Post by Apex on Jan 14, 2016 3:20:09 GMT 5
The original WWD was the best it was revolutionary and was the spark for my childhood interest in dinosaurs , I'm sure you've all watched it multiple times throughout your childhood so I don't need to explain how good it is.
Walking with Beasts to was exceptional the CG was iffy in some places but you still get a feeling of empathy for the characters especially with the episode 'next of kin' I never liked it as a child as it had less animals and a less dramatic storyline but with the music the incredible backdrop and the storyline a weird contentment feeling resonated with me after watching it recently
The ending of the last episode was also epic transitioning humans in before showing a zoomed out shot to show the modern world was epic and was the perfect continuation of the series
Episode 1 was my favourite episode however, I liked how it showed more obscure animals such as gastornis and giant ants which you don't hear much about as a kid, it's a shame that the abulocetus died though.
Walking with monsters was still good compared to other documentaries the CG was even better than the first two but the story lines were rushed over too quickly, it had so much potential, it's a shame they only did 3
2 segmented short episodes instead of 6 full ones
I'd have like to have seen more of the venomous theraspids and some species shown weren't even named nevermind explained, the narration felt a lot more rushed aswell as Kenneth Branagh didn't have enough time to fit the information in and even had to talk faster. The evolutionary transition effect was superb however many interesting and less known animals were shown and I don't think they got the explanation and screen time that they deserved, I would have also felt the documentary on a deeper emotional level if the episodes were half an hour like the original empathising with the starving gorgonopsid and the mother dimetrodon had they not been only shown for 15 minutes. The whole giant spider episode too was a waste as there was even less storyline in it than planet dinosaur (which was a let down IMO) the episodes could have had so much more development but I don't think bbc wanted to spend as much money as they did on the other too series so cut it short.
And as for the movie, the less said about it the better.
And on this topic I think that Prehistoric Park is the most underrated animal documentary of all time and is up there IMO as one of the best, the Deinosuchus and Giant insect episodes were amazing, and the show managed to present information whilst simultaneously entertaining the audience, the story lines were great and scientifically the show was fairly accurate. The live action CGI was also incredible.
I also enjoyed monsters we met, it ties in well with the end of the Walking With series even though not cannon to it, it also makes you think about the detrimental impact of humans whilst you can also understand and empathise from where they were coming from as they only wanted to hunt, feed and protect themselves. I think that however they made the native people seem too destructive I.e. The Clovis didn't wipe out the megafauna that quickly and the exclusion of Europeans hunting and killing animals seemed frankly rather odd. However the show was really good and in terms of story lines and entertainment it ranked very highly.
That was my take on documentaries on prehistoric animals, I will review documentaries especially those of David Attenborough later
Walking with Beasts to was exceptional the CG was iffy in some places but you still get a feeling of empathy for the characters especially with the episode 'next of kin' I never liked it as a child as it had less animals and a less dramatic storyline but with the music the incredible backdrop and the storyline a weird contentment feeling resonated with me after watching it recently
The ending of the last episode was also epic transitioning humans in before showing a zoomed out shot to show the modern world was epic and was the perfect continuation of the series
Episode 1 was my favourite episode however, I liked how it showed more obscure animals such as gastornis and giant ants which you don't hear much about as a kid, it's a shame that the abulocetus died though.
Walking with monsters was still good compared to other documentaries the CG was even better than the first two but the story lines were rushed over too quickly, it had so much potential, it's a shame they only did 3
2 segmented short episodes instead of 6 full ones
I'd have like to have seen more of the venomous theraspids and some species shown weren't even named nevermind explained, the narration felt a lot more rushed aswell as Kenneth Branagh didn't have enough time to fit the information in and even had to talk faster. The evolutionary transition effect was superb however many interesting and less known animals were shown and I don't think they got the explanation and screen time that they deserved, I would have also felt the documentary on a deeper emotional level if the episodes were half an hour like the original empathising with the starving gorgonopsid and the mother dimetrodon had they not been only shown for 15 minutes. The whole giant spider episode too was a waste as there was even less storyline in it than planet dinosaur (which was a let down IMO) the episodes could have had so much more development but I don't think bbc wanted to spend as much money as they did on the other too series so cut it short.
And as for the movie, the less said about it the better.
And on this topic I think that Prehistoric Park is the most underrated animal documentary of all time and is up there IMO as one of the best, the Deinosuchus and Giant insect episodes were amazing, and the show managed to present information whilst simultaneously entertaining the audience, the story lines were great and scientifically the show was fairly accurate. The live action CGI was also incredible.
I also enjoyed monsters we met, it ties in well with the end of the Walking With series even though not cannon to it, it also makes you think about the detrimental impact of humans whilst you can also understand and empathise from where they were coming from as they only wanted to hunt, feed and protect themselves. I think that however they made the native people seem too destructive I.e. The Clovis didn't wipe out the megafauna that quickly and the exclusion of Europeans hunting and killing animals seemed frankly rather odd. However the show was really good and in terms of story lines and entertainment it ranked very highly.
That was my take on documentaries on prehistoric animals, I will review documentaries especially those of David Attenborough later
