PLANET EARTH

this rules
i am watching the mountains one right now!
snow leopard!
panda!
mountains that are crumbling! mountains that are still growing!
earth is crazy!

i think i have changed my mind about monkeys!
they are pretty neat in the wild. zoos ruined them for me for a while there. but yeah they are cool with their chattering and their tails and the non-embarassment of getting to live where they should live and not in a zoo. the baboons living on cliff faces won me over.

omg a red panda!! yaay :)

man i need to do some serious travelling before the oil runs out

we should do a poll thread.

except i couldnt possibly choose.

poll thread wld have to be
PLANET EARTH:
WHOA
AWESOME
YES
TOTALLY PLAYING ON OUR EMOTIONS AND TENDENCY TOWARDS ANTHROPOMORPHICATION BUT DAMN WHATEVER NATURE IS DRAMATIC CRAZY STUFF
ALL OF THE ABOVE

I have this sitting at home now, waiting to be watched but I am working my way through China Beach first.

Perhaps I should just fuck that off for a while and get me some nature.

yeah dude you probably saw "pole to pole"

I was misled.

omg the cave jumpers

Totally awesome show. However, I think I would have prefered Sigourney Weaver's narration to Attenborough's if that were the case. I loved Weaver's completely emotionless fact recitation in Blue Planet.

I downloaded a bunch of episodes of "The Universe" hoping it would be in the same vein as this show and it's awful. That History channel narrator guy is the worst, with his comically sensation delivery. The selection of celebrity scientists is very poor.. The cosmological analogies are tangential and boring.. Also this show is called the Universe, but they barely make it out of the solar system. But I'm digressing. Planet Earth series is amazing and I want more series like it.

Not the prince album, then.

wrong board

That poor wee elephant ;_;

Grossest episode by far: Caves. Do not watch while eating.

how have i not seen this????

I am about halfway through the box set now. It's one of the great joys of my life at the moment.

I haven't watched the Mountains one yet but it sounds awesome! But Rrrobyn, any good will you have built up toward primates will be quashed when you see the chimps in the Rain Forest one.

Max, I want to know if you've watched the 10 minute making-of bits at the end of each DVD episode and if you still want to be a nature photographer! Those clips make it pretty clear this is the most grueling occupation in all the media. How many hours was the Bird of Paradise guy in his blind? 130?

Also yes, as I stated in the "Roaches" thread, the caves episode has some mega DNW scenes.

omg the cave jumpers

-- blueski, Friday, August 24, 2007 3:00 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
THIS

last time i watched caves i was tripping and i rewound and watched the cave jumpers like 20 times

jon i havent seen the making-of but i probably wouldn't do well as a nature photog. im kind of a pussy. u_u

the cave jumpers I could handle on acid... the cockroaches eating bats I could not.

^^^ awesome

'fresh water' episode has OTTTERRRS!! in india!
in giant teams! they cuddle and then they go fishing! it is ideal life!
and then they challenge 4-metre long crocodiles!

rrobyn otm. God, I loved this program. Still have the DVDs lying around. Best hangover tv.

Couldn't get enough of this when it was showing on Discovery. Well worth a DVD purchase. Forests may be my favorite, the ducks jumping out of the tree may be one of the greatest moments ever captured on film.

Worst part was watching the alligator eat that thing that took hours.

I watched a few episodes of PE with other people and looooved it, but just couldn't pay attention to it by myself. I was as shocked by anyone, I usually don't have any trouble with long & boring movies (for ex.). I had to admit netflix defeat. :(

The Matrix : DVD :: Planet Earth : HD-DVD/Blu-Ray

Whoa!

FROG DAD

He wasn't even the actual dad of all of them, unless I misunderstood?

how to cuck, frog's legs

monkey dad

clickwhoring scum:

"planet earth 2 shows spectacular fight between jaguar and cayman, can you guess who wins?"
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/2661/Dieren/article/detail/2995009/2016/11/21/Planet-Earth-2-toont-spectaculair-gevecht-tussen-jaguar-en-kaaiman-Kan-jij-raden-wie-wint.dhtml

'He just wanted a lady friend!' Bird of paradise leaves Planet Earth II fans 'in tears' after his elaborate advances towards a female are REJECTED
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3956444/Bird-paradise-imprsses-viewers-Planet-Earth-II.html

#Dadoftheyear! Tiny glass frog is hailed a 'badass' after risking his life to save his offspring on Planet Earth II in 'emotional rollercoaster' of an episode
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3956530/Tiny-glass-frog-hailed-hero-Planet-Earth.html

'Damn nature, you scary!' Planet Earth II viewers shocked (and disgusted) after 'killer of killers' jaguar brutally slays a 10ft-long ALIGATOR after pouncing from a river bank and dragging it out by its skull
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3955208/Purrfect-catch-Viewers-stunned-jaguar-hunts-caiman-river-latest-thrilling-installment-David-Attenborough-s-Planet-Earth-II.html

realise that im now at the stage of my life where i root for the predators in most nature doc chases

think its since i moved into higher tax bracket nv u will have a theory on this?

woah

shit got fuckin grim

GOLDEN MOLE

have not seen the latest but the bird of paradise who clears the leaves away was ALL TIME ALL TIME. the flash of green - PURE FILTH

Yeah the golden mole was my favourite.

The close filming on some of this is just next level - better than anything I've ever seen. The tree frogs and hummingbirds last week, then the bat v scorpion fight this week. The shot of all the condensation on the beetle's wings was amazing as well.

That plague of locusts shit as well.

HARRIS DINOSAURS HAWK

sad bb turtles :c

BBC wants Planet Earth III before David Attenborough's 100th birthday

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2016/1215/839007-planet-earth/

The harvest mouse footage in Grasslands blew me away maybe more than anything else. That's more a human triumph though.

There's a picture of his stunt double in action in that article I linked to, by the way:

https://img.rasset.ie/000d4f27-614.jpg

Time lapse luminous fungi

“These programmes are still made as if this worldwide mass extinction is simply not happening,” he said. “The producers continue to go to the rapidly shrinking parks and reserves to make their films – creating a beautiful, beguiling, fantasy world, a utopia where tigers still roam free and untroubled, where the natural world exists as if man had never been."

The result is that Attenborough and others “are lulling the huge worldwide audience into a false sense of security,” he said. “No hint of the continuing disaster is allowed to shatter the illusion.”

Martin Hughes-Games might have a point here, but he recently got from Autumnwatch so idk. According to the Telegraph he got sacked for being "too white and middle class" - but if they are sticking up for him he probably is a tool.

got sacked from Autumnwatch*

the only good nature programming is one that is so pedantic, preachy and apocalyptic that no one wants to watch it

Attenborough mentions that the landscapes he's capturing are vanishing in almost episode.

the whole premise is absurd. if you want people to care about the environment give them an emotional attachment to its beauty and wonder.

the idea that nature doc viewers (and creators) are the cause of environmental damage + mass extinction beggars belief

You could probably also argue that getting as much hd quality recordings of doomed species as possible will be a useful archive for when the apocalyptic type nature documentaries become the only option.

gdamn the hatching iguana/snake ambush sequence is dramatic as hell

Finally watched the first episode of PE II -- I watched the ancient Disney movie about a squirrel named Perri in the same week and the difference of quality is so interesting. It's so weird to watch the natural world through lenses in very different eras.

Can we anticipate Blue Planet 2 in this thread?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39022239

If anything I'm more excited for this than PE2, Blue Planet is my favourite.

oh hell yeah

!!!!

^^

seriously these bears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6yuv_-I4Z0

ibex are sick

they were the ones hopping around on the side of the mountain? they were awesome. i also enjoyed the day-to-night photography & diamond dust a lot.

I loved that they were able to feature snow leopards for about 20 minutes this time, after getting such minimal video of them before.

"gdamn the hatching iguana/snake ambush sequence is dramatic as hell"

yeah that was the point where my son declared he would not watch this series any further

we watched that ep last night. the entire episode is amazing from front to back but that iguana sequence O_O. when the one hatches to see another one being eaten alive and is just sitting there under the sand looking like "what the fuck kind of world is this."

Can I stream this anywhere yet?

What the FUCK did i just watch

Infant gigantic penis incestuous egg rape suicide cult wasps

That all IMMEDIATELY DIE OR SPAWN AGAIN

fuck me i thought chelsea youth teams led a pointless existence but

Today is the day that the world learns that figs only exist because they the places where unhatched female wasps are impregnated by their newborn brothers' telescopic penises. This happens shortly after their mother dies inside the fig. #PerfectPlanet https://t.co/OMIRRCmenb

— Jack Ashby (@JackDAshby) January 10, 2021

I might never eat a fig roll again

These snakes are some Indiana Jones shit

what snakes *shudders*

Huge writhing mass of garter snakes, like a big wriggling carpet

The snake gang rape gladiator wall was not in the top two unpleasantries this week map

i thought the snakes were hott

Blood on the Rocks

Some amazing footage

This new thermal camera tech (in Frozen Planet 2, ep 3) is bananas.