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TV: Meerkat Manor

up all night said:
Yeah I watched an episode and it was just way too over-the-top for me. Do they really need to humanise them as much as they do? It just comes across (to me) as being fairly arrogant to sit back and go, 'oh wow! they're just like us!' as if those stupid voiceovers make them more interesting. Animal documentaries are actually interesting enough without having to dumb it down for a generation addicted to reality TV.

Maybe I just don't 'get' it though. Obviously some people like it.
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I can see where you are coming from, and as someone who enjoyes the blandness of David Edinborough (or whatever his name is)'s voiceovers (simply explaining the fact's and not trying to market those facts) I can even empathise, I think (or is that sympathise :S). Sorry to assume you had only watched ad's... I guess I, along with alot of other people, am just a sucker for those damn cuties... :P maybe the humanisation makes me more comfortable with it ;) :D

Besides... there's a chance this will interest the new generations (and old I guess) in nature, and nature documentaries... which I certainly agree are generally better.
 
It's McDonalds TV - quick, dirty, nutritionally devoid... but profitable.

Film a load of animals, make up some nonsense 'storyline' from a patchwork of clips... and hey presto... Mike Goldberg has something to occupy his time.

Lame (or crud) is definitely the word.
 
aww look at them!

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So I gather aside from the cute factor it's like Big Brother,i.e. the same old manufactured reality TV. I have pets, various birds and possums living around my house . That's enough for me.
 
well, others may want more than that. like I said earlier, I personally will not get the chance to see these critters in their natural habitat, just doing what they do. so shows like this, however campy it might be, are my only window into such things.

instead of citing the overused mantra, "same old manufactured reality TV." why not try to look past that and see the animals as they are. if I'm not mistaken, MIT set up those cameras to monitor the livelihoods of meerkats. so it really isn't a 'manufactured reality tv' show.
 
these animals are not domesticated, or actually protected by humans in any way... they do have some interaction with humans, but i'm pretty sure they're still considered wild... rofl, wild...
 
yeah. this is a joint callabo, allowing for entertainment without the expense of losing scientific integrity

they have a surprisingly complex social structure. this is what makes it particularaly intersting and humanizing.
 
I don't know what sort of voiceovers you have in America, but if you heard the bullshit that comes out of the narrators mouth over here I don't think you'd be saying it doesn't 'lose scientific integrity.'

It's just so fabricated. Anyway, I'll stop whining now.
 
McLaren said:
instead of citing the overused mantra, "same old manufactured reality TV." why not try to look past that and see the animals as they are. if I'm not mistaken, MIT set up those cameras to monitor the livelihoods of meerkats. so it really isn't a 'manufactured reality tv' show.
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It's all in the editing and the commentary.

It'd be hard press to find a more extreme case of personification also.
 
up all night said:
I don't know what sort of voiceovers you have in America, but if you heard the bullshit that comes out of the narrators mouth over here I don't think you'd be saying it doesn't 'lose scientific integrity.'

It's just so fabricated. Anyway, I'll stop whining now.
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It seems like the documentary voice over in USA is just giving a play by play. i mean flower and zaphoid obviously share a tight relationship as dominant parental controllers of the group, and the cruellness of life in brush (such as shakespears near death poisoning from the puff adder) are easy to spot.

but yeah they do play up the personalities in the pups. I mean mitch, courage and the rest definitely have more personality than they desreve for being just weeks out of the burrow
 
I thoroughly enjoy this program and recomend it to any animal lover.I love to see how they make a little living for themselves.I felt so sorry for little Shakespere.:(
 
season 2 starts friday

i know sickpuppy, shakespear is my fav. i hope hes not dead. according to next seasons first show, hes still missing. and the ads say "find out the key to the fate of shakespeare"

poor little shakespear, he didn't stand a chance against the dominant male of the lazoulia clan. but he did save the pups.

I'm betting columbus will have an adventure or two this season
 
even though i might be the only one who cares, has anyone seen the first 2 episodes of season 2?

well it appears that shakespeare was indeed killed in the burrough raid by big sy, who has also died over the long kalihari winter - leaving behind 2 offspring, but no mating partner for struggling lazuli. tosca, it seems, has not survived the cold weather without another meerkat to huddle up with in the winter nights

but taking the place of rival clan to the whiskers is a new, more agressive clan of meerkats led by the aptly named hannibal that looks to take control from whiskers

how come nobody else has gotten into this show? its like a furry soap opera
 
I've caught a few episodes (disjointed ones at that). Not enough to remember any of the characters.
I'd like to watch the "story" right through.
 
bowdenta said:
even though i might be the only one who cares, has anyone seen the first 2 episodes of season 2?

well it appears that shakespeare was indeed killed in the burrough raid by big sy, who has also died over the long kalihari winter - leaving behind 2 offspring, but no mating partner for struggling lazuli. tosca, it seems, has not survived the cold weather without another meerkat to huddle up with in the winter nights

but taking the place of rival clan to the whiskers is a new, more agressive clan of meerkats led by the aptly named hannibal that looks to take control from whiskers

how come nobody else has gotten into this show? its like a furry soap opera
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I watch most every friday night.Sad,I know. But yeah,I saw that Shakespere was indeed killed.I was sad.I missed most of it because I had company but I hope to catch it again this friday.
 
bowdenta said:
how come nobody else has gotten into this show? its like a furry soap opera
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That's it exactly, a furry soap opera! :D I LOVE this show! This and Heroes has pulled me out of the television hatred that I have held dear for about 2 years now.

I was really getting into it when Season 1 ended - it seemed like forever until Season 2 aired. The only thing that annoys me is that the didn't actually SAY that Shakespeare was killed. I assumed it though, and it was pretty much confirmed when they took his name out of the opening credits. He was my favorite. :( Now I am kind of rooting for Mango and Chutney.

I was out in Wyoming/Montana this summer and saw prairie dogs, the US version of meerkats, so darn cute! I would love the chance to see real ones though.

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