![]() ![]() Overall, 'The Blue Planet' delights again. One roots for the animals, whether prey or predator. Vivid cinematography takes viewers to the oceans coral reefs teeming with life in this two-part Emmy Award-winning video. Instead, it feels like its own individual story with real, complex emotions and conflicts. It's not just the coral reef formations (where the visuals are particularly striking) that fascinate, the way of coral reproductions and the breeding strategies did too. He delivers it with his usual richness, soft-spoken enthusiasm and sincerity, never talking down to the viewer and keeping them riveted and wanting to know more. Attenborough's narration helps quite significantly too, he clearly knows his stuff and knows what to say and how to say it. There are things already known to me, still delivered with a lot of freshness, but there was a lot that was quite an education and after watching the full series it honestly felt like the series taught me a lot. Can't fault the narrative aspects in "Coral Seas" either. Some of my favourite work from him in fact, coming from someone who's liked a lot of what he's done. It not only complements the visuals but enhances them to a greater level. George Fenton's music score soars majestically, rousing the spirits while touching the soul. Standing out even more is the photography, never before or since 'The Blue Planet' has there been more stunning underwater sequences. It has gorgeous scenery and rich colours, while the animals and marine life are captured in all their glory. Visually, "Coral Seas" is a wonder, same with all the series' episodes and Attenborough's work in general. It was really interesting to see how the coral reefs formed, how the marine life adapted and the struggles. "Coral Seas", and the subsequent episodes, confirms my feeling that 'The Blue Planet' was consistently great and more and there was not a bad episode of the eight. To me, the series overall is wholly deserving of its acclaim and the individual episodes are rated far too low. As said in my reviews for the individual episodes of 'Frozen Planet', it is a shame that despite being one of IMDb's highest rated shows, the ratings here for each episode individually has such a wide divide between them and that for the show overall. It is also one of his most ground-breaking, in that it's the first comprehensive series of oceanic natural history and including and exploring creatures and their behaviour that had never been seen before. It leaves me in complete and utter awe every time, with how much is learnt about all the different seas and marine inhabitants and how it all looks visually. 'The Blue Planet' is one of my favourites of his. He has done so many treasures and even his lesser output of a long and consistently impressive career is still good. BBC’s “The Blue Planet: Frozen Seas”, narrated in Filipino by Kara David, airs this Saturday, September 22, at 11PM on GMA News TV Channel 11.David Attenborough, as has been said many times, is wholly deserving of being called a national treasure, although it is a term he happens to not like. Incredible time-lapse photography shows the dramatic formation of a coral reef, portraying its. But it is a brief indulgence, for the ice soon returns and pushes life back into the ocean. Surrounded by ocean deserts they are rich oases of life. Minke and humpback whales gorge themselves on gigantic swarms of krill. Plankton blooms, starting a food chain, feeding vast hordes of migrating fish, birds, whales, seals and polar bears. Only in spring, with the retreating ice and light reaching the water, do animals get a respite. This gives them access to the sea beneath which is a welcome refuge from the howling winds. Weddell seals are also able to cope they keep their breathing holes open by scraping away the ice with their teeth. They stay to incubate their eggs and rear their chicks during the worst weather conditions on our planet. Antarctica is a continent surrounded by ice. Most animals choose to escape winter in Antarctica, but not the emperor penguins. Walruses return to the same polynyas year after year in the near certain knowledge they will find access to the water. Animals that do stay north for the winter are forced to use polynyas - areas of open water where the currentis so strong that the ice cannot freeze. Even they are easy prey for hungry polar bears. Beluga whales, trapped when vast tracks of the sea froze, keep a hole in the ice open by simply surfacing in it to breathe. Some do it on shifting ice, some nurse their pups in only four days, others give birth in ice caves where the pup is hidden. Arctic seals breed with the threat of polar bears in mind. The Arctic is a frozen sea surrounded by land, and here, an insatiable hunter, the polar bear, roams over the ice and the shorelines in search of any prey it can find. ![]()
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