Six brand new episodes of this series are now available to watch on iview. Well recommended.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/walking-with-dinosaurs

Link

Bubblecar said:

Six brand new episodes of this series are now available to watch on iview. Well recommended.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/walking-with-dinosaurs

Link

The ads looked as if they anthropomorphised a lot.

buffy said:

Bubblecar said:

Six brand new episodes of this series are now available to watch on iview. Well recommended.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/walking-with-dinosaurs

Link

The ads looked as if they anthropomorphised a lot.

Well a bit, but it’s forgivable. A lot of children will be watching.

As long as their parents/teachers point out that much of it is speculative.

buffy said:

Bubblecar said:

Six brand new episodes of this series are now available to watch on iview. Well recommended.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/walking-with-dinosaurs

Link

The ads looked as if they anthropomorphised a lot.

Would be interesting to find out if they had emotional responses, similar to mammals or reptiles or being neither something different perhaps

Cymek said:

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

Bubblecar said:

Six brand new episodes of this series are now available to watch on iview. Well recommended.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/walking-with-dinosaurs

Link

The ads looked as if they anthropomorphised a lot.

Well a bit, but it’s forgivable. A lot of children will be watching.

As long as their parents/teachers point out that much of it is speculative.

Would be interesting to find out if they had emotional responses, similar to mammals or reptiles or being neither something different perhaps

so it’s actually a contemporaneous documentary about the modern lizard people

Still very interesting watching though.

Cymek said:

buffy said:

The ads looked as if they anthropomorphised a lot.

Would be interesting to find out if they had emotional responses, similar to mammals or reptiles or being neither something different perhaps

Watched most of this last night. I had to keep changing the channel because I didn’t like seeing the babies being threatened, or the dad dying of his wounds. So I guess they got me with their anthropomorphising.

becklefreckle said:

Cymek said:

buffy said:

The ads looked as if they anthropomorphised a lot.

Would be interesting to find out if they had emotional responses, similar to mammals or reptiles or being neither something different perhaps

Watched most of this last night. I had to keep changing the channel because I didn’t like seeing the babies being threatened, or the dad dying of his wounds. So I guess they got me with their anthropomorphising.

Yes, there was quite a lot of tugging at heartstrings throughout the series, but that’s (perhaps unfortunately) a staple approach of many nature documentaries.

They seem to regard the “human interest angle” as requiring as much prominence as the inherent interest of the animals.