In case someone needs this gif

I will just say: if the otter sequence ended with a homo erectus watching the otters while holding a spear and a burning stick with sth like “but even otters can be dethroned” in the narration, that would have been an insane cameo and it would have been much accurate to what happened at this time

Then chapeau to the entire team. I loved all the designs and the cave lion is the best design of all time for the cat 🫶🏻

Who made the coloration of the cats? And are the cave lion and s. Populator based on cave painting interpretations?

Yes, there was a deliberate push to get rid of all scientific names; of course, I think this is a massive mistake. And, indeed, no roaring for sabretooths, their hyoid anatomy indicates that they couldn't do it :) #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge

More cats - “500 Sabre tooth cats”, but no genus and species name. I really all cat designs btw and that the Sabre teeth did not roar like panthera

These are small nitpicks, but I hope that if we get a follow up, it will also just make the episodes a bit longer and touch more on the “unknown” diversity. But again, small complains against an amazing piece of media and scientific communication!

4.) The science segments felt that they were in a different meta layer because they explored well what the climate context and science is, but not what I saw with the animals. Why not showing the cave complexes, why not listing how far we got with aDNA?

I mean yes, there might be no direct evidence that homo erectus has beef with homotherium or the giant otters, but to ignore the influx hominids had and “blame the demise to the otters” was weak in narration. It would have been a superlative to show what our ancestors could do.

3.) the 20 second cameo of Homo sapiens was not fitting. So unless the next season (if any) will gives us just hominid evolution, there was a massive factor missing in the story (the science segment excluded). This was even more critical for me when the Savannah was shown -

2.) some scenes felt to much as a reference to older documentaries and not as subtitle as in previous seasons. Especially with the megaloceros stuck
In the forest, that was a bit much.

1.) the narration was a bit bland. Often times you did not know where the scene took place and in Ep. 1, that was crucial so people would not think that wooly rhino and “sloths” lived in the same
Region. Linked to that: why no species or genus names? That’s confusing as heck

The science segments (while also watching the bonus material) are amazing! Even higher quality than in S2, you get more faces that tell you some science behind the “cinema”. I generally give the show an 8.5/10 which is on par with older seasons. But I want to share some nitpicks, sorry about that

The idea to follow the last one million years of ice age rather than just checking environment in an exam like way felt more intense as you learned more about the new challenges that the animals got because of the climate changes. That alone gave it a more deep time thought

Generally the design of most of
These animals are 10/10. The first six minutes alone felt that I was witnessing real life animals in the environment and the music makes it even more emotional to watch. I think some of these design won’t be outdated until we invent time travel

Die können auch mich nicht mehr davon ermutigen, dass ich für eine ~90 Minuten Fahrt gerade drei Stunden brauch.

Köln ist und bleibt ein Horror für pendelnde Menschis

Do you know where the sauropods originate from? And are we sure that science on them won’t be inaccessible?