Cannot believe...
... there has never been a follow-up.
Big Al was okay but a bit dramatic, I preferred the original series which pretended to be an ordinary nature documentary.
What do you mean under follow-up, since there were plenty of sequels and specials, as well as BBC's more recent Planet Dinosaur series, which was sort of a "spiritual successor" to WWD?
If you were referring to the tone and the overall presentation of the show, then I do agree -- most of the later installments felt a lot less like nature documentaries.
I actually re-watched this a while ago, and liked it the same as always. In spite of the dated science and effects, it was still greatly enjoyable because it did feel like a genuine nature docu with more or less realistically behaving animals. As opposed to the more "dramatically" behaving critters from the later series (like Walking with Monsters) and especially to the dino documentaries by the Discovery Channel, where the animals are overly humanized and their actions and movements feel tiresomely theatrical.
This show succeeded in hitting just the right tone, so in that regard, it is a pity that the later ones gradually veered away from it, in favor of a more dramatic and action-oriented approach.
What do you mean under follow-up, since there were plenty of sequels and specials, as well as BBC's more recent Planet Dinosaur series, which was sort of a "spiritual successor" to WWD?I mean 'follow-up' as in an actual WWD series, which maintained the nature-documentary tone that you mention.
And like you say, the later dino documentaries really hammed up the action, to the point where ironically they looked less realistic than WWD with its dated graphics. share