Walking with Prehistoric Beasts mini-series review

Sorry it's been so long since my last video. A lot of people were requesting this one, so I figured I ought to make it my next review.

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[thescauldron]

The mammoth cliff scene gave me chills, especially how the soundtrack is a dark version of the happy-go-lucky mammoth theme

[Stealthwilde]

The reason why the ape CGI models look worse than the other ones is that the human brain is wired to notice oddities more the closer the subject is to human. It's what's known as the 'uncanny valley' effect.

[waranontwiwaha]

Top 3 scenes from this series that terrified me as a naive little kid.


3. The Dinotherium almost running over baby ape scene. While it turns out a happy ending, I couldn't breath properly during the entire scene when the giant elephant thingy rushing toward the helpless baby ape.
2. The neanderthals' mammoth hunt. I was terrified of their scream as they drove the mammoth off the cliff. Also pretty depressed afterward when realizing that the matriarch was also one of the victim falling down the cliff to her death.
1. THE FREAKING ANTS EATING BABY BIRD ALIVE!!! AND THEY JUST HAD TO SHOW THE MOTHER RETURNING TO HER DEAD CHICK JUST TO RUB MORE SALT ON THE WOUND IN MY INNOCENT HEART!

[piglord]

Man that baby bird scene... that shit stayed with you

[CJCroen]

I always loved the ending to the Indricothere's story. I could practically hear the poor cameraman shouting "Nice boy, nice indricothere, calm down no no AHHH!"

[JackassJunior]

I'm actually a little bit shocked you didn't mention the final line spoken in the series "No species lasts forever". The chanting was good to establish human's taking the mantle of the dominant species, but it still left a chilling thought of realism to the viewers. That no species, including the dominant species remain on Earth permanently. It foreshadows that even if it takes millions upon millions of years, eventually humanity will die out and could be be replaced by another species.

[Yobyman]

The ant scene really hit me, not cause I lost a pet or anything but it is incredibly similair to a time where I left to gather resources in ARK and then found my baby dodo dead. Eerily similair

[givewarachance]

''This is a world where Birds eat Horses".
The best scene of the whole series.The music, the amazing animation and Kenneth Branagh's narration.
It's a little sad that they didn't include Megalodon in this series.
Also, holy jesus i never realised how dark some episodes of Dinosaurs, Beasts and Monsters are.Time to relive the Nostalgia i guess.

[dulat]

Baby gastornis being eaten by ants is gruesome, but... The "Walking with" series to me personally show this everlasting philosophy of life: no matter how awesome, powerful and successful you are, your life will always be a struggle for survival. You can be a tyrannosaur at the top of the food chain, but a single blow of ankylosaurs' tail can leave your chicks orphans. Or you can be a CEO of a trans-national corporation with six-figure income, but still struggle to cope with everyday stress and end up jumping out of a window. It's life and I think BBC does a good job showing it in these series...

[theswagmango]

I would’ve loved an episode set in prehistoric Australia (my home country) and see the Australian megafauna like Diprotodon a wombat looking marsupial as big as a rhino, Procoptodon a giant short face kangaroo, Thylacoleo the Marsupial Lion, Thylacine also know as the Tasmanian Tiger and Megalania a giant monitor lizard possibly the biggest reptile to have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. And have the early people who will later be know as the Aborigines/Indigenous Australians be shown how much of an impact they had after they arrived and point out things like “the megafauna have been through a lot but the changes in the climate and the arrival of humans was all it took to drive these massive creatures to extinction, most of the megafauna will disappear from Australia completely and all that will be left is their fossils, the Thylacine however will last another 20, 000 years but will soon feel the bite of European settlers along with the Aborigines and they’ll be hunted for killing their sheep until eventually they’ll be gone from the mainland, then the last of them living on the island of Tasmania will be wiped out by European settlers.”

I would’ve loved an episode like that that and the fact Australia has stayed unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, even after the great extinction the environment came back the same until grass later appeared.

[sterkar]

The theme music of the series was so gooood~

[thegeop]

Not to forget the kind of admonishing final words in the final episode:
"And if all this has taught us anything it´s this: No species lasts forever!"

[gavinleong]

Love how each episode has its own unique musical score such that when you use it in the episode reviews it makes each part feel so distinct and brings back the nostalgia each time :) The soundtracks for the Walking With series are some of the best there is

[goldenscribe]

For 160 million years the dinosaurs ruled this world. While living in their shadows where a group of animals that couldn't have been more different. These were our ancestors small furry creatures called mammals clinging to safety wherever they could. But the mammals time would come. 65 million years ago volcanic activity started to poison the atmosphere. The last dinosaurs were already living on a sick planet, when there nemesis arrived from outer space. A meteor 10km wide slammed into earth to mark the end of the reign of dinosaurs..this series is about what happened next...

Such a great intro and a great series ^^

[theweirdguy]

The nostalgia was really hitting holy shit i need that soundtrack now

[jackschwartz]

Just when you thought Walking With was literally incapable of doing another traumatic dinosaur death, the first episode of Beasts makes Big Al look like he got a happily ever after

[alanrag]

This was my childhood! XD I still have my VHS of it, oml the memories~

[mrreyes]

2:36 I think the point of that scene was to still demonstrate that even apex predators can be brought down by what most would consider an inferior creature. Throughout "New Dawn", the Gastornis is portrayed as a top-notch killer formidable enough to replace the niche left by the giant therapods of the Mesozoic. It eats horses and can only be challenged by another member of its own kind. Yet here is one such Gastornis being humbled... by *ants* of all creatures, not even the size of one of its feathers. Even the biggest beasts start out small, and sometimes not even a top predator can accomplish everything it wants.

[chewitt]

Sabre Tooth shares a few similarities with the Lion King when you think about. A character leaves home, comes back, and defeats the enemy.