Growing up, we had one television and Dad controlled the remote. My early years were filled with a lot of boxing, old musicals, and nature programs. I probably could quote South Pacific in its entirety, I still love boxing and now that we have a TV again, I'm renting nature programs on DVD.
The BBC Planet Earth series is extraordinary. I've seen things that I could have never imagined, not in a thousand years. The stunning, intimate photography has made me gasp, cringe, and, yes, even laugh out loud...
Watch the whole thing - the best is at the very end.
That last bird is absolutely unearthly!
ReplyDeleteHmm, must be my age, but when I was growing up I was the remote and would move to the television to change the channel and then get out of the way. Wonder what they did after I had to go to bed? By high school I would lay in front of the television doing my home work, listening to the radio on an ear piece and reach up to change the channel - progress!
ReplyDeleteIf I could do what that last bird did, that would be ALL I'd EVER do!
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y'know, Sir David Attenborough could talk to me about butter for an hour and i'd be enthralled. that man has a voice from the gods themselves.
ReplyDeleteWe picked up Planet Earth a while back. Amazing stuff; Carolyn is fascinated by the Caves episode. Me, not so much. I have a hard time getting bast the 100-meter high hill of bat bat droppings crawling with cockroaches and giant centipedes.
ReplyDeleteIf somebody told me my job was to climb up that I would quit on the spot and walk home.
Yes, I know the cave is in Borneo.
turk - funny old world, huh?
ReplyDeleteearl - and now?
weer'd - I knew you'd like this one! =)
fenix - Attenborough's voice is THE voice of nature programs to me. Anyone else would just sound wrong.
fearsclave - And wasn't the sulfuric acid producing cave snot just horrific?
I kept imagining these birds intoning with a vampire accent "you vant eeet! You vant zee booty!"
ReplyDeleteFabulous stuff!
The Planet Earth series was one of the best nature series on TV. It is one of the reasons I enjoy having HDTV. (That and being able to see Firefly and Battlestar Galactica in HD).
ReplyDeleteBy the way, when I was a kid, I WAS the remote.
ReplyDeleteTo cool! Should I try that?
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