Planet Earth is the most depressing thing ever.

Specifically, Ice Worlds.

Jeez, BBC, did you have to rip my heart out with polar bears AND penguins? Maybe a LITTLE less heart-string-pulling music??

Freaking brits. You could've given them a coke or something.

 

agreed, venus is so much more cheerful

:tape

duct tape rules!

 

True. It has no sadness.

Anything anything kills anything I feel terrible. I get so excited first, too- like, "oh! those lions are about to totally maul that elephant! oh man! when's it gonna happen- they're gonna get it! they're gonna-"

"..."

"they-... they got it..."

"sweet god those lions mauled that elephant."

 

Nature red in tooth and claw.

 

The worst one is "The Future." It's like "It's all gonna die, man. We're totally making this film as a museum because HALF THE THINGS IN IT ARE ALREADY DEAD. Get used to it, man. It's ALL. GOING. TO DIE."

You can tell the intended audience is British because of all that depressingness.

The companion series, "Life," is narrated by Oprah Winfrey, and she's all "Some people think the world is getting warmer, but we're just not sure. But even if it is, the polar bears will just evolve into some new and wonderful species!"

 

I don't know if I could listen to 30 hours of Oprah just talking about stuff.

Half the reason I enjoy PE is because the narrator's accent makes it all seem so intelligent and correct.

[haha- I haven't watched the last three episodes yet- I've been avoiding them because they seem so incredibly liberal-minded, which makes sense and all, but still- I just am wary of being fed a bunch of politics]

myke- up until this episode I've felt PE does a decent job of balancing it all- the whole cycle of life- the joy of it as well as the sadness when it doesn't work out, but the polar bear sections were just:

"look- here's a polar bear and its cubs. they'll die soon if they don't get moving.

look- this polar bear is pathetically falling in the water and climbing back out because the ice is melting

look- this polar bear is swimming and swimming and swimming forever in search of food- it won't find it

look- this polar bear couldn't kill a walrus and it got stabbed

look- this polar bear is dying

look- this polar bear is dead

look- these grown up cubs are together, but they won't be for long."

wtf bbc?!

 

lol Emericans

also Oprah? Replacing David Attenborough on his own series is basically done for morons.

 

I went into a good half hour to hour of serious depression because of it.

edit: I still feel bad.

 

I'm not arguing with you. Also the idea that polar bears are magically going to evolve within 30 years just because some of them swim good is dumb.

 

No. It's a euphemism. "Evolve" is another way to say "die off and replaced with something a bit better suited for the environment". Actually, I think that might just be the definition....

 

Actually, Oprah seemed to be literally saying the species would somehow change. The trick is swimming a whole lot. And not eating.

 

the world is a harsh and unforgiving place, but david attenborough's soothing voice makes it all ok.

 

Starting the career of Duran Duran is the most depressing thing ever, I agree.

 

And evolution doesn't happen in mammals over 30 years anyway. It takes a few generations usually.

 

Hey, plenty of famous, well-respected scientists have endorsed that idea. For instance, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in 1826.

 

Hey. NOW.

 

Pfft, who cares about the human-caused extinction and endangerment of species? It's just the natural order of things! EVOLUTION!

 

But it's OPRAH, if she narrates anything, people will watch, she's the savior of people everywhere!

 

Why 'Back to the Future' Is Secretly Horrifying

"I wouldn't be surprised if the original rough draft of Back to the Future was just Marty time-traveling and crafting Black history. 'Go- mess around with peanuts, George Washington Carver!' 'Go play some basketball, Michael Jordan!' 'Go.. be Oprah... Oprah.'"

what does that have to do with Planet Earth or polar bears, you ask?

well-

*kills self*

 

You can buy Life narrated by David Attenborough.

Reminded me of this

 

He owns a company named Volcanic Eruptions and property in the Czech Republic?

How is this guy not God??