Mesozoic Mind

It is done. I have finished Prehistoric Planet . While I had some difficulties setting it up and thus had the hype deflated a bit for me, I loved it through and through, and its certainly one of the best documentaries I've seen in a while. SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. 5. Freshwater By no means is Freshwater a bad episode. As I have wrote before , it's merely the least good of the series: not many of the sequences take place within lakes, wetlands, and rivers, so we don't get any fun swimming scenes and none of the cool fish or crocodilians of the time (ignoring they're practically mundane conpared to other mesozoic ones). A T. rex scene is completely superfluous, only having one wade in river as a connection, and for got knows what reason they stuck Quetzalcoatlus  in Madagascar of all places (even if it was just for breeding). It doesn't help it barely has its own identity in technical side: the colour palates of each segments, or even segments themselves,...

 If you've been keeping up with palaeo-media for the last couple of years, you may have heard of Prehistoric Planet , a documentary on the streaming service Apple TV+ that shares its name with at least two recuts of Walking With... properties ( Shameles plug link to my thoughts one of them ), from both BBC Natural History Un it and Jon Favreau, using the same CG used in his previous works at Disney. For months no further came of it, and many, including me thought nothing would ever be, even being quietly cancelled. But today the trailer dropped, and OMIGOSH ITS AMAZING. The whole series is looking absolutely astounding. Hans Zimmer is composing the score and the snippet here is already breathtaking, THE David Attenborough is narrating, the cinematography and the dinosaurs. Just the Dinosaurs.  We start off with a herd of what are presumably  Alamosaurus   Dreadnaughtus . By any rate they're stunning and imposing to look at. The inflatable sacs along the neck are al...