I've been watching Planet Earth too! For about the same amount of time, apparently, because I've seen the same collection of episodes. Plus Seasonal Forests! Holy shit, trees! It's one of the only things my sister and I make a point to sit down and watch live every week; we love having our minds blown for two hours on a regular basis.
We do a lot of repeating the last thing the narrator said, plus providing some first-person input from the animals and plants, like, "Mom, I'm hungry Mom, when we gonna get some prey Mom, I'm gonna pounce on it like this," -- and then the young leopard kind of half-pounces his mom's behind -- or, "damn, I'm really thirsty but there's definitely crocodiles in this water," -- to which dilemma we compared the seals who are really hungry but definitely have to swim past great white jumping sharks to get to their food. Yikes! I cracked up when Discovery showed the little 'making of' snippet at the end of that one and said that the photographers were torn between their desire to get that perfect shot of a shark leaping and their sympathy for the seals, because we had just been discussing how, when it's, say, seal vs. penguin or seal vs. orca, you don't know who to root for, but when it's seal vs. shark it is always, GO SEAL! SWIM SEAL, SWIM! JUMP! GO! Sharks are so fucking scary and ugly and older than dinosaurs and they don't die of old age and evolution basically hit a jackpot with them and you are pretty much never on their team, at least when it's shark vs. any mammal.
I'm so glad you're watching this too! I might have to start posting reactions, even though they'll be largely the same every week: "our planet is so amazing!!"
I'm so glad I live here!
We do a lot of repeating the last thing the narrator said, plus providing some first-person input from the animals and plants, like, "Mom, I'm hungry Mom, when we gonna get some prey Mom, I'm gonna pounce on it like this," -- and then the young leopard kind of half-pounces his mom's behind -- or, "damn, I'm really thirsty but there's definitely crocodiles in this water," -- to which dilemma we compared the seals who are really hungry but definitely have to swim past great white jumping sharks to get to their food. Yikes! I cracked up when Discovery showed the little 'making of' snippet at the end of that one and said that the photographers were torn between their desire to get that perfect shot of a shark leaping and their sympathy for the seals, because we had just been discussing how, when it's, say, seal vs. penguin or seal vs. orca, you don't know who to root for, but when it's seal vs. shark it is always, GO SEAL! SWIM SEAL, SWIM! JUMP! GO! Sharks are so fucking scary and ugly and older than dinosaurs and they don't die of old age and evolution basically hit a jackpot with them and you are pretty much never on their team, at least when it's shark vs. any mammal.
I'm so glad you're watching this too! I might have to start posting reactions, even though they'll be largely the same every week: "our planet is so amazing!!"