For me it's about seeing the world on film in a way I (and, I imagine) most people have never seen it before. Seeing a snow leopard on the hunt and being awed by what I'm seeing rather than what I'm being told. I love the time lapses and the slowed motion (the shark!). And I can never get enough of monkeys - all kinds of monkeys! But watching that on herd crossing terrain in the 800s was AMAZING, even if I didn't walk away being able to write a paper about it.

I'll have to give it a shot. But the bar's been raised, for me at least, by Secrets of Life, which both showed unbelievable things incredibly captured on film, and relayed fascinating knowledge concerning what you were seeing.

If a series does one without the other, I cannot help but find it substandard ... by virture of the new standard set by Richard Attenborough. Not to say that I won't enjoy cool nature visuals. Heck, I still love True Life Adventures, the granddaddy of them all.

Whenever I see this thread title, I keep thinking to myself "Why? Does it need a babysitter?"

They should've had Mike Rowe narrate :)

(or better yet..) did you see it, i just had in on the leash and i went inside just for a minute... dam...

Well, I thought that was Al Gore's job now.

I watched 1 1/2 episodes last night. Sigourney Weaver's voice just about lulled me to sleep. I was glad i caught the sea episode, since that was a lot of pretty, but I don't think I actually learned anything interesting. (Although the sped-up footage of the Sunflower Star wa cool and the Great White sequence was amazing.) It was perfect eye candy for my exhausted body and mind.

I watched about 1/2 of the Plains and Grasses episode but that made me REALLY tired. There's something about grass waving in the breeze that just knocks me out.

The commercial breaks drove me CRAZY! I just don't have the attention span to watch TV any more. Maybe the whole thing would be better on DVD - and on HDTV.

I missed the Sharky episode?! Does anyone remember what it is called?

We have a huge HDTV at home and it is amazing. My friend will have a 50in HDTV delivered on Friday. I can't wait to watch it on that.

We caught the desert episode on my sister's 56" LCD HDTV. *droooooooool*

I believe the great white episode is called "shallow seas" or something like that (as opposed to Deep Ocean). They're repeating them like mad, so you should have plenty of opportunity to catch it.

Thanks! We set up his DVR to record everything so I'll be able to catch it.

The polar bear episode made me cry. :(