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. Shimmering schools of brightly colored fish battle for territory in this competitive world where you have to stand out to survive.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. ![]() Bizarrely adorned harlequin shrimp carry off a starfish several times their size, while haunting songs reverberate around the reef, heralding the arrival of humpback whales. But as the year wears on, storms rage in the icy sea a desperate challenge for the animals that remain.īathed in bright sunlight and warm, clear water, the coral reef is a rich oasis of life- the rainforest of the sea. The forests harbor thousands of other animals, including sea otters, brilliantly colored anemones, squid, and exquisite leafy dragons. Here in the temperate seas, three-ton basking sharks graze among forests of giant kelp-the fastest growing plant in the world. "A masterpiece the finest documentary on the world´s oceans that any human being has ever seen."- NewsdayĪs the days grow longer, billions of microscopic plankton bloom under the blazing sun. The Blue Planet: Seas Of Life reveals the sea and its communites at their most fearsome and alluring. We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the deep oceans, yet the sea covers two-thirds of our planet.
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