SA, I'm watching it -- and I just watched the Fresh Water episode this morning, which was amazing -- 6' long salamanders! Bears swimming after salmon (filmed underwater), otters fending off crocodiles, freshwater seals, piranhas in an actual feeding frenzy....

New Mythbusters tonight, too.

We are TiVoing it and really liked the first one. It just has one mind-blowing shot or fact after another. Lots of delight and awe to be found in the myriad creatures and structures on and in the Earth.

I think I'm waiting for the Earth thing to come out on DVD -- it'll be great for the kids.

I love Yao Man! I'm totally rooting for him on Survivor.

I'm looking forward to Shear Genius tonight -- last week's premiere was refreshingly entertaining after the snoozefest of Top Design.

The discovery channel has a video podcast with some of the behind the scenes how they were filmed clips. The one on the pack dogs in the great plains ep was astonishing, the aerial camerawork and the time it took to shoot.

I'm waiting until someone in my office can get me a copy of the BBC version. (Discovery makes me cranky, with their redubbing of narration and editing for commercials and such.)

Ah! I think the ones I ahemed were aired on the BBC first, hence the weird use of mkv codec. No choppy commercial breaks.

If yours have David Attenborough, they're the original BBC version. (Discovery rewrote the narration and replaced him with Sigourney Weaver.)

If yours have David Attenborough, they're the original BBC version.

I just totally flashed on Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park talking about getting Richard Kiley for the narration. "We spared no expense!"

I'm liking Weaver as narrator, but now I'll have to mourn the absence of Attenborough!

The birds of paradise doing their courting dances was mind-blowing!

tiggy, I'm an AI fan, at least for this season. I'm hoping we won't see anymore of Sanjaya, he makes me cringe and want to pull his hair out.