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BBC Planet Dinosaur (Walking With Dinosaurs redux) + Dinosaur season on the BBC
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Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Airing in 40 minutes.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Also another dino doc on BBC Four at 9:00pm, part of the dinosaur season presented by the brilliant Tom Holland author of the great Rubicon: Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic and Persian Fire.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Damn, I can't wait to watch this in HD.
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
Came home late from work so could only catch the last 10 minutes. Looks interesting. Will definately watch more.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Any impressions from UK Gaf?
It was an underwhelming episode. Focused purely on Spinosaurus and Cacharodontosaurus. Throw in an Ouranosaurus and some fish and pterosaurs. All it showed was some stats and facts on the two carnivorous Dinos, as well as their territories and how they might clash.
Not a great start. They did show a fight between the two, though. :lol
Not a great start. They did show a fight between the two, though. :lol
Cow Mengde
Banned
Let me guess, they're using out dated 1997 info about Carcharodontosaurus being bigger than Tyrannosaurus didn't they?
Cow Mengde said:
Aye. I swear Carcharodontosaurus wasn't even mentioned in the same breath as Allosaurus years ago. At least when I was proper in to the studies of Dinos. It was all about Spinosaurus, T. Rex and Giganotosaurus competing for sizes. T. Rexes were also supposed to be around 14ish meters long, not 12.7 or whatever bullshit is being spouted now.
This new generation sucks. Gimme my 90's back.
Subliminal
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The CGI was awful
Cow Mengde
Banned
Carbonox_Ratchet said:
Largest fully grown T.rex that we have fossil evidence for is around 14.4 meters.
Subliminal said:
Really? It looks great in the trailer.
jump_button
Banned
Subliminal said:
Awkward eating CGI looked off the most to me it was ok
Cow Mengde
Banned
Ok, just saw it. Don't know what you guys were watching, but the CGI was spectacular. Not as good in some ways compared to DR, but also better in orders. The lighting is inferior since the entire thing was CGI, but the animation is much better. I do hate the Michael Bay camera work in some of the scenes. The eating scenes look much better than I thought.
The overall show was also a vast improvement over WWD. They actually try to backup their narrative by presenting fossil evidence. I don't mind when they back it up with something rather than just straight up bullshit their way through everything.
This is a Dinosaur Documentary.
The overall show was also a vast improvement over WWD. They actually try to backup their narrative by presenting fossil evidence. I don't mind when they back it up with something rather than just straight up bullshit their way through everything.
This is a Dinosaur Documentary.
Blue Ninja
Member
I liked it. Originally felt it lacked the charm of Walking with Dinosaurs, but it did get better near the end. CGI was good for the most part, though sometimes felt a bit lacking. The fight scenes were incredibad.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Much improved episode as expected.
Dr Zhivago
Member
Gigantoraptor was cool, but there was no real sense of size or weight to them when they moved. They looked about the size of turkeys.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Yeah, the biggest problem is the sense of weight and size for these animals. Seems like both Planet Dinosaur and Dinosaur Revolution overlap in the dinosaurs. They both featured Sinraptor and Gigantoraptor.
Dr Zhivago
Member
I saw a documentary the other day that had some old footage from Walking With Dinosaurs in it, and I thought that looked better.
It's partly because the dinos are superimposed onto real background footage rather than CGI landscapes, and partly down to the camerawork being more like a 'real' nature documentary rather than Michael Bay-style.
It's partly because the dinos are superimposed onto real background footage rather than CGI landscapes, and partly down to the camerawork being more like a 'real' nature documentary rather than Michael Bay-style.
KidGalactus
Member
Finally saw the first couple of episodes from this and the Discovery Channel one. They're both pretty good.
The thing I don't like about Planet Dinosaur is that the posture of the dinosaurs never (or hardly) changes. They look very stiff. Real animals are like never in the same position 95-100% of the time. They twist around, crouch, peer over and into things. That said, I do prefer the more documentary style to the almost sitcom-y nature of Dinosaur Revolution.
I will say, though, that the animals in Dinosaur Revolution seem a lot less stiff. this is probably a function of making them characters and anthropomorphising them a bit. When the sexy lady Eoraptor showed up in the first episode, I almost choked on my tea.
The thing I don't like about Planet Dinosaur is that the posture of the dinosaurs never (or hardly) changes. They look very stiff. Real animals are like never in the same position 95-100% of the time. They twist around, crouch, peer over and into things. That said, I do prefer the more documentary style to the almost sitcom-y nature of Dinosaur Revolution.
I will say, though, that the animals in Dinosaur Revolution seem a lot less stiff. this is probably a function of making them characters and anthropomorphising them a bit. When the sexy lady Eoraptor showed up in the first episode, I almost choked on my tea.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Predator X? Are you freakin' serious? They still haven't named that thing?
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Good finale and quite an accomplished series overall. It's not without its faults, but I enjoyed it, although I wasn't as enthralled as I was with Walking With Dinosaurs. I guess it was because I was younger and more impressionable back then.
Now onto Frozen Planet.
Now onto Frozen Planet.
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