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The penguins are beautiful. Blake Lively's voice is not. She sounds like someone's coworker would when you show them a picture of your baby and they think the baby is demonically ugly but can't say it. So bored. So boring. It was like having to clean your ears in a world where all Q-tips are replaced with sandpaper. I don't care about what she does but I hate her for disgracing these innocent penguin's lives with her horrendous vocals.

Anyways I ended up putting it in a Hungarian dub. I don't speak Hungarian but it's better than Blake Lively's stupid voice. No idea what the Hungarian lady is saying but it's great.

This series shows us things that we've never seen before about penguins! The National Geographic Producers and Camera Crew were also very brave and did an incredible job.

There are people that don't seem to like this series solely due to the fact that the National Geographic Team didn't interfere with the natural way of life for these animals. THAT'S A GOOD THING! We shouldn't be meddling with how things work in nature! Unfortunately, that also means not interfering if there are animals in need.

All in all, incredible work. Before watching, I only had a slight interest in penguins for many years. Now, I love them! If you've always had a thing for learning about nature and animals, you will absolutely love watching this series.

I really wanted to like this show; we love penguins. But it's difficult to keep watching all of the sad parts, especially when there's a camera crew just filming as they happen. It's bothersome, we all see enough sadness on a daily basis. We don't need to see it on television as well. I don't understand how a group of people can just sit by and watch an animal struggle when they don't have to. You're not helping anyone by filming and it doesn't make for good tv. I'm sure I speak for all animal lovers when I say this isn't right. It's really unfortunate that those moments ruin the show and discourage us from watching the series.

I love national geographic and films where I am able to become more knowledgeable about nature and animals. Unfortunately, I was forced to move on and select something else. I actually turned it off. The low narration quality adversely impacted my enjoyment level. I didn't trust the actor selected to promote the dialogue in this film. I love penguins, and was looking forward to watching this film. Then I found out who was narrating it and became very hesitant. I decided to go ahead and try it, but was not able to enjoy it. The producer could have been more careful in the selection of the narrator.

The fact that people are giving this amazing documentary a lower rating than it deserves, just because they don't like the narrator, is sad. Beautiful pictures and an amazing production showing things that have never been in the filmed before, with footage of the darkest and brightest parts of different species of penguins. Simply lovely.

Maybe Blake Lively could have done a better job with the narration, and that's on National Geographic, but if that makes an almost 10/10 documentary a seven for you, you are overreacting.

I think there were two things that this documentary could have improved on:

1. Length. He could have easily being a five episode documentary, there is so much information that could have been shown more in depth. Still the quality of the three episodes was a 10.

2. Awareness. They mention how human beings have been part of the reason why penguins are an endangered species, but this could have been an opportunity to bring into scale how much damage we are making, who are responsible and what we need to change.

Overall a 9.5 out of 10 documentary but still could have improved just a little bit. I loved every single part of it.