Walking with Beasts

It's held up really well.

And then they did a Walking with Beasts and Walking with Monsters.

Walking with Monsters before the dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts is like animals after the dinosaurs.

And one episode they do is like an ocean version and they just cover all the like bizarre types of shark there were.

Like, and these, some of these sharks, they look like hammerhead sharks, but then the hammer goes like vertically instead of horizontally.

For those of you who've never lived in England before, general rule of thumb is the further north you go, the cheaper stuff is.

Stig in the show is given a specific species name, the fictional hominid Stiganoppithecus, which I have to ask, do you think that had anything to do with the fact that Walking with Beasts came out the year before this and would've helped popularize Australopithecus to the British viewing public?

Probably.

I mean, that was an Emmy Award-winning show, so anything that you can do to link yourself to that is no bad publicity.

There's a scene in the book where Stig and Barney push the thief's car into the quarry, and Stig gets really excited and descends to the bottom to skin the leather off the seats, thinking they've killed some animal.

That does very much reflect the hunting strategies of some pre-Colombian societies in North America, as well as a now debunked theory that Neanderthals in Jersey hunted mammoths in the same way.

I feel like they're probably nomads who follow migrating animals and build temporary shelters for themselves as they travel, like we saw at the end of the show, similar to the Cro-Magnon modern humans in Walking with Beasts.

Yeah, it does make sense.

weren't in prehistoric planets.

They weren't in walking with beasts.

All right.

Well, for the most part, I'll say that the CG animals look good.

Yes.

And also I actually thought it really clever that we never really see the features of the humans in any real detail.

In fact, it was quite close to how Walking with Beasts did it, right? Yes.

The humans weren't the point of view characters, but they were just like a predator in this world.