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!

lol @ horseshit

lol HD porn

Forests may be my favorite, the ducks jumping out of the tree may be one of the greatest moments ever captured on film.

I cried.

this was on during our last show at monkeytown

I think the killer whale kill pretty much owns the series

I got a bit choked up at the last episode of Life in Cold Blood the other week.

this show should just be called "Animals Eating"

Hahah!

My dad got the set from my sis for his birthday and we watched a slew of episodes over Xmas. Good stuff.

How can it be that David Attenborough has only received British accolades yet? (OBE & so forth)

International community, give this man a Nobel Prize for (invent a category, FFS), stat!

i didnt know sigourney weaver narrates the american version!

I hate her narration!

we get the attenborough vers up here in canadiana.

i want to sleep on sheets woven from attenborough's voice

DVD set is Attenborough as well.

That's it, I'm gonna rewatch it again, starting tomorrow night. Thx, ILX! :-)

Tonight I will head home to kick back with some beers and popcorn to watch the final episode - Oceans Deep. I am eagerly anticipating the much touted vampire squid. I assume it is in Oceans Deep, as I have not encountered it thus far.

>I got a bit choked up at the last episode of Life in Cold Blood the other week.

I'm with you on this one, chap. When I was seven years old (ie. 1979) I was allowed to get back up out of bed (leaving my younger brother sleeping peacefully, unaware that it was on "too late" for him at 8.30pm) and creep downstairs to watch Life On Earth with my folks.

It kickstarted a lifelong love of nature documentaries and fascination with this beautiful world and the creatures that roam, swim or fly on it. Attenborough's flawless balance of gravitas and glee is, frankly, irreplaceable and the final part of the "Life..." project (and Attenborough's move towards semi-retirement) can genuinely be called the end of an era.

When I eventually get some kind of Blu-Ray device these are all on the serious wanted list too.

watching otters fuck w/ this stupid crocodile, so rad

Snow leopard hunts but does not catch mountain goat, hell yeah awesome.

I have booked a trip to Brazil/Venezuela, leaving early June, because of Planet Earth, specifically Angel Falls. <3

the disney EARTH currently in theaters is also mega-dope

same ftg, right?

ah i wasn't sure - i haven't seen all the PE eps but they show that slow motion footage of the great white eating the seal and i was like "hmmmm that certainly is reminiscent of PE isn't it??"

in any even it's sweet to see it on an lol hueg screen

what a dumb planet

yeah we are checking to see if there's an imax place showing it.

doesn't every imax theatre show some version of this all the time?

that would be dope imo

otm

the birds of paradise scene is A+++ lols

every imax theater has like one WONDERS OF THE REEF and POLAR PARTY USA and SHARKS OF THE DEEP SHARKY WATERS like every day all day.

http://www.hilaryshepherd.com/rantsnraves/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/smiling-planet-earth-thumb2794723.jpg

duh, i'm a planet

btw we've been watching all of these via netflix and they are the best fucking thing ever, I'm way late to the party as usual but max otm

(I meant the attenborough btw, can't say anything abt the disney version)

every imax theater has like one WONDERS OF THE REEF and POLAR PARTY USA and SHARKS OF THE DEEP SHARKY WATERS like every day all day.

would watch all three of these

imax theatres should show films of hipster grifters eating subway sandwiches i guess instead of polar bear party time

i used to own the planet earth DVDs but i lent them to a pal when her unscrupulous bike messenger boyfriend was laid up after an accident and she never got them back to me before i moved >:(

this show hypnotizes my cat

only thing I was a little disappointed about was that the narrator is James Earl Jones, who's great, don't get me wrong, but the IMDB page lists Patrick Stewart as narrator for the 'English version' and I kinda got my hopes up for him. I think I'd be more into Picard narrating than Darth.

my cat used to be ALL about meerkat manor

private life of plants is also a++++

xp
no way, dogg, Stewart whores his voice out to shitty cartoon shows all day. Jones is the real deal.

the last planet earth dvd where they just talk about conservation for a few episodes is pretty cool

don't know if they aired those eps

obviously JEJ is the voiceover GOAT, i'm just saying for that particular theatrical experience i think i would've been more into JS. plus to be honest James Earl got a little too cutesy with some of the moments of levity. xpost

Disney should have just got John Ratzenberger like they always do.

HEY, WOULD YA LOOK AT THESE PENGUINS?

honestly saying "boo hoo Patrick Stewart has Seth McFarlane cooties" is some bullshit

every imax theater has like one WONDERS OF THE REEF and POLAR PARTY USA and SHARKS OF THE DEEP SHARKY WATERS like every day all day.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 27, 2009 2:03 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah but dude do yr homework, planet earth is way major compared 2 those, 4 years in the making, 1st HD nature documentary, tons of shit never before filmed on camera

lol @ being embittered by the amount of rad nature documentaries

the ducklings fell on the leaves!

the last planet earth dvd where they just talk about conservation for a few episodes is pretty cool

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, April 27, 2009 1:14 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

yah, i was totally impressed by one of the ecologists on there and later discovered he works at my university, and has done work in the field i'm interested in!

never returned my email, tho :(

I'm sorry he never wrote back. Jerk.

Here, watch the completely rad bird of paradise do his mating dance. You'll feel better:

that one was obviously one of the best but really the whole sequence demonstrating the sheer variety of them was SICK

yeah, it was. seriously though I can't even believe that bird exists. look at it!

he looks like these guys

every imax theater has like one WONDERS OF THE REEF and POLAR PARTY USA and SHARKS OF THE DEEP SHARKY WATERS like every day all day.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 27, 2009 2:03 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah but dude do yr homework, planet earth is way major compared 2 those, 4 years in the making, 1st HD nature documentary, tons of shit never before filmed on camera

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, April 27, 2009 1:17 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah whiney stfu

also there are still imax theatre in business?

theaters

OK OK guys sheesh, i'll seriously go see this thing on your reccomendations. but if it sucks ringtone cru has to reimburse me

and movie tickets are like $40 in nyc

whiney when did you start sucking so hard?

best part of planet earth was the whole thing with the polar bear swimming miles and miles to go try and kill walruses and then the fucking epic polar bear/walrus battle

i was basically trolling, hoping to get some YOU DONT WANNA TRAVEL IN SPACE?! reactions but just ended up lookin like a weiner

xpost otm that shit was crazy

max putting me in my place with

yeah but dude do yr homework, planet earth is way major compared 2 those, 4 years in the making, 1st HD nature documentary, tons of shit never before filmed on camera

As soon as I heard "Disney doing it's first nature series" I thought of this.

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp

Essential reading, imo

whiney this thing is 90 mins and has a bunch of incredible sequences - predators chasing prey in EARTH >> any moment of suspense in film this year

also the score is so awesome - when they play this jukey african dance thing while the monkeys quizzically parade through flood waters was ^_____________________________^ 4 all time

everyone in the movie giggled a bunch, it was a great communal experience as well

tbh i havent seen this shit whineford but my inclination wd be to rent the DVDs since you get like ten hours of shit including this one incredible sequence of dudes jumping into mile-deep caves

best part of planet earth was the whole thing with the polar bear swimming miles and miles to go try and kill walruses and then the fucking epic polar bear/walrus battle

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, April 27, 2009 2:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

aw dude this part was hell of sad

also whinester if u like w33d u should get on this with a quickness

some of planet earth is boring imo like when they focus on leaves and waterfalls and shit - basically im only in it for the animals - and EARTH kind of cuts all the boring parts out

Oh man, I forgot about a lot of these great parts. I'm going to have to watch this soon again soon.

pvmic but leaves and waterfalls and shit are the best

yeah it was sad but it was epic and insane and (SPOILER ALERT) you gotta feel proud of that walrus team work too

my fav was elephants vs lions

walruses just seem like mean dudes imo

seal vs. shark

not much of a "battle" but hella RAD

yeah no the whole polar bear/walrus thing made me feel more bummed out than stoked for action...i felt so anxious and bad for everybody involved...in a good fortifying cinematic experience type of way though

the water-based episodes of this are especially incredible; such vivid color. (esp. on mushrooms, omg)

really the lions vs. elephants and cheetahs vs. whatever got got by the cheetah were the best action pieces imo

xpost

yeah the slow mo of the cheetah killing the antelope was so intense and sad

oh and that one super long shot of the wolf singling out that little deer thing and tracking it across the grass

you're all wrong the best was when the sea snakes formed a hunting pack with two different kinds of fish

except in that conservation part of the doc they were all "oops now that we've shown you something you've never seen before all you tourists will probably destroy the habitat oh well"

this is a really good programme IMO, has anybody else seen it?

we should do a poll thread.

― gr8080, 24 August 2007 04:46 (2 years ago)

;_;

I didn't know you were into this programme.

o ya i think's it's gotta be one of the top 30 shows of the decade, no frontin

any americans watching the sequel to this called Life?

the first episode aired last sunday & i pretty much dug it more than anything on PE (as blasphemous as that may be). it focuses entirely on animals, which pertains more 2 my interests. i found all of them in HD on youtube & i'm gonna post the links to the first episode here.

if you haven't seen it, you should watch the first 20 seconds of this video of a chameleon hunting a praying mantis & spider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYE2yKhw4SQ

here's the whole thing

part 1 hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek_mwgVTnvQ&feature=related
part 2 hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYE2yKhw4SQ
part 3 hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5EM1gx2Puw&feature=related
part 4 hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D4QJBi96ak&feature=related
part 5 hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZfTBXLr_Zg&feature=related
part 6 hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOxJ68lKZOs&feature=related

(part 6 is behind the scenes)

this has been screening for a while in the UK, it's great. I think there's a thread already somewhere?

YMMV, obviously, i found it a little more disjointed than PE but it's still great great stuff.

i figured there might be a thread but i didn't feel like searching "life"

whats this fax of lyfe shirt say ???

BBC's new nature documentary series- 'Life'

I've seen this on tv when it was on and I was blown away. Then I got the dvd box set and I was blown away even further. Now I've seen the first episode of the Planet Earth/Life blu-ray box set in HD and I don't think I've breathed for 50 minutes.

Srsly, ppl, if you ever get yourself a big ass HD tv set and blu-ray player, this is absolutely required viewing material.

big ass HD tv set and blu-ray player
so want this, oh and a job to pay for it :(

I don't own a TV at all don't really want one except sometimes when I fantasize about ridic wide-screen hi-def blu ray wackadoo setups, for this show alone.

Solution: 1) find rich "friend", 2) WIN.

just ordered the blu rays

psyched

fffffffffffffffffffffffff

stanm is otm, the BDs are just a succession of breathtaking shot after breathtaking shot

The 'Caves' episode is some next level shit on BD. The thing I remember most from this series were the amazing overhead shots of animals working together in packs like a crack team of elite commando's.

We really need to poll this series but I suspect it would be a landslide for the polar bear vs walrus episode.

oooft those caves, dnw 1,000,000 cockroaches in 1080p

one of the episodes is free to download on itunes this week

i have (1) HD projector in my basement and will be playing this shit when i get home from school

A question suddenly occurred while watching this series: how much of the audio we're hearing is real? I mean, it's all very realistic and you accept it on face value, but the blowhole/breathing sounds of surfacing whales that were obviously filmed from a helicopter high above? Crunching sounds when some monkey cracks open a nut after we've obviously zoomed in a hundred meter into the canopy, watery sounds when some creepy thing scurries away in the high-pressure miles-deep ocean where the camera is in a specialized thick-walled submarine?

OK, deafening helicopter sounds or loud submarine engine/air filter sounds would probably kill most of the atmosphere, but I just wondered. Guesstimate? 10% is real? 20? 30? ?

Don't get me wrong, this series is still the pinnacle of human achievement. But I just wondered about this.

they did this time-lapse tree microcosm shot in a studio based exactly on a tree they found in the woods (took them a year to get the shot) and played a short bumper on how and why they did it, to their credit. i wouldnt put sound tinkering past them. love the bug-related stuff the most this time out i think. fwiw i wouldnt say im enjoying this more than planet earth tho

dvr'd all this Life shows. great hangover drifting in and out of sleep viewing

I thought it was common knowledge that a high percentage of the ambient audio is added later, especially with the underwater stuff.

one of my friends is convinced that half of the underwater stuff if cgi

That'll explain the BBC license fee!

Will someone explain the attachment to David Attenborough? I mean he's OK, but there doesn't seem to be anything spectacular about what he's doing or the way he's doing it. I've meet people who will not watch Planet Earth if it is the one narrated by Sigourney Weaver. Gilbert Godfrey I can understand, but Sigourney is harmless.

He has earned it. Read his bio somewhere (wikipedia, e.g.) to see what he has done for television and how important he has been for natural history and documentary making over the last 60 years. And then apologize to him. :-)

Planet Alien narrated by Sigourney Weaver, now there's a box set!

You know there's a Disc0v3ry re-edit of Life with 0prah doing the commentary? Some of the more savage bits (penguin carcass drifting down to sea bed) seem to have been moved to "deleted scenes".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5EM1gx2Puw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2CbBSu8X6Q#t=2m7s

second video: skip to 2:07

Holy crap.

I wonder how many meetings it took before they decided to remove the Rambo-Jumping-Out-Of-An-Exploding-Helicopter-Holding-A-Machine-Gun shots from this trailer (because that's what I expected with this kind of over the top soundtrack) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoqCcHQZlWw

im sure it's mostly foley sound, but it's less obvious in planet earth than some other ones i've seen, like "imax under the sea" which was just terrible, you expected "boing!" type noises and stuff to start coming out of the speakers

mega lolz

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/29/wildlife-films-infringe-privacy

^ shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

Two episodes in, Life is pretty awesome, especially on blu-ray. I'm fine with the Oprah narration. Although, I think all nature docs should have Werner Herzog narrating.

I'm fine with the Oprah narration.

Doutbless there's a bunch of Discovery Channel execs who could explain the reasoning behind replacing Attenborough's flawless work, but it still strikes me as totally wrongheaded and patronising; the target market is people who already have some kind of interest in nature docs, so why on earth would they prefer a layperson narrating rather than the man who actually *writes* the scripts and has decades of experience in the field?

Now if Herzog could be persuaded to REWRITE the script I would be on board, could listen to him expound on "the overwhelming indifference of nature" for six episodes no problem.

been watching this a bit

really wish they'd sent me the attenborough version

but wtv it is dece

they should just call these series "animals eating"

what a tragedy that the free miniseries u were given wasnt the exact one u wanted

i know right... can we start an online petition or something?

this show should just be called "Animals Eating"
― s1ocki, Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:13 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:)

majorly bummed that there aren't any "animals eating" or "animals walking around shows" on anymore. it's all "animals biting you in the ass" shit now

this show should just be called "Animals Eating"
― s1ocki, Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:13 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:)

― cozen, Friday, June 4, 2010 5:40 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
ha i thought i cmd-f-ed for that

humans pretending to be animals eating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTquQYw-3wA

bump for HUMAN PLANET (only one creature has carved a habitat for itself in every habitat on earth-- that creature is us)

Anyone been watching Frozen Planet? Incredible stuff. Birth of an iceberg! Terns dive-bombing polar bears! Wolf vs Ox FIGHT! etc etc

Thanks for the reminder - not following this on TV, but ordered http://www.bbcshop.com/science+nature/frozen-planet-blu-ray/invt/bbcbd0140/ right away :-)

Frozen Planet has been wonderful so far. I could srsly watch penguins just doing their thing for a whole ep, but the polar bears have been awesome too - that one shot at the beginning of the "Summer" episode with a close up of a bear's head whilst its swimming, then pulling back to reveal a great cliff of ice in the background with waterfalls and meltwater cascading off it was so stunning.

From a technical perspective it's really interesting to see the eye-popping capabilities of the HD/ultra-slo-mo cameras being put to such good use; it feels like the camera crews have gone beyond the slightly flashy stuff which was used when HD first became practical to use to more of an emphasis on the technology serving the aesthetic choices, not vice-versa. Glorious music throughout as well, I love it when they lay on the jaunty and winsome themes to accompany penguins flopping into/leaping out of water, nicking each others nest rocks etc.

Looking forward to this.

Did I ever post here how much I hated human planet? I should

frozen planet is great so far

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8889541/BBC-drops-Frozen-Planets-climate-change-episode-to-sell-show-better-abroad.html

If you like Planet Earth, you may also enjoy the Ken Middleham appreciation thread

anyone watching NORTH AMERICA?

ooh i didn't know there was a new one -- is it on bbc america or ?

What is North America? Besides impossible to google?

that's what i'm trying to say -- i'd google for it but that may be a waste of time

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/north-america

how's the narration? minimal? sensational? one narrator, different interviews, are there any talking heads, etc.

Narration is super annoying so far

narrator is tom selleck if that sways you

huh
i'm not sure how i feel about tom selleck, but "super annoying" is not what i'm looking for
i'm kinda picky about narration!

Watched One Life (http://www.onelifeonscreen.com/) a few weeks ago. Enjoyed it, the narration was only slightly annoying.

"Discovery Atlas: Uncovering Earth" was quite good, but is only three episodes (with two unrelated and godawful shows tacked on to the "season" on Netflix).

(narrated by Campbell Scott)

Just watched 1st episode of North America.

Very pretty and beautifully shot, but it felt as if they got a load of great footage together and didn't know what to do with it.
It seemed rushed, 1 minute they're in the south, then up to Alaska, then the sea. Didn't seem to stay in 1 area for long.
I will give episode 2 a watch and see if it gets better. Didn't mind Tom chatting away, but the script is not the best,(A little too American, if that makes sense?).
Very distracting graphics on the screen too.

usually w/ these series the first ep is a collection of hilights from the whole series, then each following ep has a more focused subject matter, right?

oh no, graphics?
this does not bode well

my guess is that the shooters and the producers had different ideas of what the show was going to be like and it sounds like the producers won
that's unfortunate.

i still want to see the bbc/attenborough private life of plants -- i know there are ways to download it, but i don't really know how to do that tbh

xp - i know that's how the bbc does it, but i'm not sure if discovery channel is going to follow that lead or just hop all over the place

Is Attenborough involved with this in any way? Also did they show AFRICA in the US? That was pretty awesome.

My favourite bit in the original Planet Earth is the two ibexes fighting on the cliffside, which is just insane for so many reasons. Also otters vs crocodile.

Caves 4 lyfe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAiZFhhHEXU

Baboons crossing a river never fails to make me laugh though.

there was an awesome bit in the first episode of north america where a mother groundhog successfully lured a rattlesnake away from her nest full of pups

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBE6ALlbWxU

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/planet-earth-sequel-bbc/470382/

!!!

Yay! That is great news

rad

Wow, 10 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aFcHFu8QM *weeps*

yes plz

Wow, guess I'm getting a new tv.

*sparks up*

if anyone is jonesing before this debuts, this attenborough narrated series is on netflix and amazing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(TV_series)

*stoked*

*weeps*

omg, you weren't kidding - I'd only just seen the one-minute Sigur Rós version on TV, but this, with the majestic symphonic soundtrack... *sniffs*

Love the original series but that trailer was a little bit much. I'm not sure I can take 12 hours of that. I'm sure I will anyway. Kind of surprised to see Tencent listed as one of their major sponsors.

These are just some of the most spectacular shots, it won't be 12 hours of that kind of stuff, surely. The previous series weren't 12 hours of sharks jumping out of the water and ducks jumping out of trees either.

Trailer is so post-Malick

My favorite part is the giraffe knocking the lion on it's ass.

I wish they were narrated by Werner Herzog.
― Jeff, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:18 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nine years later, I stand by this statement.

I meant to sit down and go through all the Attenborough documentaries at the start of the year and never got around to it. Downloaded a massive torrentof the stuff last year, possibly prompted by The Hunt. maybe by Human Planet though.

Wou d up watching a load of Gordon Ramsay I grabbed around the same time then getting sidetracked elsewhere.
I should really watch through these before the hard drive i have them on crashes.

Episode 1 : Islands.

Nov 6th, BBC 1

Been thinking of all the technological camera advances since the last one. Drones, GoPros, etc.

Begins January 28th on BBC America for those of us on across the Atlantic.

More importantly, when can I stream.

Get the Beebs plugin and use iPlayer

It won't suck too much, says Sir David McAttenboroughface : https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/29/planet-earth-ii-bbc-sir-david-attenborough-nature-series-wildlife-animals

fuck fuck fuck snakes hunting in packs

Does the Africa series reuse a lot of bits from Planet Earth and Life? I was watching them and they seemed very familiar. But it could be I watched it before and just forgot.

xp seeming to just materialise out of the ground, fucked up imo

Penguins looking all omaha beach

ahhhhhhh
https://twitter.com/MrLukeJohnston/status/795609403789635584

Holy shit, like was like Fury Road.

:O

My 3yo daughter has now watched that clip 4 times, and all day I have had to be a bunch of snakes chasing her while she is the iguana.

yeah, the snakes vs iguana scene was a total masterpiece. just incredible filmmaking on every level.

i also really enjoyed the rather more sedate 'horny pygmy sloth goes for a swim, gets blue-balled' sequence

can't wait for more snow leopard scenes - they were one of my favourite parts of the first series

I've been afraid of snakes all my life so that was scene was not good for me. I actually had a nightmare after watching it lol.

Honestly I thought they were going to find it difficult to top the komodo dragon fight and the close footage of the volcano erupting but that iguana vs snake race was the most exciting TV I've seen all year.

This is going to be a GOAT series.

as much as i loved the first episode i couldn't help getting a little misty about what a massive loss the death of david attenborough (who is currently 90 years old!) will be :(

also when May & Co get stuck into dear old Auntie

David attenborough had dinner at our house once. It was very cool.

gazpacho?

A friend of mine knows someone who was involved in that Antarctic island mission and apparently there were some extremely distressing shots of thousands of dead and bloodied penguins just piled up on the rocks.

a feast for the skuas no doubt

"My 3yo daughter has now watched that clip 4 times, and all day I have had to be a bunch of snakes chasing her while she is the iguana.

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, November 8, 2016 1:59 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

OMG. Your daughter is the best.

footage of the snakes/iguana was incredible but i can't stand the corny dramatization of it, w/ the tense cinematic music, etc, this isn't an action film, it's nature!

this guy agrees with you marcos: https://twitter.com/briancgrubb/status/795708419965669376

lmao much better

haha

nature films are dramatisations!

better still: someone had uploaded a version with the Benny Hill song overtop to youtube, but has since been taken down.

Do you think Attenborough ever resents having to put a segment of loveable penguins into every single season? Like obviously they play well with audiences but they even turn up in 'Africa' at one point.

how dare those lovable penguins make their way to Africa

did i hear right that the dad penguins run that gantlet EVERY TWO DAYS???

also i've read some pretty dystopic SF but nothing even close to humanity having to evolve a system of regurgitating fish to feed their young

both parents iirc its a tag team effort

xp capitalism maaaan

Alicia Silverstone advocated for pre-chewing food and spitting it directly into her child's mouth, so your dream isn't far off!

how are people watching this in the states?

through their fingers iirc

^ on form today

Torr3n+

i seriously want to give BBC my money for this right now, but they won't take it.

hey, you're welcome to donate towards my licence fee if you like

Yeah, in Australia we have to wait until "some time next year", and even then it will probably be on Fox, so fuck that.

bear pole dance

Baby ibex in great peril <3

Cheating eagle cheaters. Although some of the shots obviously had an eagle's head in, what was that about? An eagle cam they chose not to tell us about, or even more heinous cheating?

eagle cheating was a suck

the ones w the head they had a dude who is a falconer put a cam on a gold eagle and let them fly around

I did not see that coming

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.