Product: Future Is Wild [VHS]
Rating: 1.0
Very Dissapointed! Not what we saw on Animal Planet at all
The single DVD version with the concept of the "probes" being sent from a future human race was a very upbeat and inovative plot device for this vision of Earth-after-man. That is what we all saw on the Animal Planet version of this show. Each of the ages was treated the same in the full length episodes as they were in the introductery condenced one hour form. They added probes and the omnipresent narrarator to guide us through each hour. I was enthralled with the whole weird thing! Completely swept away!So,when I got this collection of British talking heads beaming at how smart they all were to have theorised all these creatures out of nothing but thin air-headedness,I was disenchanted at best. They all came off as arrogant and way too self satisfied.While listening you could hear the flaws in many of the basic assumtions.The ecologies and behaiviors shown were often far too over simplified to create their "new possibilities". As a viewer your suspention of disbelief was completely shot! There was no way to invest your imagination in these soap bubble epocs being constantly reminded that they are just creations.Obviously,I am in the minority here and I'm shouting "FIRE" long after the smoke has cooled.So be it. This is one of the very few times that the more intellectual cut was all wrong. The US versions were much better films in every way; repeat footage and all. You were viewing events,not ideas. It might have sold better too.