Reeding alot of negative reviews here I had to add my opinion.
In was truly touched with this series, teers in my eyes, thinking about it for months after and opening up a whole new world for me. The music is so well made: dramatic en building up, with melodic themes coming back again and again (like star wars). This repetitiveness is also seen on the screen, where the rules of life explained in the first episode, and then shown in effect again and again. I mean this positively: these rules of life is what the series really is about, and this repetitiveness (with small adaptions) is what evolution basically is (very very roughly).
The serie is telling a story about our planet being (so far we know) unique in its ability to enable this life, but also the complete brutality of it, where only the most adapted survives, and even then mass extensions resets the stage, over and over again (in the series
the 5 biggest are shown). For me, before this series, always boring to read about, but this has changed now.
Alot of people compare the serie with walking with dinosaurs, prehistoric planet and a planet earth. A very strange comparison: This series is not about dinosaurs. This is not a nature documentary to watch when having a hangover to relax. This series is also not aka National Geographic where it will zoom in and explain a specific topic with alot of detail.
No! This series will inspire you, with all its visual and musical power, to think about life itself, what it is, which rules it follows, and how miraculeus it is. And: how fragile, It can be all over within one day (at least for us humans). It will inspire you to broaden your knowledge afterwards about these time periods; about the Devonian, where the first amphibians came to land (long after the insects and plants), about the carbonian where newly evolved reptiles started laying eggs and as a result becoming less dependent on being near water; about the advantages and disadvantages of being warm blooded vs cold blooded; about being at the bottom of the food chain and then suddenly at the top and then at the bottom again. The series makes some assumptions but that is ok, with such a broad scope and so much tot tell, I understand these decisions.
This series is about life itself, and you have to pay attention.
If you want dinosaurs and relax this is not for you.
If your want to be inspired, find love and passion for biology: watch!
