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SHAME ON YOU BBC !!!

posted 17 years ago by junglegringo
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To call this a DocuDrama is ludicrous !!! Fawlty Towers has nothing over this mini series.
I must admit it is an excellent lesson for children. It teaches them:

1. It is okay to go blundering into a strange place with little or no preparation.

2. Don't study an animal and it's habitat and diet beforehand. Just go catch something and try to figure out what you did wrong later.

3. Don't bring the right equipment with you. It's perfectly ok to catch an animal by throwing your jacket over it.

4. Hire your friends. Doesn't matter how incompetent they are

5. Wear shorts and tee shirts into a tropical jungle. The unknown insect life and reptiles won't bother you.

6. Camp out and bring any food and leave it in the tent. Don't bother with just canned rations it doesn't matter if a wild animal rips up your tent looking....

The mammoth was the most glaring example: Instead of going to a period where the mammoth thrived and study it's clime, diet and habits ... sweet Marvin mucks around in a time where the mammoth is near extinction. Grabs a hurt animal and brings it back..... then he can't figure out why the animal is not getting any better........
How does he solve the climate problem.... why hire a pea-brained vet to give it a haircut !!!!

and....Tyro in a wood stick enclosure ??? spare me !!!

Granted nothing but skeletons and fossils were known about most of the animals ........ but a thorough study before capturing them was a must !!!

Shame on the BBC which usually has quality programming !!

[–] Vihktor-24 17 years ago

Wasn't this an ITV product?

[–] dannythevick 17 years ago

Yeah, Bt you know what, IT WASNT REAL,

#1 Oh NO my child is going into a park, without preporation Oh NO

#2 A Freakin comet was about to hit it, I dont think taking it away before it dies is a bad thing even if it was about to die

#3 oh look theres a deer, i dont have a net so ill use my jacket, Get Real

#4 IT WASNT REAL THEY WERE ACTORS

#5 if you let your children in a tropical joungle, i wouldnt be worried about what theyre wearin id be wonderin why u let them in there

#6 WTF U on about

[–] Vihktor-24 17 years ago

5. Wear shorts and tee shirts into a tropical jungle. The unknown insect life and reptiles won't bother you.

Of course you know (and if you come here to bash a fictional documentary, you'd surely know) that they wear the same stuff even here, in the real world. And then there's the fact that it's hot like hell in a prehistoric tropical jungle. Yeah, like wearing a fur coat would be a better idea, hm?

[–] Cactusface 16 years ago

#1 Oh NO my child is going into a park, without preporation Oh NO

A park is slightly more safe than the *beep* LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD.

Park: Swans/ducks, dog-walkers and other humans. The occasional mugger.

Late Cretaceous: Predatory dinosaurs on every continent, around every corner, ready to swallow whole the first prey item they see.

#2 A Freakin comet was about to hit it, I dont think taking it away before it dies is a bad thing even if it was about to die

A "Freakin comet" was about to hit the EARTH, obliterating every dinosaur in its path, like the flow of time INTENDED to do. Saving animals from extinction by our own hands is one thing, but this was a natural event.

#3 oh look theres a deer, i dont have a net so ill use my jacket, Get Real

What the hell are you talking about?

#4 IT WASNT REAL THEY WERE ACTORS

Oh, no kidding! Hey guys, we can't point out mistakes, bad writing and poor planning because IT WUZNT REEL YEW GIZE. Put those creative minds away!

#5 if you let your children in a tropical joungle, i wouldnt be worried about what theyre wearin id be wonderin why u let them in there

This from the chav who can't see the difference between a park and the Late Cretaceous period.

#6 WTF U on about

I could ask you the same thing. Half of the things you've mentioned here, I don't have a clue what they pertain to.

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[–] Vihktor-24 16 years ago

A "Freakin comet" was about to hit the EARTH, obliterating every dinosaur in its path, like the flow of time INTENDED to do. Saving animals from extinction by our own hands is one thing, but this was a natural event.

Or what if they were also intended to be rescued? The flow of time was never damaged by this event, and I can't see how it's a crime to save to young dinosaurs from certain devastation. I believe it is what most good-natured zoologists would do, especially if the whole point of their expedition was to get some dinosaurs for their park.

[–] nestoralfaro15 11 years ago

Ghetto people like you shouldnt be allowed to comment. Go to your little hip hop threads.

"WTF U On About?" Learn proper grammar. Sheesh

Also, who cares if its fake, its entertainment.

[–] Phaerae2 16 years ago

For the love of God it's just a TV show, I'd be more worried that you think TV should be teaching your child instead of you teaching them. At the end of the day aside from the bad acting and melodrama it does in fact teach you a little about what we do know of dinosaurs and I'd have no problem explaining to my child that it's make believe...

I hardly doubt my child will be rushing to our local park under-dressed and under-prepared to face the dinousaurs that I'm sure a lurking in the bushes but have remained hidden from the rest of us for millions of years.

[–] lysergic-acid 16 years ago

sorta defeats the purpose of making a docudrama if you're just going to give the dinosaur info up front as "research" or "preparation" outside of the plot line of the show. his "blunders" are a way of conveying the information in a natural fashion that is easy for younger audiences to absorb.

other than the CG being less realistic than I prefer (due to the fact that it's a regular series, not a big budget movie), the show is actually quite good IMO.

[–] skygiordana 16 years ago

Apart from the fact that I enjoyed that show, I have to agree with the OP. Making a drama-oriented documentary can be quite fun, and a good show it was indeed. But I can't seem to shake off the urge to shoot Nigel in the face (Daily Show cameo :)), especially when he acts like the first dumbass you meet, instead of a professional biologist. Sure, it's entertainment, but it is also presented as educational, and some of its "lessons" are less than intelligent...

And by the way, I agree once again with the OP: What's the point of seeking for mammoths right before their extinction, or hunting T-Rex a few days before the meteorite hits the Earth? Drama pushed to a ridiculous level! Why not get the T-rex or mammoth while it thrives, and maybe get back to be a 100% sure about the impact theory? of course, it's just a show, but since the production wants to make it realistic, why not do it all the way? Be logical: how would you go about planning this project?

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[–] lysergic-acid 16 years ago

regarding the mammoth issue, it's sorta like capturing an animal that is currently thriving in the wild to preserve it as a specimen in a zoo.

even with huge amounts of resources, social animals cannot thrive in captivity the same way they can in the wild. so it's a bit unethical just to keep an animal in captivity, much less one that was previously thriving in its natural habitat. however, if you capture an animal species that is about to face a major extinction, then you're probably saving the specimen from certain death.

i didn't see that episode, and i don't know if the show producers made such ethical considerations, but there _is_ some logic for the decision to capture an animal just before the extinction of its species. also, animal species evolve over time, so a specimen captured a few millennia before its extinction versus one captures right before its extinction would have significant genetic differences due to evolutionary changes in that time. you could say that the specimen captured the day of the extinction event is the final, or most mature, form of that particular branch of evolution. so there's another reason for capturing the mammoth at the very end of the life of its species.

if you want to get technical, our carbon dating techniques wouldn't allow for great accuracy for ascertaining when an extinction event happened. so it'd be impossible for them to time-travel back to a specific number of days before the extinction event.

[–] Kockunge 12 years ago

carbon-dating isnt the only timemeasuring tool we have for things like this, thats only the most populirized one. theirs tons of other ways to measure...read richard dawkins greatest show on earth.

[–] slayintheilluminati 13 years ago

this just sucked ass...

[–] Kockunge 12 years ago

what if they did a sequal to the series - were Nigel gets critizied by the staff for being to impulsive and irratic - getting his teammates into danger and stuff. Sort of he´s got ADHD and refuses to take his meds, just rushing into things without preperation. Something that the staff wasnt really aware of....it could be like THE PREHISTORIC OFFICE!!! Lots of tension and akwardness .

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