to only watch the last ten minutes of nature programmes?

[Tarzanlovesgaby]

because the 'making of' bit is more interesting than the topic?

[AgentZigzag]

I used to love watching nature programmes, but I just can't stand the guilt they shove down your throat in them now.

That whatever animal or country they're talking about, their habitat/species is under threat and it's all my fault.

I know they do it for the best of reasons and they only want people to know about what's happening, but if they're looking to get anyone to care they can't include the overkill in every single mention of every single animal.

(noted - personal rant with only a tenuous link to your OP )

[dodobookends]

Talking of overkill... most nature programmes are just that these days. You see a half-second shot of some poor newborn creature struggling to its feet, and then half a minute of ultra-high-definition slow motion as it is hunted down and torn limb from limb by some predator, blood spraying in a glittering sun-lit arc.

Yes - OK - I get that nature is red in tooth and claw; but honestly, just for once I'd like to be able to see a programme about something other than carnivores making a meal out of everything!

[Nowthereistwo]

Yes and yes to above posters.

They should just be called 'Baby animals in peril' - who's going to die first.

But I do love the filming bits at the end as well.

[AgentZigzag]

I don't like that either dodo (is that a bit of a sore point given your MN name? ) but I can look away accept it as part of nature.

Children's nature programmes are usually OK for not showing Tarantino levels of gore if you can find them.

[AgentZigzag]

That suggestion wasn't meant to be sarky and a slur on your intelligence btw dodo

It's just that you're guaranteed to have a happy ending and can stop feeling the dread of a 'survival of the fittest' massacre playing out.

[Tarzanlovesgaby]

agree to the gore. just why? if I want to watch horror I can chose a different film.

and what about the narrator's voice? the one from 'patagonia' almost sent me to sleep, so unaturally calm.

yes and the guilt. but a free consience can be bought with 5p at any checkout now

[limitedperiodonly]

I watched a documentary about the migration of wildebeests and it was an hour of watching them die in various ways.

The weaklings were ruthlessly cut out of the herd and picked off by lions, the reckless ones who were first to try to cross the river were dragged under by crocodiles, a mother giving birth was surrounded by hyenas and she and her half-in half-out baby were devoured, a lonely calf who'd lost his mum was left bleating while the rest of the herd moved off.

The worst one was a wildebeest whose brain had been penetrated by parasites and just stumbled round and round in circles.