La vida en nuestro planeta

So yeah..its poor timing. But i thought Netflix was pointing me at a show I had just finished watching. But no. It is different.

This show..is amazing. With amazing voice over and amazing animation...at least until they move. THen it gets a little wonky..but still not bad.

My only complaint...and its a big one. IS that I absolutely hate the fabled story telling sections. This catbird species's males danced together for male dominance..and then they continue that trend, talking about how it probably did this and probably did that. But they don't say probably. They show and say with certainty that these fabled stories happened.

That was my biggest complaint with the previous morgan freeman documentary..the forced storytelling. Its such a lame device.

And i had just seen the same octopus male pretending to be a female at least twice before this. And it is even the same footage.

As someone who is new to this subject, I found the series fascinating and informative. The nature footage is spectacular, as to be expected by a British natural history show! But I also really loved how this felt different and fresh as a concept. The CGI animals from the past were used in a clever way to bring the past to life, and though jumping through time from past to present was confusing at times, the overall message was clear and I learnt a lot.

Morgan is always great, though I love Attenborough too. Just one more to watch and I'll have binged it all! I hope there is more content like this on the way from Netflix.

Although I was a little disappointed by the quality of the CGI compared to prehistoric planet, it is very fulfilling to have a longer period and many more types of species covered. I am very excited about that. I also like that they connect the continental context, and the atmosphere with the life that existed.

I don't know enough to state the extent of how accurate or not the depictions are as the other reviewers mention, so I'll leave that up to the palaeontologists.

However, it does a great job in exciting us viewers for the amazing history our planet has. Morgan Freeman's voice is very calming and relaxing.

Reeding alot of negative reviews here I had to add my opinion.

In was truly touched with this series, teers in my eyes, thinking about it for months after and opening up a whole new world for me. The music is so well made: dramatic en building up, with melodic themes coming back again and again (like star wars). This repetitiveness is also seen on the screen, where the rules of life explained in the first episode, and then shown in effect again and again. I mean this positively: these rules of life is what the series really is about, and this repetitiveness (with small adaptions) is what evolution basically is (very very roughly).

The serie is telling a story about our planet being (so far we know) unique in its ability to enable this life, but also the complete brutality of it, where only the most adapted survives, and even then mass extensions resets the stage, over and over again (in the series the 5 biggest are shown). For me, before this series, always boring to read about, but this has changed now.

Alot of people compare the serie with walking with dinosaurs, prehistoric planet and a planet earth. A very strange comparison: This series is not about dinosaurs. This is not a nature documentary to watch when having a hangover to relax. This series is also not aka National Geographic where it will zoom in and explain a specific topic with alot of detail.

No! This series will inspire you, with all its visual and musical power, to think about life itself, what it is, which rules it follows, and how miraculeus it is. And: how fragile, It can be all over within one day (at least for us humans). It will inspire you to broaden your knowledge afterwards about these time periods; about the Devonian, where the first amphibians came to land (long after the insects and plants), about the carbonian where newly evolved reptiles started laying eggs and as a result becoming less dependent on being near water; about the advantages and disadvantages of being warm blooded vs cold blooded; about being at the bottom of the food chain and then suddenly at the top and then at the bottom again. The series makes some assumptions but that is ok, with such a broad scope and so much tot tell, I understand these decisions.

This series is about life itself, and you have to pay attention.

If you want dinosaurs and relax this is not for you.

If your want to be inspired, find love and passion for biology: watch!

I'm constantly asking "But how?" Millions of years go by and new species appear but there's no information on how. What species did it originally evolve from. The answers are provided for our current animals which I already know and yes it's evolution of course but I want more details on the process. I want more science but maybe it's just me. It's very vague but I'm on episode one so hopefully they'll provide more entail but I doubt it. A massive squid appeared but no info on its structure and what caused it grow such a long cone head. Then it mentioned another squid that's hidden under sand, referring to its large eyes being able to see prey. Large eyes? That's all?!? Just the size?!? Psshhh.