Anyone watching? I hope to binge it this weekend
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Few animals in history have ever tapped into our collective imagination in quite the same manner that dinosaurs have. Their massive scale and early extinction has given them almost the same status of mythical or magical creatures in our mind. This is the general premise with which famed biologist, natural historian, and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough opens the docuseries Prehistoric Planet. This brand new series, distributed by Apple TV, is an exciting five-day event. Between May 23, 2022 and May 27, 2022, the five parts of Prehistoric Planet will be released on the streaming platform, one day at a time.
Prehistoric Planet combines
the talents of Jon Favreau (the visionary behind
Iron Man,
The Jungle Book, and
The Lion King), Mike Gunton (the head of BBC’s Natural History Unit), and the creators of famed nature series
Planet Earth. Rounding out the team is the highly regarded Attenborough, whose enthusiastic and vivid narration is the final hook of the series.
Prehistoric Planet strives to answer the most pressing questions related to the existence of dinosaurs: What did they look like? How did they live?
Answers to these questions remained elusive for years, but with research and top-notch computer imagining,
Prehistorical Planet gives us the best modern visual answer.
To start with,
Prehistoric Planet’s CGI rendering of dinosaurs is not perfect. There are times when the realistic nature falters briefly and we can see through the illusion. However, most often, the CGI is nothing short of incredible. The series utilizes the same
photorealistic quality that is found in such films as
The Lion King. It is, essentially, the attempt of an artist to depict real people or objects with the exactness of a photograph.
The depiction is so realistic that it’s hard to detect anything is amiss. Watching a Tyrannosaurs Rex swim across the ocean with his young seems as natural as watching a dolphin swim in the ocean. The herd of Ornithomimus making their nests on an island seems as natural as watching a herd of ostriches. You truly feel like you are somehow watching a live nature documentary following dinosaurs in the ecosystems that existed 66 million years ago.
The crown jewel of this docuseries, though, is the detail. From the glittering water droplets condensing on the skin of a Hadrosaur to the wet nictitating membrane sliding over the eye of T-Rex, to the individual blue feathers of a Corythoraptor riffling in the wind, the detail is exquisite. The amount of detail seen in the series makes you think that,
surely, the creators had a plethora of live dinosaurs to observe—that there’s no other way they could have known what these animals sounded like when they breathed, or how their weight shifted when they walked, or how they nuzzled each other when they mated. The power of scientific research and futuristic CGI is truly mind-boggling..............
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