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JohnC

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Fuck me! I thought sharks just swam up and bit you! I had no idea it would launch you fifteen feet in the air with your head in it's mouth whilst performing a backflip before eating you!!! Teethy show offs FTW

Yeah, scarier than Jaws.

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CurryKitten

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Some great stuff in this episode... I could watch Great White breaches all day in slow-motion, they just look as stunning as ever. In one of those shots the seal was just gone.. down in one.

As per usual, you have to side with the underdog, as stunning as watching a shark that size launch out of the water, you will the seals on the escape. Much the same as the penguins Vs the fur seals. The stand-off there where the penguin faced down the seal was pretty amazing - and reminded me of another scene in a different program when a tiger shark had persued a turtle into the shallows and it eventually turned to face him and manged to spook him off.

Those sea snakes put the shits up me. I could just imagine being on some reef as 30 of the worlds most venemous snakes started swimming towards me. Funnily enough I've seen similar-ish behaviour before from those blue fin travelly. On a reef in the Maldives I spent about 40 minutes following around these travelley who kept following round a large Moray - although they gave it the odd nip in the tail as well. I couldn't figure out if they were just giving it hassle at the time, but after watching the program last night perhaps they wanted it to get hunting so they could reap the leftovers.

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Mike S

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Yeah, scarier than Jaws.

This is bad. I read that as 'scarier than Jews'.

I blame Borat.

I've missed the rest of the series but the episode that aired today was amazing, the shot of the shark was jaw dropping. This is what the BBC does beast.

Edited for humour, what with the programme being about animals mostly.

Tempted to buy it, but I'd really rather get it in HD. Not heard any plans concerning a HD release though. Or for anything from BBC.

I've a DVD on the way but I agree, I'd love to see this as a HD-DVD. Hope the beeb don't go Blu-Ray...

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Mr Do 71

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This is probably my favourite show on TV at the moment - each week it amazes me. This installment's highlights were the Pudú & the General Sherman The General Sherman sequoia tree... that thing was immense.

The Wolverine's scene was pretty gorey (and thus marvellous).

o/\o

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Ben

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They do look completely gorgeous on HD-DVD though, probably the best HD material I've seen so far - especially the shots of the Earth from space. But yeah, the lack of extras is a bit disappointing.

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womblingfree

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The blu-ray of this arrived this morning (plus a 14 quid customs charge, grrrr).

Anyway it's absolutely the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen on my TV. Something filmed in HD, put on HD media and played on an HD telly. Finally someone did it all justice.

The lack of the PE diaries is a bummer, hopefully we'll see them released at some point.

Another niggle I have is that Richard Attenborough's narration seems awfully quiet and lacking in quality compared to the rest of the audio. Not sure why this should be? There's no option to change between stereo/mono etc, so I can't tinker.

Regardless, this is absolutely essential to anyone with a PS3/blu-ray player or HD-DVD.

Nature porn.

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