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 From:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)   6 May 2015 13:36 
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Obviously anything Attenborough has a hand in is going to be pure genius and you can't replace the man. He's a national treasure.

I think the Monty Python chap has done a few (Palin I think) and he's easy to listen to, as is Fry.

Brian Cox is fine for the science stuff, but his voice can sometime be a bit too soothing. "Billions and billions and b i l l i o n ssssssnore."

Going away from the BBC, I really enjoyed the Neil DeGrasse Tyson (sp?) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey series. Very informative.

I do remember Sam Neill doing one about fifteen years ago called 'Space'. That was very good. Sam Neill should do more documentaries.

Strangely, I hated 'Through the Wormhole' with Morgan Freeman. It should have been so good, but it was all doom-mongery for no good reason as a lot of American documentaries are. "Monster' black hole 'devouring' everything in its path...and we could be next." "Our life giving Sun will kill us all!" That sort of shit.

You know what he said? Ah need 'bout tree-fiddy.
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 From:  milko   6 May 2015 13:56 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      12 of 56 
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I'm sure he's said it before but they keep bringing out new programmes with him on it, so I dunno anymore. I thought maybe they'd at least give him a nice comfy voiceover he could do from a chair, but nope last year they were winching him up trees and deep caves and whatnot.
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 From:  milko   6 May 2015 13:57 
 To:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)      13 of 56 
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I do need to watch that new Cosmos one, good reminder. And oh, sudden memory of that Sam Neill one, yes! Forgot all about that.

The sensationalizing of documentaries happens here too, especially to non-BBC ones but sometimes them as well. Gets so silly at times.
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 From:  graphitone   6 May 2015 14:02 
 To:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)      14 of 56 
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I remember that Sam Neill one - IIRC correctly it was hugely patronising, with lines like 'this is the Earth - it's where we live. It's our planet - The Earth'.

Yep, Palin's good, I've got the set of DVDs he did traveling around and they're entertaining and thought provoking. He seems to meet heads of state and dignitaries on the weight of working for the BBC, and that's juxtaposed with the ordinary people he just happens upon on the street.

The Himalaya one he did was ace

Brian Greene and Michio Kaku are good presenters too, they've both done physics documentaries and can hold an audience. I've got a few of their books and they can make it all seem understandable to your average bod interested in it-but-didn't-really-get-into-it-at-school-enough, like me.

I did lose it with Calabi-Yau space though.  :-S


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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   6 May 2015 15:03 
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"Sam Neill should do more documentaries"

He was fantastic in Event Horizon!

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 From:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)   6 May 2015 16:31 
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quote: graphitone
I remember that Sam Neill one - IIRC correctly it was hugely patronising, with lines like 'this is the Earth - it's where we live. It's our planet - The Earth'.

I'm not sure what point he was trying to get across there, it must have slipped by me, but he said it with such soothing authority!


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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   6 May 2015 20:25 
 To:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)      17 of 56 
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I remember the beginning of a Carl Sagan doc which started with the baking of an apple pie. then, after the credits, Sagan looked at the camera and said, with a totally straight face, "the universe is like an apple pie".

At that point I was gone...

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   6 May 2015 20:30 
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To the pie store?

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   6 May 2015 21:06 
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Probably the pub, or at least another channel, TBH

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   6 May 2015 21:12 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      20 of 56 
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Apple pie is mighty good.

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   6 May 2015 22:51 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      21 of 56 
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That would be iPie.

And if it causes another unwanted and unremovable Apple app to be added to my iPhone I will be mightily unhappy.

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 From:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)   7 May 2015 14:01 
 To:  milko      22 of 56 
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I quite like the primate-related ones presented by Charlotte Uhlenbroek, but she seems to have vanished from the screens.
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   7 May 2015 14:45 
 To:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)      23 of 56 
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Perhaps no one could pronounce her name.

It's almost a pity that Keith Harris is dead, really.

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 From:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)   8 May 2015 16:01 
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Personally, I like to get all my spacey related news from Richard Hoagland. He's always good for a laugh.

You know what he said? Ah need 'bout tree-fiddy.
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 From:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)   8 May 2015 16:04 
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Also, Alice Roberts has done a couple of goodies (and Coast here and there) for the OU...and she's purdy.

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   8 May 2015 18:48 
 To:  koswix      26 of 56 
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I like him. Finally got around to watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes with him in.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   8 May 2015 18:48 
 To:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)      27 of 56 
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Oohh yeah, I like her too. Seen a few things she has done.
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 From:  koswix   8 May 2015 18:52 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      28 of 56 
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Quite like him on the radio (infinite monkey cage) where I can't see his shiny, smug face. 

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   8 May 2015 19:47 
 To:  koswix      29 of 56 
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Not the BC I meant but yes, I do like IMC. He does come across as a tit sometimes though, but I also enjoy his spacey documentaries.
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 From:  DeannaG (CYBATRON)    8 May 2015 20:27 
 To:  milko      30 of 56 
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It nice when you find something that is not only educational, but well done and entertaining as well. Not all companies put in the effort they should.

Like for the nature ones, we don't really care for the ones where they've got someone talking another language as you're watching them speak, and you either have to read it, or they have voice overs that don't match up.

Some of the ones with the voice overs put me in mind of the old Kung Fu Theater they had on when I was a kid. The guys mouth would stop moving, but you could still here the voice over going on and on, or their lips were going at breakneck speed, and you just got something like "Hi".

I want to see what the documentary is about, and not who thinks they should be on camera all the time. I don't mind a few shots of someone explaining something in depth, but you don't need a visual person throughout something like a nature documentary. People want to see the animals and where they live. It's why we watch them. :)

The BBC really gets some beautiful shots of some wonderful places. :)



 

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