In these dark times it’s never been more needed. It gets my son off his ipad, daughter off snapchat and all of us screamin laughing and generally enjoying every thrilling minute of Planet Earth II. I am not a nature doc type of person, but it’s just television of the very best order. Didn’t see I but like all sequels its got a bigger budget, there’s space marines and a glass office – ok maybe not the last two, but the HD camerawork from the microscopic to the epic is astonishing. The ‘breakout moment’ I believe they say was baby iguanas v snakes in the first episode. You can find versions on Youtube cut to Messi scoring, William Tell, boss scenes from video games and so on. I’ve included it in the comments, but there’s been several gob-smacking moments every episode – this week the see-through kung-fu kicking wasp attacking micro frog, the eagle fight in the mountains, leopard v crocodile, the crazy surfing penguins, the incredibly sad blind crabs – catch up right now if you haven’t. I’m imagining a version recut with Adam Curtis’ voiceover from Hypernormalization….
Planet Earth II
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The photography is stunning of corse and in HD it is literally as good as anything I have ever seen on a screen. But I wish that there was a red button option to play it without Attenborough’s commentary, which, great man though he undoubtedly is, I find rather dreary and obvious.
I’ve been catching up on this all week – just superb. I had to fast forward through the iguanas and snakes though! Favourite moment, the bears doing their crazy scratching dance against the trees. But there have been so many highlights it is difficult to pick one. The monkey rescuing its young who had gone on a solo trip up a very high tree and got stuck in the air was another. It was amazing too to see the guys parasending through the mountains to replicate the flight of the eagle. And of course penguins are always fabulous.
Absolutely brilliant. Highlights are the Snow Leopard, The Eagle flight and those crazy flamingos.