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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 00:04
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Has anyone else been Prehistoric Park (ITV1) on Saturday - if not, think of Jurassic Park as a documentary with time travel thrown in.

Its actually pretty good - the sfx can be great. Some of the pseduo-documentary part can be a bit cheesy though.

And, unlike the Jurassic Park films, it doesn't deal with just the big meat-eaters (and no-ones got eaten yet).

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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 03:45
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But think of all the small children that saw it and now have their heart's set on working there when they're older.

I saw a bit tonight (must have been a repeat, had a wooly mammoth in) and it was ok. The bloke who was hosting it did a good job (he's done the same sort of thing in the past iirc). I'll probably have a proper look next week and see what it's really like.

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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 11:23
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Its well worth checking out. The Smilodon episode (after next Saturday's one) should be good.

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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 11:29
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I thought it was ok... but a bit stupid. They rescued a Wooly Mammoth from a period where they were dying because the world was warming up and brought it back to a desert area! Thats just cruel.

The SFX were good - but they're nothing exceptional.

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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 13:11 Edited at: 31st Jul 2006 13:26
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Well, they give it a shave in the next episode - should help keep it cool.

My main problem with it, is they assume that the vegetation that we have now would be suitable. It also seems they wont have enough for all the animals.

In addition, the pens are made out of wood - and dont look terribly strong either. After all, if a T-Rex can cause havoc with metallic cages, what would 2 T-Rex's do with wooden pens ? Perhaps in the last episode, everyone & everything gets eaten

And another thing, the Nigel doesn't have any weapons, which is a bit stupid...

Finally - who owns the park, and where does the money come from - there are no visitors...

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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 14:38
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Slight issue...he's trying to save them from extinction...but he only brought back one woolly mammoth and one woolly Rhinoceros.

Think he needs to go back to basics and read up on procreation and reproductive techniques.



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Indeed - he needs at least 2 of everything...

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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 16:03
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He's not Noah!

And while we're talking about how unrealistic it is - why has nobody mentioned the small issue of time travel?

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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 16:06
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Its not detailed enough - all we know is that it requires two poles with a screw top and is manually activated - and possibly manually closed...

Its no worse than Jurassic Park's reconstruction of dinosaurs from dead insects though.

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Posted: 1st Aug 2006 15:38
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Quote: "all we know is that it requires two poles with a screw top and is manually activated"

They make it sound so simple to time travel! At least "The Doctor" has some mysterious and complicated looking Tardis!

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Posted: 1st Aug 2006 15:50 Edited at: 1st Aug 2006 15:52
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I would like to know how they power it - especially as the park as no obvious means of income (I cant see Nigel having enough money to built and maintain an artificial black hole).

Perhaps its a front for InGen!

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Posted: 1st Aug 2006 15:54
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Perhaps it's a fictional TV show!

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Apparently, when it was previewed in France, some people thought it was real

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Posted: 1st Aug 2006 17:48
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Must... Restrain... from... commenting! (nothing against french people - more stupid people! I can garuntee there are brits that believe that too )

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I've watched an episode of this series but I thought it was very poorly done. A crap version of Jurassic Park.

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Note: people. Not bears.

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Quote: "He's not Noah! "


No didn't take 2 of each animal, he took 2 of all the 'unclean' animals and either 6 or 7 of the 'clean' animals.
I haven't posted here in ages and then I come up with this little gem, god im sad.

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And to make matters worse, you horribly misspelled "fighting" in your sig!

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 03:40 Edited at: 4th Aug 2006 03:43
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Yes I did that like 4 years ago and never changed it, I don't need to if you realised it was fighting that is good enough.

[edit] I changed just for you

I finally changed the bad spelling
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Quote: "Note: people. Not bears."


But Bears are so much chewy.

Erm...not that I would somehow know.
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Quote: "Apparently, when it was previewed in France, some people thought it was real"
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I can't hold it back!!! How the BLOODY HELL did those uncultured uneducated pack of funny-smelling baboons think that was real?!?!?!?!

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Quote: "How the BLOODY HELL did those uncultured uneducated pack of funny-smelling baboons think that was real?!?!?!?!"

How do you not know what the USSR is?


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Quote: "Quote: "How the BLOODY HELL did those uncultured uneducated pack of funny-smelling baboons think that was real?!?!?!?!"
How do you not know what the USSR is?
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how do thoise things relate? and i don't know what they are becuase i don't get out of the house much. i have a job as a typist and people email me the dictations to type. I never have to leave home! exept for food shopping....

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 06:38 Edited at: 4th Aug 2006 06:39
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Quote: "uncultured uneducated"


That should be in your profile.
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no I had 1 year of college and took art class in eigth grade

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Shame you didn't take English too. But ignoring your rather blatant anti-French remarks (which we wont see again, will we ?), I dont know why they thought it was real - perhaps it was due to the documentary side of it ?

Quote: "I've watched an episode of this series but I thought it was very poorly done. A crap version of Jurassic Park."

Its not supposed to be an action film... Its a psuedo-documentary about dinosaurs and how the lived etc etc.

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Quote: "psuedo-documentary"

God I hope this isn't the begining of a new "Reality TV" type Culture.

That USSR comment had me in stitches. Very funny.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 18:29
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Its better than Reality TV - and you learn something!

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THIS one is better and more educational... But I can see it going horribly commercial.

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Quote: "Its a psuedo-documentary about dinosaurs and how the lived etc etc."


That's pretty much what Jurrasic Park was, only with 90% more human consumption and fun.
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Unfortunately Jurassic Park doesn't cover many prehistoric animals, like the Smilidon, Wooly Mammoth etc etc.

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No point in covering the boring ones.
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Wooly Mammoth - boring ??? Deary me...

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Quote: "like the Smilidon, Wooly Mammoth etc etc."

Thats what Ice Age was for.


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Are you saying Ice Age is a documentary !?

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Now you're getting it.
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Ummm... yes... But do I really want it ?

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