12/27/2023 0 Comments Stream blue planet 2 episode 7What other factual errors were there that we didn't catch? I'd love to have given this series a 10 for the visuals alone but two points docked for the two script errors that I caught. Why suggest that Erebus is an interior volcano when it isn't? Problem is that when one catches out narration having two errors like the above, you start to wonder what else they have got wrong. Erebus is NOT on the mainland of Antarctica but on an offshore Island near the mainland but in the Ross Sea. Erebus and the Erebus lava lake in the crater and used it as an example. In the section on the Antarctic interior he was talking about the active volcanos in the interior mountain ranges. So why "killer whale" here which only serves to perpetuate the error that these are whales? Second mistake came in the fourth episode and was more of a misleading statement. In fact, by coincidence I happened to see another Attenborough documentary this week in which he actually did refer to them several times as "Orca". Unfathomable that Sir David has agreed to use the term "killer whale" in his narration because he was must surely know it is wrong. "Orca" is the correct and widely accepted name so use it. Somehow the name got reversed and it stuck. Watch Dr Jon Copley, scientific advisor on Blue Planet II, talking about. I read recently that the nickname originally given to them was not even "killer whales" it was "whale killers" because Orca has been observed to kill whales. Find out how our research informed the Blue Planet II episode The Deep and how. We know better now and should correct the mistake by not referring to them as whales as an English name for them. It's unfortunate, but it was forgivable back then for thinking they are whales. Yes, the name is arrived from the latin for "whale" but that was an error in naming them dating back to the 19th century. Orcas are members of the oceanic dolphin family. Killer whales would be fine as an alternative if for one fact: they are NOT members of the whale family fore crying out loud and it is just wrong to refer to them that way. That is an unfortunate nickname that went out of use so many years ago that this is the first time I've heard anybody refer to them as such in at least a decade if not longer. Firstly, in the 1st and 4th episodes filmed in the Antarctic and showing the teamwork involved in "wave washing" penguins and seals that were seeking refuge on iceflows, Sir David repeatedly and consistently referred to the animals as "killer whales". There is no question the photography here is excellent and the dedication to the making of this documentary to be admired but for my wife and myself there were two aspects of this that just grated and really spoiled it. Each 60-minute episode of the seven part series focuses on another environment, allowing the series to jump between exploring octopi and sea otters co-existing on the coast and great white sharks.
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