#Watch blue planet 2 episode 1 series#
#Watch blue planet 2 episode 1 tv#

Such sequences entertain audiences whilst encouraging interest in the non-human life that inhabits the earth. A disjunct theremin melody drifts over shimmering voices and strings, whilst alien sound effects seem to sound from the cuttlefish which is now a creature not of this world but of science fiction. Accompanying the cuttlefish are the sonic tropes of extra-terrestrial and paranormal beings. A hovering cuttlefish approaches a crab whilst performing a mesmerising light-show that ‘hypnotises’ its prey. One memorable example (see video below) is found four minutes into the third episode of Blue Planet II. Together these elements mediate a world that can appear alien - magically detached from human experience and effect.

#Watch blue planet 2 episode 1 series#

‘Epic’ soundtracks, carefully edited field recordings and (in)convincing foley sounds coalesce with such images to organise the communicative and affective impact of series like Blue Planet II. Sublime visual spectacles depicting miraculous and compelling stories are fundamental to nature documentaries’ appeal. It is clear, then, that nature documentaries - especially those fronted by television’s natural leviathan, Sir David Attenborough - continue to offer widely popular programming. Five of its seven episodes were among the ten most watched programmes of the year and viewing figures around the world made headlines. In 2017 audiences flocked to watch (and listen to) the BBC’s flag-ship nature documentary series Blue Planet II.

Will is currently an RMA student representative and a PhD student at the University of Bristol where he studies music on the BBC documentary series, Arena. He examines the role it plays in the on-screen mediation of human and non-human interaction. Otherwise these series maybe one of the last documentaries showing these animals still in their natural environments.Will Finch explores music from the nature documentary series, Blue Planet II. Should we intervene? Yes, we need to reverse the first intervention and stop heating up the planet. They are fighting for their lives every day and it is getting harder, and more fatal, shortening lives for the individuals and whole populations due to rapid disappearance and alternations to the environment they were adapting for very long time. And it helps them to realise animals feel I is mostly hunger, pain, fear, but also some joy. The storyline is made in the way people can connect and see themselves in lives of other species. I do not think the filmmakers are extreme or selling the soap opera of animal world. The shocks are sadly in the most extreme environments, be it polar regions, or tropics, where isolated animals and human population struggles every day. No flood water destroying the house irreversibly, no land slides, no hunger, no waterborne diseases, loss of relatives in many milder parts of the world.

#Watch blue planet 2 episode 1 tv#

Yet, people who are relatively comfortable, watching their TV programmes, either feel helpless or became ignorant. Climate change is happening for some time and accelerates every year with more devastating consequences. COVID came rapidly, warnings were there for years to invest in better research and prevention.

It is not a favour we do to those animals, it will become a necessity in less time we want to admit to self and others. We need to change the energy sources and our level of population growth and material demands. Technology is our tool of adaptation, but is also a cause of the emissions causing the warming up. Even we humans can not adapt as quickly to the surges in heat and consequences of it. They are pointing at the root cause of the melting icebergs and acceleration of the changes, what they mean for these specialised animals. Completely different story from that humans developed. But not for indulgence, but basic survival. It is gruesome as all predatory food chain is. Their adaptations to this places in order to survive, beat the competition of other species who did not ventured that far. Documentary showing difficult conditions animal and plant world deals with in still frozen parts of planet.