Product: Future Is Wild [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
The Future is Weird!
It's funny, our time on this planet is so short (70-80 years) that it can be hard to predict even what the next century would be like. The last century was full of many fanciful predictions (where's my flying car???). In fact, after watching this series, I realized how even ~15,000 years for human civilization seems like a drop in the bucket compared to how millions, billions of years old this planet is.Each disc features a different point in the future - 5 million years, 100 million years, 200 million years. Those millions of years is a long time for creatures to change and evolve. The new animals (which seem a little like they came out of "Impossible Creatures" are all based on a present-day animal. The creatures are all given some rather silly names as well, such as a poggle (the last mammal), the swampas (land squid) and squibbons (tree-dwelling squid). Basically I remember them as dinural bats, underground quail, large spiders, rattle rodents, giant tortoises, and killer prairie birds.The CGI used for the animals isn't so great compared to other examples and by showing animals in danger or being killed, the program tried to be like a traditional nature show. But the CGI was decent enough to give people an idea. The predictive evolution was complimented by nature footage that demonstrate animal behaviour and how the future animals might use or develop these traits in the future. I thought the predictions were very creative though and it was enjoyable to watch.No predictions are given for the future race, and it is assumed that nature has "taken it back". I think it would have been too hard or controversial for the producers to feature humans.