Planet Earth

The Good:
Beautifully - and I cannot stress this enough - BEAUTIFULLY filmed. There were some incredible shots in this series. Things that through the thousands of nature documentaries I have seen - I had still never seen before. The film crew was absolutely fabulous, the cinematographer was fabulous, the editing was fabulous.

This series did an amazing job of making you feel as though you were there - that you were a living breathing part of nature itself - instead of the outside observer which you become with most documentaries. For a humanity that has become so distanced from the Earth, from the grounding forces of nature - this series does an unbelievably good job of bring you back down with a comfortable ease.

Sigourney Weaver was an excellent choice for narrator. Her voice was calming and settled into the film so that you almost didn't notice it at times. That may not sound like a good thing - but so many times the narrator in a nature documentary takes over a film and you become focused on it instead of the film itself. This was not the case with SW.

The Bad:
There were some sequences that were just hard to watch - not because they were bad, because they were so real. It was a true vision of the struggle for survival and if seeing the reality of this is traumatic for you than this may not be your cup of tea - or there will be some segments you will simply have to skip.

It left you wanting more. Again - not sure this is necessarily a bad thing - but when it was over I definitely felt like there were more places I wanted to see, more things I wanted to know.

All in all:
Highly recommended. This was simply an amazing piece of work.