Walking with Dinosaurs

Is anyone else extremely disappointed by this series?

For me it feels like this adaptation has none of the spirit or feeling of the original. The score and cinematography is ok and the new narrator does his best but he brings nowhere near the amount of whimsy of KB.

But the worst part is the constant cutting to a long boring palaeontology segment after literally every scene. The whole point of the OG walking with dinosaurs was that it was filmed like a modern animal documentary, these segments not only go completely against that but they completely destroy the pacing, break any sense of immersion and made it feel slow and boring.

Obviously please feel free to disagree but I’d really like to know what others think about it

Posted by BBC Earth just an hour ago, here is a new peak into what we can expect from WWD '25.

Now, I really didn't want to be THAT person, but I truly do think Prehistoric Planet set the expectation sky high for me. Everything about PP was perfect; the visuals were beautiful down to the smallest detail on a pin feather, the pacing of each episode was desirable and well... David Attenborough (need I say more?)

I grew up with Walking With Dinosaurs. It was my first ever dinosaur documentary, and one that solidified my adoration for the prehistoric for the foreseeable. There was something so perfect about the way the original was paced, with clever techniques using animatronics and CGI alike. It really did feel, to me as a child, like you were looking back in time and watching the lives of real creatures trying to survive. I can even remember feeling absolutely devastated for the death of the Ornithocheirus.

Something feels off with the new WWD, at least for me. I know this is just a short clip, but I don't feel the same magical feeling from the OG. Sure you could say that's nostalgia, and a lot of it probably is, but even still there is something vastly different with this series that feels a little... goofy? It's just like how they portrayed the movie (which I have never been too fond of...) giving dinosaurs cute little names like they're mascots rather than normal creatures just trying to live. It almost anthropomorphises them, which takes away from it being a 'documentary.' The CGI also looks rather stiff, janky almost. I know this is just because I've watched PP and the animation there is vastly superior, but the models for WWD25 do really look overly smooth and rubbery, and their movements are awkward. Again, I know its a short clip, I can't be too harsh until I've seen the actual episode... but for a sneak peak, I'm not blown away.

Regardless, I'm still super curious to see what they release! Im just not holding up my hopes that it will be anywhere near what the OG was.

As the entire series is now available on BBC iplayer I'm curious to hear people's thoughts going into this series.