>>5154071
Shark 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 show
Did they actually use AI? I didn't think the bar could go so low.
>it never used the actual names for the Helicoprion and Edestus
First Prehistoric Planet and now this? Why is newer paleo media so allergic to saying the scientific names of things?

>>5154092
Media made for children will use terminology that children can understand.

>>5154092
The 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 elsewhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYzi6D4R4y8

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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
>>5154092
Yeah but AI is based

>>5154109
>It's real
It 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.
>>5154103
It 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.

>>5154248
The boat is Quint's, Hooper and Brody are along for the ride.

>>5154109
the sludge thickens

I just pop in the DVDs I made of recorded episodes from the earlier years of Shark Week. It's been crap from a while now, which makes me incredibly sad.

>>5154071
I tuned into history channel for my fist watch of cable in like, almost a decade, and was shocked and saddened to see it had ai in this one show
it was really bad AI too, and I guess they didn't bother to generate much cause they replayed genned scenes over and over and over even when it couldn't get shit like banking planes right at all

>>5154092
>First Prehistoric Planet and now this? Why is newer paleo media so allergic to saying the scientific names of things?
It's considered "less immersive" since if you're watching a normal documentary on living animals you'll rarely ever hear scientific names.

>>5155282
Which itself is a dumbed-down thing, because older shows would give the scientific names for a lot of their subjects.

Shark Week has to appeal to normos first, of course its bad

>>5155586
Then why was it so much better decades ago? Has the quality of normalfags gone down?

>>5155814
Unironically yes. An example i always use is how back in 2001, Jurassic Park 3 was so bad that it killed the franchise for 14 years. Now the Jurassic World movies which are of comparable levels of quality make millions and are still getting sequels

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>>5155824
are you this guy?

>>5154182
you can thank capitalism for that
making AI slop produces more profit than proper scientific shows

>>5155824
jurassic park 3 made many times its budget back but sure whatever headcanon you need to cope with.

The thresher episode was so fucking dumb. They kept claiming that how thresher sharks used their tails was some deep mystery when older shows and random fucks have filmed it plenty of times. And it was obvious neither of those retarded devices they built attracted any sharks because every single shot of them with a shark in the frame you could tell the sharks were composited in and badly at that.

>>5156106
And it killed the series for 14 years

>>5156060
No but i agree with him

>>5156147
it didn't "kill" the series you dumb fucking autist. doing a trilogy of a popular series was just the norm back then. the studios didn't start pumping out yearly releases of a franchise until iron man in 2008

>>5156264
There were a bunch of projects that were cancelled because the series was in diminishing returns phase.
You'd know this if you were alive back then

>>5156274
>There were a bunch of projects that were cancelled because the series was in diminishing returns phase.
the 4th film was delayed because it got in development hell with various people attached to the project coming in and dropping out, not because the 3rd had bad returns. this happens all the time in hollywood

>You'd know this if you were alive back then
i guarantee i'm older than you

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Dunkleosteus was a giant you fag, the new body shape makes no sense

>>5156060
Another example of that is the Star Wars prequels. Movies that were considered shit when they released but are now considered good because they are better than the even shittier shit we get today

>>5156385
Even the old size estimates where not as huge as the one they showed in sharkweek. It looked to be the size of a boat in the AI slop.

>>5156439
I remember the estimates in the 2000's were like 33/10 meters but it got downsized to 20 feet/6 meters by the 2010's

https://youtu.be/9v2Dxp5QFgc
>First documentary to air during the first shark week.
>The scientific name of the Great White used before mentioning its common name
>Long, unedited chunks of footage of actual sharks
>Nothing is sensationalized or edited to make it worse than it is
>No actors, the divers and crew members are all who they say they are
>Highlights real things occurring in the real world instead of making shit up
>Still manages to provide exciting footage of sharks attacking the dive cage
>This was all done by a couple dozen people
Caged in Fear wasn't exactly a masterpiece as far as nature documentaries go, but the difference in quality between it and modern Shark Week is night and day.
What caused this decline?

>>5156506
The need to make everything sensational, copying movies to make thing more exciting, lower attention span requiring shorter scenes, all the usual things.

Did Shark Week start going to shit with the Mythbusters episode?

Even our yearly celebrations have gone to hell, it hurts, bros.

>>5157587
It had been in a slow decline for a while, the Mythbusters crossover probably was a sign they were beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel in terms of ideas.
I feel like competition from other cable channels was probably keeping quality up to a certain standard and as people abandoned cable for streaming in the early 2010s the pressure was released and everything went to shit around then.
The last Shark Week that I watched and remember being good was 2010 with Ultimate Air Jaws.

>>5158805
At least the Air Jaws episodes have been consistently good. Shame about the rest, though.