Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Jul. 30th, 2013 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightNot really the right icon, but it's the only one of a (potentially) savage predator I have. Aww!
Anyone on my flist watched the Discovery Channel's North America series? I bought the DVD (and it took ages to arrive), lured in by the 'from the makers of Planet Earth' mention in the blurb.
I don't regret it, or anything. The footage is indeed extraordinary - the sequence of a female peregrine attacking some rather bewildered passing pelicans was particularly memorable, plus the baby goat crossing the river, and the horrid demise of the lions' mane jellyfish etc. Okay, so the background music is way over the top, but for the most part when they've set the action to pop songs, they're appropriate ones, and besides the background music still sounds relatively sane compared to the sheer bonkersness of the Doctor Who music.
I am noticing a bi-it of a theme, though. It's all survival this, and apex predators that, and fighty-fight the other. And yes, nature is indeed red in tooth and claw (there are innocuous little birds engaged in a daily life and death struggle right outside our suburban windows, for instance),but somehow, according to this program, it's extra-specially so in North America.
In other words, it's the most macho nature series I've ever watched in my life.
Not much chance of some pretty little bluebirds tweeting happily in the trees in the last two episodes, I fear. Speaking of which, just to give this post something of interest in it, have a picture of a baby robin.
Aww! Unless you're a worm. Or, in fact, any sort of insect. Red in tooth and claw, see?
Anyone on my flist watched the Discovery Channel's North America series? I bought the DVD (and it took ages to arrive), lured in by the 'from the makers of Planet Earth' mention in the blurb.
I don't regret it, or anything. The footage is indeed extraordinary - the sequence of a female peregrine attacking some rather bewildered passing pelicans was particularly memorable, plus the baby goat crossing the river, and the horrid demise of the lions' mane jellyfish etc. Okay, so the background music is way over the top, but for the most part when they've set the action to pop songs, they're appropriate ones, and besides the background music still sounds relatively sane compared to the sheer bonkersness of the Doctor Who music.
I am noticing a bi-it of a theme, though. It's all survival this, and apex predators that, and fighty-fight the other. And yes, nature is indeed red in tooth and claw (there are innocuous little birds engaged in a daily life and death struggle right outside our suburban windows, for instance),but somehow, according to this program, it's extra-specially so in North America.
In other words, it's the most macho nature series I've ever watched in my life.
Not much chance of some pretty little bluebirds tweeting happily in the trees in the last two episodes, I fear. Speaking of which, just to give this post something of interest in it, have a picture of a baby robin.
Aww! Unless you're a worm. Or, in fact, any sort of insect. Red in tooth and claw, see?