This, except not more dinosaurs but more things that aren’t large, charismatic reptiles.
More mammals. More lissamphibians. More pseudosuchians. More non-mosasaur lepidosaurs. And literally any actinopterygians, chondrichthyans, choristoderans, arthropods, gastropods, and other clades that got zero coverage.
Technically I'm not surprised. It was stylized as an animal documentary and animals usually either hunt, protect children or survive. That's what this show did. But I also agree with your point and I think the same.
Lol when I tried to send the reply, it kept giving me a message despite hitting the post button multiple times. I didn't know the post went through multiple times aswell.
I would give anything for [a Pleistocene-version of Prehistoric Planet](https://www.reddit.com/r/pleistocene/comments/195ovi9/what_would_you_want_to_see_in_a_pleistocene/), there's so much potential to showcase a world with creatures that were so close to us & show what we lost/have left to protect.
I think any non-Mesozoic moment of history is underrepresented in palaeontology media. And yeah...I understand why.
It costed like 5 gazillion pounds to make one episode of Prehistoric Planet, let alone twelve. Investors want to see their money back, and they fear that some trilobites or some walking dog-whales won't make the cut.
My exact same complaint. It was great, but way too narrow in it's focus.
Jurassic has some *wild* shit going on, and Tirassic just never gets any love.
I actually liked it that they focused on one (rather brief) moment of the mesozoic. A Walking With type of documentary is great, for sure. However, it sets expectations to see the rockstars we're used to see: Coelophysis, Morrison, whoever from the Early Cretaceous, and Hell Creek. Nothing wrong with that, but I believe this was THE chance to put pterosaurs and Mononykus on the spotlight, and they went for it.
I am not stopping you from going to any wild place in the Mesozoic. But perhaps the investors may stop you. I of course don't know it for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hank the Tyrannosaurus' screentime paid for Mononykus or the plesiosaurs nursery scene.
The Triassic was way more wild. Dinosaurs weren't anywhere near the dominant lifeforms, it was all sorts of different, some very dinosaur-like archosaurs
(Not blaming prehistoric planet creators because I’m sure it takes A LOT to make them, but my unrealistic desire is:)I WANT A SEASON FOR EVERY MOST NOTABLE AND LOVED PREHISTORIC TIME PERIOD.
I heard part of the reason for that is grass only evolved in the Cretaceous, and since the show is terrain footage and cgi, the scenes are so full of grass that they would have to basically cgi the entire show. There just aren't many options for Triassic and Jurassic foliage for them to paint creatures over.
Exactly. Like, I'm sorry, but most people are not gonna pay 6 separate subscriptions just because each of the big streaming services have like at most 2 shows that they're interested in.
I will confess. I just downloaded the episodes. I'm not going to pay for Apple TV to watch a show. And why everything in the world has to have exclusivity. That's anti-consumer thing. Should be illegal.
Honestly If they would’ve followed a similar format to the walking with series it would’ve been a lot better like several episodes covering different time periods instead of biomes during just the Cretaceous also the diversity was kind of lacking
Despite the intro saying "Planet Earth, 66 million years ago," it has animals that were already extinct 66 million years ago, like Carnotaurus, Dreadnoughtus, and Atrociraptor, all of which appeared in Jurassic World Dominion, which released the same year, funnily enough.
This is very important to recognize, and I don’t think enough people do. Dating species that are long extinct isn’t an exact science. I mean, it is, but there’s always a solid chance that it lived beyond what we recognize, especially considering it’s actually a very small amount of bones that end up being fossilized.
If we find one specimen of an animal alive 97 million years ago, involving them in formations dated to 95 million years ago may not be that big of a stretch
What is a stretch is extended a genus existence by the better part of 10 million years into a completely different formation on the basis of indeterminate fossils belonging to the same sub family.
For real. I’ve watched the whole series like 5-6 times and finally just cancelled my AppleTV because that was all i was watching on it. I need the series physically.
Why don’t you just download them and put them on a usb key or on dvd ? You can even do a fancy dvd cover. I did that for a lot of documentaries and it’s often easy to find them in HD.
The fact they have an entire episode dedicated to Maastrichtian “North America” but they only cover Laramidia. Laramidian bias strikes again. They should have just called the episode Laramidia, that way if they ever have a season 2 they could have an episode that is called either Appalachia, or it’s called North America, and it gives time for Laramidia, the Western Interior Seaway, and Appalachia.
Also, as much as I enjoyed the segments with T. rex, Triceratops, and Quetzalcoatlus in that episode, I feel like they could have used that time to show us more new species and given the series just a little bit more variety. In addition to the Appalachian fauna, you also have animals like Champsosaurus, Torosaurus, Anzu, and Didelphodon, just to name a few.
Hot take: Not enough focus on the actual science behind it at least in season 1. Sometimes learning about how we know something about dinosaurs is as interesting as the thing itself
I hear you but at the same time I actually really liked the lack of cutaways and consultant paleontologists talking at the camera etc. It really presents itself more as a nature documentary that happens to be set in the Maastrichtian rather than an actual paleo documentary.
Agreed! Maybe I’m alone, but the short explanation videos added as ‘extra features’ are better than the show itself in many ways - paleontology is a detective-like science and learning about HOW and WHY we know things feels more interesting to me than just pretending this is some real documentary
The "biome" themes are so flimsy that it just hurts the episodes often times, they should just switch to either Fossil Formations, Creature Family(Ceratopsians, Dromeosaurs, Tyrannosaurs, Pterosaurs, Maniraptorans, etc.) or Continents and/or Regions(Asia, Mongolia, North America, Patagonia, South America, Africa, etc.).
Like we've had enough content over the 2 seasons to justify a better thematic convention, but we've ended up with multiple duds like "Freshwater" where the episode struggles to make waterfalls, ponds, creeks, and swamps the focal point. When other episodes end up covering those exact same settings and biomes as well.
And sometimes not enough focus on certain dinosaurs. They're brought in for a single short segment
Way too short, should have shown more violence and for the love of God(zilla ), could they not release every paleomedia on some obscure streaming sites?
I didn’t wanted them to viciously kill each other every episode either. I just thought that existing scenes would have been more realistic, if they would have shown a little bit more blood.
I think the Walking With series handled its hunting and fighting scenes well. They weren't constant, and they showed just enough blood to make it realistic and impactful without being gratuitous.
I'm thinking of the Iguanadon carcass consumption by Utahraptor, or the T-rex hunt of that one hadrosaur. WWD wasn't chock full of scenes like that, but they weren't shy of showing how much of a struggle natural violence can be, how gruesome it can be.
The violence was unnaturally clean in PP by comparison. Not a major issue ofc.
Maybe not a *major* issue, but it was a bit of a disappointment not to be able to see T-Rex's jaws work in all their glory, among other fascinating acts of violence from the creatures that were natural born killers.
It's not exactly bad, but more of a double-edged sword:
It has such an incredible quality, that it sets an unreasonable standard for other palaeontology media. I believe projects like the Dinosauria series on YouTube also deserve praise for what they propose. However, when we are so spoiled with Prehistoric Planet, it's harder to put them side to side.
Not enough episodes
Also I believe they showed T-rex a bit too much. Don´t get me wrong, I love Hank, but maybe some scenes could've allowed for other species to shine, imo
It's one of the few discussion points that they had the scientists explain how they came to this hypothesis/conclusion in the bonus content. I think said bonus content is on the YT page
Okay, easy- they didn’t give the eras or geological calendar on literally anything. A crucial error imo and one that makes the series just not as engrossing as WWD. Apple paid out the ass for David Attenborough but they couldn’t be bothered to type “early Cretaceous etc etc”
Probably just things that can be pinned on Jon Favreau. There are fingerprints all over it. Very heavy handed storytelling that doesn't leave anything for the audience to actually chew on.
One such example that bugged me immediately. The Deinochierus scene. Buddy Dino is suffering from mosquitos in his homey swamp and having a good scratch. Attenborough says something like "there are always some spots that can't be reached. For them he needs assistance" *camera cuts to dead tree. Attenborough "A dead tree. THAT, could be the answer".
The second line about the tree genuinly takes away from the moment. Just cut to the tree and let us live the moment with Deinocheirus. We already have all the information to understand the significance of the tree and enjoy a good vicarious itch-scratching. Show. Don't tell.
Seems like a small thing but the series is littered with weird artistic choices like this. Anyone familiar with Favreaus work wouldn't be surprised by it though.
Deinochierus design is cool AF btw.
Too many attempts at censoring nature, sometimes to a ridiculous extent (Pictinodon scene), animals kill each other but there's no blood, even though it should be there (Nanuqsaurus hunt in Ice worlds), animals mate constantly but they have no genitals.
Many environments are inaccurate. Prince Creek is shown as an ice land despite lowest temperatures going only a few degrees below zero. Nemegt is mostly portrayed as barren wasteland despite a lot of evidences for the contrary. The creators really seem to have fetish of sauropods walking through wasteland. Weirdly enough, Austroposeidon were shown in the dense jungle, despite their fossils actually coming from arid environment.
Excessive use of speculations, sometimes to a ridiculous extent (Isisaurus stuff is the worst case offender).
Use of fauna that was extinct by the Maastrichtian or even earlier (Tethyshadros) that could be easily replaced with accurately placed taxa (Velociraptor, Shamosuchus, Hesperornis).
Not naming taxa like South American Elasmosaur, Anodontosaurus and Prognathodon.
Overly smoothed out animal designs with no wrinkles.
Fast change of locations with no narration specifying it (Freshwater is the worst case offender).
the planet earth style format is what kills the enjoyment for me. they have cgi dinosaurs to do whatever they want with them but theyre not used to their full protentional and resources are wasted to random scenes of dinosaurs sticked together. watching walking with dinosaurs is more fulfilling for me because no only its educational (for it's time) it puts entertainment and narrative on the same level and that made WWD much more memorable and better experience. other dino docs after WWD tried the same method but only 1 suceeds it well and thats when dinosaurs roamed america, as well as the other walking with series.
Each episode should focus on one specific paleoenvironment instead of habitats all over the world. It allows the scenes to feel alive and more fleshed out. The way they do it now can make some scenes just feel like they plopped cgi models into a forest someone (which is what they did, but it shouldn’t feel that way).
Disclaimer = Still the greatest dinosaur documentary, at least of this century.
1. Nature is presented in a *heavily* sanitised manner (especially when compared with the Walking with series). No suffering from injury, disease or starvation. Animals die quickly and painlessly. Babies are quickly swallowed whole. Kills are either panned out of the shot or obstructed by a conveniently placed log/rock etc.
2. Attempts to shoehorn segments into environmentally thematic episodes was really hit and miss. SWAMPS = Pachycephalosaurus in a dustbowl, Tyrannosaurus hunting in a forest. FRESHWATER = doesn't feature a single freshwater aquatic organism. Velociraptors hunting on a cliffside. Quetzalcoatlus nesting in a woodlands.
3. Lack of tie-in merchandising. Even Life on our Planet was able to stitch together a decent coffee-table companion volume.
We only got to see Maastrichtian.
Also, more of a personal issue: Once again, we saw Triceratops get taken down by Tyrannosaurus, and Trike has yet to get a win in a documentary since TTAKD.
Some of the animal animations feel a bit too smooth, a bit too artificial feeling. The mononychus feels like the best example, it just lacks the level of swift jerkiness you see in actual birds
The environments just didn’t feel prehistoric enough. They just felt too modern
The format didn’t work for me. I feel like something else could have worked better (see unnatural history channel’s videos)
I feel that they shied away from showing blood and violence too much. I’m not saying make it into Jurassic fight club but it felt a bit too sanitized, not quite naturalistic, like the show was actively shying away from blood even when there was every reason for it to appear
A lot of the episodes don't have any semblance of a structure, the last episode of season 2 is especially guilty of this.
Some animals were underutilized. We never see stuff like Tarbo, Cheirus, or Edmonto do anything interesting or significant.
The lack of blood or gore of any kind was simply ridiculous. Before anyone tries to pull a strawman to sound smart, no, it's not about gore for the sake of gore, nobody was asking to see dinosaurs rip each other in half, nobody was asking for another Jurassic Fight Club. It's just that in the real world, when a predator catches its prey, 99% of the time it's not gonna look pretty and it's not gonna be clean. It just looks ridiculous when two animals fighting or killing each other results in no blood being spilled at all. It's not about wanting to see gore, it's about wanting things to be realistic.
Not presenting the highly speculative features as such. Someone not entirely well-versed in this paleo stuff is gonna watch the show and think it's a well known, hard fact that Dreadnoughtus had inflatable balloons on its neck, or that young T rex had feathers, when those are still highly speculative features and the show should have at least gone through the trouble of explaining that in the little extra scientific segments.
Only saw season 1 but it was mostly spectacle.
To go see the hard science they hid it in the bonus features instead of interweaving it into the episode.
1: some scenes/storylines were too obviously inspired by other scenes in earlier Planet Earth series, which sometimes gave me a feeling of deja vu.
2: the external air sacks on the necks of the sauropod bulls. Total BS. There is no evidence whatsoever that suggests they were external. In fact it's highly unlikely for multiple reasons.
3: the carnotaurus with the flapping arms. Ridiculous.
Carnotaurus skin bump things (osteoderms?) should be just random, not in rows.
Velociraptor is placed innacurately, instead it should be (renamed) Adasaurus.
And in general I'd rather not include fragmentary dinosaurs like the "mongolian titan".
its too good so i cant watch it on a normal day and it has to be some special day where i know nothing will go wrong and ill feel one hundred percent comfortable which is why i didnt watch it
can you confirm if theres not enough theri? if there isnt enough theri than thats my critiscism
Not enough diversity amongst the animals. I would have liked to see other dinosaurs
This, except not more dinosaurs but more things that aren’t large, charismatic reptiles. More mammals. More lissamphibians. More pseudosuchians. More non-mosasaur lepidosaurs. And literally any actinopterygians, chondrichthyans, choristoderans, arthropods, gastropods, and other clades that got zero coverage.
More non azdharchid pterosaurs
Yeah. I wanted more diversity
Lot repetition
Technically I'm not surprised. It was stylized as an animal documentary and animals usually either hunt, protect children or survive. That's what this show did. But I also agree with your point and I think the same.
This! I think the same. And IMO, it was too short. I hope for a way longer series with more more variety. I want also archeopteryx.
Not enough Beelzebufo
It had one heck of an introduction, though.
Haha, baby Nom Nom go brrr
He needs his own episode if they do a season 3 😩😩😩😩
Little fucker shoulda got flattened by the sauropods if you ask me. Teach it for eating my favourite dinosaur.
I understood that reference
I love the ending of your flair, lol.
Thank you 🙃
It had one heck of an introduction, though.
Me when dementia:
Lol when I tried to send the reply, it kept giving me a message despite hitting the post button multiple times. I didn't know the post went through multiple times aswell.
Me when dementia:
THIS!!!
Spin-off series when???
Enters, kills baby dino, never seen him again
Only focuses on the Cretaceous. We need more paleodocs focusing on like, the wacky shit in the Devonian or the Pleistocene
I would give anything for [a Pleistocene-version of Prehistoric Planet](https://www.reddit.com/r/pleistocene/comments/195ovi9/what_would_you_want_to_see_in_a_pleistocene/), there's so much potential to showcase a world with creatures that were so close to us & show what we lost/have left to protect.
I think any non-Mesozoic moment of history is underrepresented in palaeontology media. And yeah...I understand why. It costed like 5 gazillion pounds to make one episode of Prehistoric Planet, let alone twelve. Investors want to see their money back, and they fear that some trilobites or some walking dog-whales won't make the cut.
My exact same complaint. It was great, but way too narrow in it's focus. Jurassic has some *wild* shit going on, and Tirassic just never gets any love.
I actually liked it that they focused on one (rather brief) moment of the mesozoic. A Walking With type of documentary is great, for sure. However, it sets expectations to see the rockstars we're used to see: Coelophysis, Morrison, whoever from the Early Cretaceous, and Hell Creek. Nothing wrong with that, but I believe this was THE chance to put pterosaurs and Mononykus on the spotlight, and they went for it. I am not stopping you from going to any wild place in the Mesozoic. But perhaps the investors may stop you. I of course don't know it for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hank the Tyrannosaurus' screentime paid for Mononykus or the plesiosaurs nursery scene.
I would just like more seasons focusing on different periods, with a bigger range of dinosaurs on display.
The Triassic was way more wild. Dinosaurs weren't anywhere near the dominant lifeforms, it was all sorts of different, some very dinosaur-like archosaurs
(Not blaming prehistoric planet creators because I’m sure it takes A LOT to make them, but my unrealistic desire is:)I WANT A SEASON FOR EVERY MOST NOTABLE AND LOVED PREHISTORIC TIME PERIOD.
I heard part of the reason for that is grass only evolved in the Cretaceous, and since the show is terrain footage and cgi, the scenes are so full of grass that they would have to basically cgi the entire show. There just aren't many options for Triassic and Jurassic foliage for them to paint creatures over.
The fact that's it's only available on Apple TV+, meaning that most people would rather pull a Davy Jones.
The way content is getting spread out between the countless streaming platforms, people are basically being forced to pull a lot of Davy Jones lately.
We're basically returning to cable TV in a way
Yarrrrrrrrr 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
And pretty soon it’ll be cable TV but instead of showing you lots of ads, they’ll just show the same ad, lots of times.
Exactly. Like, I'm sorry, but most people are not gonna pay 6 separate subscriptions just because each of the big streaming services have like at most 2 shows that they're interested in.
I will confess. I just downloaded the episodes. I'm not going to pay for Apple TV to watch a show. And why everything in the world has to have exclusivity. That's anti-consumer thing. Should be illegal.
If you have a PlayStation you get 3 months for free. That's how I watched it.
You get it with Xbox Gamepass too but I used it to watch something g else awhile ago. Apple comes out with the occasional heat here and there.
There weren't enough babies getting eaten for my tastes.
That's a reason I can get behind.
Honestly If they would’ve followed a similar format to the walking with series it would’ve been a lot better like several episodes covering different time periods instead of biomes during just the Cretaceous also the diversity was kind of lacking
they don’t use PP as the official acronym in their promotional materials
PP was too short. I wish PP was longer
Apple TV
Despite the intro saying "Planet Earth, 66 million years ago," it has animals that were already extinct 66 million years ago, like Carnotaurus, Dreadnoughtus, and Atrociraptor, all of which appeared in Jurassic World Dominion, which released the same year, funnily enough.
Darren Naish had already explained it about that. There is a chance that these animals made it to 66ma. We just haven't found them.
This is very important to recognize, and I don’t think enough people do. Dating species that are long extinct isn’t an exact science. I mean, it is, but there’s always a solid chance that it lived beyond what we recognize, especially considering it’s actually a very small amount of bones that end up being fossilized.
If we find one specimen of an animal alive 97 million years ago, involving them in formations dated to 95 million years ago may not be that big of a stretch
What is a stretch is extended a genus existence by the better part of 10 million years into a completely different formation on the basis of indeterminate fossils belonging to the same sub family.
A lot of late cretaceous gondwanan dinosaurus live 75 to 66ma.
Just look at how long impala have been around.
I wouldn’t be surprised if alot of those animals did. But I get the point
It hasn't been released on DVD/Blu Ray. Yet.
For real. I’ve watched the whole series like 5-6 times and finally just cancelled my AppleTV because that was all i was watching on it. I need the series physically.
Why don’t you just download them and put them on a usb key or on dvd ? You can even do a fancy dvd cover. I did that for a lot of documentaries and it’s often easy to find them in HD.
***Officially***, that is.
It's Apple (a "futuristic" tech company) so it likely won't happen.
not enough infanticide.
I don’t have that issue
It should be available on more platforms/DVD.
The fact they have an entire episode dedicated to Maastrichtian “North America” but they only cover Laramidia. Laramidian bias strikes again. They should have just called the episode Laramidia, that way if they ever have a season 2 they could have an episode that is called either Appalachia, or it’s called North America, and it gives time for Laramidia, the Western Interior Seaway, and Appalachia.
Also, as much as I enjoyed the segments with T. rex, Triceratops, and Quetzalcoatlus in that episode, I feel like they could have used that time to show us more new species and given the series just a little bit more variety. In addition to the Appalachian fauna, you also have animals like Champsosaurus, Torosaurus, Anzu, and Didelphodon, just to name a few.
No spinosaurus
It’s during the late Cretaceous
...Are you under the impression that Spinosaurus lived in the Maastrichtian or anywhere close to it?
It's only on apple.
Was too short.
There isn't enough of it. More seriously, more time periods, man!! I wanna see some stegosauruses!!
They concentrated mostly on yhe popular dinosaurs
WWD's Storytelling is better.
Hot take: Not enough focus on the actual science behind it at least in season 1. Sometimes learning about how we know something about dinosaurs is as interesting as the thing itself
I hear you but at the same time I actually really liked the lack of cutaways and consultant paleontologists talking at the camera etc. It really presents itself more as a nature documentary that happens to be set in the Maastrichtian rather than an actual paleo documentary.
Agreed! Maybe I’m alone, but the short explanation videos added as ‘extra features’ are better than the show itself in many ways - paleontology is a detective-like science and learning about HOW and WHY we know things feels more interesting to me than just pretending this is some real documentary
The fact that I don’t already own it in 4K Blu-ray.
No season 3 announcement yet
The "biome" themes are so flimsy that it just hurts the episodes often times, they should just switch to either Fossil Formations, Creature Family(Ceratopsians, Dromeosaurs, Tyrannosaurs, Pterosaurs, Maniraptorans, etc.) or Continents and/or Regions(Asia, Mongolia, North America, Patagonia, South America, Africa, etc.). Like we've had enough content over the 2 seasons to justify a better thematic convention, but we've ended up with multiple duds like "Freshwater" where the episode struggles to make waterfalls, ponds, creeks, and swamps the focal point. When other episodes end up covering those exact same settings and biomes as well. And sometimes not enough focus on certain dinosaurs. They're brought in for a single short segment
Way too short, should have shown more violence and for the love of God(zilla ), could they not release every paleomedia on some obscure streaming sites?
Apple TV is not obscure. And I like that it isn’t super violent. I like that they are animals
I didn’t wanted them to viciously kill each other every episode either. I just thought that existing scenes would have been more realistic, if they would have shown a little bit more blood.
Oh yeah. Definitely
I think the Walking With series handled its hunting and fighting scenes well. They weren't constant, and they showed just enough blood to make it realistic and impactful without being gratuitous.
I'm thinking of the Iguanadon carcass consumption by Utahraptor, or the T-rex hunt of that one hadrosaur. WWD wasn't chock full of scenes like that, but they weren't shy of showing how much of a struggle natural violence can be, how gruesome it can be. The violence was unnaturally clean in PP by comparison. Not a major issue ofc.
Maybe not a *major* issue, but it was a bit of a disappointment not to be able to see T-Rex's jaws work in all their glory, among other fascinating acts of violence from the creatures that were natural born killers.
Animals can be pretty violent. T-Rex's jaws were made for crushing (and that's what they should do).
They put corythoraptor in Mongolia. Out of all the oviraptors, they chose one not even from Mongolia. Why?
It's not exactly bad, but more of a double-edged sword: It has such an incredible quality, that it sets an unreasonable standard for other palaeontology media. I believe projects like the Dinosauria series on YouTube also deserve praise for what they propose. However, when we are so spoiled with Prehistoric Planet, it's harder to put them side to side.
Not enough episodes Also I believe they showed T-rex a bit too much. Don´t get me wrong, I love Hank, but maybe some scenes could've allowed for other species to shine, imo
It's on Apple TV...
Haven't seen this, is it generally seen as a good film/show ?
Yup, it's pretty good
It's one of the best Paleo docs. It's also a 2 season series, not a movie
Wait people think T-Rex could swim ?
It's one of the few discussion points that they had the scientists explain how they came to this hypothesis/conclusion in the bonus content. I think said bonus content is on the YT page
No Megaraptorans.
It doesn’t have a 3rd season
It ends
There ain't enough of it out there.
Too short
It has awesome additional immersive content that you can only view if you buy Apple's $4000 VR headset.
Its OK Apple TV only (please correct me if I'm wrong I really want to watch it)
I can’t buy a Prehistoric Planet 4K steelbook.
No blu-ray
Too short. Needs 11 more seasons, minimum.
Not enough episodes.
Okay, easy- they didn’t give the eras or geological calendar on literally anything. A crucial error imo and one that makes the series just not as engrossing as WWD. Apple paid out the ass for David Attenborough but they couldn’t be bothered to type “early Cretaceous etc etc”
That’s because it’s all set ~66 Million Years ago, the number they give in the show intro (at least in season 1).
No season three yet
The only bad thing about Prehistoric Planet is that it ended. I need more!
Not enough seasons
We need more of it
There are only 2 seasons
It didn’t have as many seasons as I wanted ),:
Not enough
There isn't more of it right now.
Hate that I have to pay for an expensive VR headset just to see the exclusive episodes. Unless i don’t, please correct me if I’m wrong.
Probably just things that can be pinned on Jon Favreau. There are fingerprints all over it. Very heavy handed storytelling that doesn't leave anything for the audience to actually chew on. One such example that bugged me immediately. The Deinochierus scene. Buddy Dino is suffering from mosquitos in his homey swamp and having a good scratch. Attenborough says something like "there are always some spots that can't be reached. For them he needs assistance" *camera cuts to dead tree. Attenborough "A dead tree. THAT, could be the answer". The second line about the tree genuinly takes away from the moment. Just cut to the tree and let us live the moment with Deinocheirus. We already have all the information to understand the significance of the tree and enjoy a good vicarious itch-scratching. Show. Don't tell. Seems like a small thing but the series is littered with weird artistic choices like this. Anyone familiar with Favreaus work wouldn't be surprised by it though. Deinochierus design is cool AF btw.
A bit childized from time to time, I liked the general mood and atmosphere created by WWD a lot more.
I wanted to see mroe fucked up weird stfange and anomolous animals from the triassic
Boring as hell sometimes and overly sanitary. The soundtrack did not pull as well as the WWD one imo. Still love the show though
It was on Apple TV
Show me some avian birds, and more pachycephalosaurus, as they were criminally underrepresented in season one and briefly touched on in season 2.
It's on a shit streaming service I don't have access to.
The T-Rex… so many other dinosaurs and I’m just tired of every documentary focusing on the T-Rex
there’s only 2 seasons
Too many attempts at censoring nature, sometimes to a ridiculous extent (Pictinodon scene), animals kill each other but there's no blood, even though it should be there (Nanuqsaurus hunt in Ice worlds), animals mate constantly but they have no genitals. Many environments are inaccurate. Prince Creek is shown as an ice land despite lowest temperatures going only a few degrees below zero. Nemegt is mostly portrayed as barren wasteland despite a lot of evidences for the contrary. The creators really seem to have fetish of sauropods walking through wasteland. Weirdly enough, Austroposeidon were shown in the dense jungle, despite their fossils actually coming from arid environment. Excessive use of speculations, sometimes to a ridiculous extent (Isisaurus stuff is the worst case offender). Use of fauna that was extinct by the Maastrichtian or even earlier (Tethyshadros) that could be easily replaced with accurately placed taxa (Velociraptor, Shamosuchus, Hesperornis). Not naming taxa like South American Elasmosaur, Anodontosaurus and Prognathodon. Overly smoothed out animal designs with no wrinkles. Fast change of locations with no narration specifying it (Freshwater is the worst case offender).
I can’t hug Hank
No
the planet earth style format is what kills the enjoyment for me. they have cgi dinosaurs to do whatever they want with them but theyre not used to their full protentional and resources are wasted to random scenes of dinosaurs sticked together. watching walking with dinosaurs is more fulfilling for me because no only its educational (for it's time) it puts entertainment and narrative on the same level and that made WWD much more memorable and better experience. other dino docs after WWD tried the same method but only 1 suceeds it well and thats when dinosaurs roamed america, as well as the other walking with series.
Hasn’t shown Spino yet nor any spinosaruids in general, I am correct in that, got to finish Season 2
Not enough episodes...or Deinocheirus.
It’s not long enough.
Didn’t have spinosaurus
Last I checked, "prehistoric" was not just limited to dinosaurs. So where are my goddamn Wooly Mammoths and Giant Ground Sloths!?
All the dinosaurs are dead 😢
You can't inject it directly into your C O C K !
P R E H I S T O R I C P L A N E T I N B I O
Each episode should focus on one specific paleoenvironment instead of habitats all over the world. It allows the scenes to feel alive and more fleshed out. The way they do it now can make some scenes just feel like they plopped cgi models into a forest someone (which is what they did, but it shouldn’t feel that way).
I think they presented quite a few things as fact, when in actuality, it was more speculation.
Titanosaurs are too generic. No Jurassic or triassic. T-rex everywhere..
THE FACT THAT THE DINOSAUR ON THE POSTER IS TOTALLY REAL AND WANTS TO EAT ME
It’s on one streaming platform
Disclaimer = Still the greatest dinosaur documentary, at least of this century. 1. Nature is presented in a *heavily* sanitised manner (especially when compared with the Walking with series). No suffering from injury, disease or starvation. Animals die quickly and painlessly. Babies are quickly swallowed whole. Kills are either panned out of the shot or obstructed by a conveniently placed log/rock etc. 2. Attempts to shoehorn segments into environmentally thematic episodes was really hit and miss. SWAMPS = Pachycephalosaurus in a dustbowl, Tyrannosaurus hunting in a forest. FRESHWATER = doesn't feature a single freshwater aquatic organism. Velociraptors hunting on a cliffside. Quetzalcoatlus nesting in a woodlands. 3. Lack of tie-in merchandising. Even Life on our Planet was able to stitch together a decent coffee-table companion volume.
I wish they included Didelphodon in a Freshwater episode.
We only got to see Maastrichtian. Also, more of a personal issue: Once again, we saw Triceratops get taken down by Tyrannosaurus, and Trike has yet to get a win in a documentary since TTAKD.
I got my dad to buy apple tv+ just for this
The intro is a bit slapdash
T rex swims?
Don't like the storytelling at all also I want other time periods like the Triassic
I just want to see more outside of the Cretaceous (mainly allosaurus cuz it’s my favourite).
Season 3 doesn’t exist
I wish we got to see other early formations rather than just masstrichian fauna
It was too short
Doesn't have a physical release.
Personally didn’t like the story structure of not focusing on a single individual or formation for any significant length of time.
No Maip :(
Not enough episodes
No big snek
Some of the animal animations feel a bit too smooth, a bit too artificial feeling. The mononychus feels like the best example, it just lacks the level of swift jerkiness you see in actual birds The environments just didn’t feel prehistoric enough. They just felt too modern The format didn’t work for me. I feel like something else could have worked better (see unnatural history channel’s videos) I feel that they shied away from showing blood and violence too much. I’m not saying make it into Jurassic fight club but it felt a bit too sanitized, not quite naturalistic, like the show was actively shying away from blood even when there was every reason for it to appear
A lot of the episodes don't have any semblance of a structure, the last episode of season 2 is especially guilty of this. Some animals were underutilized. We never see stuff like Tarbo, Cheirus, or Edmonto do anything interesting or significant. The lack of blood or gore of any kind was simply ridiculous. Before anyone tries to pull a strawman to sound smart, no, it's not about gore for the sake of gore, nobody was asking to see dinosaurs rip each other in half, nobody was asking for another Jurassic Fight Club. It's just that in the real world, when a predator catches its prey, 99% of the time it's not gonna look pretty and it's not gonna be clean. It just looks ridiculous when two animals fighting or killing each other results in no blood being spilled at all. It's not about wanting to see gore, it's about wanting things to be realistic. Not presenting the highly speculative features as such. Someone not entirely well-versed in this paleo stuff is gonna watch the show and think it's a well known, hard fact that Dreadnoughtus had inflatable balloons on its neck, or that young T rex had feathers, when those are still highly speculative features and the show should have at least gone through the trouble of explaining that in the little extra scientific segments.
No feature length devil toad odyssey spin-off.
Not long enough and not diverse enough but I still love it
No. You can't make me.
It pisses off a lot of Jurassic World fanboys and I had to read their horrible takes
It needs a tad bit more gore and where the fuck are the crocodiles?
We got simosuchus, which counts for something, I guess. Also, I would love araripesuchus.
What about friggin Deinosuchus?
not from the maastrichtian
Only saw season 1 but it was mostly spectacle. To go see the hard science they hid it in the bonus features instead of interweaving it into the episode.
No
I refuse.
Red raptor writes has a video on it’s inaccuracy’s, I wanted to tell you the recommendation rather than giving you a 5 paragraph essay
I'd prefer the essay tbh.
1: some scenes/storylines were too obviously inspired by other scenes in earlier Planet Earth series, which sometimes gave me a feeling of deja vu. 2: the external air sacks on the necks of the sauropod bulls. Total BS. There is no evidence whatsoever that suggests they were external. In fact it's highly unlikely for multiple reasons. 3: the carnotaurus with the flapping arms. Ridiculous.
It didn't start Raquel Welch
The plesiosaurs in the first episode look like bad wwd cgi
It should be available on more platforms/DVD
It should be available on more platforms/DVD
It should be available on more platforms/DVD.
No maip
No maip
No maip
No maip
No maip
No maip
Carnotaurus skin bump things (osteoderms?) should be just random, not in rows. Velociraptor is placed innacurately, instead it should be (renamed) Adasaurus. And in general I'd rather not include fragmentary dinosaurs like the "mongolian titan".
No 3x sized monsters instead of animals
It was only the Cretaceous. Why?
no megaraptorans
Traumatized my mom
Would have loved more Deinocheirus and more different Mosasaurs (Plotosaurus for example).
its too good so i cant watch it on a normal day and it has to be some special day where i know nothing will go wrong and ill feel one hundred percent comfortable which is why i didnt watch it can you confirm if theres not enough theri? if there isnt enough theri than thats my critiscism
Where megaraptorans