The Beauty of Snakes

[stangs13]

heh heh heh........ :twoguns:

 

[dionythicus]

The cornsnake flub was irritating, but the cinematography was incredible. We were spellbound.

 

[MegF.]

I thought it would be a little more about the different beautiful colorations and the graceful motions of snakes, but it was a bit menacing I thought. The mother and kid inches away from being bitten by the Fer de Lance, the cobra and the kids playing. It's always the same stuff. Show the menacing side of the snake. The music is kind of spooky too. Then they sort of do the side note about snakes would rather be left alone....then they show the gorgeous palm viper in the bananas at the market leaving you to wonder who's going to get it next. Irritated me a bit. I think if you want people to see the beauty of the snake, you need to show less of the vipers striking at mice while electrical currents dance under them and more of how they are colorful and diverse.

 

[Roy Munson]

I thought it would be a little more about the different beautiful colorations and the graceful motions of snakes, but it was a bit menacing I thought. The mother and kid inches away from being bitten by the Fer de Lance, the cobra and the kids playing. It's always the same stuff. Show the menacing side of the snake. The music is kind of spooky too. Then they sort of do the side note about snakes would rather be left alone....then they show the gorgeous palm viper in the bananas at the market leaving you to wonder who's going to get it next. Irritated me a bit. I think if you want people to see the beauty of the snake, you need to show less of the vipers striking at mice while electrical currents dance under them and more of how they are colorful and diverse.

I agree with you Meg. As a liberal-leaning person who sometimes reads too much into things, I also thought the menacing scenarios were interesting. I noticed that the bad snakes only went after unsuspecting brown people, who were usually presented in typical third-world situations (e.g. soccer in the dusty streets; siesta in a cot). But the friendly African house snake earned his keep ridding the middle-class white family's home of rodents. I understand that the majority of people threatened by venomous snakes are third-world, non-whites, but I still thought it was interesting. The house snake segment reminded me a little of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, but with a snake hero.

 

[MooreSnakes]

I noticed that the bad snakes only went after unsuspecting brown people, who were usually presented in typical third-world situations (e.g. soccer in the dusty streets; siesta in a cot).

Hmm, reminds me of that video we watched in Health about eating right
"But not everyone knows that fast-food is unhealthy. The ignorant and poor usually eat fast food for every meal"
*shows a bunch of black people in New York*
coughracistcough

 

[cornsnakekid92]

Hmm, reminds me of that video we watched in Health about eating right
"But not everyone knows that fast-food is unhealthy. The ignorant and poor usually eat fast food for every meal"
*shows a bunch of black people in New York*
coughracistcough

Better then KFC or Popeyes

 

[Jimmy Johnson]

Ok

overall it was pretty good show.
Yes they did get some facts wrong but at least the WHOLE show didn't dwell on venomouse species or giant constrictors.
Yes they showed those "close-calls" but they did throw in a few non-venomous species.
That's all you see, stories on the giant constrictors or stories sensationalizing the venomouse species.
Someone seriously needs to do a show on non-venomous native species. The beauty and diversity of North American non-venomous species could fill hours and hours of tape.
The closest I have seen was when Bruce Means was trying to catch some Apalachicola Kings. That was pretty good show even though he only ended up catching what he suspected wasn't a pure Apalachicola.
He ended up going to A reptile expo (looked like Daytona) and bought a few.
I have seen him chasing cobras, wrangling crocks and building traps for kings.
Pretty busy man.
Another decent one was when Jeff Corwin was dropped off in "somewhere" U.S.A. and had to figure out where he was by the species he found.
Oh yeah, I just remembered another one with a guy called Okefenokee Joe (Dick Flood) who was wondering around the swamp catching different species of snakes.
It was pretty good despite his singing...lol

 

[MegF.]

I noticed the non venomous species such as the African house snake was not mentioned as such. They went from the Fer de Lance to the AHS making you think it was going to crawl into bed with the kid and bite him. I kept waiting for them to mention that this species was not venomous.

 

[CaptBogart]

Ok, I watched it and have to agree with Meg and Dean. It had some good parts that could have been expanded on, used a little less special effects, and left out the, "Please come back after 20 mins of commercials", venomous cliff hangers.. Dun, dun, duuuun... I think the last half of the show was a lead in to the venomous one that followed...