PSA: Discovery Channel Special Begins Tonight - Page 6

Sickboy · #51 03-26-2007, 12:20 AM

kind of sad to know those russian snow leopards will be extinct in my lifetime.

troymclur · #52 03-26-2007, 12:34 AM

The Great White was sick! I read somewhere that they had to re-film it on a better camera at like 10k FPS. 1 second slowed to 20 in perfect fluidity, some of these shots are a damned trip. There's a dizzying beauty in seeing a herd of a couple hundred carabou sail up the TV that makes me want to buy an HD-DVD player for the DVD set.

The narrations is acceptable (they could have gotten a more distinct voice like GOB or something) but there's something about a british accent that makes random facts more interesting.

They are re-airing it again on Saturday and tomorrow afternoon, and i assume they'll do this every week for each of the next three installments.

Here is the schedule.

matt2500 · #53 03-26-2007, 12:47 AM

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The narrations is acceptable (they could have gotten a more distinct voice like GOB or something) but there's something about a british accent that makes random facts more interesting.

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Thing is, they already aired this a year ago in Britain, and had a British narrator - David Attenborough. Here's the BBC version of the shark sequence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYbCMdR38us

This is cool, though. That shark was vicious.

toybux · #54 03-26-2007, 01:04 AM

Is this the same series as the BBC Planet Earth bit? I can't believe they took out Attenborough's voiceovers, he is second to almost no one at narration of nature films.

Uglyowl · #55 03-26-2007, 01:17 AM

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amazing in HD. the shark part was awesome, i only caught the first episode and a bit of the second.

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HD is great, but it has been awhile since my jaw has literally dropped watching HD. The Great White nabbing the seal did it, holy [censored].

matt2500 · #56 03-26-2007, 01:24 AM

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Is this the same series as the BBC Planet Earth bit? I can't believe they took out Attenborough's voiceovers, he is second to almost no one at narration of nature films.

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Yep, same show. I have no idea why the narration was replaced, I guess Americans aren't familiar with David Atenborough (I didn't know who he was until I found his stuff on youtube).

SoCalRugger · #57 03-26-2007, 01:30 AM

The polar bear cubs were awesome.

danvh · #58 03-26-2007, 01:33 AM

This was cool as hell. It has been running all day on Discovery HD.

I think the Snow Leopard hunting sequence was one of the cooler thing so far. Only because I havent seen it before. The agility and speed, plus the rarity of seeing them, was cool.

drexah · #59 03-26-2007, 01:53 AM

penguins are officially balla

Blarg · #60 03-26-2007, 02:06 AM

I've been seeing Attenborough's nature shows for decades. I think I would have liked him as a narrator here. Weaver's voice was mixed in so that it was way too quiet in comparison to the music. Often I turned it up to hear her and then had the show's music blast out in comparison.