Visually Spectacular - yes. Profound - no. Cerebral - no.

This landscape, especially with the old-fashioned sailing ship, was stunningly beautiful. I'd like to loop it playing over & over as a kind of TV screen-saver.

But cerebral? Philosophically profound? Really?

Let's see have some really deep stuff like, "all organisms on earth are connected" and "we are the dominant living organism"; stuff like one might find in the introduction in a 7th grade general biology textbook.

And the artists don't do or say anything to increase the overall interest level. There's an ox skeleton next to a lake and the photographer points his camera at the water and a fellow artist (or whatever) asks "is it the stones?" Guess he can't understand why the guys not taking a picture of the skeleton (always profound) - and photographer responds "stones are talking" . Well, like the people, they never say anything particularly interesting.

I think the biologist, looking through her microscope, claimed to have found a new species, that had (OMG) a nervous system; but couldn't have been too different; we hear no more about it.

Got my hopes up there might be something happening when someone spotted a moving white spot and, when they went to investigate, hoping for a polar bear, found remains of an ox. But all was not lost because "remains" always provide an opportunity for deep existential reflection, like "we will all end like this'. Wow.

Could go on with boring examples, but why bother. These seemed like nice people and I feel like I am kicking a puppy. I just can't believe more didn't go on between these people on this voyage. Seems like they tried to say something good for the camera, but something of more significance had to have been happening somewhere on that ship.