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.

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.

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.

"MEOW! Operation: Kill Dumbo is on!"

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.

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.