its still the most realistic one inop no ''hellish'' fire and brimstone, no red wall of fire and dinosaurs being like oh god run,, or slow and shocking scenes of horror its just a fuc.king blast zone just that a flash of light, shockwave then the blast which in a matter of seconds went from the yucatan peninsula in the atlantic to montana really sells the idea that no this isnt even apocalyptic as shown in most media, this is one of the largest mass extinction ever and unlike the slow boiling of the great dying this was a violent instant where the world died absolutely horrifying and as a kid it wasnt scarry it was downright DREADFUL
@@kR-qj7rw I rewatched it again yesterday and I was shocked by the fact that that wind was able to lift and carry the mother’s body and rip out trees. It really shows how damn powerful the asteroid really was.
I think what sets WWD apart from any other dino doc is the soundtrack. The music is so epic and mysterious, it really delivered a world of wonder to our young minds. Really wish Hans Zimmer should have taken more inspiration from WWD when making prehistoric planet’s soundtrack
@kR-qj7rw bugs vastly outnumber every vertebrate, too. Hell, bacteria outnumber everything else significantly as well. Doesn't really matter when much of the biggest most prominent niches are filled by the bigger, less numerous animals. It's like putting two yoga balls in a medium-sized room full of little balls. No matter how many little balls there are, the two big yoga balls are still the most prominent and dominant.
Walking With Dinosaurs is still unmatched by its cultural impact. Perhaps, alongside Planet Earth, it's still the greatest documentary series ever made by the BBC. Walking With Beasts knew that, they were standing in the figurative and literal shoulders of giants. So to me, to end the series in the present, and to see how current humans are seeing deep time, is a subtle, poetic, silent and effective way of saying "yeah, you're part of all of this too. One day we will all die, that's nature to us. Let's enjoy the ride".
CAUZE iT'Z TRUE, & THE FUTURE PART WiLL PROBABLY B TRUE U COULD LAZT FOREVER, THE ROCKZ DON'T KARE WHETHER U LiVE OR DiE, BUT U HAVE TO PUT iN THE FACTORZ TO MAKE iT HAPPEN, OR B iNCREDiBLY LUCKY THAT THE UNiVERSE JUZT GRANTZ iT TO U, RiGHT PLACE AT THE RiGHT TiME [NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
CAUZE iT'Z TRUE, & THE FUTURE PART WiLL PROBABLY B TRUE U COULD LAZT FOREVER, THE ROCKZ DON'T KARE WHETHER U LiVE OR DiE, [NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
BUT U HAVE TO PUT iN THE FACTORZ TO MAKE iT HAPPEN, OR B iNCREDiBLY LUCKY THAT THE UNiVERSE JUZT GRANTZ iT TO U, RiGHT PLACE AT THE RiGHT TiME [NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
It's the most epic of them all, as much as I loved the birds at the end of WWD. The ending of WWB looks like the original closure of the whole WW franchise before they decided to revive it later.
Describing my feelings at each ending: WWD: Heartbreaking. WWM: Uplifting af! WWB: So epic! Always thought so since I was a kid. SM: Scary! CBD: Exciting! Big Al: Heartbreaking.
Thank you for uploading this. These documentaries had such an influence on me, that after all these years I will start in September with the master program of paleontology & paleobiology.
WWB was my first to ever see, and I hold it very close to my heart, but WWD is very surprisingly the most optimistic and hopeful, because it sends you into such an emotional trip, right from complete devastation to sheer, utter, uncontrollable joy. That they are still here. Also, the ghost of Big Al going on a road trip with the female palaeonthologist at the end of "The making of Big Al" is my headcanon to how his story truly ended. Rest in peace, young one.
I like how with the ending of Walking with Monsters, it's like the ending of a prequel that leads to the start of the original movie where not only do we see the rise of the dinosaurs, but also has the amazing music from Walking with Dinosaurs that accompanies the scene.
Walking with Series!All Endings: Walking with Dinosaurs Walking with Monsters Walking with Prehistoric Beasts Chased by Sea Monsters The Giant Claw The Ballad of Big Al
I think this series was extremely focused at least as a meta narrative in the first three that life on earth always has stages with an end and beginning. So they all ended up feeling more majestic or poetic. Like big al dying and the emergence of humans evolving in some of these. With Nigel marven it seemed to have a more “the spirit of an adventure” type of ending which always applied more to see and explore. My favourite was the walking with beasts ending for sure
Walking with cavemen ends with Sir Robert Winston* contemplating kidnapping a child from the beginning of the holocene while making the point that if he raised it in the 21st century, it would be just like any other baby. If memory serves Edit; *Baron Winston. turns out he doesn't have a knighthood but is a life peer that's one step up from a knight for the non British of you
I thought Walking with Mammals would end with a view of an incoming asteroid as the shot zoomed out from Earth, but I guess the biggest threat to humanity is... humanity.
For those who never saw the Walking with cavemen ending, it’s cool to see our ancestry but it’s not as awesome as the others, Robert Winston finds a Human baby, says that they are the same species so if he took her to the present and raised her as his own, she would be like any other Human in the 21st century, the mother appears so he leaves, the Mother looks really confused at what just happened and Robert Winston smiles warmly and then walks away.
I like some of the endings of the Walking With Series. I wish Prehistoric Park was included on this. Oh & another thing, 6:14 I call this part The Last Trumpet of the Mammoth.
1) Technically, "Prehistoric Park" should be included too, as it is an official "Walking With..." Franchise production. It also represent the ultimate end/conclusion of the franchise as it is the last production of the first era of it to have been made. "Walking With Dinosaurs The Movie" (2013) could be also included in some capacities. 2) Aside I think Walking With Cavemen is watchable online in many ways, like in streaming, so finding its ending should be less hard.
@@dudotolivier6363 It was directed by the same guy who directed walking with beasts and prehistoric park. I own the doc myself and in the cover it says "Made by the people who made walking with dinosaurs"
All my life, I have loved the Walking With... series. There are no words for how much it influenced me growing up and how much it inspired me going forward. Love it. The format was always the lightning in a bottle, one in a million success that deserved far more funding and releases than it ever got. The producers, in fairness, deemed it a completed story; yet there is no such thing in terms of the extent of Deep Time, the immensity and complexity of the fossil record and the potential stories to be told. Life is life. The makers of Walking With Dinosaurs (etc) wanted to move on and explore live-action with humans and prehistoric animals (see Prehistoric Park, see PRIMEVAL etc) And yes, I love those too; however, it did end the potential, in those days, for a continuing run of Walking With...documentary-dramas. Over the years, alternatives came and went, but _nothing_ really came close (Planet Dinosaur, Prehistoric Planet; they are very impressive, though just not the same and not as good in my opinion) There is something of the magic of the 1990's, and triumph against the odds, especially in Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) Arguably, across the board, Walking With Beasts (2001) was the by far most challenging (try following up Walking With Dinosaurs with what happened next; not as easy as it sounds, in spite of the evolutionary excellence and wild majesty of the Cenozoic Era, in it's own right), difficult to animate (fur and feathers are much more difficult to animate; and there was a lot of that to do) and perhaps the most daunting to take on, trying to be the successor series, forever compared most of all, to Walking With Dinosaurs (it'd be more 'forgivable' if later series didn't quite mirror Walking With Dinosaurs in terms of comparative quality; same goes for the various specials and spin-offs; but Walking With Beasts almost _had_ to ace it, to maintain the quality) The reason why I think Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) was so impressive, on top of all the obvious reasons, in terms of the narrative quality, the sincerity with which it attempts to recreate lost words, and the evidently high-quality artistry of the production, is the sheer _unlikelihood_ of it all just, coming together. It is often celebrated for being the most expensive natural history documentary/nature/historical series ever made, up until at least the mid 2000's at least (the addition of historical to that list, because later on, more expensive shows were made, though it still remains the case that Walking With Dinosaurs is the most respected series of it's kind ever made) The nostalgia I feel even breaking this down and going into the details, says it all to me. Walking With Dinosaurs was beloved of so many, for a great many reasons. I can and have essayed on it many times. When it comes to the unlikelihood of Walking With Dinosaurs being made in the way it was, in between 1996 and 1999 (the backdrops out in the wild, mostly filmed in 1998), there is a lot to say. At any point, the BBC could have declined the series being made. The animation firm could have pulled out before filming began. Framestore CFC is famous now, including having worked on the Harry Potter films and various TV shows and big-budget films. At the time, Framestore CFC was a small animation house in Soho, London, mainly known only within Britain, for doing low-budget animations for adverts (in that, cheap and cheerful 1990's style) Their lead animators knew that this would be by far the most challenging work they'd ever had up to that point, exponentially more difficult than anything else they'd ever done. The final decision fell to Mike Milne, head of the team at Framestore CFC at the time, and in spite of initially turning Tim Haines down, he got thinking about it later that same day, and was concerned it was a bad decision. Framestore CFC then backed Haines. To contextualise this further, Haines had gone to ILM in California, to speak with the animation house there about getting a quote for what kind of price would be given for their work. Industrial Light & Magic had been responsible for the animated Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993) And if you know anything about Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) and it's production, you'll probably know that Tim Haines was inspired by Jurassic Park. The difference was, that Walking With Dinosaurs would turn out to have over 1,200 animation shots, spread over 6 half-hour episodes. Jurassic Park had about ~9 minutes of animated Dinosaurs (though there were also similarly expensive animatronics and puppets adding to the total run-time of Dinosaurs on-screen, the same could be said for Walking With Dinosaurs) This meant that the total run-time of Dinosaurs being on-screen in Walking With Dinosaurs, would be far beyond Jurassic Park. Naturally, this should have indicated to Haines that the costs would be very severe indeed. When ILM effectively told Haines that it would cost the BBC and the British taxpayer $10,000 _per second_ of animation, Haines obviously had to decline the offer, because of how prohibitively expensive it was. On 1990's British TV budgets, for a project that few even knew about at this stage in 1996, and for something that hadn't even had it's pilot filmed yet, it was simply unfeasible to proceed with ILM. It's not that the BBC couldn't afford it in general, but for one show, and with all the other production costs in said show involved? Then no, it wasn't possible. The BBC rakes in billions of pounds every year, though it does have a lot of things to pay for and so many salaries across the board. Some salaries, being rather inflated compared to what they actually deserve one might say. It is what it is. It seems silly to me that billions flow into the BBC yet it will only spend tiny fractions of that on flagship programmes. The BBC Natural History Unit (and Science & Nature as it once was) had been tasked with putting together a series, for a fraction the cost of a blockbuster. The odds of failure would have been incredibly high; the chances of success, in the way it would go on to succeed, so low. Everything depended on a convergence of good luck, good timing, goodwill and good work. And it _all_ came about right, in the end. The magnificent music score, by the brilliant Benjamin Bartlett, was a bolt from the blue in a way, in itself. With all due respect to him (and he deserves a whole lot) he had then never worked with an orchestra before, and only had whichever software and sound recording and mixing equipment that he had available to him in the 1990's. These were technically quite high quality for what they were by the standards of the day, and the panoply of skills he brought to the table with those devices, deserves more respect. However, it was such a good thing that he could really crack his knuckles and flex his creative talons with the fancier computers and sound archives at the BBC. That included sampling from the Spectrasonics albums available therein. The orchestral work he did was amazing, in spite of the fact that he'd never worked with an orchestra before, and the fact that they were relatively brief recording sessions in 1998, in Islington, London (in a now closed studio) It was the London Concert Orchestra, working to a tight schedule. Just a few days in 1998, basically, being the source of the outstanding orchestral music used for Walking With Dinosaurs (with a lot of post-production editing; most of Ben Bartlett's work, was in the editing process, combining the music with the on-screen visuals, and editing the spliced samples of sound files and snippets of sample music, to create an array of what Bartlett referred to wisely as 'sound worlds'. This, perfectly illustrating thematic motifs and flourishes for different time periods and episodes, and different types of animals. His entire musical score for Walking With Dinosaurs is often correctly considered a big part of what made it such as special series, and that should not be underestimated. Point being, with all these individual components coming together -- whether that is in terms of the >400 palaeontologists working on advising the series, and a smaller group of those (about two dozen) being much more directly involved on the ground (particularly an array of high profile British and American palaeontologists, though others as well from around the world) or in terms of the high quality of the Creepy Crawlies (UK production/art house) props for the animals in close-up, for just two additional examples -- the series would simply take the world by surprise. The sculptures, the storyboarding, the music, the style of the documentary (taking itself seriously as a proper documentary, whilst really being more of a homage to one), the title (inspired by Dances With Wolves; because it was popular and Tim Haines liked that film), the direction, the narration script, the narrator (Kenneth Branagh), the locations, the cinematography, the scientific efforts behind it (inaccuracies and all, it's still a keystone and landmark project in palaeomedia at this point) and the various promotions and paraphernalia...all of it, together, the combined efforts of all the experts and enthusiasts involved, it all built this into what it became. In a sense, no other series could ever match it, for that initial impact. It’s unique. You have to have lived at the time, to understand it fully. It's a paradigm landmark. Walking With Beasts _surpassed_ it in a lot of ways, but could never match that initial originality and sense of wonder. There is a certain, 'Rex Appeal', as it's been said regarding the unique status of Dinosaurs in palaeomedia. They just have so much hype and priority. Nothing beats the hype of October 1999, and Walking With Dinosaurs arriving like a lightning bolt. WWD (2025) 👀
@@dino_enthusiast Tbf it took a bit less than an hour. I got to over 10,000 characters so had to edit it down to just under 10,000. I removed a decent section about the team working on Disney DINOSAUR (long story) going to visit Framestore CFC. They were astonished at what they had achieved on what was a tiny fraction of the money being spent on Disney DINOSAUR. Sure, the quality of the textures was better and it should have for how much they spent on it. But the thing is, the team (The Secret Lab) knew that not only had they made something credible and more than respectable on a slither of the amount that had been lavished on Disney DINOSAUR (2000), they would be beaten to the line in both the UK and the USA by WWD (1999) They had gone to check in on it almost like an afterthought, only to realise how far along they were and how much had been achieved with so little money compared. The budget of WWD is often cited for how big it was, but only in terms of 'for documentary type programmes'. The budget of Disney DINOSAUR (2000) has been a matter of debate for a long time, indeed, since before it released. The official figures are somewhat questionable, though even going off those figures, it was clearly a very expensive film. The most expensive Disney film up until that point, at least. The Secret Lab was an experimental 3D CGI animation house, split off from Dream Quest Images, which Disney had supported, yet would dissolve, over financial costs, in just 2001; a matter of serious controversy around the time, and an indicator that for whatever reason, Disney really wanted to stop funding that. The point being, that Framestore CFC had nearly completed their work, working to a tight schedule and doing a lot of overtime out of love of the project, and the anxiety of failing to complete it. The several million pounds spent on Walking With Dinosaurs, primarily from the taxpayer, was a cheap and cheerful alternative to having go to ILM (and it had been ILM which had effectively stolen the thunder of Disney at that time in 1993, and this spurred Disney on to making sure they could cash in on the Dinomania Wave - it's a phenomenon seen repeatedly in history, look it up - of the 1990's. If you look at it, Disney had really dropped the ball and things had taken too long. While they were stumbling around trying to figure things out, ILM and Spielberg had stolen the show with Jurassic Park (which itself inspired WWD) They couldn't even release it before a) the second Jurassic Park film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, came out in 1997, and b) before a British director came out of the blue and made such a classic series as Walking With Dinosaurs from 1996 onward. Not only would audiences still be pretty satisfied Dinosaur blockbuster quota wise from 1997-2000 thanks to JP2 (releases of franchise films were slower back then in general so it'd not be expected as quickly, and so 2 1/2 years to 3 years or so after JP2 was still pretty much right behind it really in those terms, albeit visibly late to the party) The silver-screen (aka television) doesn't get the same scrutiny because it's never as expensive (or it wasn't until shows like Game of Thrones if you're looking at complete costs of all the episodes and seasons) The British silver-screen, especially, compared to the wealthier American silver-screen, wasn't expected to rival a movie release. However, the animators of Disney DINOSAUR realised that Walking With Dinosaurs was going to release in 2000 in the USA, _a month before_ Disney DINOSAUR released. The fact is, this in it's own way, would steal much of the thunder of Disney DINOSAUR. It obviously wouldn't stop it completely (not even close) but it would take the debut shine off Disney DINOSAUR, because Walking With Dinosaurs was still heavily in the public conversation at the time (and still releasing on TV, two weeks or so into the release of the film) I wrote this in a more extended form for this reply, than the paragraph I'd summarised it in before editing it down, but anyway. Here you go. The fact that Disney's team looked at this in awe says a LOT about what Framestore CFC had achieved. Framestore is big league now but back then it was just some obscure animation house doing cheap animation components for adverts in London. Out of relatively nowhere, it achieved what it did. And as I was trying to explain earlier, the limitations of the computers and rendering on the BBC's computers in the late 1990's, meant that they were deliberately limiting their own renderings from the original laser scans of the sculptures. In other words, if they had computers like we have now, then, they'd be able to make some of the finest rendered textures and models ever seen on anything, with those same laser scans. The problem was, the technology just wasn't there (anywhere, to that level of quality and fidelity to the sculpture) They had to wing it with what they had. It was only a small team as well, working on one floor in one building. Pretty impressive what they produced. It does make me wonder, what they could have done with major computing power and better means of animating and rendering. If they had Disney DINOSAUR's budget in 1996-1999, I think they could have made dozens of staggering quality episodes. Alas. Walking With Dinosaurs is coming back in 2025, though I'm not sure if it will be faithful to the original. I've read it will already be reformatted to have 'talking heads' sections, which is like in a lot of documentaries where an 'expert' will start talking about something in question. I personally don't like this and think such things should be left to special features on a DVD/Blue Ray/whatever or Making Of behind the scenes stuff. I don't think it should be used inside the episode as that is distracting. And it's not OG Walking With Dinosaurs. A lot of the palaeontology community these days is too smug to hear sense so it will probably just be that way. I hope I'm wrong. I hope they just try and be as faithful to the original as possible. Sadly, I think too much ego has been involved in the new series for 2025 (and I am aware of what a lot of the episodes will be in terms of when they unfold, and I am seeing about 4 Cretaceous episodes. It won't follow an at least roughly fair coverage) Like sure, there is casually 68 million years in between WWD Episode I New Blood and WWD Episode II Time Of The Titans. That is and was always insane. But at least the Triassic got _an_ episode (set 220 Ma) and the Jurassic got two episodes (set 152 Ma and 149 Ma) I know one of them will be Jurassic (in Portugal, 150 Ma) Lusotitan will be one of the Dinosaurs. However, there is a question mark on one or two of the others. The first one might be Triassic or Early Jurassic. It's hard to say. The later ones are more obvious. There will be a Spinosaurus episode for instance. It's definitely weighted towards the Late Cretaceous so I hope they are trying to angle for a third season to go back. I wrote my own version of a Walking With Dinosaurs II, so I'm not particularly impressed with the news of the way things have allegedly been changed. I'll give it a chance to change my mind when it releases, but I'm thinking they've screwed it up sadly at the moment. It could be *amazing* but until I see it I'll remain skeptical of it for the time being. Remember in 2013, the brand of Walking With Dinosaurs already took an L with that terrible film. So I'm hoping they go back to what made WWD so brilliant in the first place (sigh, doubt they'll manage that vibe, because people expect things to change and modernise, and people get too clever for their own good tinkering with what made it special in the first place) If they just stick to how it was done back then, almost as if picking up where it left off like 26 years had not elapsed, since those glory days, then cool. But the fact they already missed the trick of releasing it on the more significant milestone of the 25th anniversary in 2024, may indicate it won't respect the original as much as I want. I'm a purist, though. I'm excited it's coming back, don't get me wrong. I collected so much from Walking With Dinosaurs back in the day and since. Still, the talking heads thing is meh imo. A poor choice which spoils the format potentially. Walking With Dinosaurs had it's own style. Who knows, maybe it's just misdirection. But there are BBC articles on Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 and teaser trailers already released back in June this year, so it's a bit late if they are going to pull a stunt like that. I always argued they should go for more episodes than 6.
@@dino_enthusiast Tbf it took a bit less than an hour. I got to over 10,000 characters so had to edit it down to just under 10,000. I removed a decent section about the team working on Disney DINOSAUR (long story) going to visit Framestore CFC. They were astonished at what they had achieved on what was a tiny fraction of the money being spent on Disney DINOSAUR. Sure, the quality of the textures was better and it should have for how much they spent on it. But the thing is, the team (The Secret Lab) knew that not only had they made something credible and more than respectable on a slither of the amount that had been lavished on Disney DINOSAUR (2000), they would be beaten to the line in both the UK and the USA by WWD (1999) They had gone to check in on it almost like an afterthought, only to realise how far along they were and how much had been achieved with so little money compared. The budget of WWD is often cited for how big it was, but only in terms of 'for documentary type programmes'. The budget of Disney DINOSAUR (2000) has been a matter of debate for a long time, indeed, since before it released. The official figures are somewhat questionable, though even going off those figures, it was clearly a very expensive film. The most expensive Disney film up until that point, at least. The Secret Lab was an experimental 3D CGI animation house, split off from Dream Quest Images, which Disney had supported, yet would dissolve, over financial costs, in just 2001; a matter of serious controversy around the time, and an indicator that for whatever reason, Disney really wanted to stop funding that. The point being, that Framestore CFC had nearly completed their work, working to a tight schedule and doing a lot of overtime out of love of the project, and the anxiety of failing to complete it. The several million pounds spent on Walking With Dinosaurs, primarily from the taxpayer, was a cheap and cheerful alternative to having go to ILM (and it had been ILM which had effectively stolen the thunder of Disney at that time in 1993, and this spurred Disney on to making sure they could cash in on the Dinomania Wave - it's a phenomenon seen repeatedly in history, look it up - of the 1990's. If you look at it, Disney had really dropped the ball and things had taken too long. While they were stumbling around trying to figure things out, ILM and Spielberg had stolen the show with Jurassic Park (which itself inspired WWD) They couldn't even release it before a) the second Jurassic Park film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, came out in 1997, and b) before a British director came out of the blue and made such a classic series as Walking With Dinosaurs from 1996 onward. Not only would audiences still be pretty satisfied Dinosaur blockbuster quota wise from 1997-2000 thanks to JP2 (releases of franchise films were slower back then in general so it'd not be expected as quickly, and so 2 1/2 years to 3 years or so after JP2 was still pretty much right behind it really in those terms, albeit visibly late to the party) The silver-screen (aka television) doesn't get the same scrutiny because it's never as expensive (or it wasn't until shows like Game of Thrones if you're looking at complete costs of all the episodes and seasons) The British silver-screen, especially, compared to the wealthier American silver-screen, wasn't expected to rival a movie release. However, the animators of Disney DINOSAUR realised that Walking With Dinosaurs was going to release in 2000 in the USA, _a month before_ Disney DINOSAUR released. The fact is, this in it's own way, would steal much of the thunder of Disney DINOSAUR. It obviously wouldn't stop it completely (not even close) but it would take the debut shine off Disney DINOSAUR, because Walking With Dinosaurs was still heavily in the public conversation at the time (and still releasing on TV, two weeks or so into the release of the film) I wrote this in a more extended form for this reply, than the paragraph I'd summarised it in before editing it down, but anyway. Here you go. The fact that Disney's team looked at this in awe says a LOT about what Framestore CFC had achieved. Framestore is big league now but back then it was just some obscure animation house doing cheap animation components for adverts in London. Out of relatively nowhere, it achieved what it did. And as I was trying to explain earlier, the limitations of the computers and rendering on the BBC's computers in the late 1990's, meant that they were deliberately limiting their own renderings from the original laser scans of the sculptures. In other words, if they had computers like we have now, then, they'd be able to make some of the finest rendered textures and models ever seen on anything, with those same laser scans. The problem was, the technology just wasn't there (anywhere, to that level of quality and fidelity to the sculpture) They had to wing it with what they had. It was only a small team as well, working on one floor in one building. Pretty impressive what they produced. It does make me wonder, what they could have done with major computing power and better means of animating and rendering. If they had Disney DINOSAUR's budget in 1996-1999, I think they could have made dozens of staggering quality episodes. Alas. Walking With Dinosaurs is coming back in 2025, though I'm not sure if it will be faithful to the original. I've read it will already be reformatted to have 'talking heads' sections, which is like in a lot of documentaries where an 'expert' will start talking about something in question. I personally don't like this and think such things should be left to special features on a DVD/Blue Ray/whatever or Making Of behind the scenes stuff. I don't think it should be used inside the episode as that is distracting. And it's not OG Walking With Dinosaurs. I hope they just try and be as faithful to the original as possible. Sadly, I think too much ego has been involved in the new series for 2025 (and I am aware of what a lot of the episodes will be in terms of when they unfold, and I am seeing about 4 Cretaceous episodes. It won't follow an at least roughly fair coverage) Like sure, there is casually 68 million years in between WWD Episode I New Blood and WWD Episode II Time Of The Titans. That is and was always insane. But at least the Triassic got _an_ episode (set 220 Ma) and the Jurassic got two episodes (set 152 Ma and 149 Ma) I know one of them will be Jurassic (in Portugal, 150 Ma) Lusotitan will be one of the Dinosaurs. However, there is a question mark on one or two of the others. The first one might be Triassic or Early Jurassic. It's hard to say. The later ones are more obvious. There will be a Spinosaurus episode for instance. It's definitely weighted towards the Late Cretaceous so I hope they are trying to angle for a third season to go back. I wrote my own version of a Walking With Dinosaurs II, so I'm not particularly impressed with the news of the way things have allegedly been changed. I'll give it a chance to change my mind when it releases, but I'm thinking they've screwed it up sadly at the moment. It could be *amazing* but until I see it I'll remain skeptical of it for the time being. Remember in 2013, the brand of Walking With Dinosaurs already took an L with that terrible film. So I'm hoping they go back to what made WWD so brilliant in the first place (sigh, doubt they'll manage that vibe, because people expect things to change and modernise, and people get too clever for their own good tinkering with what made it special in the first place) If they just stick to how it was done back then, almost as if picking up where it left off like 26 years had not elapsed, since those glory days, then cool. But the fact they already missed the trick of releasing it on the more significant milestone of the 25th anniversary in 2024, may indicate it won't respect the original as much as I want. I'm a purist, though. I'm excited it's coming back, don't get me wrong. I collected so much from Walking With Dinosaurs back in the day and since. Still, the talking heads thing is meh imo. A poor choice which spoils the format potentially. Walking With Dinosaurs had it's own style. Who knows, maybe it's just misdirection. But there are BBC articles on Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 and teaser trailers already released back in June this year, so it's a bit late if they are going to pull a stunt like that. I always argued they should go for more episodes than 6.
Si tuviera un moneda por cada serie en la que un ser prehistorico devora a Nigel Marven tendria 2, lo cual no es mucho pero es curioso que ocurriera 2 veces WWD Especial Sea Monsters Primeval
@@tabbygreendragon9363 they said: If I had a coin for each series in which a prehistoric being devours Nigel Marven I would have 2, which is not much but it is curious that it happened twice.
No, it was the remains of an infection preserved on his toe. We don't know if he tripped over a tree, but one way or another he hurt his toe and it got infected, leading to him eventually passing.
Narrator: the comet struck the Gulf of Mexico with the force of 10 billion Hiroshima bombs. Japanese from 6/8/1945: wow thanks about that, (-_-) you have to mention that after American bomb us.
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Walking with Dinosaur ending with birds is so poetic to me
Wait did big al grow big in walking with monsters 💀
No it's Euparkeria evolving into an Allosaurus. Big Al was a different specimen of the same species.
@@dino_enthusiast oh make sense 🤔
The most epic
the t rex one traumatized me as a kid just the sight of the dust cloud and the silence of it all was so scary
It's just sad really
its still the most realistic one inop no ''hellish'' fire and brimstone, no red wall of fire and dinosaurs being like oh god run,, or slow and shocking scenes of horror its just a fuc.king blast zone
just that a flash of light, shockwave then the blast which in a matter of seconds went from the yucatan peninsula in the atlantic to montana really sells the idea that no this isnt even apocalyptic as shown in most media, this is one of the largest mass extinction ever and unlike the slow boiling of the great dying this was a violent instant where the world died
absolutely horrifying and as a kid it wasnt scarry it was downright DREADFUL
@@kR-qj7rw Imagine you're just chilling, eating some other dinosaurs child and then, BOOM!
you get asteroided
@@kR-qj7rweven scarier is that you wouldn’t be able to outrun it at all, meaning you would just have to stand there and accept your fate
@@kR-qj7rw I rewatched it again yesterday and I was shocked by the fact that that wind was able to lift and carry the mother’s body and rip out trees. It really shows how damn powerful the asteroid really was.
I think what sets WWD apart from any other dino doc is the soundtrack. The music is so epic and mysterious, it really delivered a world of wonder to our young minds. Really wish Hans Zimmer should have taken more inspiration from WWD when making prehistoric planet’s soundtrack
Oh yeah.
Everytime the credits play...chills man.
6:13 my most favorite ending in the Walking with serie.
Agreed 👍 👌
💥💥💥💥💥🐘🐘🐘
Epic
Mine too
Narrator: The giant dinosaurs were gone.
Birds: Quit telling everyone were dead!
Narrator: Never to return.
Sometimes I can still hear their voices
Birds: I TOLD YOU HUMANS WE’RE RIGHT HERE
NiCE 1 !
[NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
@@theWanderersnotebook NOT AS NiCE BUT STiLL AN ALRiGHT 1
[NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
they still outnumber mammals like 4 to 1 so they are doing ok
@kR-qj7rw bugs vastly outnumber every vertebrate, too. Hell, bacteria outnumber everything else significantly as well. Doesn't really matter when much of the biggest most prominent niches are filled by the bigger, less numerous animals. It's like putting two yoga balls in a medium-sized room full of little balls. No matter how many little balls there are, the two big yoga balls are still the most prominent and dominant.
8:04 the most terrifying ending
The mosa eat camera ending
@@elizdurston8214 Rather, Nigel Marvin and his team are devoured by a whole herd of mosasaurs.
When I was a kid I legit thought Nigel and his team died after doing sea monsters
@@vectil6055nah he died by a giga in primeval
@@charlielancaster9840yup
Big Al definitely had the saddest ending 😢😢
yeah
The sad ending
if we ever revive a dinosaur it BETTER BE BIG AL
Bro got humiliated by small prey
He was my cousin he was a great allo
Walking With Dinosaurs is still unmatched by its cultural impact. Perhaps, alongside Planet Earth, it's still the greatest documentary series ever made by the BBC.
Walking With Beasts knew that, they were standing in the figurative and literal shoulders of giants. So to me, to end the series in the present, and to see how current humans are seeing deep time, is a subtle, poetic, silent and effective way of saying "yeah, you're part of all of this too. One day we will all die, that's nature to us. Let's enjoy the ride".
Why does the ending to walking with beasts especially move me to tears every time
Perhaps because it shows the end of prehistory as a whole.
CAUZE iT'Z TRUE, & THE FUTURE PART WiLL PROBABLY B TRUE
U COULD LAZT FOREVER, THE ROCKZ DON'T KARE WHETHER U LiVE OR DiE,
BUT U HAVE TO PUT iN THE FACTORZ TO MAKE iT HAPPEN, OR B iNCREDiBLY LUCKY THAT THE UNiVERSE JUZT GRANTZ iT TO U, RiGHT PLACE AT THE RiGHT TiME
[NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
CAUZE iT'Z TRUE, & THE FUTURE PART WiLL PROBABLY B TRUE
U COULD LAZT FOREVER, THE ROCKZ DON'T KARE WHETHER U LiVE OR DiE,
[NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
BUT U HAVE TO PUT iN THE FACTORZ TO MAKE iT HAPPEN, OR B iNCREDiBLY LUCKY THAT THE UNiVERSE JUZT GRANTZ iT TO U, RiGHT PLACE AT THE RiGHT TiME
[NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
Walking with beasts ending is one of the best in TV
It's the most epic of them all, as much as I loved the birds at the end of WWD. The ending of WWB looks like the original closure of the whole WW franchise before they decided to revive it later.
To think that every different skin on the evolution part in WWM is a different species is mind boggling
No species lasts forever such a wise true relatable sad phrase
It gave me with existential dread as a child
But what if found a way for them to last forever.
Describing my feelings at each ending:
WWD: Heartbreaking.
WWM: Uplifting af!
WWB: So epic! Always thought so since I was a kid.
SM: Scary!
CBD: Exciting!
Big Al: Heartbreaking.
What about the one with the Argentinosaurus and Sarchosuchus that one was a jumpscare.
@@ethanshembvibar7020 Absolute jump scare!!!
With the meteor the air was 600 celcius, literally evaporating the water from flesh, and the ash tearing from the flesh off
Thank you for uploading this. These documentaries had such an influence on me, that after all these years I will start in September with the master program of paleontology & paleobiology.
Thanks a lot! I wish you luck on your paleo journey!
Good luck!
WWB was my first to ever see, and I hold it very close to my heart, but WWD is very surprisingly the most optimistic and hopeful, because it sends you into such an emotional trip, right from complete devastation to sheer, utter, uncontrollable joy. That they are still here.
Also, the ghost of Big Al going on a road trip with the female palaeonthologist at the end of "The making of Big Al" is my headcanon to how his story truly ended. Rest in peace, young one.
13:20 the saddest ending
I like how with the ending of Walking with Monsters, it's like the ending of a prequel that leads to the start of the original movie where not only do we see the rise of the dinosaurs, but also has the amazing music from Walking with Dinosaurs that accompanies the scene.
poor baby tyrannnosaurus
RIP Big Al
Looking through so much, Walking with Cavemen seems almost impossible to find. It's almost like it's a legend we all fever dreamed, now.
I should digitise my copy for you all
I have the dvd of walking with cavemen
They making Walking with dinosaurs again 2025!! Tim haines is working on surving earth, i dont know who will be the director.
My favorite series in TV history by far. I even bought the disc set just to rewatch them when I get nostalgic
RIP 🪦 Big Al 🥹, you are my favorite Dinosaur 🦖 team Allosaurus 🙌
Walking with Series!All Endings:
Walking with Dinosaurs
Walking with Monsters
Walking with Prehistoric Beasts
Chased by Sea Monsters
The Giant Claw
The Ballad of Big Al
I think this series was extremely focused at least as a meta narrative in the first three that life on earth always has stages with an end and beginning. So they all ended up feeling more majestic or poetic.
Like big al dying and the emergence of humans evolving in some of these. With Nigel marven it seemed to have a more “the spirit of an adventure” type of ending which always applied more to see and explore.
My favourite was the walking with beasts ending for sure
This began so sad😢
Walking With Beasts is still the most chilling.
Nah Big Al was done dirty 150 million years ago
he done got thirsted
It’s aight. His after story lowkey carries
Walking with cavemen ends with Sir Robert Winston* contemplating kidnapping a child from the beginning of the holocene while making the point that if he raised it in the 21st century, it would be just like any other baby. If memory serves
Edit; *Baron Winston. turns out he doesn't have a knighthood but is a life peer that's one step up from a knight for the non British of you
Ready for Walking with Dinosaur Season 2 ?
Absolute peak cinema
I thought Walking with Mammals would end with a view of an incoming asteroid as the shot zoomed out from Earth, but I guess the biggest threat to humanity is... humanity.
Don't forget to update this once the return of wwd happens next year
For those who never saw the Walking with cavemen ending, it’s cool to see our ancestry but it’s not as awesome as the others, Robert Winston finds a Human baby, says that they are the same species so if he took her to the present and raised her as his own, she would be like any other Human in the 21st century, the mother appears so he leaves, the Mother looks really confused at what just happened and Robert Winston smiles warmly and then walks away.
I like some of the endings of the Walking With Series. I wish Prehistoric Park was included on this. Oh & another thing, 6:14 I call this part The Last Trumpet of the Mammoth.
Props to the cameraman for surviving
Walking with beast came first then walking with monsters servicing as a "sequel" and "prequel" to walking with dinosaurs
1) Technically, "Prehistoric Park" should be included too, as it is an official "Walking With..." Franchise production. It also represent the ultimate end/conclusion of the franchise as it is the last production of the first era of it to have been made.
"Walking With Dinosaurs The Movie" (2013) could be also included in some capacities.
2) Aside I think Walking With Cavemen is watchable online in many ways, like in streaming, so finding its ending should be less hard.
ok
Yeah, you forgot
What abt march of the dinosaurs
@@snakewithnolegs March of the Dinosaurs isn't a part of the Walkign With... Franchise.
@@dudotolivier6363 It was directed by the same guy who directed walking with beasts and prehistoric park. I own the doc myself and in the cover it says "Made by the people who made walking with dinosaurs"
All my life, I have loved the Walking With... series. There are no words for how much it influenced me growing up and how much it inspired me going forward.
Love it. The format was always the lightning in a bottle, one in a million success that deserved far more funding and releases than it ever got. The producers, in fairness, deemed it a completed story; yet there is no such thing in terms of the extent of Deep Time, the immensity and complexity of the fossil record and the potential stories to be told. Life is life. The makers of Walking With Dinosaurs (etc) wanted to move on and explore live-action with humans and prehistoric animals (see Prehistoric Park, see PRIMEVAL etc) And yes, I love those too; however, it did end the potential, in those days, for a continuing run of Walking With...documentary-dramas. Over the years, alternatives came and went, but _nothing_ really came close (Planet Dinosaur, Prehistoric Planet; they are very impressive, though just not the same and not as good in my opinion)
There is something of the magic of the 1990's, and triumph against the odds, especially in Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) Arguably, across the board, Walking With Beasts (2001) was the by far most challenging (try following up Walking With Dinosaurs with what happened next; not as easy as it sounds, in spite of the evolutionary excellence and wild majesty of the Cenozoic Era, in it's own right), difficult to animate (fur and feathers are much more difficult to animate; and there was a lot of that to do) and perhaps the most daunting to take on, trying to be the successor series, forever compared most of all, to Walking With Dinosaurs (it'd be more 'forgivable' if later series didn't quite mirror Walking With Dinosaurs in terms of comparative quality; same goes for the various specials and spin-offs; but Walking With Beasts almost _had_ to ace it, to maintain the quality)
The reason why I think Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) was so impressive, on top of all the obvious reasons, in terms of the narrative quality, the sincerity with which it attempts to recreate lost words, and the evidently high-quality artistry of the production, is the sheer _unlikelihood_ of it all just, coming together. It is often celebrated for being the most expensive natural history documentary/nature/historical series ever made, up until at least the mid 2000's at least (the addition of historical to that list, because later on, more expensive shows were made, though it still remains the case that Walking With Dinosaurs is the most respected series of it's kind ever made) The nostalgia I feel even breaking this down and going into the details, says it all to me. Walking With Dinosaurs was beloved of so many, for a great many reasons. I can and have essayed on it many times.
When it comes to the unlikelihood of Walking With Dinosaurs being made in the way it was, in between 1996 and 1999 (the backdrops out in the wild, mostly filmed in 1998), there is a lot to say. At any point, the BBC could have declined the series being made. The animation firm could have pulled out before filming began. Framestore CFC is famous now, including having worked on the Harry Potter films and various TV shows and big-budget films. At the time, Framestore CFC was a small animation house in Soho, London, mainly known only within Britain, for doing low-budget animations for adverts (in that, cheap and cheerful 1990's style) Their lead animators knew that this would be by far the most challenging work they'd ever had up to that point, exponentially more difficult than anything else they'd ever done. The final decision fell to Mike Milne, head of the team at Framestore CFC at the time, and in spite of initially turning Tim Haines down, he got thinking about it later that same day, and was concerned it was a bad decision.
Framestore CFC then backed Haines. To contextualise this further, Haines had gone to ILM in California, to speak with the animation house there about getting a quote for what kind of price would be given for their work. Industrial Light & Magic had been responsible for the animated Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993) And if you know anything about Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) and it's production, you'll probably know that Tim Haines was inspired by Jurassic Park. The difference was, that Walking With Dinosaurs would turn out to have over 1,200 animation shots, spread over 6 half-hour episodes. Jurassic Park had about ~9 minutes of animated Dinosaurs (though there were also similarly expensive animatronics and puppets adding to the total run-time of Dinosaurs on-screen, the same could be said for Walking With Dinosaurs) This meant that the total run-time of Dinosaurs being on-screen in Walking With Dinosaurs, would be far beyond Jurassic Park. Naturally, this should have indicated to Haines that the costs would be very severe indeed.
When ILM effectively told Haines that it would cost the BBC and the British taxpayer $10,000 _per second_ of animation, Haines obviously had to decline the offer, because of how prohibitively expensive it was. On 1990's British TV budgets, for a project that few even knew about at this stage in 1996, and for something that hadn't even had it's pilot filmed yet, it was simply unfeasible to proceed with ILM. It's not that the BBC couldn't afford it in general, but for one show, and with all the other production costs in said show involved? Then no, it wasn't possible. The BBC rakes in billions of pounds every year, though it does have a lot of things to pay for and so many salaries across the board. Some salaries, being rather inflated compared to what they actually deserve one might say. It is what it is. It seems silly to me that billions flow into the BBC yet it will only spend tiny fractions of that on flagship programmes. The BBC Natural History Unit (and Science & Nature as it once was) had been tasked with putting together a series, for a fraction the cost of a blockbuster.
The odds of failure would have been incredibly high; the chances of success, in the way it would go on to succeed, so low. Everything depended on a convergence of good luck, good timing, goodwill and good work. And it _all_ came about right, in the end. The magnificent music score, by the brilliant Benjamin Bartlett, was a bolt from the blue in a way, in itself. With all due respect to him (and he deserves a whole lot) he had then never worked with an orchestra before, and only had whichever software and sound recording and mixing equipment that he had available to him in the 1990's. These were technically quite high quality for what they were by the standards of the day, and the panoply of skills he brought to the table with those devices, deserves more respect.
However, it was such a good thing that he could really crack his knuckles and flex his creative talons with the fancier computers and sound archives at the BBC. That included sampling from the Spectrasonics albums available therein. The orchestral work he did was amazing, in spite of the fact that he'd never worked with an orchestra before, and the fact that they were relatively brief recording sessions in 1998, in Islington, London (in a now closed studio) It was the London Concert Orchestra, working to a tight schedule. Just a few days in 1998, basically, being the source of the outstanding orchestral music used for Walking With Dinosaurs (with a lot of post-production editing; most of Ben Bartlett's work, was in the editing process, combining the music with the on-screen visuals, and editing the spliced samples of sound files and snippets of sample music, to create an array of what Bartlett referred to wisely as 'sound worlds'. This, perfectly illustrating thematic motifs and flourishes for different time periods and episodes, and different types of animals. His entire musical score for Walking With Dinosaurs is often correctly considered a big part of what made it such as special series, and that should not be underestimated.
Point being, with all these individual components coming together -- whether that is in terms of the >400 palaeontologists working on advising the series, and a smaller group of those (about two dozen) being much more directly involved on the ground (particularly an array of high profile British and American palaeontologists, though others as well from around the world) or in terms of the high quality of the Creepy Crawlies (UK production/art house) props for the animals in close-up, for just two additional examples -- the series would simply take the world by surprise.
The sculptures, the storyboarding, the music, the style of the documentary (taking itself seriously as a proper documentary, whilst really being more of a homage to one), the title (inspired by Dances With Wolves; because it was popular and Tim Haines liked that film), the direction, the narration script, the narrator (Kenneth Branagh), the locations, the cinematography, the scientific efforts behind it (inaccuracies and all, it's still a keystone and landmark project in palaeomedia at this point) and the various promotions and paraphernalia...all of it, together, the combined efforts of all the experts and enthusiasts involved, it all built this into what it became. In a sense, no other series could ever match it, for that initial impact. It’s unique. You have to have lived at the time, to understand it fully. It's a paradigm landmark.
Walking With Beasts _surpassed_ it in a lot of ways, but could never match that initial originality and sense of wonder. There is a certain, 'Rex Appeal', as it's been said regarding the unique status of Dinosaurs in palaeomedia. They just have so much hype and priority. Nothing beats the hype of October 1999, and Walking With Dinosaurs arriving like a lightning bolt. WWD (2025) 👀
Can we get a round of applause for this random dude who just spent an hour formulating an ELEVEN PARAGRAPH COMMENT???
@@dino_enthusiast Tbf it took a bit less than an hour. I got to over 10,000 characters so had to edit it down to just under 10,000. I removed a decent section about the team working on Disney DINOSAUR (long story) going to visit Framestore CFC. They were astonished at what they had achieved on what was a tiny fraction of the money being spent on Disney DINOSAUR.
Sure, the quality of the textures was better and it should have for how much they spent on it. But the thing is, the team (The Secret Lab) knew that not only had they made something credible and more than respectable on a slither of the amount that had been lavished on Disney DINOSAUR (2000), they would be beaten to the line in both the UK and the USA by WWD (1999)
They had gone to check in on it almost like an afterthought, only to realise how far along they were and how much had been achieved with so little money compared. The budget of WWD is often cited for how big it was, but only in terms of 'for documentary type programmes'.
The budget of Disney DINOSAUR (2000) has been a matter of debate for a long time, indeed, since before it released. The official figures are somewhat questionable, though even going off those figures, it was clearly a very expensive film. The most expensive Disney film up until that point, at least. The Secret Lab was an experimental 3D CGI animation house, split off from Dream Quest Images, which Disney had supported, yet would dissolve, over financial costs, in just 2001; a matter of serious controversy around the time, and an indicator that for whatever reason, Disney really wanted to stop funding that.
The point being, that Framestore CFC had nearly completed their work, working to a tight schedule and doing a lot of overtime out of love of the project, and the anxiety of failing to complete it.
The several million pounds spent on Walking With Dinosaurs, primarily from the taxpayer, was a cheap and cheerful alternative to having go to ILM (and it had been ILM which had effectively stolen the thunder of Disney at that time in 1993, and this spurred Disney on to making sure they could cash in on the Dinomania Wave - it's a phenomenon seen repeatedly in history, look it up - of the 1990's.
If you look at it, Disney had really dropped the ball and things had taken too long. While they were stumbling around trying to figure things out, ILM and Spielberg had stolen the show with Jurassic Park (which itself inspired WWD)
They couldn't even release it before a) the second Jurassic Park film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, came out in 1997, and b) before a British director came out of the blue and made such a classic series as Walking With Dinosaurs from 1996 onward.
Not only would audiences still be pretty satisfied Dinosaur blockbuster quota wise from 1997-2000 thanks to JP2 (releases of franchise films were slower back then in general so it'd not be expected as quickly, and so 2 1/2 years to 3 years or so after JP2 was still pretty much right behind it really in those terms, albeit visibly late to the party) The silver-screen (aka television) doesn't get the same scrutiny because it's never as expensive (or it wasn't until shows like Game of Thrones if you're looking at complete costs of all the episodes and seasons) The British silver-screen, especially, compared to the wealthier American silver-screen, wasn't expected to rival a movie release.
However, the animators of Disney DINOSAUR realised that Walking With Dinosaurs was going to release in 2000 in the USA, _a month before_ Disney DINOSAUR released. The fact is, this in it's own way, would steal much of the thunder of Disney DINOSAUR. It obviously wouldn't stop it completely (not even close) but it would take the debut shine off Disney DINOSAUR, because Walking With Dinosaurs was still heavily in the public conversation at the time (and still releasing on TV, two weeks or so into the release of the film)
I wrote this in a more extended form for this reply, than the paragraph I'd summarised it in before editing it down, but anyway. Here you go. The fact that Disney's team looked at this in awe says a LOT about what Framestore CFC had achieved. Framestore is big league now but back then it was just some obscure animation house doing cheap animation components for adverts in London. Out of relatively nowhere, it achieved what it did.
And as I was trying to explain earlier, the limitations of the computers and rendering on the BBC's computers in the late 1990's, meant that they were deliberately limiting their own renderings from the original laser scans of the sculptures. In other words, if they had computers like we have now, then, they'd be able to make some of the finest rendered textures and models ever seen on anything, with those same laser scans. The problem was, the technology just wasn't there (anywhere, to that level of quality and fidelity to the sculpture) They had to wing it with what they had. It was only a small team as well, working on one floor in one building. Pretty impressive what they produced.
It does make me wonder, what they could have done with major computing power and better means of animating and rendering. If they had Disney DINOSAUR's budget in 1996-1999, I think they could have made dozens of staggering quality episodes. Alas.
Walking With Dinosaurs is coming back in 2025, though I'm not sure if it will be faithful to the original. I've read it will already be reformatted to have 'talking heads' sections, which is like in a lot of documentaries where an 'expert' will start talking about something in question. I personally don't like this and think such things should be left to special features on a DVD/Blue Ray/whatever or Making Of behind the scenes stuff. I don't think it should be used inside the episode as that is distracting.
And it's not OG Walking With Dinosaurs. A lot of the palaeontology community these days is too smug to hear sense so it will probably just be that way. I hope I'm wrong. I hope they just try and be as faithful to the original as possible. Sadly, I think too much ego has been involved in the new series for 2025 (and I am aware of what a lot of the episodes will be in terms of when they unfold, and I am seeing about 4 Cretaceous episodes. It won't follow an at least roughly fair coverage)
Like sure, there is casually 68 million years in between WWD Episode I New Blood and WWD Episode II Time Of The Titans. That is and was always insane. But at least the Triassic got _an_ episode (set 220 Ma) and the Jurassic got two episodes (set 152 Ma and 149 Ma)
I know one of them will be Jurassic (in Portugal, 150 Ma) Lusotitan will be one of the Dinosaurs. However, there is a question mark on one or two of the others. The first one might be Triassic or Early Jurassic. It's hard to say. The later ones are more obvious. There will be a Spinosaurus episode for instance. It's definitely weighted towards the Late Cretaceous so I hope they are trying to angle for a third season to go back.
I wrote my own version of a Walking With Dinosaurs II, so I'm not particularly impressed with the news of the way things have allegedly been changed. I'll give it a chance to change my mind when it releases, but I'm thinking they've screwed it up sadly at the moment. It could be *amazing* but until I see it I'll remain skeptical of it for the time being. Remember in 2013, the brand of Walking With Dinosaurs already took an L with that terrible film. So I'm hoping they go back to what made WWD so brilliant in the first place (sigh, doubt they'll manage that vibe, because people expect things to change and modernise, and people get too clever for their own good tinkering with what made it special in the first place)
If they just stick to how it was done back then, almost as if picking up where it left off like 26 years had not elapsed, since those glory days, then cool. But the fact they already missed the trick of releasing it on the more significant milestone of the 25th anniversary in 2024, may indicate it won't respect the original as much as I want. I'm a purist, though. I'm excited it's coming back, don't get me wrong.
I collected so much from Walking With Dinosaurs back in the day and since. Still, the talking heads thing is meh imo. A poor choice which spoils the format potentially. Walking With Dinosaurs had it's own style. Who knows, maybe it's just misdirection. But there are BBC articles on Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 and teaser trailers already released back in June this year, so it's a bit late if they are going to pull a stunt like that. I always argued they should go for more episodes than 6.
@@dino_enthusiast I replied to you but it seems to have been taken down.
@@dino_enthusiast Tbf it took a bit less than an hour. I got to over 10,000 characters so had to edit it down to just under 10,000. I removed a decent section about the team working on Disney DINOSAUR (long story) going to visit Framestore CFC. They were astonished at what they had achieved on what was a tiny fraction of the money being spent on Disney DINOSAUR.
Sure, the quality of the textures was better and it should have for how much they spent on it. But the thing is, the team (The Secret Lab) knew that not only had they made something credible and more than respectable on a slither of the amount that had been lavished on Disney DINOSAUR (2000), they would be beaten to the line in both the UK and the USA by WWD (1999)
They had gone to check in on it almost like an afterthought, only to realise how far along they were and how much had been achieved with so little money compared. The budget of WWD is often cited for how big it was, but only in terms of 'for documentary type programmes'.
The budget of Disney DINOSAUR (2000) has been a matter of debate for a long time, indeed, since before it released. The official figures are somewhat questionable, though even going off those figures, it was clearly a very expensive film. The most expensive Disney film up until that point, at least. The Secret Lab was an experimental 3D CGI animation house, split off from Dream Quest Images, which Disney had supported, yet would dissolve, over financial costs, in just 2001; a matter of serious controversy around the time, and an indicator that for whatever reason, Disney really wanted to stop funding that.
The point being, that Framestore CFC had nearly completed their work, working to a tight schedule and doing a lot of overtime out of love of the project, and the anxiety of failing to complete it.
The several million pounds spent on Walking With Dinosaurs, primarily from the taxpayer, was a cheap and cheerful alternative to having go to ILM (and it had been ILM which had effectively stolen the thunder of Disney at that time in 1993, and this spurred Disney on to making sure they could cash in on the Dinomania Wave - it's a phenomenon seen repeatedly in history, look it up - of the 1990's.
If you look at it, Disney had really dropped the ball and things had taken too long. While they were stumbling around trying to figure things out, ILM and Spielberg had stolen the show with Jurassic Park (which itself inspired WWD)
They couldn't even release it before a) the second Jurassic Park film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, came out in 1997, and b) before a British director came out of the blue and made such a classic series as Walking With Dinosaurs from 1996 onward.
Not only would audiences still be pretty satisfied Dinosaur blockbuster quota wise from 1997-2000 thanks to JP2 (releases of franchise films were slower back then in general so it'd not be expected as quickly, and so 2 1/2 years to 3 years or so after JP2 was still pretty much right behind it really in those terms, albeit visibly late to the party) The silver-screen (aka television) doesn't get the same scrutiny because it's never as expensive (or it wasn't until shows like Game of Thrones if you're looking at complete costs of all the episodes and seasons) The British silver-screen, especially, compared to the wealthier American silver-screen, wasn't expected to rival a movie release.
However, the animators of Disney DINOSAUR realised that Walking With Dinosaurs was going to release in 2000 in the USA, _a month before_ Disney DINOSAUR released. The fact is, this in it's own way, would steal much of the thunder of Disney DINOSAUR. It obviously wouldn't stop it completely (not even close) but it would take the debut shine off Disney DINOSAUR, because Walking With Dinosaurs was still heavily in the public conversation at the time (and still releasing on TV, two weeks or so into the release of the film)
I wrote this in a more extended form for this reply, than the paragraph I'd summarised it in before editing it down, but anyway. Here you go. The fact that Disney's team looked at this in awe says a LOT about what Framestore CFC had achieved. Framestore is big league now but back then it was just some obscure animation house doing cheap animation components for adverts in London. Out of relatively nowhere, it achieved what it did.
And as I was trying to explain earlier, the limitations of the computers and rendering on the BBC's computers in the late 1990's, meant that they were deliberately limiting their own renderings from the original laser scans of the sculptures. In other words, if they had computers like we have now, then, they'd be able to make some of the finest rendered textures and models ever seen on anything, with those same laser scans. The problem was, the technology just wasn't there (anywhere, to that level of quality and fidelity to the sculpture) They had to wing it with what they had. It was only a small team as well, working on one floor in one building. Pretty impressive what they produced.
It does make me wonder, what they could have done with major computing power and better means of animating and rendering. If they had Disney DINOSAUR's budget in 1996-1999, I think they could have made dozens of staggering quality episodes. Alas.
Walking With Dinosaurs is coming back in 2025, though I'm not sure if it will be faithful to the original. I've read it will already be reformatted to have 'talking heads' sections, which is like in a lot of documentaries where an 'expert' will start talking about something in question. I personally don't like this and think such things should be left to special features on a DVD/Blue Ray/whatever or Making Of behind the scenes stuff. I don't think it should be used inside the episode as that is distracting.
And it's not OG Walking With Dinosaurs. I hope they just try and be as faithful to the original as possible. Sadly, I think too much ego has been involved in the new series for 2025 (and I am aware of what a lot of the episodes will be in terms of when they unfold, and I am seeing about 4 Cretaceous episodes. It won't follow an at least roughly fair coverage)
Like sure, there is casually 68 million years in between WWD Episode I New Blood and WWD Episode II Time Of The Titans. That is and was always insane. But at least the Triassic got _an_ episode (set 220 Ma) and the Jurassic got two episodes (set 152 Ma and 149 Ma)
I know one of them will be Jurassic (in Portugal, 150 Ma) Lusotitan will be one of the Dinosaurs. However, there is a question mark on one or two of the others. The first one might be Triassic or Early Jurassic. It's hard to say. The later ones are more obvious. There will be a Spinosaurus episode for instance. It's definitely weighted towards the Late Cretaceous so I hope they are trying to angle for a third season to go back.
I wrote my own version of a Walking With Dinosaurs II, so I'm not particularly impressed with the news of the way things have allegedly been changed. I'll give it a chance to change my mind when it releases, but I'm thinking they've screwed it up sadly at the moment. It could be *amazing* but until I see it I'll remain skeptical of it for the time being. Remember in 2013, the brand of Walking With Dinosaurs already took an L with that terrible film. So I'm hoping they go back to what made WWD so brilliant in the first place (sigh, doubt they'll manage that vibe, because people expect things to change and modernise, and people get too clever for their own good tinkering with what made it special in the first place)
If they just stick to how it was done back then, almost as if picking up where it left off like 26 years had not elapsed, since those glory days, then cool. But the fact they already missed the trick of releasing it on the more significant milestone of the 25th anniversary in 2024, may indicate it won't respect the original as much as I want. I'm a purist, though. I'm excited it's coming back, don't get me wrong.
I collected so much from Walking With Dinosaurs back in the day and since. Still, the talking heads thing is meh imo. A poor choice which spoils the format potentially. Walking With Dinosaurs had it's own style. Who knows, maybe it's just misdirection. But there are BBC articles on Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 and teaser trailers already released back in June this year, so it's a bit late if they are going to pull a stunt like that. I always argued they should go for more episodes than 6.
So much nostalgia 😌
WE MUST BUILD A TIME MACHINE FAST PLEASE HUMANS HELP US I DONT WANT TO DIE
Coming to save you bro
This is nostalgia
3:44 This is the goofiest ending. It's inaccurate as hell, but it's hilariously inaccurate.
Exactly. It's just for effects.
what did they do to the Allosaurus though, it looked weird for some reason lmao
It's not inaccurate at all. It's showing that those early reptiles would evolve into dinosaurs
@kobe4212 euparkaria isn't the ancestor to allosaurus LOL
So thankful the walking with dinosaur movie not among them
12:46 the lick ending
WWD: the most impactful
Ballad of Big Al: the saddest
WWB: the best
CBD/CBSM: the most frightening
WWM: the most underrated
6:50 " No species last forever" 🗿
They’re all good endings
Bruhhh I tought in the end of Chased by dinosaurs the cameraman was gonna be killed by the Therizinosaurus for angering him XD
Las mejores tomas😎
Tener una máquina del tiempo para ver ese suceso 🤖
that's my childhood right dere
Walking with dinosaurs it's my favorite but Big All it's very sad 😢😢
3:09
Camarógrafo: NOS DESCUBRIERON
I like all of these series
3:16 Cameraman always survives sniffed him and was like nah can't hurt him 🤣
Nigel in the giant claw is so stupid
Oh, the giant deadly herbivore is is looking at me, I'm going to touch it!
It’s spot on for him. He’s laid next to Komodo dragons I think
its very in character for Nigel tbh
Yea, but still, giant deadly dinosaurs are worse than Komodo dragons in my opinion. But it is very in character
Bring them all back wtf
Yeah a remake with more accurate knowledge but with the same EPIC SCORE would be awesome!
@@ze_kangz932not with the feather t-rex tho
we're getting a new series next year, though who knows whether it will hold a candle to the originals
@@ovs4744 no I don't agree. Feathered Dino's would be sick 😬
@@ze_kangz932 there’s zero evidence for feathered dinosaurs 😬
Those poor baby rexes
Si tuviera un moneda por cada serie en la que un ser prehistorico devora a Nigel Marven tendria 2, lo cual no es mucho pero es curioso que ocurriera 2 veces
WWD Especial Sea Monsters
Primeval
haha
@@dino_enthusiastwhat's so funny?
@@tabbygreendragon9363 they said:
If I had a coin for each series in which a prehistoric being devours Nigel Marven I would have 2, which is not much but it is curious that it happened twice.
I used to have all of this!
Wdym?
@@dino_enthusiast i had all these series in VHS when i was little. I loved them.
Why couldn’t you find the ending of Walking with Cavemen?
Where these just bedtime stories???
Didn't Big Al trip over a tree trunk and died from his injury, how would you know that just from a boney lump???
No, it was the remains of an infection preserved on his toe. We don't know if he tripped over a tree, but one way or another he hurt his toe and it got infected, leading to him eventually passing.
good
Dinosaur Skin Designers
DAREN HORLEY MARTIN MCRAE
Noooo Ww Cavemen!
it ain't that hard to find walking with cavemen, first thing that came up with a youtube search
12:33 14:36
5:36
3:10 so camera man time travel huh
@dino_enthusiast. Is this a good time to mention that (apart from WWC) you missed 2 other films
Which were?
btw just finished filming the q&a vid
@@dino_enthusiast WWD3d, Prehistoric park and WWD pilot
@@dino_enthusiast Also BTW can I point out that The giant claw is actually episode one of CBD? (or episode 7 of WWD)
Narrator: the comet struck the Gulf of Mexico with the force of 10 billion Hiroshima bombs.
Japanese from 6/8/1945: wow thanks about that, (-_-) you have to mention that after American bomb us.