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Post by dinosauria101 on Nov 11, 2023 19:10:37 GMT 5
Infinity Blade shared this on Discord (and knowing they knew how much I would love it makes it all the better   ). I have 3 burning questions: -What will the CGI look like? I particularly hope it will be more Impossible Pictures CGI (which is my GOAT CGI), just in 2025. -What times will they cover? I would be very happy with a simple rehash of what WWD 1999 did with updated knowledge, but it would be even better if they can cover some times WWD 1999 did not. -What will the music sound like? WWD music is my GOAT for dinosaur documentary music, so more of it is always welcome.
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Post by Exalt on Nov 11, 2023 20:11:25 GMT 5
I wouldn't hold my breath, but I suppose it's plausible.
That said, I feel like the weirdest part is that presumably, Tim Haines is not back on this one, since he's doing Surviving Earth.
I hope it leads to a new/updated WWB.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Nov 11, 2023 21:11:52 GMT 5
Maybe I should not hold my breath either, just to be on the safe side. Still excited though.
I would love a new WWB too!
No Tim Haines=/=a bad documentary (ie: Planet Dinosaur and Dinosaur Planet), but it would be ideal if he could in fact get involved at least a bit.
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Post by zoograph on Nov 20, 2023 22:02:47 GMT 5
Lol, would be funny (even if stupid and DEFINITELY ENRAGING) if it's just another animated movie like 2013 one.
In regards to the overall show, I hope they will choose unusual time periods. Granted, the original had Cretaceous Australia, but that's just an exception to the rule. I also hope there will be less North America, but I doubt it considering it is made by Americans (and Brits) for Americans (mainly because US population is much, much bigger than the UK one, which means more viewers and money). Oh, and also I want Early Jurassic, but I've already talked about it in my LOOP review.
Oh, about the settings that I personally want them to depict, here is my list of them:
1. Triassic South America, the cradle of dinosaurs. While New Blood focused on their rise in a landscape dominated by archosaurs and dicynodonts, this can instead depict their origins from ornithodiran ancestors (AND NO, EUPARKERIA EVOLVING INTO ALLOSAURUS IN REAL TIME LIKE A POKEMON DOES NOT COUNT).
2. Early Jurassic Antarctica, the episode about survivors of a horrible extinction (they can even allude to an original show I guess, by depicting Late Triassic organisms being obliterated somehow). While first big theropods and first small ornithischians will likely be in the center of attention (this show isn't called WWD for nothing), I hope early crocodylomorphs and some mammals will be depicted as well.
3. Early Cretaceous (or maybe even Late Jurassic) China. What can you say, I never get tired of feathered arboreal weirdos. They can even include gliding mammals and lizards as well, just to show how good these places were to develop flying abilities (more than once, of course).
4. This show will likely have token marine episode, but I'm not sure where I want it to take place. Late Cretaceous and Late Jurassic seas are already showcased in many different shows, so I guess I would prefer a freshwater focus for once. Late Cretaceous Africa will be a great place, with a potential to depict not only Biblically accurate Spinosaurus, but humongous Mawsonia and crocodylomorphs as well.
5. Obviously, if you're not Prehistoric Planet, you can't get away without depicting K-Pg. I'm not sure where I really want for it to take place, but I guess Hateg Island will be fine enough (huge fan of island biology, and even Planet Dinosaur already doing this would not stop me. By the way, does it count if you steal from yourself?).
6. As for the last one (probably), they can defy expectation and focus on bird evolution instead. Yeah, we already had it in LOOP, but it would still be interesting.
Overall, I think if BBC really decided to make WWD 2, they have a lot of potential, and I'm kind of interested where will they take it.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 4, 2024 18:41:40 GMT 5
Well, looks like it's really happening. Only took like, the entire first quarter of my life lmao From the looks of it we're getting six episodes like the original (yes!), except each is now 60 minutes long (double yes!!). I'm not entirely sure what their words entail on the episode format, but I think each episode is going to be based on an actual dinosaur specimen. We can expect Lusotitan, Spinosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus to appear. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/walking-with-dinosaurs-returns/ |
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Post by razor45dino on Jun 5, 2024 7:42:01 GMT 5
Did this documentary come intro fruition because of the success of Prehistoric Planet?
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Post by zoograph on Jun 5, 2024 21:52:22 GMT 5
Wow, not gonna lie, I'm kind of surprised. While T. rex and Triceratops seem to be a very boring choice (seriously, they appear everywhere), Spinosaurus and Lusotitan seem promising (because of an opportunity to showcase new Spino science and Portuguese prehistory). I hope this time they will focus on more unusual dinosaurs of Hell Creek still.
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Post by Exalt on Jun 5, 2024 23:07:43 GMT 5
Wait, the episodes are twice as long? Wow.
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Post by razor45dino on Jun 5, 2024 23:08:39 GMT 5
they might be seperated with 30 minute cg segment and 30 minute talking heads
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 8, 2024 3:48:34 GMT 5
I wonder if they're going to do an episode set in the Triassic. If so, I wonder what dinosaur specimen they're going to focus on.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Aug 27, 2024 19:18:32 GMT 5
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Post by razor45dino on Aug 27, 2024 21:23:18 GMT 5
damn that's sad. hopefully someone makes a Triassic documentary
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Post by creature386 on Sept 1, 2024 16:25:01 GMT 5
 That's like a biography without the childhood. Well, it might still be a great documentary, just without some of the best stuff.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Sept 1, 2024 21:36:13 GMT 5
As much as I wanted a Triassic episode, this isn't necessarily as bad a choice as it could be. The Triassic at least has representation in the 1999 Walking with Dinosaurs, When Dinosaurs Roamed America, Sea Monsters, Walking with Monsters, and Dinosaur Revolution off the top of my head: for 2025 Walking with Dinosaurs, it may be replaced with someplace that has yet to get any documentary screentime (like Jurassic South America for example).
Not to say this will happen - I'm leaning towards the 6th episode being somewhere already more represented than the Triassic - but if the above does happen, in my opinion it would be reasonable enough in its own right.
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Post by theropod on Sept 4, 2024 1:11:26 GMT 5
In other words, the people on the production, the same people who literally had so few ideas for settings that they resorted to doing T. rex vs Triceratops all over again, still didn’t see a need to include a Triassic episode? Honestly it seems like the paleo-documentary-sphere is decidedly moving in the wrong direction at the moment. LESS varied representation of diverse organisms and ecosystems, in favor of MORE focus on the same old classics we’ve seen many times before. We’ve seen it with Prehistoric Planet (as much as I appreciated the genius and vision in that show, it’s still guilty of an exaggerated focus on Maastrichtian North America, when a show with the same concept could just as easily have been set in any other stage of the Mesozoic). We’ve definitely seen it with Life on Our Planet. And we are going to see it again with WWD 2025, as much as it pains me to make that prediction. In a way, it mirrors how other major media franchises are developing; an overfocus on fan service, endless sequels that all look and feel the same, and revisiting old favorites instead of thinking of fresh, new material. But somehow it disappoints me more when it comes to paleo documentaries, because it’s not like they have run out of source material or like it would be particularly challenging to come up with new stuff. There are literally hundreds of possibilities for what to show that have so far been rarely or never portrayed. But instead it feels like all the creativity instead flows into finding new excuses to show us the same things over and over again. On a side note, I have to admit I’m not a huge fan of including Spinosaurus either. It has, firstly, also become a somewhat overhyped dinosaur by now, and secondly, any depiction of Spinosaurus is both likely to be outdated a few years down the line, and probably will entail picking sides (more or less arbitrarily depending on who happens to be hired as adviros) in the ongoing controversies. PS: Sorry I’m being so negative |
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