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There is random diplocaulus swimming in spinosaurus episode.
Heck yeah. Hope you had fun! Also, how are my fellow Floridians/Southeast USA residents putting up with the love bugs this season?
It was fun love visiting here and there for all the new events and stuff
They’re not that bad for me rn tbh I’ve seen some here and there but not as many as past years yet
I have barely seen any at all. The yellow flies have been a bigger nuisance. Man, I remember one summer about 10 years ago we drove from South Georgia to Panama City Beach and by the time we got there the front of the car had hundreds-thousands of dead love bugs stuck to it. I think we might have decimated their population.
Got me curious so I did a quick Google search. It’s actually a real problem.
Well that’s incredibly sad
The author forgot “getting splatted on cars.”
Perhaps that qualifies as predation?
Anyone else already watched WWD? If so whats your opinion?
I saw the first 2 episodes so far.
I saw the first 2 episodes so far.
im not the biggest fan unfortunately i must say. Its not horrible by any means, but i think it cant really recapture the originals or compete with prehistoric planet. The animation needless to say is leagues better than 26 years ago, but noticably weaker than prehistoric planet. The storytelling is similar to the originals where we mostly follow one individual which is great. What is a little immersion breaking imo is the constant swapping between dinos and researchers at the present day, which seem to happen every 5 minutes, and atleast imo the present day segments really werent all that interesting or informative and mostly came down to "look at this bone we found, isnt it neat?". Idk to me it mostly felt like filler to get the episodes to the 50-60 minute mark.
The first episode centered around a baby triceratops had a little to much of a land before time vibe going on for me.
The second episode was all around weird imo, from the setting to the animal roster. Like you do an episode in the kem kem formation, which was basicly a giantic riverdelta/wetland, so why was there so much of the episode about the spinosaurus treking through forests and stuff? The segment where the spino family was stalked through the forest by a pterosaur was fun and had an almost horror movie vibe to it, but it felt a little out of place in the episode especially when there was already a scene about a baby dinosaur encountering a azhdarchid pterosaur the very previous episode. Idk i feel they rather should have them cross a river and one of the babys gets snatched up by a mawsonia (car sized coelocanth) or one of the several crocodilomorphs.
The "gues stars" in the episode were also bizarre choices imo mainly consisting of super fragmentary and indeterminate animals aswell as speculative ones, there is an ornithopod showing up which is quickly taken down by a carcharodontosaurus because ofcourse it is (sick and tired of the clichee of ornithopods only ever being allowed to be whimps and theropod fodder in paleomedia) which is only known by footprints. A herd of indeterminate titanosaurs shows up which are only known by like a couple teeth and a busted up vertebra. And as Doran already mention there is one brief appearance of a large amphibian clearly modeled after the famous diplacaulus swiming away after being spooked by the spinosaurus, eventhough there is no evidence what so ever for something like this in this formations (and in my amateur opinion is also highly unlike to ever show up), this one feels especially unnessecariy since they could have just used a fish, turtle or smalll crocodilomorph instead. All in all rather missed opportunity to focus more on the aquatic life in an episode about the kem kem.
Also not about any episode particularly but one thing i noticed is that the originals did a way better job of chosing a diverse array of settings for their episodes, both in terms of time and animal species featureing every period of the mesozoic and even had 2 episodes centered around non dinosaur, marine reptiles and pterosaur respectively. Whereas all but one are set in the cretaceous, all of them are predominately about dinosaurs and no less the 3 out of 6 of them are about ceratopsians and tyrannosaurs.
I feel you could very easily have chosen a more interesting and distinct bunch of themes for your episodes.
And all in all i cant really loose the feeling that this series needed more time, but was kind of rushed out after seeing how well received prehistoric planet was and to benefit from people having dinos of their mind becaus of the upcoming JW movie.
Okay thats enough yapping for now
The first episode centered around a baby triceratops had a little to much of a land before time vibe going on for me.
The second episode was all around weird imo, from the setting to the animal roster. Like you do an episode in the kem kem formation, which was basicly a giantic riverdelta/wetland, so why was there so much of the episode about the spinosaurus treking through forests and stuff? The segment where the spino family was stalked through the forest by a pterosaur was fun and had an almost horror movie vibe to it, but it felt a little out of place in the episode especially when there was already a scene about a baby dinosaur encountering a azhdarchid pterosaur the very previous episode. Idk i feel they rather should have them cross a river and one of the babys gets snatched up by a mawsonia (car sized coelocanth) or one of the several crocodilomorphs.
The "gues stars" in the episode were also bizarre choices imo mainly consisting of super fragmentary and indeterminate animals aswell as speculative ones, there is an ornithopod showing up which is quickly taken down by a carcharodontosaurus because ofcourse it is (sick and tired of the clichee of ornithopods only ever being allowed to be whimps and theropod fodder in paleomedia) which is only known by footprints. A herd of indeterminate titanosaurs shows up which are only known by like a couple teeth and a busted up vertebra. And as Doran already mention there is one brief appearance of a large amphibian clearly modeled after the famous diplacaulus swiming away after being spooked by the spinosaurus, eventhough there is no evidence what so ever for something like this in this formations (and in my amateur opinion is also highly unlike to ever show up), this one feels especially unnessecariy since they could have just used a fish, turtle or smalll crocodilomorph instead. All in all rather missed opportunity to focus more on the aquatic life in an episode about the kem kem.
Also not about any episode particularly but one thing i noticed is that the originals did a way better job of chosing a diverse array of settings for their episodes, both in terms of time and animal species featureing every period of the mesozoic and even had 2 episodes centered around non dinosaur, marine reptiles and pterosaur respectively. Whereas all but one are set in the cretaceous, all of them are predominately about dinosaurs and no less the 3 out of 6 of them are about ceratopsians and tyrannosaurs.
I feel you could very easily have chosen a more interesting and distinct bunch of themes for your episodes.
And all in all i cant really loose the feeling that this series needed more time, but was kind of rushed out after seeing how well received prehistoric planet was and to benefit from people having dinos of their mind becaus of the upcoming JW movie.
Okay thats enough yapping for now
I am only 3 episodes in so far but I definitely agree that I am also not the biggest fan of the new series so far. I would say it is overall good so far but not 25 years better than the original and leagues below prehistoric planet and failed to live up to my expectations. The animation is fine and we have definitely been spoiled by prehistoric planet so I won't hold it against the series. I sort of feel like the show is too narrative heavy, maybe I am misremembering but I feel like the original wasn't anywhere near as narrative driven, although I will say that I prefer the format of prehistoric planet so this may not be a complaint others have.
No disrespect to the palaeontologists I am sure they are excellent scientists but the human scenes really take me out of it and ruin the pacing and so far I don't think they have really gone into any interesting science. I was expecting them to be more like the stuff at the end of prehistoric planet where they explain why they believe the behaviour that is shown is could have happened instead its kind of just basic day-day palaeontological tasks and walking around the desert. I think the narrator does a good job but the material he was given was rather poor.
Episode 1 is probably my least favourite so far, this episode feels too much like the land before time not an actual documentary. I think most of the dinosaur designs in this episode are quite solid however the Edmontosaurus looked a bit off to me, the colour being a bright silver feels a bit wrong and correct me if I am wrong but these dinosaurs are supposed to be a similar size to T-Rex but they are much smaller in the episode. All the Infernodrakon segment also felt odd, after the incredible and terrifying portrayal of Hatzegopteryx in prehistoric planet as an efficient predator watching the azdarchid try and fail repeatedly to stab the young triceratops felt a bit goofy as did the giant T-Rex somehow sneaking up unnoticed (an issue I have had with all 3 episodes so far where the prey is totally oblivious to the giant and obvious carnivore 'sneaking up' on them)
Episode 2 is decent, my favourite so far, it is nice seeing a modern Spinosaurus design. Not much to really say about this episode though because its basically just a walking sim. The fishing scene was quite well done though. I felt the episode had a great opportunity to use the human scenes to discuss the different interpretations of Spinosaurus and why they went with the version they did.
Episode 3 was also fine I will try and avoid major spoilers if you haven't seen it yet but I will say that there were other good opportunities to discuss the science behind statements they make which are never followed through with.
My biggest issue overall is something prehistoric plant did so well, showing off interesting behaviour. Other than typical predator prey relations I don't think any behaviour has really been displayed yet, all the dinosaurs are presented in the same way as normal. The lack of diversity is a little sad, episodes only focused on dinosaurs no marine reptiles or pterosaurs and far too much focus on ceratopsid vs tyrannosaur in Cretaceous North America.
No disrespect to the palaeontologists I am sure they are excellent scientists but the human scenes really take me out of it and ruin the pacing and so far I don't think they have really gone into any interesting science. I was expecting them to be more like the stuff at the end of prehistoric planet where they explain why they believe the behaviour that is shown is could have happened instead its kind of just basic day-day palaeontological tasks and walking around the desert. I think the narrator does a good job but the material he was given was rather poor.
Episode 1 is probably my least favourite so far, this episode feels too much like the land before time not an actual documentary. I think most of the dinosaur designs in this episode are quite solid however the Edmontosaurus looked a bit off to me, the colour being a bright silver feels a bit wrong and correct me if I am wrong but these dinosaurs are supposed to be a similar size to T-Rex but they are much smaller in the episode. All the Infernodrakon segment also felt odd, after the incredible and terrifying portrayal of Hatzegopteryx in prehistoric planet as an efficient predator watching the azdarchid try and fail repeatedly to stab the young triceratops felt a bit goofy as did the giant T-Rex somehow sneaking up unnoticed (an issue I have had with all 3 episodes so far where the prey is totally oblivious to the giant and obvious carnivore 'sneaking up' on them)
Episode 2 is decent, my favourite so far, it is nice seeing a modern Spinosaurus design. Not much to really say about this episode though because its basically just a walking sim. The fishing scene was quite well done though. I felt the episode had a great opportunity to use the human scenes to discuss the different interpretations of Spinosaurus and why they went with the version they did.
Episode 3 was also fine I will try and avoid major spoilers if you haven't seen it yet but I will say that there were other good opportunities to discuss the science behind statements they make which are never followed through with.
My biggest issue overall is something prehistoric plant did so well, showing off interesting behaviour. Other than typical predator prey relations I don't think any behaviour has really been displayed yet, all the dinosaurs are presented in the same way as normal. The lack of diversity is a little sad, episodes only focused on dinosaurs no marine reptiles or pterosaurs and far too much focus on ceratopsid vs tyrannosaur in Cretaceous North America.
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Hey, I posted a photo of the orangutan at Busch Gardens pressing his face to the habitat door. It’s under the “Your Zoo Visits” thread. My girlfriend made it into a meme, and I thought I should share it here.
Cant unsee it, help
Where the wild things are ahh guy with a friar tuck hairstyle
Thank you for asking, we just started debates and there's one each day. I'm the last day but I'll tell you how it goes!
For all the talk of the Jurassic, Hollywood is obsessed with the cretaceous.
I hope the Triassic and Permian fans get their time to shine some day
Both are underrated. There's so many animals that look alienish then.