There are things already known to me, still delivered with a lot of freshness, but there was a lot that was quite an education and after watching the full series it honestly felt like the series taught me a lot. Can't fault the narrative aspects in "Seasonal Seas" either. Some of my favourite work from him in fact, coming from someone who's liked a lot of what he's done. It not only complements the visuals but enhances them to a greater level. George Fenton's music score soars majestically, rousing the spirits while touching the soul. Standing out even more is the photography, never before or since 'The Blue Planet' has there been more stunning underwater sequences. It has gorgeous scenery and rich colours, while the animals and marine life are captured in all their glory. Visually, "Seasonal Seas" is a wonder, same with all the series' episodes and Attenborough's work in general. It was really interesting to see how the seas and the marine life adapted and were affected by the four seasons, handled in a way that was ceaselessly fascinating and left the viewer in awe visually. "Seasonal Seas", and the subsequent episodes, confirms my feeling that 'The Blue Planet' was consistently great and more and there was not a bad episode of the eight. To me, the series overall is wholly deserving of its acclaim and the individual episodes are rated far too low. As said in my reviews for the individual episodes of 'Frozen Planet', it is a shame that despite being one of IMDb's highest rated shows, the ratings here for each episode individually has such a wide divide between them and that for the show overall. It is also one of his most ground-breaking, in that it's the first comprehensive series of oceanic natural history and including and exploring creatures and their behaviour that had never been seen before. It leaves me in complete and utter awe every time, with how much is learnt about all the different seas and marine inhabitants and how it all looks visually. 'The Blue Planet' is one of my favourites of his. He has done so many treasures and even his lesser output of a long and consistently impressive career is still good. This screening will show you new scientific discoveries and reveal the connection between the coasts and the ocean depths, as well as that, in the long run, the future of the ocean is our future.David Attenborough, as has been said many times, is wholly deserving of being called a national treasure, although it is a term he happens to not like. The oceans are the vital support system for an unimaginable richness of life, as well as for us. We know much less about the oceans than about life on land, in fact, there have been more people on the moon than in the deepest parts of the sea. Surfing dolphins, an ingenious common fangtooth fish which uses a tool to open its food and a clever octopus that uses seashells as armour against predators are some of the fascinating characters on this submarine adventure. “Oceans”, a film in fulldome 2D format, is an extraordinary voyage that will transport you from the frigid coasts of the Arctic to the warm waters of the tropics, a journey through our seas in which you will discover the spectacular life that is found just below the waves. Languages: Spanish, Valencian, English and Frenchĭiscover the largest, least explored habitat of our planet: the mysterious world of our oceans and the amazing creatures that inhabit it
Director: Mark Brownlon and Rachel Butler