that is pretty crazy the HD version dont have as much if not more footage considering they can hold more info on a single disc.

But as far as the episodes last night they where amazing. I thought weaver was pretty good as a narrator, but if there is more footage with the british guy i would buy that. That pole to pole episode was my favorite, That dog chase with the impala was pretty awesome, as well as that lion was it chasing that one animal, cant remember what it was.

No.

Can anyone confirm if the DVD version will be in 5.1? CD WOW's site has it in 2.0.

I missed this when it aired in Canada a while back but I'm definitely getting this when it comes out on DVD.

We just finished watching the 3rd ep tonight (watched the other 2 last night) - all in HD of course. I feel bad for those that aren't watching it in HD.

Killer footage, but oddly enough, can't keep the kids interested in it. Screw 'em.

According to Wikipedia (so take this with a grain of salt) Discovery is releasing it on DVD with Weaver narrating. However, BBC is also releasing it in the US on DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray with the Attenborough narrations.

I believe that the Discovery online store will be the only place to get the Sigourney Weaver version. Everyone else will be selling the Richard Attenborough version. They have different covers -- the Weaver version has an image of Earth while Attenborough's is an overhead shot of elephants or something.

Is it on everynight this week ?

I've heard some pretty wild stories from people who do coke, but never any shit like that man.....vampire octopus' with glowing eyes? :p

After seeing the advert for this at the theater this weekend, I was going to record these, but i think i will just wait and watch it on HD DVD.

So is this just a nature show? I mean just animals from around the world? Why is this show special?

They were able to capture some of the most amazing moments in wildlife ever seen - things that have never been seen before. This was possible because they used cameras that could shoot with unprecedented clarity from more than a mile away.

It's special because of what they were able to shoot. It's not full of the same old shots we've all seen a million times. Instead it's full of unique, never before filmed behaviors and animals. Plus, it's the best use of HD I've seen yet.

I'm not sure how you can have spoilers for this show, but if you can this link is full of them. It's a list of all the firsts, including behavior, locations and technology. It's a good overview of some of what makes this show so special.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre...h_firsts.shtml

I was suprised how much they stressed the Sun's importance to global climate, I really expected them to jump on the Global Warming band wagon. Well, I've only seen the first two, I'm sure they will get around to it.

"..Out of the Ocean"?! I don't want to live in a WORLD where a friggin' 20-foot Great White can Jump a clear 6 feet out of the water! I played that stupid Jaws videogame for the xbox and laughed at the Shark leaping up onto boats to grab people... LAUGHED! Now that I know they can actually DO THAT?! What else can they do from that game?! Launch oil drums inland to blow up houses? Steal keycards to get into secluded pools?! GODDAMNED CRAZY SHARKS!

Yeah, saying this is just a nature show would be like saying The Wire was just a cop show or Seinfeld was just a sitcom. This show is the pinnacle of nature shows.

Beautiful series, we watched Pole to Pole last night, and we were both blown away.

Everybody else has mentioned the high points, but I have to second the monkeys walking through the water. I think I could watch a whole episode just of that :lol:


As for the Weaver vs Attenborough thing, all thru the episode I kept thinking "if she does the 'she'll breed: you'll die' line, it's an automatic DVD buy."

Sorry, not to be an idiot, but is that from Alien(s)? I kept thinking while watching this that Sigourney Weaver was a good choice because she sounds smart naturally, and then I figured it was probably her character in Alien and her character in Ghostbusters that makes me associate her with intelligence.

It's from Alien Resurrection, which I'm proud to admit is my most watched film of the Alien series. Must be the traces of Whedon that remained in the crew of the Betty. It's so much like Firefly it's scary.


Back on topic, anyone expecting them to push the penguins more to capitalize on the penguin craze lately?

Okay, got it. Thanks. I'm really only an Alien and Aliens guy.

Looking forward to Deserts in a few hours. One of the things I noticed last week was that the panaramic shots of the landscapes were almost as cool as the animals themselves. Gotta appreciate the amount of thought they put into getting new and interesting shots (see the lava and mountain shots from last week).

:lol: Oh man, that was priceless!

which ep is the shark in? I didn't see it yet.

It was in the very first episode, Pole to Pole.

what did you guys think of tonights episodes, deserts and iceworlds ? i thought that they were both pretty good, but didnt have as many "wow" moments as the first 3. I loved the polar bear stuff. Also, who could not love the little penquins, how they huddle together for warmth in the -70 deg. weather

Watching the wounded polar bear collapse was right up there with the baby elephant going the wrong way on the :( scale.

The ibex fight was pretty cool.

ya the polar bear laying down and dying was really sad.

lil penguin chicks lost in the blizzard was too.

I must be the worlds biggest asshole but all I could think while they were showing the panda bear was, "What a useless freaking animal." Seriously, if they wern't so cute they would've (and maybe should've) been extinct years ago.

I agree, I could watch footage like that alll day.

I thought that scene would have been in the actual episode, not as a 'making of' segment - it was cool nonetheless.

guess Discovery has to redub these shows so they can alter the metric conversions to the US standard.

The overhead shot of the wild hunting dogs peeling off and surrounding the antelopes (?) was amazing. Completly unspoken tactics

And yes...the sheer SCALE of some of these shots is unbelievable...To see that elephant walking you'd think it was shot from a helecoptor a couple hundred feet up, and the camera pulls back and its shot from a plane MILES AWAY!!

During the close shot, you think, maybe theres a pool of water just out of camera range so this elephant will survive, and then by the end of the shot you realize that he's walking twords NOTHING FOR DOZENS OF MILES.

So sad.

You learn something new everyday. I had absolutely no idea that there were Oxen living in the Arctic. This show is great.

This whole post cracked me up! You win today. I don't have a prize, but if I did...would be yours.

I've watched the first 3 and love the footage, but I'm going to stop and wait for the Blu-Ray set. I'll rent the SD discs that have the stuff the BD doesn't have.

To me it's pretty obvious the Discovery versions are edited. The flow is very choppy. I also haven't been too crazy about the compression artifacts I've been seeing with the Discovery broadcast - I'm sure that's my provider's fault. I don't expect to see these in the Blu-Ray presentations.

Also, I'm hoping the UK narration with Attenborough doesn't belabor the "using special cameras blah blah blah" stuff.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of it.

I've seen the first five or so with Attenborough and the only thing I've noticed is how he says "Rarest" and "Largest" 400 times per episode, I have yet to hear him brag about the technology used to film the series. His narration is top notch.

Thankya, sir. It would be even funnier if it was exagerated for effect and if I wasn't ACTUALLY TERRIFIED of the giant leaping sharks.



Doc

Those things were AWESOME. I also had no clue about their existence. With all that hair hanging down covering their entire bodies, all I could think was "there are guys under there. That's a suit. That thing's a Bantha and there should be a Tusken Raider on top of that sucker.


Doc

If my dog wasn't so cute, he'd be extinct too, because he's a lot lazier than pandas. But it is what it is.

I don't care at all about the bragging in the film. In some cases that might bother me, but this is one rare interest where they took what I'd say is a huge gamble, and they have a lot to be proud of.

This show is drawing insane ratings for a cable broadcast. Scoring upwards of nearly 6 million viewers.

Holy shit. That's like better than The Sopranos. Granted, it's on a station that nearly everyone gets if they have an extended package, but wow. :eek:

Wow that is fantastic. I think this will encourage more quality nature documentaries to be made.

This show seriously deserves to win some awards. I hope it does.

I will so buy the HD version of this, something I never thought I'd say about any nature show, which tend to be just more of the same.

Tonight's Shallow Seas episode was very interesting. Only watched in SD so far, but I did TiVo it on the HD box. I'm sure with all the colors that it looks absolutely AMAZING.