[CZ-75]

He's hosting "Walking with Cavemen" on Discovery. I'm glad they found someone who wasn't as "evolved" to do it. :D

Already, he's made a reference to "It Takes a Village." I didn't watch all of it, so I'm wondering if he's taken any cheap shots or slipped in a few political references besides this. Pretty sad when something as neutral as paleontology can be used as a vehicle for some left-wing has-been to spout off.

[TarpleyG]

I watched the whole thing and thought it was pretty good. I didn't notice any political agenda at all and the reference to "it takes a village" didn't come off as anything necessarily negative either. Since there were not "families" during the period that he mentioned that, it made since.

Besides, what's wrong with that type of thinking to a degree? I mean, when I was a kid and acted stupid, I wholely expected to get addressed at the every least by any elder around if not more, regardless of thier relationship to me. IMO, we'd have a better society now if everyone wasn't worried about who is disciplining the kids. Remember getting "licks" in school? I got 'em. My wife teaches now and you can't even reprimand these kids anymore without worry of getting slapped with a lawsuit.

Back on topic now...

It is probably one of the better evolution explanations I have seen. It didn't stray too far off the topic of human evolution like some do.

GT

[El Tejon]

He's filming this from outside the country, right?

[seeker_two]

The show would have been fantastic if Bald-a**-win hadn't been the narrator. Where's Avery Brooks when you need him? :cool:

But then, TDC DID need a representative Australiopithecine (sp?) to give the show some veracity...:evil:

[CZ-75]

I finally watched ~90% of it (I'll have the next decade to watch the rest, if previous Discovery programs are any guide). The only disagreeable part was having Alec show his face every 10-15 minutes to offer some uninteresting commentary that could've been dispensed with. They should take a page from the "Nature" series on PBS and keep narrator appearances to beginning and end and use more thoughtful commentary in the script for the narrator soliloquies.

I agree that Avery Brooks would've made a better narrator and Alec isn't a plus by any means, even if they didn't show his puffy, jowly five o'clock shadowed middle-aged has-been puss on the screen. :barf:



A couple notes, which are the producers probably didn't want a black man to do the narration, as this would appear "racist" when talking about primitive human origins. The other was that they showed light-skinned ancestors hunting in the middle of the African deserts of a million-odd years ago. This was again a bit of social agenda, as light-skinned proto-humans would've burned to a crisp then as we (light-skinned people) do now in such conditions, particularly when shown stark naked as they were with no skins and hides covering them. Again, it would be "racist" to depict primitive dark-skinned ancestors who might actually have survived in such conditions.

[DRC]

Seriously,

Actors and actresses do a good job of naration and acting but should stick to those things IMO. I watched a small portion of the show and thought it was done quite well. I am however reading some information about the different eras and some new discoveries that may suggest that some of what we think of as different evolutionary periods in mans developement actually existed at the same time like different races today and may have even procriated outside said tribes or camps. Then it goes into natural selection and all the way into T-Cell receptors and blah blah blah gets boring :)

If you can learn something without skewed information I say it doesn't matter who's narating it (especially since they're reading off of cue cards anyway. You didn think Alec was really that smart did you? :))

Take care,

DRC