Earth Live

Simply a huge disappointment. So much incessant talking that it really detracted from what the "hosts" we're supposed to be presenting. I couldn't decide if they had bad cases of pressured speech or just plain diarrhea of the mouth. I will never waste my time watching this kind of trashy presentation again.

Too much about the commentators - I usually enjoy nature programs but this was just too much of "lets go here" "lets go there". Too much of this cameraman and that cameraman and constant chitter chatter from the three hosts! Good grief everyone there must have sore arms from patting themselves on the back. The animals were just an after thought so everyone could say what a great thing they were doing. It was boring, choppy, and self-aggrandizing. Most of the stuff I had seen on other similar programs and they acted like they had just made this tremendous discovery... Yuck Yuck Yuck, go back to the normal nature/animal programs as they are far more enjoyable without touting the creators. I also enjoy programs that show the cameramen and their trials and tribulations in filming animals. But those are two different types of programs and not all crammed into one. Don't ever repeat this terrible program, might have sounded good on paper, but flopped in reality.

My wife and I are watched #EarthLive on the National Geographic channel. While I love that I learned that sloths are so lazy that they only poop once a month, there's too much meta information. Too much of "This is live." or "This wouldn't be possible if it weren't for this Moonlight camera." Just narrate the animal footage. There's also no need for this to be live. Film the animals. Edit the feeds. Show me the exciting stuff. I can see sleeping animals at the zoo. I did also learn that if you get too close to a Humpback Whale when it exhales through its blowhole, it's like being showered with warm, oily, stinky, cabbage. Oh, the things I am learning today. Good to know.