Planet Earth miniseries (Discovery)

[Depression]

Anybody watch this? First episode was on at 8.

The footage is pretty stunning, especially in HD.

[Evil_Koala]

****! I missed it :( That looks so cool.

[GreatNekoKoneko]

... saw ads of it in the movie theaters. reminds me of those shows i used to watch as a kid. where the monkeys ate the little monkey.

[Ketaru]

The Discovery part refers to the Discover channel? I haven't watched any of those learning channels, (especially, oddly enough, "The Learning Channel") since even those channels have turned to reality TV shows.

[Cow]

I Wanted To See The Birds Omg

[Reidar]

It's very good. The great white shark segment was too short, though.

[CrossboneGundam]

The Discovery part refers to the Discover channel? I haven't watched any of those learning channels, (especially, oddly enough, "The Learning Channel") since even those channels have turned to reality TV shows.

Hint: Documentaries are the original reality TV.

I watched an episode using my fancy new cable box and downloaded an episode entitled "Seasonal Forests," which was pretty good. Not very in-depth, and some odd/irritating uses of music, but pretty good, nonetheless.

[Ketaru]

Hint: Documentaries are the original reality TV.

You know very well what I meant when I said what I said. I prefer they go back to showing shows about how weather works or animals or urban legends or things like that. Not this stuff about a cook going home with some woman every week to help her impress her family...

The spinoff channels like Discovery Health don't help much either, considering it's at least 12 hours a day of shows about maternity complications...

[Pariah]

This show was just utterly amazing. Definitely the defining moment in Attenboroughs (sp? :P) career, everything he's done has led to that.

Sure, if you want in depth, then this isn't for you. But this provides by far the best shots of Earth as a whole that I've ever seen.

Fantastic!

[Dark_Shiki]

The one I love is the Blue Planet:Seas of Life series. That's great footage, and incredible colors of the reefs and fish. Makes me think about getting into saltwater aquariums, and if not, then diving on a reef.

[neiru_3]

I caught a piece because my father was watching it. I saw the birds of paradise. I thought the part where the african animals trek for water was amazing. The sand storms and funnels. You can see where hurricanes come from.

[SapphireDream]

http://www.earthdayny.org/earthday_2007.html
if ur in NY at Grand Central check it out!

[Meson]

or urban legends ...

Then why aren't you watching Mythbusters. That show is on Discovery too.


I saw the Science Channel encore of the first three parts. Discovery can put out some fine documentaries.

[Pickie]

Watched the original BBC broadcasts back in June (<3 Internets)

I heard the US broadcast has a new narrator, and not David Attenborough. Is this true?

[Bernard_Monsha]

Anybody watch this? First episode was on at 8.

The footage is pretty stunning, especially in HD.

It was watch this or the end of Rome, Rome won.

[Depression]

It was watch this or the end of Rome, Rome won.

Was Season 2 as good as 1?

[Bernard_Monsha]

yeah, the ending was kinda meh, but the Antony/Octavian rivalry was very well done. it is almost a precursor to I, Claudius up to the point that Augustus and Livia kinda look like younger versions of themselves.