The Real t-rex documentary

[Huskies]

Did anybody watch the documentary? I just wonder if it is any good.

[ceratopsian]

I watched it and enjoyed it. I think it was well worth an hour of your time. But you probably won't find out anything you didn't know already.

[IrritatorRaji]

I watched it and enjoyed it. I think it was well worth an hour of your time. But you probably won't find out anything you didn't know already.

Agreed, if you've been keeping up to date with dinosaur news then a lot of whats mentioned won't come as a surprise. That being said though, I liked it a lot. Their recreation of T.rex is fascinating.

[Patrx]

I watched it! One of my favorite artists, Gabriel Ugeto, was tasked with creating the concept art for the adult and juvenile rexes. They came to life fairly well, all things considered, but the 3D model's jaw looks a little strange whenever the mouth is open, and the neck musculature, which is discussed in the doc, seems to be kinda absent.





As others have said, there's not really anything new here for fans of T. rex or big theropods in general. Also, the narration does that irritating thing where the close relationship between modern birds and dinosaurs is discussed, but the fundamental concept that birds are living dinosaurs is not mentioned. At one point, the presenter even states, referring to an alligator, that "this is the nearest I'll ever get to meeting a living dinosaur". He shares a  later scene with a vulture 

Not bad, though, overall. Lots of the concepts will be new to many viewers, and it's neat to see them explored.

[WarrenJB]

At one point, the presenter even states, referring to an alligator, that "this is the nearest I'll ever get to meeting a living dinosaur". He shares a  later scene with a vulture 

Yeah... I like Chris Packham, ever since I watched The Really Wild Show as a wean, but I groaned when he said that bit with the alligator. At least he was looking at an archosaur, not a komodo dragon or an iguana (or a coelacanth... or a rhino...) as he said it, and there was a bit of redress with the comparison to vultures and emus later. ('Don't think reptile, think bird' or something like it, was a soundbyte in there.)

Also slightly irritated that pack hunting was brought up as cut-and-dried fact rather than possibility; and the attitude that a fully feathered animal must resemble a giant chicken. But apart from those couple of hiccups, and the fact that a lot of the show was >three-decade-old news (the perils of keeping up with a specialist interest) it was pretty good. Kind of an update of The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs.

One of my favorite artists, Gabriel Ugeto, was tasked with creating the concept art for the adult and juvenile rexes.

Nice! Looks a little more constrained and natural than the 3D model.

[ceratopsian]

Even my non-dinosaur mad husband queried the reference to the alligator being the closest you can get to a dinosaur. I must attribute that to the drip effect of me lecturing him!  I too thought it should have been made clear that pack hunting is not as certain as you would have thought from the programme.

[Fembrogon]

I had to find it on YouTube - I don't think it's legally airing/streaming in the USA yet - but overall I thought it was a good program. Once it gets a proper release stateside I'll probably be recommending it to some more casual dino fans I know.

Oh... That custom Bittern hoot they used for a possible "roar" was cool. I want to see more of that sort of thing in programs.