I really enjoy the music in this series. It really pulls it all together. Like tonight in Shallow Seas, when the dolphins were riding the waves. Great stuff.

The lion pride taking down the elephant was amazing.

I have actually quit watching the series, due to the fact I will be buying the HD version. I want all of the amazing shots to be seen in HD for the first time. Maybe I am odd.

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"MEOW! Operation: Kill Dumbo is on!"

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i wonder why they are putting alot of duplicate content in later episodes. we have allready seen some of the exact same footage, several times - thats kind of distracting.
like the lions taking down the elephant, the dust toraddo scene, the shark attacking the seals, etc...

i cant wait to see the episode wtih the caves. i think its next week ?

agreed, i wish they wouldnt really push the whole we took over 200 hours on film, yet we have to rehash a bunch of it in different episodes.

As far as that particular scene goes, we only saw a behind-the-scenes glimpse of it before, so while it was odd that the making-of came before the actual footage (likely do to Discovery rearranging the order of the episodes), it wasn't really duplicated.

The other footage you listed being repeated in the actual episodes is less excusable especially since Discovery is editing these shows down from their original length, and therefore must be removing footage we haven't seen before in order to keep these scenes in.

of the four episodes I've seen (so far) 'Shallow Seas' is my favourite. The hidef imagery was incredible - all the coral shots looked so tactile.

Embarrassing to note, this was the first time I listened to this series in 5.1 Dolby Digital sound, from the music score, to the sound effects, the soundmix completemented the imagery to excellent effect.

This show is incredible. Like an earlier poster, I'm thinking of holding off until the HD discs come out. Though, the program is still very impressive, even in Standard Definition.

I was watching "Pole to Pole" last night, and my dog even started watching it. He was captivated for about two minutes while the Polar Bears were sliding down the hill after hibernation. Of course, once the bears were done, he went back to being a prick and running around the house, scratching at the door, etc. Still, it was the first time I've seen him watch tv since the day we brought him home. Too bad we're not a Nielson family.

I watched half of the episode on shallow seas in HD, and oh my God it was amazingly beautiful! I wish I could have watched the rest but I had to go to class. This is a very well done nature show.

Those bottlenose dolphins that were hydroplaning was crazy.

the swarm of swimming snakes on the hunt was pretty jawdropping as well.

Parasites that infect insects and turn them into zombies. Woah.

[thetodd] Oh yeah, I've got an extended package! [/thetodd]

Woah pt. 2. Cannibal gorillas. :eek:

My cat is fucking facinated with this show

not gorillas, chimps... that was jarring...

also, how the hell did they film the inside of that plant?

Got HD DirecTV last week and this show is simply knocking my socks off. Might be the most impressive thing I've ever seen on a television. It was actually kind of hard deleting a couple of the viewed shows off the DVR.

Sadly, I couldn't find info on that shot, but I did find a press release detailing how they got some of the shots in the series. It's called "Planet Earth TV Firsts," and list nearly all the shots that this series is the first to show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre...t_firsts.shtml

Oh. I thought they said they were gorillas. I was doing other things while it was running, so it didn't have my undivided attention. Until they started talking about eating their rivals.

Atleast they share;)
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Does the Attenboro version have the same script as the Weaver? I'm also annoyed with all the, "And now, for the first time ever" backpatting. And as for the snow leopard hunt being the FIRST EVER ON FILM, I saw a show a year or two back that showed video footage of snow leopards chasing something around the Himalayas, so I'm not so sure they're totally honest when touting all the "firsts".

Pretty much the same.

You can already pre-order standard, HD, or BR, DVDs at DDD. http://search.deepdiscount.com/searc...ollection&rk=1

This show is awesome, I've already pre-ordered my copy!

I sat down to watch "The Jungle" last night and it opened with the Birds of Paradise in New Guniea. I thought to myself, "Oh, I've already seen this one" and nearly shut it off. But I kept watching and realized they were just showing the same footage from a previous episode. Kind of lame.

Another thing I always wonder about these shows is how much is staged. They film a huge tree falling in the jungle, from multiple angles. That can't possibly be a 'right place at the right time' situation. So assuming they had a hand in knocking that tree down, even if it was dead anyway, is that still what you want a nature film crew to be doing?

It's not lame at all. The very first show was "Pole to Pole" which covered everything you'd see in the next 10 episodes. It was more like a highlight reel of what you're about to see.

question: in 'Fresh Waters' did they state only 3% of the water on the planet is fresh water? that seems awfully low, did I mishear that number?

I started recording these in HD after reading this thread a few days ago. This show is utterly amazing. Words can't describe some of the emotions I've had watching this.

"Oceans contain 97 % of the earth's water while the remaining 3 % is classified as freshwater. Seventy-seven percent of this surface freshwater is stored as ice and 22% as groundwater and soil moisture. The remaining freshwater, making up less than 1 % of the world total, is contained in lakes, rivers and wetlands."

As another poster already noted, the first couple of eps were clips shows, or highlight reels - a primer, giving you an overview of the planet and the different areas that we would later examine in greater detail.


It's also a perspective thing. When we were following the wildabeasts in their desperate search for water, the pan up to the massive river was this big relief moment for the animals. We'd just seen how difficult their journey was and their arrival at the river was the climax of their tale. Then in another episode, we're following the river from the mountain snow melt, to waterfalls, to a bend it takes in the plains and... the wildabeasts from before.
It's like a nature documentary equivalent of a Tarrentino film. We're following different plot threads that occasionally intersect.


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the ducklings jumping out of the tall tree in 'Forests' was soooo cute

aaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

as was that cat like creature eating the moths.

the time lapse footage of the clouds/storm behind the tall Madasgar trees was spectacular.

Dude, I watched that episode yesterday for the first time and those were nearly my exact thoughts - word for word. My wife was tearing up a little, particularly the part where Mama Panda had to choose which of its cubs to feed, so I had to hold back my thoughts as being in the best interest of marital bliss, but my thoughts were

• Panda can't hibernate because it only eats bamboo, which is of low nutritional value, so it can't build up enough fat to sleep through the coldest part of winter.
• Panda can't go down the mountain because it only eats bamboo which only grows in a narrow altitude band so it can't avoid the coldest part of winter.
• Panda can't feed for three weeks after giving birth because its newborn cub is the size of a chicklet and can't possibly survive on its own. But Panda only eats bamboo which has so little nutritional content that Panda has to starve while it feeds the cub and provide it warmth to protect it from the coldest part of winter, which Panda can't avoid by hibernating or going down to lower altitudes (stop me if you've heard this).
• Panda has to let surplus cubs die because it can barely care for one (see above).

Sounds like Panda needs to learn to eat a nice juicy cheeseburger or maybe a passing monkey.

There's a story on Yahoo that one of the last seven female Amur leopards, that were part of the forest episode last night, that are still in the wild was found shot to death yesterday:(

http://www.yahoo.com/s/563902

"Hunters kill one of last Amur Leopards" should change to "Murderers kill one of last Amur Leopards"! Hunters should only hunt for food, not kill and leave it behind. sheesh.

that gets me mad when people just kill for just the fun of it. especially something thats so rare

Our baby was sleeping next to us and we were trying so hard not to bust out laughing. That was hilarious. I actually rewound the DVR after the first one not knowing an avalanche of flying chicks was on the way!

Just got the HD-DVD...

Amazing amazing show. I work at Best Buy so I got the guys in Magnolia to use the Blu-Ray discs as demo material. Less than a day after we put it on the TVs we sold all of our Blu-Ray, half our DVD and HD-DVD copies.

Loving this. Just started 'Ice Worlds'

Got the HD-DVD friday and love it. Watched the Cave, Iceworld ones so far. In the Ice world one it was so sad seeing that Bear die. Seeing him swim for days and not get any food then getting wounded. I couldnt be the camera man I would intervene.

I clicked on this thread thinking I clicked the Rosie O' Donald leaving the View thread and saw chimps. I laughed.

I may get an HD-DVD Player just for this show (and a few backlog titles :)).

This is one of my favorite things that's been on TV for the past few years. A lot of times I get that "whoah" feeling I get while watching, say, Lost, but this time it's (mostly) real.

And the Birds of Paradise are hilarious. They've been in at least three episodes, IIRC.