Season 1 – Walking With Dinosaurs

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Audience Member Walking with Dinosaurs 2025 is ... fine ... I mean, it's a Dino documentary, that's an instant plus right? But the stories and emotion just aren't as engaging as the original. Much of this likely comes down to the constant cutaways to paleontologists in the present day, trying to understand what happened to each dinosaur and their discoveries informing the story in the past. I kinda see what they were trying to do, essentially justifying the events of the episode with real-world scientific discoveries, but it just takes you out of the Dino story (A.K.A the real reason you're there) and interferes with any emotion engagement you might have. Without the paleontologist bits, the show might have been better, but still not a patch on the original (or maybe I've just changed in 25 years ... would be interested to know what 8 year old kids thought of this ... ) Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/20/25 Full Review Lorrie F I was very much looking forward to PBS’s new installment of “Walking with Dinosaurs,” but sadly (to me, anyway), the show’s been sort of “Old Yeller” with dinosaurs. First, they give the focus dinos pet names (“Rose” or “George”), tell us they’re juveniles, put them in constant danger, then just plain old slaughter them. Yes, I understand the concept is to imagine how the dinosaurs the paleontologists are digging up died, but that means they kill the poor young creatures in every single episode - after giving them cute names, anthropomorphizing them, and making us worry about them. The first “Walking with Dinosaurs,” years ago, didn’t do this. The show may have killed the Liopleurodon, but they didn’t name it “Tootsie” and give it a cute face. And they let it die of old age. Of course, we know dinosaurs are extinct. But don’t make them seem like loveable pets! I do appreciate the incredible artistry, scientific research, and technology that has been used to create these shows. But to me, the whole tone is way off. 😢 Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/19/25 Full Review dave S disgustingly anthropomorphic, and rife with unproven assumptions Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/18/25 Full Review Audience Member Really disappointed with this series. Special effects are a pale imitation of the Apple Prehistoric Planet and the scripting seems more like something I would expect from a Disney children's film. Truly hope that Apple do another series of Prehistoric Planet Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/02/25 Full Review ben s Doesn't live up to the name of the origional, and I really wasn't a fan of cutting between past and present. If they wanted to show the archeology they should have done what modern BBC documentaries do where the last 15 min show the film crew. A few of the episodes also repeat as there are 2 with a baby ceritopsian and tyrannosaurus feature prominently in most of the episodes. There was also major focus on the the mid to late cretaceous, but it refused to show the major biodiversity of the times, showing the same few animals over and over and showing nothing of thr ocean and very little of non dinosaur or pterosaurs. The only one I truely enjoyed was the spinosaurus one. This is a big shame for me as I really was hoping it would live up to the origional, but it's more like the spiritual successor of planet dinosaur but it traded that documentary's focus on the whole world for more up to date information. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/26/25 Full Review Matthew S An utter disgrace to the walking with dinosaurs name. Constantly cutting between past and present with very little scientific information passed across to the audience. The writing is clumsy and CGI is frankly terrible. Do yourself a favour and do not watch Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/25/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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