Mondi alieni

70% of this show is about Earth and how the planet and everything on it adapts to hostile and ever changing circumstances and how this might be similar on other planets. And 'might' is the key word here because they present these alien worlds like they've actually been there when really, it is just something that could be and not something that surely is. Interesting for sure but not very convincing and pretty far fetched at times.

The thing that bothered me the most is that they overuse the images from the alien worlds to such an extend that is becomes ridiculous. If you would condens the unique material of the alien world for each episode it would probably just be 5 minutes. In the second episode I started tracking how many times they would use certain fragments and some are used more than 10 times throughout the episode.

So in the end this feels like a documentary about life on earth in hostile situations. With some cool images from made up places that could be in our universe.

For a documentary in theory set on alien planet it focus half of time on vanity shots of Earth people, instead of filling that time explaining how would be posible the life shown. In that way, the 2005 show from National Geographic, although not so visually stunning, was a much better documentary.

It is an undoubtedly fascinating hypothetical visualisation of what unique alien ecosystems might look like on other planets - if we apply our current understanding of the basic principles of life to otherworldly environments. That said, given the show's clear budgetary limitations (despite the impressive CGI) & the over reliance on repeated shots, they manage to competently make the best content imaginable with the limited resources they clearly have at their disposal.

That's why so much focus is shifted on to Earth, hosting interviews with experts giving expository information; the creators aren't simply justifying the theoretical realisations featured on screen but they're also clearly filling the run time - which would otherwise be vacant if the directors planned on featuring additional sequences elsewhere in these constructs.

The show itself is very interesting to me. Unfortunately, it spends a lot of time talking about life on earth when the title is clearly supposed to be about other planets.

75% of each episode goes on what's happening in earth. And they show one cgi scene for 4-5 times. If wanna hear about earth and species here would have just watch NatGeo. Disappointing. So much for something called AliEn WoRlDs