After seeing the main body of the "JFC's" season 1, I thought myself as a seasoned and resistant reviewer of the show's flaws - the fixation on the dinosaurs' eventual and ultimate extinction, the favoritism of allosaurus and tyrannosaurus, the lack of feathers of the dromeosauRIDS, and, of course, the rather unnecessary dramatization of the whole show. I was wrong. The season's finale, "Armageddon", cranked up the dramatization's levels to a totally new heights. Make no mistake - the actual scientific examinations of the K/T extinction event were done solidly enough, without any favoritism - for a while it seemed that they would actually try to downplay it when they talked about the Late Jurassic extinction.
But then they turned to the actual K/T extinction, and the overbearing acting just hammed it up. Not to mention the somewhat sadistic attention to detail: does the audience really want that dinosaurs got cooked alive, burned alive, or smashed into oblivion by a three-mile-high tsunamis? (The other side of the detail is such presumption that we can even identify which particular asteroid smashed into earth and moon.) Science is about paying attention to detail, but "JFC" had clearly gone over the top. As an alternative, when in 1999 BBC released the "Walking With Dinosaurs" series, whose last episode also dealt with the extinction of the dinosaurs, they managed to convey such detailed imagination in check, while ensuring that the audience did realize how dinosaurs died-out 65 MYA. But then again, "WWD" tried to realistically show the ecology of the dinosaurian world, while "JFC" scenario is more of having two or more dinosaurs fight it out in virtual equivalent of a fighting pit - but unlike Animal Planet's show "Animal Face-Off" they did it with a lot more dramatization, favoritism, and well, overacting.
And so, here's my last review of the "JFC" season 1 - a good show, but there's just too much needless ham.moreless
Jurassic Fight Club
Tuesday 9:00 PM on The History Channel Premiered Jul 29, 2008 Between Seasons
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The History Channel imagines prehistoric life in this entertainment series about dinosaur battles. Computer-generated dinosaurs engage in conflicts choreographed using paleontological evidence from 70-million-year-old crime scenes.
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S 1 : Ep 12
Aired 10/22/08
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S 1 : Ep 11
Aired 10/15/08 (43:41)
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S 1 : Ep 10
Aired 10/8/08 (42:00)
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S 1 : Ep 9
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bloody and violent, dinosaur attack, educational goals, epic battles, killer animal