Re: BBC Planet Earth

[da]

We just watched the Caves episode.

Opening shot: human figures diving into an inky cave that's obviously hundreds of meters deep, without ropes. It's not for a while until we see the parachutes. Well photographed.

But then, things got absolutely disgusting.

The glow-worm that trapped insects in mucilaginous silk, in the opening 5 minutes, was sort of gross, and the worm was mostly translucent (that's so's its rear-end could glow, I suppose).

The caves of Borneo with 3 million bats, acres of bat guano, and the guano crawling with cockroaches? That was gross too, especially when we saw a bat fall into the feces and be devoured alive by roaches.

But the kicker, just when we didn't think we could say "ew" again: snotites. Stalagtite made of bacteria. Ew.

Comments

[thingo.livejournal.com]

Guys, that episode is some of the best TV I've ever seen. It's revolting but incredible. All of it. Be sure to watch the special features for the episode too. They show the guys filming the giant roach-infested mountain of guano, and what they went through over a month of shooting. I believe one of them said "nobody should have to live in poo". But I'd have to verify the exact quote.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

It may be incredible, but so were the snow leopards.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes. That was the quote.

[chezmax]

... I totally forgot to watch the special features when we borrowed them. Damn.

Also, Planet Earth is the only thing I've watched so far where Blu-Ray actually made a difference.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

That's odd... on our copy (just ordinary DVD), the special stuff plays automatically after the episode- at about the 47 minute mark. I'm not even sure the counter resets (as a different track).

Anyhow, you're welcome to borrow the Poo Caves Episode (or any others) if you're willing to watch the extras in regular-def. ;)