![]() ![]() Seventeen years after Attenborough's first Blue Planet, installment two benefits from cutting-edge videography and production value as well as Zimmer's musical talents. It’s Blue Monday … hey, there’s another tune for your soundtrack, New Order.This sweeping series is a beautiful watch and an awe-inspiring educational tool for families. And now they are going to be having the OMG-did-you-see-that conversations about mantis shrimps and pyjama sharks. No one is going to be doing any work this morning – not because of cyber-frigging-Monday, but because they watch Blue Planet II the old fashioned way, when it goes out. There are so many extraordinary moments and so much extraordinary filming in this episode. Old news … But suddenly a gigantic gaping mouth comes up from the deep and gulps down approximately a billion in one go. ![]() Oh, and this I have seen before: the big cloud of little fish, herded tighter and tighter against the surface, by dolphins and sea lions, and then devoured, by diving seabirds too. The bigger the better, for mantis shrimps. ![]() This male is leaving his mate of maybe 20 years to hook up with another, bigger female. Who’d win in a fight, a mantis shrimp or the Bobbit worm from episode one? And can it be arranged, and put on YouTube? The mantis is not just a monster, but a love rat too. ![]() A weedy sea dragon is just weird, they’re not real, are they? Here are some little fishes swimming about, quite peacefully, it seems … then Bam! One of them is gone, grabbed and pulled into the sand. Another pretends to be the opposite sex in order to get some – sex, that is. Do pipe down, Hans.Ī giant cuttlefish pulsates as bands of colour sweep across his skin. It’s like something from War of the Worlds, no wonder Herr Zimmer gets a bit carried away and goes all Wagner with his score. The stealth bomber is a massive stingray, four metres long, swooping down on a mountain of spider crabs. Is that footage filmed from its back? You wouldn’t want that job would you, rigging that up and then retrieving it? “Just go and get the GoPro back, will you? Yup, that one, dorsal fin cam…” Green turtles next, in a green sea, and another shark, a tiger one. Now that really is cosy, a raft of adorableness. Is there anything lovelier in this world than a fluffy, whiskery sea otter floating around on its back? Yes! As it happens, there is: hundreds of fluffy, whiskery sea otters, including babies, floating around on their backs all together. Millions of spiny toothed anuses … Anyone fancy a swim? The episode is worth it just for that, and there’s a nice story behind it too, in the Into The Blue diary at the end, about how the divers got to know and became rather attached to this lady octopus.īut there are many more treats: a plague of urchins, the spiky underwater variety rather than a load of raggedy Dickensian children a sea urchin’s mouth up close is an oddity, not unlike one of those so-called sea cucumbers but with teeth. It’s extraordinary behaviour, caught on film for the first time. Next, the octopus disguises itself, as a ball of shells (with the odd suckery tentacle poking out, but PJ is well and truly fooled). A pyjama shark! They’re just making these things up now, aren’t they? Also it sounds like an oxymoron pyjamas are soft and cosy, sharks really aren’t.Īnyway, this one fancies octopus for tea, already has a mouthful, but the octopus sticks a spare tentacle into the shark’s gills and stops it breathing, so it has to let go. Especially later, when an army of marching crabs comes under attack from a stealth bomber of doom.įirst, though, to an octopus’s garden, in the shade, for a fight. Blue Planet on acid that would be scary, I imagine. Hey, if you’re doing the music, maybe you should go all the way and take LSD too. ![]()
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