LIFE

The new series on, well I kind of forget the name of the channel, but channel 41 for me.... is LIFE.

The show is so spectacular and amazing and wonderful and all around great.

It basically is a more high-tech and detailed version of the series PLANET EARTH and I absolutely LOVE that series! Anyways, it shows clips of animals in their daily rituals that have NEVER BEEN CAUGHT ON FILM. WOOOOAH MAN.

The other day I was watching it (of course) and they showed this lizard type thing just lounging on a branch. Alright, I thought, thats cool. The lizard looks all cool up close, with its' variety of colors and so forth, but then... it sticks its tongue out in a blit second and snatches a bug! Okay, you may be thinking oh reaaaally cool, not like I really want to see that anyways. But you DO! It shows it in super slow motion, and you can see in really good detail every little thing of something that in real life, is not even a millisecond long.

Another part of an episode I was watching showed this little tree frog, female frog, that was pregnant. It takes you on a journey through the frogs birth of the little baby frogs in the shallows of the stream in the forest, to the frog making it's long journey up and down and up and down this big tree to put a single egg, at a time, in a little leaf filled with water, so the frogs can hatch and so forth. The cool thing about this, is that the frog is barely the size of an ordinary fingernail, so that trip up the tree takes waaay more time and effort than you would think. Not only that, but some how, the cameras get really, really up close to this animal, and even somehow get into the not even centimeter deep water of the leaf they were placed in so the the baby frogs who life changing stages could be filmed. I don't know how they do it.

Overall, that is the coolest thing about this show. They not only capture things that have never before been seen, but they capture the smallest detail of that thing, making it feel like you could be right there with the animal, just chilling.

But of course, you can NOT watch the show without having HD TV. Okay, you can, but it is NOT the same experience. My dad had gotten HD a looong time ago, and I rarely had used it because i never really saw the difference... until this show. Everything is way better in quality and picture, and HD makes the taping look that much more real. I love it!

In fact, I am going to watch one of our recordings of the ocean life... ta ta for now!

OH... and Oprah Winfrey does the narration. Cool, right?