2:08 Damn, this part is so well-made and still looks extremely good. This pilot has the same vibe and magic as the final product, the music at the end is beautiful. Truly the best media featuring prehistoric animals, i hope that they will capture the same feeling with WWD 2025.
The music for this series is seriously underappreciated, it sells EVERY emotional beat needed, it makes all the difference from watching some animal, and caring about an animal and his journey
Amazing how far the quality and format and animation came within just three years of this. Do you know who the narrator is here? I like his narration but no one can ever surpass Kenneth Branagh's narration. I'm not British so WWD is how I first heard of him (I've been watching the "Walking With" series since I was seven).
It’s a shame they made the real thing less scientific. Classic BBC (and the British establishment in general) thinking the public are dumb. It was a smart move to give the individual animals a story though.
never understood how fossils of a 20 foot reptile translated into a 60 foot Liopleurodon. Not only that, but the idea that it was the largest carnivore ever, despite being dwarfed by megalodon. which was a known species at the time.
Nunca imagine que tuviera un piloto y fuera lost media como fan de cambiando con dinosaurios es fascinante verlo y el diseño de los dinosaurios es algo raro para mi no se porque
Wow, thanks! It turns out that I had already seen the scene with the swimming Liopleurodon in episode 7, where the making of the series was shown. Well, Heines showed us an enormous Liopleurodon ferox as early as in 1996 so it is actually the Aramberri Monster which was identified as L. ferox back then. The time period is the very end of the Tithonian age of the Jurassic which is also close to the time when the Aramberri Monster existed. However, the Mexican pliosaur probably lived in the Early Cretaceous. As we can see on the stratigraphic chart of 1996, the beginning of the Cretaceous had been calculating as 130 Ma then. It is noteworthy that marine crocodiles are mentioned here, that is, we could have seen a Metriorhynchus as early as in 1999. I also like the shots with the footprints. It's a shame we didn't see them in the final version.
I remember (barely) seeing one mention in a forum like 10 years ago about there being a lost pilot episode for WWD. I never believed it and thought that even if it did exist, it'd look terrible. I'm astounded at the effort they put into a simple pilot for a show that they didn't even know whether or not they'd be able to fully produce. I've always loved WWD and was extremely happy when I saw they're remaking it in 2025. I'm impressed you managed to find this. If you don't mind me asking, how did you find it? I'm chronically online and as I said earlier I've only seen 1 mention of it 10 years ago.
This was absolutely incredible. I can see some of the things in this plot that were incorporated into cruel sea. Especially with a Liopleurdon getting beached and dying and becoming food for the Eustreptospondylus
His weight alone would be 150 tons: thee-hundred-thousand-pounds; nothing, not even a blue whale, has such body-mass, and his length was at least *85 feet long*, thus guy's *huge*, but also, in that environment, completely defenseless as he's fully out of his environment, since he cannot move, he cannot escape nor feasibly defend himself against aggression, and since animals are basically atheistic: anybody who *can* take material advantage of him is sure to do just exactly that. His skull alone was also 16 feet long!
Most of the products of BBC are absolute *garbage* these days; pure poison really, but *this* is one of the few *good* products they've produced in recent decades; their natural history films are still feasibly worthwhile, even if almost everything else that they once made worthwhile, say in WW2, has quite literally gone to pot; and I do mean that their products are actually much *worse* by and large than taking *pot* into oneself!
Scaphognathus, originally described as a species of Pterodactylus. It would be great to see a Pterodactylus in the 2025 remake along with Archaeopteryx.
i kinda like the Eustreptospondylus design better here than in the actual show, in they show they gave it and allosaurus that weird short snout for some reason
I think it has to do with the puppetry they had, already made for Allosaurus which they didn't use so rather than make another from scratch for Strepto, they just repainted it and used it for that.
Ironically, the Allosaurus design from "Time of the Titans" suits the Eustreptospondylus better since the last had a more triangular-like snout. Since childhood, I was also surprised by the curved neck of Allosaurus from WWD. Designers likely mistook the back of the head for part of the neck. Anyway, Allosaurus is still my favourite theropod of all described, including birds.
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Amazing ! Just Amazing ! AND almost 1 year coincidentaly apart before the return of the franchise in 2025 ! This piece of media should have been released since the initial broadcast of the 1999 series. It's really weird and mysterious why BBC did not even let people watch it. Because it's an extremely important paleomedia, give it's the roots themselves of one of the greatiestad most important paleomedia in Human History ! I don't know how even you managed to get you hands on, but man ! glad you was able to and let it finally be public for anyone interested to see it ! Especially any WWD fans ! Thank you very much.
You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it buddy! I think we both feel the same way lol. 2025 couldn’t come faster XD. I’m not sure if I can, but I’m thinking about trying to upscale it.
@@BenSimulator117 I think the way how things are is already enough and good. If people want to see the additionnals scenes of the Pilot cut from it, the "Making Of" videos in which they are shown are easily found online and on RU-vid.
