Review of the TV series Dinosaurs
The attempt to define "dinosaurs" immediately encountered difficulties and indicates
its innovation. Despite the subject, this is not a documentary, scientific or educational series.
Even its creators admit that most of it is speculative. Voices cannot be reproduced
and behavior patterns of fossilized dinosaurs. Most of what is seen on the screen
is a fantasy, or an educated guess.
Experts consulted and the known facts were used as a platform, but the team of animators
Had to watch elephants in a zoo as a model for the movement of large dinosaurs
and heavy The inspiration for characterizing their voices comes from today's living world
and the capabilities of technology. There is a considerable element of science fiction here. also
Aliens in science fiction series and movies are developments of a human photographer, Perry
Human imagination and period technology. As technology changes, the aliens
change with her. Within ten years the technology used to make it will be obsolete
The series will be deprecated. It is already possible to find flaws in it - a little movement
Artificial, too synthesized voices. In 2010 you will see "Dinosaurs"
anachronistic. The fantasy will be upgraded.
The tone in the dominant narration (in the Hebrew version: Gidi Gov) is amused
and marks the story as a story, a mythology, an epic legend
from prehistory. "Dinosaurs" does not focus on the transfer of information but
In his dramatization, and this is a revolutionary drama series - there are no fixed heroes
which are present in all the episodes, development of characters or tracking their events.
The dinosaur as an individual is a statistic in "dinosaurs". As opposed to the point
The obvious reference, the movie "Jurassic Park", has no human heroes either
Not a fictional frame story seasoned with romance. The real heroine of
"Dinosaurs" precedent, abstract, theoretical: this is evolution.
The only development that connects the six chapters is not of a character, but of
Evolution.
"Dinosaurs" is a series for peak viewing time, because the foundations of
The evolutionary plot is so basic and distilled: life and death. goddess
Elements stand out in every nature film, but the disconnection from reality is documented
And the use of computer animation allowed the creators to turn every scene into a fight
Suspenseful, tragic, heartbreaking and dramatic survival. Of course there is also the shock here
The encounter with such a convincing illustration of an alien world and the wonder of time travel (term
taken from the science fiction dictionary), but the main thing is the plot of evolution,
which works like in the Mafia and Wild West series.
A scene from the first episode, yesterday: a huge predator - turning slowly,
Its heaviness, clumsiness and stupidity - drinking blood, collapsing and dying, and two
From the first dinosaurs, lighter and more adapted to their environment, "the blood
The new" as the title of the episode, dissecting his body. Did it really happen? Maybe. That's not what
that is important The drama stands on its own. This is how it is in every scene: who will die? who will
will survive? what is going to happen now Some unexpected factor will enter
to the equation and change the balance of power?
As the computer technology develops - some of the work was done on
Normal personal computers - we will see more and more series like
"Dinosaurs": dramas created on the computer, without star actors,
When creating an opportunity to perfectly realize their vision.
{by Rogel Alper. Appeared in Haaretz newspaper, 2/7/2000
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