Science & Nature Series - Talk about science & nature TV shows, mini-series, or one offs

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duckbutter&toejamsandwich

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I used to love to watch science and nature tv shows. I couldn't wait for a new episode of Nova or Nature when I was a kid. Later I added BBC stalwarts like the Natural World and Horizon. I usually felt like I learned something when the show was over, and even on subjects I was familiar with I was still entertained. But over the last decade or so I stopped feeling like I was learning something and more like I was being patronized. Documentary shows started to feel like the made for kids tapes I watched in elementary school. I thought it was just that I was getting old and outgrew it.

I recently watched an old Nature show from the early 90s with George Page narrating (an even sweeter voice than Attenborough, fight me). It wasn't patronizing, it was informative and entertaining. At no point did I feel like I was watching a production made for children. I found a bunch of those old shows on YouTube. I also recently dug out an older hard-drive with a bunch of Horizon episodes. It's a bit disheartening how dumbed down science and nature programming has become outside of the Attenborough productions.
 
Man, I loved NOVA and Nature as a kid. Think the last NOVA documentary I saw was the one titled "CyberWar Threat" which was made a couple years after Snowden leaked the NSA documents, and I was wholly fascinated by it (I honestly couldn't tell you what was in it, per se, but it was what convinced me that cybersecurity sucked ass for everyone, not just the plebs.

In terms of NOVA, my favorite documentaries of their involved anything biology or space-related (I legit wish I can remember which NOVA episode it was that talked about black holes and had a strange computer demonstration of it with like sine graphs and angles and shit). On the site, my favorite was Into the Abyss, and then Sex: Unknown was too bizarre for my young mind to comprehend, but it was probably super crucial in helping me see through the transtrending shit faster than most of my peers.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Man, I loved NOVA and Nature as a kid. Think the last NOVA documentary I saw was the one titled "CyberWar Threat" which was made a couple years after Snowden leaked the NSA documents, and I was wholly fascinated by it (I honestly couldn't tell you what was in it, per se, but it was what convinced me that cybersecurity sucked ass for everyone, not just the plebs.

In terms of NOVA, my favorite documentaries of their involved anything biology or space-related (I legit wish I can remember which NOVA episode it was that talked about black holes and had a strange computer demonstration of it with like sine graphs and angles and shit). On the site, my favorite was Into the Abyss, and then Sex: Unknown was too bizarre for my young mind to comprehend, but it was probably super crucial in helping me see through the transtrending shit faster than most of my peers.
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The MBARI team out of Monterrey Bay Aquarium put out a bunch of video (in 4k!) of deep sea mounts if you still like that.
 
Also speaking of old documentaries, I've seen the solar system episode of "Planet Earth" from the '80s, and some documentary on the ocean narrated by David Attenborough.
 
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