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Prehistoric Park

 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:17 / 07.08.06
So, this is really just an immature bit of LR whingein', but but but, has anyone seen this, on ITV (UK)?

Fucking hell.

Right, imagine Walking with Dinosaurs etc, except, instead of being a nature documentary, it's a documentary where Nigel Marvin tries to create a prehistoric safari park by going back through time (never explained, although I guess that's not so important) and capturing various wooly rhinoceros, T-rex and so on.

And putting them in a field guarded by woefully inadequate wooden fences, which several of the animals are quite obviously taller than. By like, five feet.

There is a jolly Georgie ranger called Bob. Bob constructs a pretend triceratops out of a tractor and some tires so that Terence (yes) the Teenage Triceratops can have something to practice charging on. Because he's moody, see? Perhaps he wouldn't be moody if you hadn't whisked him away from his loving herd, you sick bastards.

So they march around the prehistoric, camera crew and all, acting badly...they take the animals back to the future and call the mammoth "Martha" and stuff and...and...the sound effect for the pterodactyls is blatantly the traditional "hawk" sound...

The real question is, am I just a sad, sad fuck? Or am I justified? The actual animals look good, I just don't see the point in surrounding them with all this Nigel Marvin shite which they obviously don't have the budget to do properly...that nad several other dodgy bits.
 
 
Poke it with a stick
20:05 / 07.08.06
The bit that really annoyed me was them rescuing a woolly mammoth, whilst scaring the bejesus out of early human hunters, not to mention depriving them of several weeks of food.
Even if they'd had a worried scientist turning up cursing them for interfering and showing them cave paintings depicting a smug, silly bastard waving a torch about it wouldn't have improved it much.
Perhaps an episode guest starring Steve Irwin and an angry carniore chewing on his stringy, animal-taunting, antipodean corpse would cheer me up?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
18:56 / 11.08.06
Aye. A lot of this "rescuing" they do is completely unethical, and the program refuses to consider the question of the animals eating eachother.

It's just very ITV. Not populist and earthy, but smug and self-consciously "family" or "entertainment" centred, with a whole load of assumptions about what those words have to mean, rather like those distinctly unhealthy adverts where Kerry Katona is a Daily Mail mother shopping at whatever supermarket it was. Dinosaurs do not deserve this kind of treatment.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
14:07 / 12.08.06
I have not seen this (I don’t think it’s playing in the States), but I love dinosaurs and I hate Nigel Marvin. Also, from what you guys are describing, this sounds very poorly researched and more than a little stupid. So until someone comes up for a reasonable defense for this, I say “Fie!” on it.

In a related matter, is there some way we can get a petition started to exile Nigel Marvin to the moon?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
19:39 / 14.08.06
As far as I'm concerned, I will cease hating Nigel Marvin whe he gets off telly and returns to his job as my ex-boss Steve "The Twat" McDickface. Sorry, McAdam. Steve McAdam. The similarity is uncanny and makes my crosshairs hungry.
 
  
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