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LIFE - follow up to Planet Earth

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Whoami
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08-03-2001

Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 11:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Well, at least I get to see the first two in HD, as we have TLC in HD. I watched parts of the first one as it was recording. Have to wait for WhosMom to get up so we can watch both of the first two episodes together. What parts I saw were great.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 3:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
All I know is that I will NEVER visit Manitoba, Canada!

All those snakes.

Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 4:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
Could not watch, have a snake phobia. uggghhhhhhhh

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 5:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
This is another DVD set that I will be purchasing.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 6:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
Oh, Ginger, you missed the snakes having sex in the sea. (and I will leave it at that).

I like where I live. No real snake problems around here.

Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 6:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
Ummm,ya know Grooch, I think I can take a pass on that <shudder>

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
I'm going to refrain from my sunflower story that GAL brought up the topic in another thread, I still shudder from it and I will save you the horror.

Kellsma
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08-27-2002

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kellsma a private message Print Post    
Ginger if you don't like snakes, this would have been a tough episode. Too bad because some of the other animals were amazing. My mom is the same way, she can't even look at a snake at all. When they showed them all in Manitoba coming out of hibernation, OMG, gross, way too many. Funny though how all the males snakes were going for one female.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
Next Sunday's episodes are Mammals and Fish.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Woo hoo, I'm looking forward to it. I liked the second hour, too (as long as a snake can't get to me I'm fine watching it on television), but I couldn't watch the last 5 minutes while the water buffalo were going down. The kimodos stalking them for three weeks while they were poisoned and encircling them while they were succumbing to the poison was too much for me to handle.

Grooch, no horror story you tell about a sunflower could equal the horror of a 7 foot sunflower growing outside my front door. Bring it (Ginger don't look).

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 1:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Oh, and the antennae-eyed bugs that have eyeball showdowns? Hilarious.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 7:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
Yeah, there's a lot more humor in Life than other nature docs, I think. I loved the stalk-eyed flies and the big fat bullfrog who makes the tunnel for the tadpoles. Oh and the small-as-your-fingernail red frog who brings her tadpoles up to the tops of the bromeliads, one by one.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
yankee is this going to be showing up ON DEMAND? i'm not finding it other than the one sunday night broadcast on Discovery. SO MANY COMMERCIALS!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 4:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Don't forget - two new episodes tonight starting at 8:00 eastern. Replays of last week are showing right now on Discovery.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 5:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
That chameleon last week was so cool (WhosMom and I finally watched last week's eps this afternoon). One thing I didn't realize is, I thought chameleons just had a sticky tongue. I didn't know the end of their tongue enveloped the prey like a second mouth. That was too cool.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I got a kick out of the sarcastic fish last night - he was NOT. HAVING IT. And the mud fish were amazing. Gross but amazing. I'm glad they showed scenes of how they got the heat chase of the whales - I was confounded on how they went about filming something like that.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 11:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
GAL, I saw a segment on the TODA SHOW a few weeks ago.

The photographers had to hold their breath when they went under the water to film it.

Scuba diving gives off bubbles and that would have thrown the male whales off and stopped them. He said they are very sensititive to unknown bubbles.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
Here's more on how they got the Humpback whale segment:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/life/mammals/humpback-whale-heat-run-scene-analysis.html

USA Today also did a story on it:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-03-16-discovery-life-nature_N.htm

And, at the conclusion of the series, at 10P on April 18, Discovery is running a full hour called "The Making of LIFE."

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 1:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Amazing, Yanks, thank you. I'm looking forward to the "Making of LIFE" episode.

My brother is tivo-ing this for his wife who is in Singapore right now working her butt off with no chance to watch television - she is an acute animal lover, and we're sure she's going to adore every minute of it.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Yankee. I want to get the DVD of this.

Amazing show.

Erniesgirl
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06-26-2006

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Erniesgirl a private message Print Post    
for some reason TLC and Discovery in Canada didn't show new episodes on Sunday, nor are there are any listed in next week's schedule.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 4:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
TLC, Discovery Health, etc., only simulcast the first night as a "special event."

Discovery Channel Canada (which is programmed differently than the U.S. version primarily due to CRTC regulations), aired LIFE a few months ago -- so Canada got it before the US did.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 6:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
I wish Canada and the US could get on board and air shows at the same time so we can all discuss popular topics (shows) at the same time.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 6:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I believe there are some scuba gear that are called 'rebreathers' that don't emit bubbles.

Yes, I was right:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/adventures/4201815.html

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 11:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
Grooch, as someone who's worked in tv in both Canada and the US, I can tell you that the answer lies with CRTC regulations, particularly related to Canadian content. Some networks, who were broadcasting in Canada before 1991, are grandfathered and not subject to the rules (TLC, CNN, etc).

I agree, it'd be so much simpler, but I guess Canada is trying to protect its tv industry/culture.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, April 04, 2010 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Reminder - new episodes tonight!!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Monday, April 05, 2010 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
The bone-cracking buzzards were fascinating in a gruesome sort of way. Invertebrates have always skeeved me out, I had a hard time watching that episode and the fried-egg jellyfish was just gross they should make cheesy horror flicks about it. "The Fried Egg Jellyfish that Tentacled Tokyo" or something.

Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Monday, April 05, 2010 - 5:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
I loved the birds who decked out their love shacks. I was also amazed at the pelicans eating other birds young.

The sea worms were icky.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 3:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Reminder - new episodes tonight. Tonight is "Hunters and Hunted" and "Insects."

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 1:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Mom and I are watching the two eps from Sunday now, and still enjoying the series.

Our pup Gidget had a very interesting (and nearly violent) reaction to the Ethiopian Wolves. First she was very interested in the pups. Then when the one wolf crouched into a hunting position/crawl, Gidget jumped up and literally raced over to the TV, jumped up (forepaws only) on the table, and even batted a paw at the TV (I was so scared she scratched it!). She even knocked a few things off the table, and moved that one side of the TV back about an inch! I think if she had been tall enough she'd have jumped up on the table with her full body and really gone after the wolf.

So far, my only complaint in this series is the same one I had about Planet Earth. I don't really like the repeated scenes, meaning if they showed a segment in one episode, I don't really care to see it again in another episode. Actually, its not so much I don't want to see it again; I think its more like I feel "cheated" cause I'd rather that time be used to show me more awesome stuff I haven't seen yet. Does that make any sense?

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Gee, what did I do, kill the thread? Nobody discussing the final week of installments?

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I haven't seen it yet, but will someday. It looks fabulous! I bought the Planet Earth series and will watch it someday too. (I need more time in my life to do these things!) (workin' toward that!)

Who, didn't you get a new tv, your first HD tv, recently? If so, I bet you really enjoyed seeing this in HD!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 2:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I have recorded the entire season on my DVR. I'm waiting for a rainy weekend when I can veg out on the couch and have a Life marathon.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
HappyMom, Yes, we did recently get a new HDTV. I was especially excited to see this show in HD, and was really looking forward to it. Alas, I only got to see the first two episodes in HD, as that weekend was the only weekend this show was simucast on other channels (that also have HD) other than Discovery. Comcast, in its infinite wisdom, has chosen not to offer the Discovery Channel in HD in my area. So I had to watch the rest of the series in standard. But, it was still spectacular!