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Lyrhawn
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Am I the only one who thinks that this show looks utterly awe inspiring?

The images are just stunning. I can't wait for this to start!

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I don't know. The clips were certainly impressive, but really looked like nothing more than particularly impressive stock footage. I haven't heard of it before, so I suppose I'm pretty much completely neutral until I actually learn more about the show itself.
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I didn't know a trailer for a discovery channel show could get me so excited. But it did.

Either this show will be totally awesome, or the tv networks have finally learned how to make ridiculous looking trailers where the final product can never measure up to the hype of the trailer.

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I've always liked the Discovery Channel mini-series. Well, not always. And not all of them. But they're usually good.
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yeah im excited about this too, it looks awesome.
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I read a book about the making of this series. I was disappointed, because it was made by the BBC and I figured I'd never get to see it. I'm so excited that it's coming to the discovery channel!
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super excited. i get highly emotional during the trailer. why am i weird?

Galapagos on the national geographic channel also looks great.

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It's not a Discovery Channel show, it's a BBC show. They spent more than four years making it, and it was the most expensive nature documentary ever filmed.

I've seen all the episodes and own it on DVD, and it is quite possibly the best thing ever. David Attenborough (the guy behind this series, brother to Richard Attenborough) has been making the world's best nature documentaries since the 70's. Once you're through with this I highly recommend all his other stuff as well, especially Blue Planet, Life in the Undergrowth, Life of Mammals and Life of Birds.

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If you advertised Full House with music like that it look just as awe inspiring.
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Saw this series last year. I don't even like nature shows that much (they usually seem to be nothing but a procession of cute animals dying in gruesome ways). But this is all about the beautiful side of nature. It really is wonderful.
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My family and I are completely hooked on this. It is amazing in High Def.
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This is an incredibly awesome show! I'm loving it.
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This show rocks my socks in way that they haven't been rocked since the first time I saw Blue Planet.
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I'm sad, I started this thread and yet I haven't had a chance to watch it yet.

Hopefully there will be some reruns.

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They are playing it quite often. Especially on Discovery HD.
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I love this show! Who knew that an entire show on grass could be so beautiful to watch? I loved that episode.
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I thought all the ones I have seen are amazing but...

Well, some people find grass a little too fascinating if you know what I mean.

(why the university of oregon has a "reputation")


Now I get to talk in whispers all day.

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I just watched the plains episode today. (I believe it's the aforementioned grass episode.)

Wow.

Never seen a pride of lions take down an elephant before.

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My favourite episode would have to be the one about the deep oceans, but my favourite individual scene was probably the one of the cranes whose migrating route went above the Himalaya (and the eagles who hunted them).

Apparently there's some controversy about the shows American narration - or at least a British friend of mine living in the States is going on and on about it. They were complaining about it on the IMDB message boards as well, that changing the narrator from David Attenborough to Sigourney Weaver and also changing the narration dialogue to be more "entertaining" dumbs the American version of the show down... It's hard for me to say anything as I haven't seen any of the American version. Plus the first version I saw was the Finnish dub, which obviously was not the same as the British one either. So I guess it could be my friend just takes her nature documentaries a bit too seriously (not uncommon in my circles), though the part about making it entertaining does sound silly.

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When I saw the adds I was excited. It looked so amazing visually. When I actually started watching the show I was bored to tears. The photography was not any more impressive than other nature shows. Worst of all, the narrator put me (they should have used that dirty jobs guy) to sleep and there was nothing that I hadn't already heard before on a hundred other nature shows.

Too bad. It looked promising.

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I like Sigourney Weaver as a narrator. She has a nice voice. I have not seen the British version, but I doubt think I would seek it out to watch. This one is entertaining and informative enough for me. I'm not a regular nature show watcher so this is good enough for me.
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I recently got this on DVD.

First documentary I've ever gone out and actually bought.

I'll be posting my thoughts later. [Smile]

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quote:
Originally posted by brojack17:
It is amazing in High Def.

Yes. Yes and more yes.
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Lyrhawn
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I'm finally getting around to watching all the episodes I missed (which is apparently all of them). I'm watching the British version, but now I'm curious as to the differences in narration.

I can only imagine how this looks in HD, and one day when I actually get an HDTV, this will be the first high definition DVD that I buy.

I love the time elapsed footage for some of these shots, it's just amazing. And what happens with some of them animals in nature is both stunning and sad. I felt like March of the Penguins was one of the bigger tear jerkers of last year, just because it was both tragic and awe inspiring. You couldn't help but be emotionally connected to a bunch of identical looking birds.

But I care about them. And when I hear halfway through that this or that species is endangered, and that there's only a handful left, sometimes literally less than 50, I can't explain to you the kind of sadness taht washes over me.

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I think for me, since I'm not religious, watching some of the aerial shots in stuff like this is the closest I'll ever get to a religious experience. (The same feeling that I get when, say, watching the night sky and milky way in the winter, or walking in the desolate hillsides of Lapland where no matter what way you look you can't really see any marks of modern society anywhere.)

Anyway, I didn't enjoy March of the Penguins. I suppose it was a problem of translation again - in the Finnish version, as in the original French one, the individual penguins were given individual voices and "dialogue", which made the whole thing seem like a Saturday morning cartoon, and humanized the animals way too much. I understand that in the English version they just used one narrator like in a traditional nature documentary.

Still, here's something fun and March of the Penguins related.

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quote:
Originally posted by RunningBear:
I thought all the ones I have seen are amazing but...

Well, some people find grass a little too fascinating if you know what I mean.

(why the university of oregon has a "reputation")


Now I get to talk in whispers all day.

A fellow Duck! Woohoo! Or, at least, I assume you're from U of O, based on your comment.

Anywhoo....

(I should mention that I in no way and at no time have contributed to THAT particular aspect of the UO's rep.)

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I saw part of the Deep Ocean one, and it was amazing even though I don't have high-def.


I saw part of another one in high-def at a friends house, and it was even more cool.

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Productivity takes a nosedive on Sunday nights during Planet Earth. Worse, Discovery often plays 4 episodes (or more) in succession. The blu-ray DVDs are in the mail--the end of this semester suddenly got infinitely more complicated.

Planet Earth is awe-inspiring. (Or at least as awe-inspiring as TV can get.)

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