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Prehistoric Planet: All Episodes Ranked and Overall Thoughts

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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,...

Dinosaurology review

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While I wait for my unfairly-delayed visit to the ROM, I convinced my father to visit my local library, the first time in by my estimate a year and a half. I admit with embarrassment I flocked to the kids' section eventually, as I always have since I was young. It was there I saw a book on the shelf that caught my attention and after being checked out: 2013's  Dinosaurology: The Search for a Lost World *. * Technically its  Being an Account of an Expedition Into the Unknown South America -- April 1907 , but I am not writing that subtitle nor saying that aloud The book itself is part of the larger Ology series that's been going on since 2003, each professing to be a lost work about a particular subject, ranging from real and providing info ( Oceanology ,  Knightology,  and Spyology ) to the fantastical ( Monsterology , Alienology , and Dragonology ), and written by a fictional author, although in truth they're all mostly done by authors  like Dugald Steer, and o...