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Post by noons on May 31, 2009 14:11:32 GMT
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Post by knowingthomas on May 31, 2009 16:12:37 GMT
I get to go see WwD live at the end of June this year with my niece and nephew. They can't wait. www.dinosaurlive.com/ |
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Post by jamierobertson on May 31, 2009 17:30:23 GMT
Didn't like it. The whole thing was somewhere between a just-so story and a soap opera; some bloody huge assumptions were made about how dinosaurs behaved, coupled with a decent bit of artistic licence, and I'm always much more interested in how they now all these things about extinct animals (although to be fair, some science was touched on in the book accompanying the series).
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Post by James Hannam on May 31, 2009 19:01:31 GMT
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Post by sandwiches on May 31, 2009 20:36:23 GMT
That Dawkins is a bit of a pedant:
".....Mr Dawkins will not be a big fan of Disney's new offering, where the cast of Velociraptors, Brachiosauruses and Styrathosauruses have folksy names and actually speak."
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Post by merkavah12 on May 31, 2009 21:53:36 GMT
I am beginning to wonder if Richie D is EVER truly happy....
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Post by noons on Jun 2, 2009 18:39:54 GMT
I think our good friend Richard Dawkins was referring to a different series. This one has no talking dinosaurs, just a narrator.
However, there were a lot of assumptions about behavior that I also thought were probably unsupported. Though it would be interesting to know when in the history of life animals started - for example - caring for their young rather than eating them.
Despite the artistic licenses taken, I thoroughly enjoyed it and the prequel and sequel series.
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Post by knowingthomas on Jun 2, 2009 20:01:31 GMT
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Post by jamierobertson on Jun 2, 2009 20:28:31 GMT
Yup. That one was basically The Lion King, but with dinosaurs. WWD was an Attenborough-style documentary with photo-CGI animals.
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