Dinosaur Revolution (TV show)

Galvasean

Because frankly, I can't find the old thread....
The documentary previously known as Reign of the Dinosaurs is now called Dinosaur Revolution. It's a four part series starting on September 4th on the Discovery Channel.

Adam Khor

It's gonna be awesome

Galvasean

Trailer:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/08/exclusive-a-first-look-at-dinosaur-revolution/

Looking excellent

Rubecula

A revolting dinosaur? Or a revolving dinosaur?

Frankly I am not sure which scares me the most:D

Manach

I'm sure the scavenger breeds rather like the concept of revolting.

Galvasean

Holy crap, T. rex is awesome again!!! :eek:

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/dinosaur-revolution-meet-the-new-t-rex.html

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Holy crap, T. rex is awesome again!!! :eek:

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/dinosaur-revolution-meet-the-new-t-rex.html

T-Rex has always been awesome XD

Great design, great CG, I'm impressed I wanna see this so badly now!

Rubecula

Nice video Galvesean, but for some reason those T_rex remind me of Skeltor from the He-man cartoon.

Adam Khor

Looking great

Enjoy


Tyrannosaurus rex



Eoraptor




Cryolophosaurus



Torvosaurus



Rahonavis



Lusotitan



Torvosaurus and Rhamphorhynchus



Saurosuchus





Cryolophosaurus



T-Rex vs Triceratops (I don´t think this ends good for any of them)



More Lusotitans



Anhanguera

Galvasean

The inclusion of Torvosaurus pleases me. Such an underrated monster. An interesting take on the beast too.

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

The inclusion of Torvosaurus pleases me. Such an underrated monster. An interesting take on the beast too.

Yeah, I love the design And the colors

Adam Khor

The episode guide is out:

http://press.discovery.com/media/ugc/documents/2011/08/15/DINOSAUR_REVOLUTION_EPISODE_DESCRIPTIONS-FINAL.pdf

Galvasean

Never heard the name Dinheirosaurus before..

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Never heard the name Dinheirosaurus before..

I had, but I know nothing about it anyways XD (All those sauropods look the same to me).
It seems that it's a diplodocid, tho, so I'm thinking the pic I posted above that says "Lusotitan" is probably Dinheirosaurus, as Lusotitan was a brachiosaur.

Galvasean

The guide says it's tail was 35 feet. Must have been a grand old beast!

dlofnep

Can't wait

GWolf

Well, it looks like it'll be entertaining...god awful but entertaining

Adam Khor

GWolf wrote: »

Well, it looks like it'll be entertaining...god awful but entertaining

Why awful? The creators specifically said it would be storytelling, not hard science. It's about entertaining- and I think it's gonna achieve that very well.

GWolf

Adam Khor wrote: »

Why awful? The creators specifically said it would be storytelling, not hard science. It's about entertaining- and I think it's gonna achieve that very well.

It's got a bit much of a Jurassic Fight Club vibe for my taste. Now it's good they admit "It's just for fun lads"...but, I don't like watching these and just having my brain subconsciously tick off easy errors.

That said...T. rex with a skull for a head DOES look kinda cool

Adam Khor

GWolf wrote: »

It's got a bit much of a Jurassic Fight Club vibe for my taste. Now it's good they admit "It's just for fun lads"...but, I don't like watching these and just having my brain subconsciously tick off easy errors.

That said...T. rex with a skull for a head DOES look kinda cool

I don´t think it looks/feels like Jurassic Fight Club at all. If you've seen the short clips they've released, they are more like animated shorts- more humorous than violent. JFC had no humour; it was all blood and noise and absurd battles. It bad as a documentary AND bad as fiction. Dinosaur Revolution I think will be good fiction, that's all.

Galvasean

Apparently Dinosaur Revolution will use minimal narration. Jurassic Fight club had constant cutaways to an overly eccentric palaeontologist (think Bakker after taking speed, but without the charm) yelling completely unsubstantiated factoids.

GWolf

Galvasean wrote: »

Apparently Dinosaur Revolution will use minimal narration. Jurassic Fight club had constant cutaways to an overly eccentric palaeontologist (think Bakker after taking speed, but without the charm) yelling completely unsubstantiated factoids.

He wasn't a palaeontologist...he was an accountant. Or something like that. Enthusiastic amateur you'd say...a poorly scripted one

Galvasean

Discovery are selling the DVD on their website for $30. Extras include the Phil Currie documentary Dino Gangs and 2 episodes of Dinosaur Planet.

Galvasean

NY Post review:
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/dino_might_rI67N5nYlgAJdGE9YZBH9O

Kess73

Any idea when the UK Discovery channel is showing or have I managed to somehow miss that info on the page?

dlofnep

Well premier is today for normal Discovery. I'll grab the torrent.

Galvasean

I was checking out Discovery UK's website. Nothing about it at all.
I thought the days of us cretinous European's having to wait months extra for TV shows were long gone

dlofnep

Looking for the torrent can't find it yet

dlofnep

Found the torrents on piratebay dudes! On 2nd episode now. Pretty good stuff.

Alvin T. Grey

Galvasean wrote: »

Apparently Dinosaur Revolution will use minimal narration. Jurassic Fight club had constant cutaways to an overly eccentric palaeontologist (think Bakker after taking speed, but without the charm) yelling completely unsubstantiated factoids.

I think you mean Holtz.
Baaker is very laid back I find. Curry looks like he's asleep. and Horner.....Well god bless him....

Adam Khor

I saw the two first episodes already. I liked them, but... wasn´t quite what I expected.
The creature design is good, the animation is not as good as it appeared in the trailer, though, and the storytelling is just ok. Maybe a little on the cartoony side but, we all knew it would be like that so, I don´t complain.

What bothered me the most, funnily enough, was that

the sounds made by many dinosaurs were instantly recognizable as the sounds of modern day animals, for example the female Eoraptors are gibbons, the Torvosaurus is a cougar, and the worst part, at one point you hear a red-tailed hawk screeching in a Triassic canyon. I mean, yeah, I know recording actual non-avian dinosaur sounds is difficult nowadays but, they could have altered the sounds a little bit to make them less obvious. :S

Oh, and I loved the Cretoxyrhina design

dlofnep

Yeah the animation was a bit weird - The models almost seemed a bit cartoony.

Adam Khor

dlofnep wrote: »

Yeah the animation was a bit weird - The models almost seemed a bit cartoony.

Agreed. The Saurosuchus chasing after the Eoraptors almost looked like a toy being manipulated by a kid, you know, like when the kid is holding a toy animal and pretending its running?

Galvasean

Clips ahoy!

Click into it and there's loads more on the sidebar.

panthera

here's a link to the first episode if anyone is looking for it:

http://eztvstream.com/dinosaur-revolution/dinosaur-revolution-season-1-episode-1-evolutions-winners

Galvasean

Episode 2:
http://eztvstream.com/dinosaur-revolution/dinosaur-revolution-season-1-episode-2-the-watering-hole

Galvasean

The constant cutting and restarting for American TV style adverts is very annoying. Just when it starts to get momentum, we have a break in the action to tell us what's coming next followed by restating what we've already seen. Hopefully when it's shown on TV here they'll be more sensible. Maybe that's why it hasn't been released here yet. It could do with a re-cut to fit our advert schedule.

Adam Khor

The Gigantoraptor is cool but, did they HAVE to use the Temminck's Tragopan's wattle for it? It's not that I don´t like the idea of a wattle, its just the fact that it's TOO OBVIOUSLY a Temminck's Tragopan's wattle. They even showed the bird during the show!

dlofnep

Did they not air another episode on Sunday? I was looking but couldn't find it.

Galvasean

Episode 4 is up now (don't know what happened to episode 3):
http://eztvstream.com/dinosaur-revolution/dinosaur-revolution-season-1-episode-4-end-game

Galvasean

I watched episode 4 'End Game' and I must say I enjoyed it a lot more than episodes 1 & 2. Maybe I'm just more used to the format at this point or maybe tyrannosaurs messing stuff up is totally my bag. The dinosaur behavior is still over the top and a bit cartoony. For example,

when the female rex finds the spot where her chicks were killed she roars emphatically into the air much like Darth Vader's infamous "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!" scene.

Not to mention the scene where the rex chicks chase a small pachecephalosaur into a hollow log. That was pure Looney Toons.
The episode takes a turn to the macabre once the meteor hits and the focus shifts from the tyrannosaurs to a pair of Troodon tying to eek out a living in a post apocalyptic world. The final shot of the episode is, to say the least, grim, invoking memories of the BBC series Threads.
It's one hell of a contrast, I'll give them that.

Allosaur

Galvasean wrote: »

I watched episode 4 'End Game' and I must say I enjoyed it a lot more than episodes 1 & 2. Maybe I'm just more used to the format at this point or maybe tyrannosaurs messing stuff up is totally my bag. The dinosaur behavior is still over the top and a bit cartoony. .

It can't possibly be worse than the watering hole. I was half expecting the Allosaur to smack the torvosaur over the head with a frying pan, spring into the air, Meep! Meep! and have it away like a shot.

Still the animation is good, the spread of critters is too. There is some science in there somewhere I suppose.

Guess it's just aimed at a different audience.

Goldfish maybe?

Galvasean

I was reading that apparently it was originally pitched as a cartoon show for kids and the sciency stuff was added in later because producers wanted to exploit as many demographs as possible. Wouldn't mind seeing it trimmed down to a half hour show with the 'taking heads' and narration removed. It might be more fun that way. The science seems tacked on. On one hand you cant take it seriously since its so wacky and on the other hand it's hard to take the cartoonishness at face value when they're trying to sell it as a serious documentary. It's trying very hard to be two things and once, but is coming across as a jack of all trades, but master of none.
I've also heard that if it's a success they plan to take all of the best bits and make a feature movie.

Allosaur

I suppose you have several teirs of documentary.

At the top end you have the Walking With...
The the March of...

All the way down to JFC and Dino Revolution. Now we know that it's not an atlantic divide thing, When Dinosaurs Roamed is right up there. So why oh why waste such a large production budget on turning Allosaurus into Wile Coyote?

But that said, Those Rexs are MEAN looking

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Wouldn't mind seeing it trimmed down to a half hour show with the 'taking heads' and narration removed. It might be more fun that way. The science seems tacked on. On one hand you cant take it seriously since its so wacky and on the other hand it's hard to take the cartoonishness at face value when they're trying to sell it as a serious documentary. It's trying very hard to be two things and once, but is coming across as a jack of all trades, but master of none.
I've also heard that if it's a success they plan to take all of the best bits and make a feature movie.

This.

And I could say the same about Planet Dinosaur. Well, kinda. Although it is not "cartoony" like DR, it does try hard to be two things at once. On one hand, a serious, old-fashioned documentary like the ones we all grew up with, and at the same time a wildlife-drama-thingy like the ones WWD made popular.
Because it's all crammed there and there's really no space for either lots of interesting facts or engaging storytelling, it feels a little bit dissapointing when you finish watching it, as if there could have been so much more.

Galvasean

The show's creator Pete Von Sholly has announced that a trimmed down version of the show with no narration will be released on BlurRay. It is to me more in line with what the original plan was and may even be called 'Reign of the Dinosaurs' as was originally planed.

Galvasean

Found episode 3 online. Just started watching. Apparently those long necked dinosaurs are called 'Ceropods'.

http://www.videobb.com/watch_video.php?v=0FJXHT88Bnbx

Galvasean

Episode 3 was a mixed bag. Some of it was really good, even touching (

the Protoceratops graveyard

for example). Other parts were just too silly for my liking, particularly the section involving Guanlong

what the heck was that Mamenchisaurus doing there anyway?

I really liked the Utahraptor section though. Fun without being too silly.

dlofnep

Yeah it was decent. I tried finding a highly quality version of it but couldn't. It's really something you have to see in high def. Utahraptor section was good. And the devil toads?

Galvasean

Yep, they're real. Dont think there's any evidence of the whip tongue though.

Allosaur

Galvasean wrote: »

Found episode 3 online. Just started watching. Apparently those long necked dinosaurs are called 'Ceropods'.

http://www.videobb.com/watch_video.php?v=0FJXHT88Bnbx

And baby jesus cried...