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BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs was oddly kinda gory for a show that a lot of children watched back in the day

Have you watched Walking with Dinosaurs?

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TheGamingNewsGuy

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So as a kid i grew up on a show called Walking with Dinosaurs. I remember extremely enjoying it due to really liking dinosaurs as a kid despite some questionable elements of it (it's not really accurate to modern day knowledge and the CGI looks questionable at the best of times). But something i just noticed after rewatching some scenes from it is that it's oddly gory for a show that many kids back in the day watched. Like Walking with Dinosaurs did not shy away from having some gory scenes that would not be out of place in a 15 rates TV Show




Maybe my memory blocked out the gore in Walking with Dinosaurs as a kid or i did not remember it. Anyway - i am curious to know what your thoughts and opinions are on Walking with Dinosaurs.
 
Jedi2016

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No more so than any other nature documentary, really. I like that's how they treated it, though, like it was all filmed on location with real animals.
 
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TheGamingNewsGuy

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Jedi2016 said:
No more so than any other nature documentary, really. I like that's how they treated it, though, like it was all filmed on location with real animals.
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Eh a lot of nature documentries i watched kinda didn't show the gore or at least heavily implied it. I am suprised WOD was regularly shown to kids especially the depressing ending with the baby t-rexes
 
Jedi2016

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TheGamingNewsGuy said:
Eh a lot of nature documentries i watched kinda didn't show the gore or at least heavily implied it. I am suprised WOD was regularly shown to kids especially the depressing ending with the baby t-rexes
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Maybe you're misremembering it, then? Because I've seen plenty of nature docs that are a lot more graphic than WwD.
 

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Sir David's nature documentaries from back in the days were pretty brutal too. Never shying away from showing the harsh reality of survival in the natural world. His Life collection in particular which I still prefer to the more bombast Planet Earth et al.
 
Sovan Jedi

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It's dinosaurs. Most books about them have gore and dead dinosaurs in them if they're at least somewhat educational. If you didn't have a book when you were younger of an Allosaurus tearing huge chunks out of a downed sauropod or the "Tenontosaurus attacked by swarm of Deinonychus" trope illustration in it then you missed out.

I did like the show a lot when it debuted, but I do remember some of the animation being a liiiiiiiiiiiitle bit dodgy even when it debuted. But they improved upon it quite quickly (the "Ballad of Big Al" short was excellent)

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Just want to add that the live arena show was great.
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1000% this. As a fully grown adult I don't think I've ever been more wide-eyed mesmerised by anything than I was at a slightly-larger-than-real-sized animatronic Tyrannosaurus, her juvenile and a Torosaurus dancing around an arena as I was when watching this. Incredible technology and utterly unforgettable.
 
NullPointerException

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Pretty normal for dinosaur documentaries (much like Nature documentaries like Planet Earth) to be gory.

I mean, gory dino images was even prevalent in educational CD-Roms back in the day.

This gory image in the spoiler below - From Microsoft Dangerous Creatures CD ROM which is part of the "Microsoft At Home" educational programme back in the 90s - specifically comes to mind.


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SapientWolf

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TheGamingNewsGuy said:
Eh a lot of nature documentries i watched kinda didn't show the gore or at least heavily implied it. I am suprised WOD was regularly shown to kids especially the depressing ending with the baby t-rexes
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Before trash TV was the norm documentaries mostly got lowbrow views by skirting censorship on nudity and violence. So they didn't cut away before the lions had their dinner time and a few shows had full frontal nudity during the daytime, which was wild.
 
Chumunga64

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a lot of documentaries have violence in them to entice people like kids to watch them

I know my class when we were like 8 loved that shit
 
Huncho_Houdini

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It's an awesome series, even tho the CGI is dated by today's standards. I wish they would redo it.

walking with Monsters and walking with Cavemenare also fantastic.
 
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TheGamingNewsGuy

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Chumunga64 said:
a lot of documentaries have violence in them to entice people like kids to watch them

I know my class when we were like 8 loved that shit
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Being honest, i don't think the parents of today would allow the kids of today to watch half the stuff we watched back in the day.

Huncho_Houdini said:
It's an awesome series, even tho the CGI is dated by today's standards. I wish they would redo it.

walking with Monsters and walking with Cavemenare also fantastic.
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Someone has re-done it. (at least the first two episodes)


 
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Kids love gory dinosaur action. Anyone have any of those Dinosaurs Attack cards from back when?

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SapientWolf said:
Before trash TV was the norm documentaries mostly got lowbrow views by skirting censorship on nudity and violence. So they didn't cut away before the lions had their dinner time and a few shows had full frontal nudity during the daytime, which was wild.
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Okay that's weird. I just had the thought yesterday about how I used to be able to see naked people on TV as long as they were documentaries.
 
Paroni

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Had to teach those kids brutality of the world rather sooner than later.
It applied to many 90s cartoons too, The Animals of Farthing Wood for example was fucking cruelly savage.
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RestEerie

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what's wrong with show carnivores hunting and eating other animals? It's just part of nature and part of life.
 
nekkid

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Paroni said:
Had to teach those kids brutality of the world rather sooner than later.
It applied to many 90s cartoons too, The Animals of Farthing Wood for example was fucking cruelly savage.
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Yeah this show was utterly brutal as a kid.

Ive come to realise how much violence British kids were subjected to. Between this stuff and the road safety campaigns...
 
Ithil

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It was a great show, for kids and adults, and holds up impressively well in spite of outdated effects (and now somewhat outdated scientific knowledge).
 
Quacktion

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Yo remember when Bubbles shanked a dude in the throat using his own horn, that shit was badass. TV used to be cool man.
 
shinobi602

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And I remember loving every minute of it.

Really wish there was a modern high quality dino documentary. We're solely lacking in them.
 
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vhoanox said:
British animations were pretty hardcore back in the days. Watership Down anyone?

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Along with dubbed British animation of that kind, we Nordic kids were exposed to dubbed Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, this sweet anime about a wild pack dogs in rural Japan. Punctured eyes and decapitations were censored in Finnish dub, but otherwise all the bloody glory was there. Pretty good anime honestly, it is practically a samurai story full of very idealized bushido, even if it's all about dogs fighting bears and other dogs.

 
Randdalf

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I watched this when it came out when I was 7 and it was my absolute favourite thing on television.

TheGamingNewsGuy said:
Yeah. I do wonder what a Walking with Dinosaurs tv show would be like if it was made today
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Oh man, keep the nature documentary style of the original, the epic music, and Branagh's narration and I'm all in. (And the practical effects.)
 
Van Bur3n

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As a kid obsessed with dinosaurs, I couldn't tell you the amount of times I watched this. It was like crack to me.
 
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Paroni said:
Along with dubbed British animation of that kind, we Nordic kids were exposed to dubbed Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, this sweet anime about a wild pack dogs in rural Japan. Punctured eyes and decapitations were censored in Finnish dub, but otherwise all the bloody glory was there. Pretty good anime honestly, it is practically a samurai story full of very idealized bushido, even if it's all about dogs fighting bears and other dogs.

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Holy shit my guy. Imma have to watch this.
 
Tavernade

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I remember being really excited about it as a kid, watching it, and not really liking it as much do to all the gore. But then, also, not really being sure what a dinosaur documentary when they never fought or ate each other would be like.
 
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