time for Christmas. I actually bought the box set for my parents, I'm gonna have to watch it now!

That's amazing about the camera, I wonder how that works, it certainly explains a lot, but how does that work??

[JamieRoberts]

It is, hands down, the best wildlife show I've ever seen. The one thing that puzzles me though, is that they use HD recording equipment that's only been used by the military previously, and yet it's only available on regular DVD.

[C. Wallace]

It is, hands down, the best wildlife show I've ever seen. The one thing that puzzles me though, is that they use HD recording equipment that's only been used by the military previously, and yet it's only available on regular DVD.


The HD premiere was on Discovery HD....expect HD DVD versions soon.

[Cat]

Actually last week on Oprah, she dedicated and enter show to this series..talked about how they filmed everything... it was fantastic.

[JamieRoberts]

The HD premiere was on Discovery HD....expect HD DVD versions soon.
But the BBC hasn't shown it in HD, as far as I'm aware, and they fucking made it!

Ah, balls. I'm not gonna start caring now...