Re: BBC Planet Earth
Sunday, 17 August 2008 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daWe 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.
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.
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Date: Monday, 18 August 2008 01:01 pm (UTC)Also, Planet Earth is the only thing I've watched so far where Blu-Ray actually made a difference.
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Date: Monday, 18 August 2008 01:32 pm (UTC)Anyhow, you're welcome to borrow the
PooCaves Episode (or any others) if you're willing to watch the extras in regular-def. ;)