Anyone else feel this year's Shark Week was really bad?>Sharkzilla Takes New York tried to convince us a ten-foot mako shark was responsible for killing and eating whales, with the lead guy claiming this average mako was Sharkzilla even after a twelve-foot mako showed up later>Jurassic Sharks had the most retarded AI-generated scenes to grace a TV show and still thinks Dunkleosteus was a 30-foot giant, and it never used the actual names for the Helicoprion and Edestus:Thresher Shark: Stun to Kill had a lot of badly-done composites of sharks trying to make them look like they were interacting with the divers and their stupid inventions
>>5154071Shark week's mostly been slop for a long time.I last watched it a decade ago and even then I remember everything being over sensationalized garbage.>Jurassic Sharks had the most retarded AI-generated scenes to grace a TV showDid they actually use AI? I didn't think the bar could go so low.>it never used the actual names for the Helicoprion and EdestusFirst Prehistoric Planet and now this? Why is newer paleo media so allergic to saying the scientific names of things?
>>5154092Media made for children will use terminology that children can understand.
>>5154092The only clip I could readily find on Youtube since apparently no-one wanted to even see it. If you just search up "Shark Week AI" you'll quickly see more clips of it elsewherehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYzi6D4R4y8
As usual I only watched Jaws.
I've got episodes of Shark Week from ye olden days of 1996, one of them being the episode talking about mako intelligence. It was very well-made, with lots of long scenes focused on the scientists interacting with the makos, discussion of actual science, and the music and narration was very chill. Nowadays the episodes are shot, scored, narrated, and fucked with like Discovery is trying to make the next Hollywood blockbuster. It's incredibly sad.
My parents were watching it over the weekend and one of the episodes was about orcas eating great white shark livers. As far as I know, this behavior has never actually been observed in person, but it made plenty use of AI shots of orcas hunting great whites featuring:>orcas randomly growing second tails>orcas suddenly splitting into multiple orcas>the false eyes on orcas blinking>orcas somehow inducing tonic immobility in a GW by tipping it upside down>a liver that looked exactly like a human liver being ripped out of the throat of a great white >orcas fighting like dogs over said liver as they tore it between each other's mouths
>>5154071>>5154092Yeah but AI is based
>>5154193dude
>>5154115It’s “we’re” there’s more than one person on the boat hunting the shark.
>>5154109>It's realIt looks so cheap, indistinguishable from the millions of AI generated Youtube Paleo videos.Why did they do this when they're owned by a $70 Billion dollar company?If they somehow couldn't afford new CGI, couldn't they have just reused old CGI from the multiple decades of past Shark Weeks? It's not like anyone would've noticed.>>5154103It used to not be like this, just look at any old paleo documentary and you'll see them mention the animal's actual names.Come to think of it, I recall some of the dinosaur toys I played with as a kid having their genus names stamped on their undersides.It's so surreal seeing things get dumbed down in real time.
>>5154248The boat is Quint's, Hooper and Brody are along for the ride.
>>5154109the sludge thickens
