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Natural World on BBC2.
This latest series has been epic, particularly the first epiosde, probably still available on I player.
I've watched the first episode on "The Wild Side Of France" 3 times, it is so good. Thank Fuck they've got rid of Alan Titchmarsh, he was so annoying and distracting as the narrator on these kind of shows. Paul McGann is excellent on the France episode, where they explore the various incredibly dramatic scenery and wilderness mountain ranges in France where there are now wolves, bears, eagles and all that kind of stuff. The shots of the migrating geese were fucking awesome as they were migrating halfway around the world, France being part of their migration. They were flying in formation efortlessly, just a lazy flap of the wing now and then, expending the minimum effort, and the sequence of them landing in a lake was incredible the gracefullness and finesse with which they landed. Also the shots of the mountaineers scaling death defying cliff faces to catch glimpses of rare birds were awesome, the woman climber made it look so easy what she was doing, sheer natural abilty.
The 2nd episode from last night was pretty good too, Bill Bailey appropriately stepped in to narrate "Natures Misfits." All the weirdest and appartently most ill adapted of creatures. One freaky sea born C shaped curley lobster type thing that ive never seen before travels backwards along the sea bed constantly bumbing into things as it cant even see where it is going, and its not much of an improvement when it twists itself around to look where its going either, and yet the species has survived millions of years. Also featuring sloths that i never knew have a good environment to grow algae on themsleves so that they can turn green as part of camoflague. They had the evolutionary choice of whether to eat more or do less, so they decided to expend the minimum amount of energy necessary.
Those Ethiopian Big Headed Rats were living on the edge, just popping up out of their burrows to nibble whatver vegetation they coould find, whilst all the time Ethiopian wolves were slinking up on them. The shots of the wolves doing their slinking and pouncing were fucking amazing. Also the cumbersome Albatrosses struggling to get airborne for their first voyage as they are so big and heavy it is fucking hard work for them to get airborne, and if they ditched in the sea there were sharks waiting. Some got snabbed, some got away. Amazing camera work.
This latest series has been epic, particularly the first epiosde, probably still available on I player.
I've watched the first episode on "The Wild Side Of France" 3 times, it is so good. Thank Fuck they've got rid of Alan Titchmarsh, he was so annoying and distracting as the narrator on these kind of shows. Paul McGann is excellent on the France episode, where they explore the various incredibly dramatic scenery and wilderness mountain ranges in France where there are now wolves, bears, eagles and all that kind of stuff. The shots of the migrating geese were fucking awesome as they were migrating halfway around the world, France being part of their migration. They were flying in formation efortlessly, just a lazy flap of the wing now and then, expending the minimum effort, and the sequence of them landing in a lake was incredible the gracefullness and finesse with which they landed. Also the shots of the mountaineers scaling death defying cliff faces to catch glimpses of rare birds were awesome, the woman climber made it look so easy what she was doing, sheer natural abilty.
The 2nd episode from last night was pretty good too, Bill Bailey appropriately stepped in to narrate "Natures Misfits." All the weirdest and appartently most ill adapted of creatures. One freaky sea born C shaped curley lobster type thing that ive never seen before travels backwards along the sea bed constantly bumbing into things as it cant even see where it is going, and its not much of an improvement when it twists itself around to look where its going either, and yet the species has survived millions of years. Also featuring sloths that i never knew have a good environment to grow algae on themsleves so that they can turn green as part of camoflague. They had the evolutionary choice of whether to eat more or do less, so they decided to expend the minimum amount of energy necessary.
Those Ethiopian Big Headed Rats were living on the edge, just popping up out of their burrows to nibble whatver vegetation they coould find, whilst all the time Ethiopian wolves were slinking up on them. The shots of the wolves doing their slinking and pouncing were fucking amazing. Also the cumbersome Albatrosses struggling to get airborne for their first voyage as they are so big and heavy it is fucking hard work for them to get airborne, and if they ditched in the sea there were sharks waiting. Some got snabbed, some got away. Amazing camera work.
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