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"Prehistoric Planet" Review

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Set 66 million years ago, as Attenborough explains, the production leverages everything we've learned about dinosaurs to craft narratives that follow the template of traditional nature fare. So viewers get to see these extinct creatures as behaving like animals, not monsters, as mothers protect their young from predators, males battle for territorial and mating rights and other circle-of-life moments, only here created in a computer, not filmed in the wild.

Counting "Iron Man" director Jon Favreau among its producers and boasting a score courtesy of composer Hans Zimmer, the production possesses the look and feel of a theatrical blockbuster, with an educational component woven throughout it. (Each episode directs the audience to a web site for more information about that night's tales.)

 

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I watched the first episode of this last night and it was really good. I think partly because the technology has improved so much since Walking With Dinosaurs but also AppleTV streams in such high definition it's just this side of unrealistically realistic. 

 

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