Well, I did not get my living room TV mounted today. But I did manage to get set up in the bedroom, so I can at least watch DVDs. I've just finished the BBC series Planet Earth and it is astonishingly beautiful. Covering every habitat from jungle canopies to the depths of the ocean, these intrepid camera people managed to film some of the rarest views our planet has to offer.My favorite segments were the Planet Earth diaries at the end of each episode. These little featurettes focused on a particular sequence of filming and showed how the crew accomplished getting their shots. Mostly, it involved hours upon hours of waiting in horrific climates. Sometimes it's dangerous, like trying to get footage of oceanic whitetip sharks, or just soul-scarringly icky, like filming a literal mountain of bat guano in a cave covered in millions of cockroaches. In fact, the entire Cave episode is just pure nightmare fuel. Not even the avuncular tones of David Attenborough could make that one okay.
If you haven't seen this series, it is also available on streaming so there's really no excuse. It's lovely and educational.
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