Product: Future Is Wild [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
A lot of imagination with a dash of science.
Speculations can be neither right or wrong,but they can be interesting. Watching this program is much easier if you've read a lot of comic books or science fiction.I believe there were some minor flaws in the walking with dinosaurs series,but the most I can say about this series is how far-fetched a couple of the animals are.It's never explained to my satifaction how a "flish" breaths air or water or how it reproduces.The idea of squids becoming monkeys and predatory elephants is ridiculous.Why would a shark bother developing a flashy system of communication when most sharks are solitary...and have looked much the same for millions of years?Still,some animals aren't that far-fetched.There are spiders today that live in colonies with a "queen".There are ants that squirt acid. There are birds that burrow in the dirt.Some rodents do get big;the capibarra for instance.There were pre-historic predatory birds that stood about six feet tall.There's even talk of a veleciorapter-relative fossil that had 4 wings.So most of the animals aren't all that much of a stretch to the imagination.CREATIONISTS:The theory of evolution is never called into question.In fact, with the exception of the squids, all of the animals in TFIW can be cataloged today,either in the fossil record or modern day counterparts. Just makes me wonder what they were smoking when they thought up the squid-monkeys.Some of it has to taken with a grain of salt.As far as man's absense,well...it would be the height of egotism to assume that we will be the last animal alive on earth.When watched with an open mind,...and perhaps a sense of humor,this a very enjoyable program.