Seven Worlds, One Planet: New Attenborough series

[Maggot]

Looking forward to this. The stuff that the BBC does so well. The hook this time is a different continent in each episode. Four years in the making. Starts tonight at 6.15.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/50097863

 

[SheilaNaGig]

What I really want to see is an Attenborough series about the ctreatures that live within our homes and cities.

Houseflies, cloth moths, raccoons, Tube mice, peregrine falcons, pigeons, blackbirds adjusting to the city lights, moths that have evolved to hide in polluted places, swifts that have evolved to outmanoeuvre moving cars, the loss of the insects that used to coat your windscreen at night, those ants that have evolved to live on city streets. The anthropogenic biosphere really fascinates me.


ETA Like, there’s a plant that now relies on human intervention for it’s propagation. The way the Native American have harvested the roots of this plant have led to an symbiotic relationship. When the Native Americans are displaced, the plant dies out in that location.

 

[MsHopper]

What I really want to see is an Attenborough series about the ctreatures that live within our homes and cities.

Would really freak people out (including me)

 

[Baronage-Phase]

That was brilliant!!!
The starfish speeded up looked so beautiful.
Cant wait for next week.

 

[Maggot]

Loved it.
My only (minor) complaint is that they don't need the dramatic music. Theses scenes are dramatic enough.

 

[Mumbles274]

Thank god they didn't do the emperor penguins... Again!

Anyway, looked amazing. Thought it might dial up the impact of climate change a bit more than it did. Not Sure i can still enjoy looking at the scenes of the natural world as much these days knowing that it just might not be around too much longer. Struck by the very fact I am watching it on a HD TV, and can pause and then catch up on internet iplayer, and all the associated comfort I'm living in is all part of the problem still. The planet really is fucked and it's depressing

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I thought the fact that the whales were up in numbers was very positive. And the fact that a healthy ocean pumps more oxygen into the atmosphere than rainforests was very interesting.
I think it focussed well on how much we need oceans and ocean life.
I was in tears when he spoke about the whales the whalers called the "right ones ". Because they were friendly they were targetted in the past and decimated by whale trawling companies.

 

[Mumbles274]

Loved it.
My only (minor) complaint is that they don't need the dramatic music. Theses scenes are dramatic enough.

Its the added sound effects that I find annoying in nature programmes ( well at least to me some of them seem added in post production and feel faked)

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Who knew anemones were so brutal

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Apparently people were emotionally traumatised watching the baby seals, some of whom dudnt make it through the blizzard and then the albatross chick blown out of the nest and their effort to get back in.
Viewers left crying by sad scene in Attenborough's new series

I just thought, how fucked up the albatross dad was that he didnt give the chick a helping wing to get it back into the nest. It apparently doesnt recognise its own chick unless the chick is in the nest... ...that's some evolutionary cock up there surely?

The biggest heart in mouth moment was when the exhausted penguin made it onto some ice and avoided being eaten.

Looking forward to seeing the snub nosed monkeys next week.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Watched this last night. Some stunning footage. The game penguin giving those whales a real chase!

That knackered penguin facing down the leopard seal on the ice floe was incredible stuff. Can't imagine that happens often (with that outcome). Wrong to transfer human emotion onto other animals but it looked for all the world like the penguin was going "Do it then you bastard! Get it over with then!"

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Watched this last night. Some stunning footage. The game penguin giving those whales a real chase!

That knackered penguin facing down the leopard seal on the ice floe was incredible stuff. Can't imagine that happens often (with that outcome). Wrong to transfer human emotion onto other animals but it looked for all the world like the penguin was going "Do it then you bastard! Get it over with then!"

Exactly this .. the penguin didnt even have the energy to step back further.

 

[AverageJoe]

I liked the monkeys in the last one

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I liked the monkeys in the last one

They were so gorgeous!!
I felt really sad though when one of them was separated from the group and was shivering with the cold.

 

[Maggot]

Loved this weeks Episode: The mind-blowing number of walruses, the orang utans, the snow monkeys, the amazing snake whose tail looks like an insect.

 

[5t3IIa]

We are saving this for a binge watch at the weekend

Had it got as mad stuff as those speeding snakes and plummeting walri?

 

[Steel Icarus]

We are saving this for a binge watch at the weekend

Had it got as mad stuff as those speeding snakes and plummeting walri?

Only seen the first one and though nothing rivalled the horror snakes there were definitely some NO WAY moments and a couple of properly thrilling scenes. Like all Attenborough stuff within about 2 mins I'm all "worth the license fee for this alone". The little "making of" bit at the end was great too.

 

[Badgers]

Also saving this for a Sunday afternoon binge watch.

 

[Steel Icarus]

The walrus

 

[marty21]

Apparently people were emotionally traumatised watching the baby seals, some of whom dudnt make it through the blizzard and then the albatross chick blown out of the nest and their effort to get back in.
Viewers left crying by sad scene in Attenborough's new series

I just thought, how fucked up the albatross dad was that he didnt give the chick a helping wing to get it back into the nest. It apparently doesnt recognise its own chick unless the chick is in the nest... ...that's some evolutionary cock up there surely?

The biggest heart in mouth moment was when the exhausted penguin made it onto some ice and avoided being eaten.

Looking forward to seeing the snub nosed monkeys next week.
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those monkeys were cute overload - until they got riled

 

[wiskey]

I was traumatised by the elephant seals in a previous Attenborough series when I was a kid and I didn't enjoy them this time round either.

Haven't seen E2 yet

 

[8ball]

Sounds good - inflation in the number of continents also means more series are possible.
Was surprised to see we're still only at 7.

 

[Badgers]

It is another epic programme

That is all

 

[Orang Utan]

Sounds good - inflation in the number of continents also means more series are possible.
Was surprised to see we're still only at 7.

What?

 

[Pickman's model]

What?

it's a joke

 

[8ball]

What?

Pay attention at the back!

 

[Pickman's model]

Apparently people were emotionally traumatised watching the baby seals, some of whom dudnt make it through the blizzard and then the albatross chick blown out of the nest and their effort to get back in.
Viewers left crying by sad scene in Attenborough's new series

I just thought, how fucked up the albatross dad was that he didnt give the chick a helping wing to get it back into the nest. It apparently doesnt recognise its own chick unless the chick is in the nest... ...that's some evolutionary cock up there surely?

The biggest heart in mouth moment was when the exhausted penguin made it onto some ice and avoided being eaten.

Looking forward to seeing the snub nosed monkeys next week.
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i hope you see now why the south atlantic projects are required to improve the penguins' lot

 

[Orang Utan]

it's a joke

Pay attention at the back!

I don't get it! Nothing mentioned on the thread til 8ball did

 

[8ball]

it's a joke

Not at all, I predict the announcement of an 8th continent within the next 5 years.
I really think its time the International Olympics Committee updated their flag too.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't get it! Nothing mentioned on the thread til 8ball did

sometimes people make their own humour which doesn't rely on previous posts