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Post by Horacewimp on Feb 12, 2018 18:34:26 GMT
I don’t remember seeing any of those things in the Peppa Pig series I’m watching.
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Post by Helmut83 on Feb 12, 2018 18:57:44 GMT
I don’t remember seeing any of those things in the Peppa Pig series I’m watching. Just wait until season 3, things gets real nasty there... Oh, and it includes a lot of pornography as well. Interspecies, the twisted kind.
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Post by Helmut83 on Apr 15, 2019 6:44:28 GMT
I wanted to ask you dear forumheads if anyone has watched this.
Last week I started with "Our Planet", the Netflix documentary series narrated by David Attenborough. You know how those things are: wonderful images of the incredible wildlife that our planet has, always under a warning sign saying that we are destroying all that.
On episode 2, on the second half of it, the documentary shows a small island in the north of Russia which is literally covered under a surrealistic amount of walruses, every square inch of it. Attenborough says that the walruses don't do it out of choice, but out of desperation. Walruses rely on pieces of ice floating in the ocean. They climb on ice to rest, sleep and other vital functions. But because of global warming there aren't any pieces of floating ice left, so walruses have no choice other than gather all together on this island -which is clearly too small for them- in order to rest. They are all piled up, so much that if they want to move from one place to another they have to drag themselves over other walruses, and some young walruses die under the weight of the old ones.
The island has a small mountain that is the only part that has a little bit of space. Even though they are not suited to climb at all -heck, they have trouble even walking on a flat surface!- some walruses climb the mountain all the same just to have some space to themselves. One of the sides of the mountain is a cliff which towers above a rocky beach by the sea. The problem is that walruses don't have good eyesight, and when they want to go to the sea again, some throw themselves down that cliff. The documentary shows, in slow motion and with very depressing music, how the poor walruses fall down that cliff, bouncing several times on the rocks as they fall, like a potato bag, and then heavily land on the beach, where dozens of other walruses have fallen before. The worst thing is that many of them don't die instantly, but instead are left there mortally wounded by the fall, but still breathing and/or with open eyes, for who knows how long? The scenes are horrendous, very strong really.
I was left with a very bad taste in my mouth. I went to bed still thinking about the images of the walruses falling from that mountain and then waiting for their deaths on the beach. I usually watch Netflix when I'm having dinner. Well, after seeing that I decided to switch series. I mean, on one hand I think the time has come that you have to show people what pollution and global warming are doing with no anestesia, maybe it will prompt them to react and to react more strongly. On the other, coming across images like that when you are not expecing them and just having dinner may not be the best thing. I had watched many documentaries of the Attenborough kind and I had never seen something like that.
I was so impressed that later on I googled it, and there were lots of notes talking about the walruses scenes and quite a discussion was formed around it.
Anyone else saw it? What do you guys think?
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Post by Horacewimp on Apr 15, 2019 7:26:44 GMT
I haven’t seen the series or that episode but last week I read a news report and saw a video of the walruses falling down the cliff, very sad indeed.
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Post by Helmut83 on Apr 15, 2019 7:34:09 GMT
Well, if it made the news it's because many people must have felt disturbed.
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Post by unomusette on Apr 15, 2019 20:21:12 GMT
I've seen bits of it in clips on other programmes but I've immediately tried to turn it off, it's too upsetting. Even the tiny parts I did see were dreadful.
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