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Absolutely incredible, I've been looking forward to this since the first trailer and it didn't disappoint.

The ice caves of Mount Erebus were jaw-droppingly beautiful, but the co-ordinated hunting of the killer whales (creating waves to knock a seal off an ice floe) was a superb piece of filming.

And in HD, it's so good. It took four years to film, but it was worth it.

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Me too, but the seal being dragged under by a Killer Whale was just about the saddest thing I have seen on TV for years.

If I'd seen CGI Killer Whales working in coordination like that in a horror film I'd be shouting about stupid Hollywood suspension of disbelief ruining bullshit. The fact that it was real! My jaw was on the floor. :omg:

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I was routing for the Bison and thought that the little one was going to get a reprieve when I saw another Bison come charging towards it to aid it in its efforts. My fist pumping moment was quickly suspended when the other Bison just barged into the one under attack, completely knocked it over and then left it for the wolves...

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Harsin

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Yeah, another six episodes.

Watching the effort that goes into making it (and making the footage look so effortlessly gained in the final product) was incredibly impressive and the entire team deserve all the kudos they get.

I feel sad that David Attenborough's TV career is coming to an end. Read a recent interview with him where he said he's never accepted the many, many offers of advertising voiceover work that have come his way, as he feels that he's built up a level of trust with the audience and to use that to shill products would be wrong. :wub:

Not sure who the Beeb will get to replace him for voicing this kind of thing. Don't say Stephen Fry!

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Yeah, another six episodes.

Watching the effort that goes into making it (and making the footage look so effortlessly gained in the final product) was incredibly impressive and the entire team deserve all the kudos they get.

I feel sad that David Attenborough's TV career is coming to an end. Read a recent interview with him where he said he's never accepted the many, many offers of advertising voice over work that have come his way as he feels that he's built up a level of trust with the audience and to use that to shill products would be wrong. :wub:

Not sure who the Beeb will get to replace him for voicing this kind of thing. Don't say Stephen Fry!

Idris Elba!

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I was routing for the Bison and thought that the little one was going to get a reprieve when I saw another Bison come charging towards it to aid it in its efforts. My fist pumping moment was quickly suspended when the other Bison just barged into the one under attack, completely knocked it over and then left it for the wolves...

Oh man, that was harsh! It looked like the bigger bison broke the small one's neck because it had completely stopped moving once it had been trampled. With friends like those, who needs enemies.

And what was up with that sealion/penguin chase? At least twice the sealion managed to get the penguin, but lost its grip and the penguin started running off completely unscathed. Do sealions not have teeth or something?

Agree about the knackered seal giving up the fight and getting dragged of its iceberg. That was awful.

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I think this show is a bit much for my girlfriend. Whenever they bring on a new cute baby animal for her to coo over, I'm always bracing myself for its inevitable grisly demise a few minutes later.

The baby penguin eaten by sea squas was a particualrly effective piece of exploitative editing - while I'm sure the majority of shots in that sequence were of unrelated penguins and events, the finale of the baby penguin being brutally ripped apart while an adult ineffectually tried to intervene was pretty tearjerking.

Funnily, it has completely changed her opinion of Killer Whales. In the first episode she was all "Yay, killer whales, so beatiful!". Now whenever they appear its "Oh, Killer Whales, I hate those."

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I don't see why everyone's getting in a fuss over the climate change episode.

Since when were nature shows about climate change? I hate the recent trend where a lot of shows hint or lead episodes into how we're killing our planet, etc.

There are enough shows about climate change! Nature shows and climate change are two different things.

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I think this show is a bit much for my girlfriend. Whenever they bring on a new cute baby animal for her to coo over, I'm always bracing myself for its inevitable grisly demise a few minutes later.

The baby penguin eaten by sea squas was a particualrly effective piece of exploitative editing - while I'm sure the majority of shots in that sequence were of unrelated penguins and events, the finale of the baby penguin being brutally ripped apart while an adult ineffectually tried to intervene was pretty tearjerking.

Funnily, it has completely changed her opinion of Killer Whales. In the first episode she was all "Yay, killer whales, so beatiful!". Now whenever they appear its "Oh, Killer Whales, I hate those."

Classic example of that last night with the guillemot chicks gliding down from their nest in the cliffs to the water below. "Oh, he's going to make it, just a bit further - oh no he's dashed himself on the rocks and is now ragdolling through the air. But hang on! He's tougher than he looks, he's on his feet - oh an artic fox has eaten him."

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Why are Muslims going nuts for the ice tentacle thing? There seems to be loads of them somehow concluding that it proves the existence of Allah on youtube videos etc.

Mate, you got people who still think that Coca Cola backwards says 'no God, no Mohammed' even though it doesn't and why the fuck would it be that anyway?

At least it's not the Daily Mail readership saying they cause cancer.

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