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Let's check out my top five versions of Gwen Stacy!

That's coming up after the bump.

Welcome to That Sci-Fi Show, My name is Jay and these are my top five

versions of Gwen Stacy.

But first,

I just want to let you guys know that

I'm feeling a little under the weather this week

That's why we're doing the voice over instead of the normal video

In the words of my Buddy theRandomshark: like it, don't like it? Let me know.

And now back to our feature presentaion.

Our first version of Gwen Stacy is, of course, Gwen from

Earth-616.

Widly considered the "main" Marvel universe,

This universe is similar to our world, with respect to

most historical events, but has some notable differences.

Gwen's creators were Steve Ditko and Stan Lee and she

first appeared in comics in 1965.

She's dipcted an ordinary girl, and Peter Parker's first

true love.

He meets her at college where she's a beauty

queen, and one of the popular girls.

And the fans DID NOT like her at the time.

Throughout her story arc, she is unaware that Peter Parker is

Spider-Man.

She finds it out only just before her death.

Their love story is a difficult one,

with many disappointments and misunderstandings, but her

sudden and controversial death helps Peter understand how much

he really loved her.

How's that for a Valentine's Day messege?

Stacy played an important role in Peter Parker's

development as a character.

Her death is often said to be the end of the Silver Age of

Comics, and the beginning of the Bronze Age – with more,

realistic problems and deeper, darker issues developing within

comic book plots and more of the tragedy of the real world depicted.

Writer and editor Gerry Conway decided to get rid

of the Gwen Stacy character, and created a storyline in

which Stacy dies when Green Goblin drops her from the George Washinton

bridge.

We discussed this in our last video here.

Self promotion for the win.

There is also a very controversial story about

Gwen's affair with Norman Osborn, the Green

Goblin's alter ego.

The short version is that she became

pregnant with twins and Osborn considered them to be

his heirs.

Gwen's decision to raise the children with Peter

and to prohibit Osborn from seeing them caused her

kidnapping at the hands of the Green Goblin and eventually

led to her death.

The 2nd version of Gwen Stacy we'll discuss is from the

alternate universe designated Earth-1610, otherwise know as

the Ultimate universe.

This is the story told in the Ultimate

Spider-Man series and in this version, Stacy had no close

affection or romantic relationship with Peter.

After police Captain George Stacy was murdered by a burglar

wearing a Spidy suit, Gwen was taken in by Aunt May, creating even more tension

between Peter and Mary Jane.

Gwen had befriended Peter after an incident where she pulled a knife

on Kong, a classmate who was bullying Peter.

In this universe, Peter was in a romantic relationship

with Mary Jane, although his friendship with Gwen id make Mary

Jane very jeaous, eventually leading toa temporary break up

They both mourned Gwen's death when Carnage, a life-sucking

parasite, killed her.

However, Gwen was sort-of recreated showed up on Peter's doorstep

one night.

I don't want to spoil too much so if you'd like to know more

then give this a series a try.

This version of Gwen Stacy was created by Brian Michael Bendis

and Mark Bagley in 2001

Our third version of Gwen Stacy is Spider-Gwen from

Edge of Spider-Verse from 2014, created by Jason Latour and

Robbi Rodriguez.

This version of Gwen is interesting becuase she's Spider-Woman,

so the radioactive spider bit her, not Peter.

Peter was her classmate, a gifted

but bullied young man (as he is often depicted).

He was inspired by Spider-Woman and longed for superpowers, so

he started some dangerous experiments.

He turns into the Lizard he died in a battle with Spider-Woman.

His last words were "I just wanted to be special".

The comic is not based around

Peter Parker's story, but around the world and life of

Gwen Stacy and her female friends from The Mary Janes,

a rock-band.

It's the story from the female perspective,

perhaps, making the Marvel universe more diverse

and bringing in the long sought after female readers.

As Spider-Woman, Gwen fights crime,

within her universe, and also travels to other worlds and

meets other versions of Peter Parker on a variety of occasions.

The fourth version of Gwen Stacy we'll talk about today is the character from the crossover

The Age of Apocalypse from 1995.

In this series, Gwen is not a superhero; neither is it the story

of Peter Parker.

But in this crossover, the main theme is devoted to the

X-Men, while Gwen is an American exchange student in Paris, who,

during serious illness, meets Dr. Donald Blake, also known as Thor.

But in this story, Dr. Blake is unaware of his divine background

or his superpowers, as he has not discovered them or his hammer.

When he saves Gwen's life and treats her, she becomes his

bodyguard in his fight against the forces of Apocalypse.

In the crossover Gwen Stacy is

not a lead character, however she plays an important role

in fighting against the Apocalypse and in saving

Europe from devastation

And our fifth (and final) entry is a very touching reference to

Gwen Stacy is in the miniseries The House of M from 2005.

In this universe, Peter Parker is

Spider-Man, and he has been living a married life with

Mary Jane, however, he still mourns Gwen who died

at the George Washinton bridge during his fight

with the Green Goblin.

Years have passed since, but the

Scarlet Witch uses her powers to bring changes into the

Earth-616 continuity (for her own reasons related to the controversy with

X-Men) and this allows Peter the life he's always dreamed of.

Thus, Peter Parker finds himself happily married to Gwen Stacy

and having a little son.

This suggests that Peter has always

longed for Gwen to remain alive, and that she was indeed the love of his life

When the spell is lifted, Peter returns to his previous

life in Earth-616 continuity, where he is married to Mary Jane, but

the memories of the alternative life, of his life with Gwen and

their son, remain.

This is a dramatic scenario created

by Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel (which I REALLY hope I'm pronouncing correctly.)

I just want to take a second to give a shout out to my buddy Owen over at OwenLikesComics.

Click the card above to check out his Spider-Man Homecoming trailer breakdown and analysis.

Subscribe while you're there and leave a comment, tell him Jay sent you.

So that's it for this episode of That Sci-Fi Show. Like the video and, you know, just do all the YouTube things.

Just... Just click all the things.

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And if you would like me to thank you in a video then just subscribe and leave a comment below.

I will thank everyone of you personally , one video at a time, or die of old age trying.

Until next time, guys, my name is Jay Parks and this is That Sci-Fi Show.

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Ang Probinsyano February 20 2017 - Duration: 26:51.

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طريقة عمل كباب الحلة وصفه لذيذه جداً من المطبخ المصري | مطبخ ميني - Duration: 10:02.

May Allah`s peace , mercy and blessing be upon you

Hello my friends

How to make Kebab halla in Minnie Kitchen

Ingredients :

Kilogram of meat

Three onion

Bell pepper ( One )

Tablespoon sauce

Bay laurel - Cardamom - cumin - Ginger - Meat Spices - Black pepper - salt

Add spoon Ghee + Cardamom + Bay laurel

And add Meat

Add garlic cloves

Add onions

Add bell pepper

Add spices except salt

Add sauce

Add nutmeg

To simmer

End result

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See you later :)

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33 Bizarre Foods That People Actually Eat - Duration: 6:19.

33 Bizarre Foods That People Actually Eat

While traveling, it's important to sample the local cuisine.

After all, what's a trip to Paris worth without a delicious crêpe?

Or Japan without some super fresh sushi?

Or, if you're more adventurous, you can chow down on some of these stranger options found

around the world.

1.

Dragonfly Served in Indonesia and China, usually boiled

or fried and apparently taste like soft shell crab.

2.

Starfish Served in China, the hard shell is broken

and the meat inside is said to have the texture of something between toothpaste and ground

beef.

3.

Kangaroo Meat Served in, you guessed it, Australia this

is said to taste like a mixture of venison and buffalo meat.

4.

Jellied Moose Nose Served in Canada, of course, the nose is boiled

in onion, garlic, spices and vinegar.

5.

Wasp Crackers Served in Japan, they're exclusively found

100 miles outside of Tokyo in a town called Omachi.

6.

Stargazy Pie Served in England, the traditional pie comes

from Cornwall and is said to honor a fisherman who went out alone to provide fish despite

particularly stormy weather.

7.

Lutefisk Served in Norway, they ferment aged whitefish

in lye.

8.

Haggis Served in Scotland, this meal consists of

sheep's stomach stuffed with sheep's liver, lungs and heart, onions, oatmeal, and various

spices.

9.

Stink Bugs Served in Africa, they can be eaten raw or

cooked and are said to have an apple flavor as well as a tranquilizing effect.

10.

Akutaq (Eskimo Ice Cream) Served in Alaska, this not-so-sweet treat

is made of reindeer fat, seal oil, freshly fallen snow, berries and ground fish.

11.

Casu Marzu Served in Mexico, you know this cheese is

ready to eat once its full of thousands of yummy maggots.

12.

Beondegi Served in Korea, the silkworm pupae are served

as a snack either steamed or boiled.

13.

Nsenene Served in Uganda, this long-horned grasshopper

is a delicacy fried, sun-dried, or boiled.

Goes great with onions.

14.

Witchetty Grub Served in Australia, this buggy grub can be

eaten raw or sautéed and is said to taste similar to a friend egg with a touch of nutty

flavor.

15.

Cherry Blossom Meat Served in Japan, it gets its name from being

sold during cherry blossom season and is actually raw horse meat.

16.

Jumiles Served in Mexico, the stink bugs give an extra

dash of intense spice to your salsa.

17.

Shirako Served in Japan, this delicacy is made from

male fish sperm sacs.

18.

Bird's Nest Soup Served in Southeast Asia, the "nest" is created

using bird saliva.

19.

Deep Fried Trantula Served in Cambodia, they supposedly taste

like spare ribs and include the eggs and excrement inside.

20.

Soup Number Five Served in the Philippines, this broth gets

its flavor from bull penis and testacles.

21.

Khash Served in Eastern Europe, Turkey, and the

Middle East, this soup is made with boiled cow feet.

22.

Tong Zi Dan Served in China, it is also aptly known as

"virgin boy eggs" because the eggs are boiled in young men's urine.

23.

Scorpions Served in Thailand and China, frying them

is said to neutralize the venom in their tails and apparently has a buttery popcorn taste.

24.

Blodplättar Served in Sweden and Finland, it's similar

to blood pudding only this time the pork blood is put into crispy pancake form.

25.

Cicada Served in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and the

United States these noisy night bugs are usually deep-fried with a mixture of spices.

26.

Muktuk Served in Greenland, the frozen whale skin

and blubber is sliced, salted, and consumed raw.

27.

Shiokara Served in Japan, fermented squid guts are

mixed with the squid's gastric juices and seasoned with a bit of miso, salt, soy sauce,

sake, red pepper, and yuzu peel.

28.

Waxworms Sautéed or roasted, the creepy crawlies are

said to taste like a cross between a pine nut and an enoki mushroom.

29.

Snake Wine Served in China and Vietnam, the snake's venom

is neutralized by the ethanol in rice wine and it is believed to boost one's virility.

30.

Guinea Pig Served in South America, they can be fried

or grilled and apparently taste like a combination of pork, rabbit, and probably the tears of

your childhood pet memories.

31.

Southern Fried Rattlesnake Served here in the good old United States,

it is said to have a unique light flavor.

32.

Mosquito Eggs Served in Mexico, they start by drying them

out then roasting them up.

33.

Salmiakki Found in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland,

these gummies are perfect for anyone who thinks black licorice doesn't have quite enough salt

taste to it.

For more infomation >> 33 Bizarre Foods That People Actually Eat - Duration: 6:19.

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Japanese Traditional Music instrumental - Tears of the Samurai - Duration: 1:31:11.

Haru no Umi 春の海

Sakura Hensokyoku さくら変奏曲

Seoto 瀬音

Ochiba no Odori 落葉の踊り

Kazoe Uta Hensokyoku 数え唄変奏曲

Sarashi Fu Tegoto さらし風手事

Kara Ginuta 唐砧

Japanese Traditional Music instrumental - Tears of the Samurai

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НАЙДИ КОТА Мурку с канала MISTER MAX и MISS KATY. Челлендж УГАДАЙ БЛОГЕРА. Часть 3 - Duration: 3:22.

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Pretty Little Liars Final Episodes "Paily" Promo (SUB ITA) - Duration: 1:00.

Don't tell.

The first time I saw you with Maya,

I finally admitted to myself that I was like you.

I'm not ashamed of who I am, but I used to be.

And if we have to hide like this all the time, I'm gonna start to feel that way again.

You're fearless. You came out.

I fell out. On my face.

If I say I'm gay,

the whole world is gonna change.

It will.

With all these terrible things in my life right now,

why do I feel so lucky?

I was looking for somebody

and I came here.

- I really love you. - Oh, come here.

My parents don't think Rosewood's a safe place anymore.

Please, don't go.

I have to.

#PrettyLittleLiarsEndGame, THE FINAL EPISODES.

YOU'LL FIND THE ITALIAN SUBTITLES EVERY WEDNESDAY ON www.traduttorianonimi.it

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Castiel I Human weakness [12.12] - Duration: 4:31.

Dean: Why would you fall?

Cas: Watching humanity...

...it never gets old, does it?

Dean: Don't do that!

There's seemingly...

Hello?

...nothing but chaos.

Mom...

What is so worth saving?

I see nothing but pain here.

But not all bad comes from it.

Charlie: Did we just become best friends?

Good things do happen, Dean.

Thank you.

You know, I'm finding that often...

...people with the least to give are the most generous.

Take care, kid.

Hannah: I want to stay...

...and help.

Is that wrong?

No.

It's just...

...very human.

It's a compliment.

Ishim: You know why...

we're meant to stay away from them...

...humans? Dean: Help me.

Please!

Jimmy: Help me, please!

You promised, Cas!

It's not because...

Cas: You need to run now!

...we're a danger to them.

Cas: Run! Please!

Naomi: End this, Castiel!

They're a danger to us.

I can't.

I'm hunted.

I rebelled.

And I did it...

all of it...

...for you.

I'm doing this...

Dean: Look at me! Cas: No.

...for you, Dean.

I'm doing this because of you.

If there is anything worth dying for...

I'll die first.

...this is it.

I guess I'm just wondering how somebody quits...

Cas: I still serve God.

...one life for something completely different...

Cas: I'll watch over you.

...and then believe in it so much.

You know, only humans can feel real joy, but...

Cas: What's so funny?

Cas: I was lost.

...also such profound pain.

Cas: Until...

...I took on your pain.

It's strange to think that that helped, but...

It wasn't that long ago...

...when all I'd need to do to ease your pain was...

...touch you.

Humans...

...so fragile.

Believe it or not...

... there may be something even better down here.

Hael: I don't understand.

Loyalty.

Hope.

Forgiveness.

Love.

Dreams.

But...

...those are human things.

I guess that's why we pray.

Claire: I used to pray to you, Castiel.

Dean: I prayed to you, Cas!

Every night!

Claire: Hi, Daddy.

Jimmy: Hi, baby.

Claire: I would beg you...

...to bring him home safe.

Cas: I know.

Dean: You know? And you didn't...

Jimmy: I gave you everything you asked me to give.

I gave you more.

This is the thanks I get?

This is what you do?

Claire: My father was a good man.

In what messed up world...

...does he have to die and you get to live?

Cas: I was convinced I was on this...

...righteous path.

Now I realize that there is no righteous path...

...just people... Doctor: Hold him!

...trying to do their best... Michelle: I'm trying!

...in a world where it's far too easy to do your worst.

Ellen: It's okay.

Dean: You know what's real?

People.

Families.

That's real.

And you're gonna watch them all burn?

Dean: Cas...

It's me.

We're family.

Cas!

We need you.

No...

Naomi: You have to choose, Castiel.

Us...

...or them.

Anna: Choosing your own course of action...

Dean: You're scared.

...is confusing...

Cas: This feeling...

...terrifying.

Being all alone.

Anna: You're afraid, Cas.

Cas: What if you were to find out...

No one's maybe listening.

...that no one is listening?

That God...

...had pretty much left.

What would you do?

Cas: Please, tell me what to do.

What should I do?

Naomi: What you want to do.

Cas: Well, I'll go with you.

Woman: But that's not possible.

Dean: No, I got to do this alone.

Cas: It's completely possible.

Woman: You're missing the point.

It's not possible...

...because I have my faith.

But when I tell you the truth...

Your truth.

Cas: Its...

my truth.

Uriel: All you have to do...

...is be unafraid.

Your lack of faith...

...doesn't cancel what I believe.

That's not how it works.

Cas: For the first time...

...in a long time....

You know...

Someone is listening.

I am.

Metatron: His true weakness is revealed.

Ishim: You were sent here to observe humanity.

He's in love...

Charlie: I thought you'd be shorter.

...with humanity.

Cas: These humans...

...they're just doing the best they can.

They're the ones we were put here to protect.

Dean: Cas, no.

You're not strong enough.

Hannah: Time to put them first.

Cas: Your problems always come first.

Run!

Just run.

What have you done to me?

Naomi: I fixed you, Castiel.

Ishim: I'm going to help you.

Ephraim: It will be over soon.

Ishim: I'm going to cure of your human weakness.

Naomi: I...

...FIXED YOU!

Dean: Cas, fight this!

This is not you!

Fight it!

Cas: You need to keep fighting.

Sam: We ARE fighting.

We're fighting for you, Cas.

Hannah: But what of the humans...

Jimmy: Take me, please.

...whose lives we sacrifice in the name of that mission?

Dean: Your dad's sacrifice was not meaningless.

You father's a hero.

And because he did that, Cas...

Cas was able to save the world.

Don't ever change.

The WORLD.

We always said the humans were our original mission.

Akobel: How could anyone know them...

...and not love them?

Cas: I love you, guys.

You're my family.

I love you.

I love all of you.

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No BS Test - Rox Speed Pivoting Handlebar Risers - Duration: 2:55.

⦁ If you take any random dual-sport or trail bike, chances are that the handlebar to footpeg

relationship on that bike is not setup for riding aggressively in the attack position.

⦁ That's because most of these types of bikes like the CRF230, DRZ400, XR250 and XR400

are designed for learners and recreational riders who probably won't be wide open and

hunched in the attack position for the entire ride.

⦁ Now, that's fine for one of those learners or purely recreational riders because the

standard peg and handlebar setup is usually acceptable for a riding day involving lots

of sitting and only moments of standing while getting over obstacles.

⦁ But for those of us who do silly things like ride a trail bike or dual-sport aggressively,

it's not that great to have the pegs and handlebars so close together, as it leaves the rider

with minimal leverage for controlling the pitch of the bike.

Standard risers generally actually make this worse, as the direction they move the handlebars

is straight back at the rider, further hindering the rider's leverage over the bike.

⦁ Moving the handlebars straight forward really opens the bike up for standing and

more closely matches the cockpit of a competitive enduro bike.

The go-to method for accomplishing this is to install Rox Speed Pivoting handlebar risers

rolled straight forward.

⦁ I've been using these 2" Rox Speed Pivoting Risers on my 230 since 2014 and haven't had

a single issue.

Before I ever ordered them, I had my doubts that they would stay in place or stay in one

piece because of all the added leverage of using them to move the handlebars forward.

⦁ Well, they've now been in every single one of my CRF230F videos for the past two

years and I've never experienced any slippage, flex, or bending from them so it is certainly

safe to give them some praise.

⦁ The price is still pretty steep on these things at about $75, but the quality is undeniable

and the improvement in the aggressive riding stance is actually one of the most noticeable

upgrades I've done to this CRF230F so I must say that it was worth it for me.

⦁ There are also now cheaper chinese knock offs of these two inch pivoting risers, and

I'll be reviewing those soon to see if they are a good alternative to the Rox Speed brand

risers.

⦁ That's all for this video, so thanks for watching.

There's an affiliate link to the Rox Speed risers that I use in the description below

if you would like to give them a try on your dual-sport or trail bike.

⦁ If you have any ideas for other things that I should test, let me know by leaving

a comment.

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I BROKE MY HAND - Duration: 9:36.

Here the full story on what actually happened. I hope no one has to ever deal with bad drivers or even end up in a road rage situation. Lets learn from my experience, although the driver has been reported to the cops and he's going to lose his license as well. We shall be back to regular programming soon #phantomfam.. thanks a lot for your support and all the love you've shown. I cannot ride right now but am happy that you guys are with me.

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Superstore 2x15 Promo "Wellness Fair" (HD) - Duration: 0:15.

Thursday...

How's Jeff?

He might take me to Paris.

A little white lie,

She's just been saying she's dating him to get attention

spirals out of control.

She's pregnant?

Who's pregnant?

Well the important thing is, it all worked out horribly.

A new Superstore, Thursday on NBC.

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Uzaylı Asansörü | Subnautica | Bölüm 9 - Duration: 24:26.

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How the BBC makes Planet Earth look like a Hollywood movie - Duration: 8:48.

These images of a swarm of locusts are from the BBC's groundbreaking Planet Earth series in 2006.

And this footage comes from the brand new sequel to that program — this is Planet Earth 2.

You might notice the improvement in resolution from HD to Ultra-HD.

But another big change is that in Planet Earth 2, it's not just the grasshoppers that are moving.

The cameras are moving too.

These dynamic tracking shots are part of the reason why Planet Earth 2 is the BBC's most

cinematic wildlife film yet.

GUNTON: We know when we go to the cinema now the camera's never static. It's always on

the move, it's always on a steadicam, it's always on tracks, it's always flying.

And I think we wanted to reflect that in our approach. Not just because we wanted to

do homage to cinema but because the reason why cinema does that is because as soon as

you have that sense of moving camera it feels more immersive, it feels more connected.

Watching Planet Earth 2 feels a bit like watching a hollywood blockbuster.

You almost forget that these actors are hiding in remote corners of the globe

and they do not follow scripts.

The BBC's Natural History Unit in Bristol has been producing wildlife films for 60 years.

Their frequent presenter, sir David Attenborough, is most recognizable voice of the genre.

"This extraordinary creature is half blind, half deaf, and this is just about as fast

as it can move" And through the decades, they've continually

raised the bar for the look and feel of nature films, too.

That evolution, as we'll explore in this 3-part series, is in large part a story of technology.

The first big breakthrough was lightweight, 16mm film cameras.

NIGHTINGALE: If you remember, television began as a studio operation.

It just had ginormous video cameras that were larger than a person.

Then in the film industry, of course, that was all movies, and again, they were very,

very cumbersome.

There simply weren't cameras that you could take into the jungles and deserts and so on.

16mm cameras were portable, but they were controversial inside the BBC, seen as amateur

cameras, since 35mm film was the broadcast standard at the time.

But Attenborough insisted on the smaller cameras for his first trips overseas.

And sure enough, he came back with footage of animals that had never before been filmed,

like these Indri lemurs in Madagascar.

Fifty-six years later, filming the Indri means moving the camera around them and traveling

with them through the trees, but the technology they used to do this has only come around

in the past few years.

The issue is stabilization.

You can see the shaking in these rare handheld shots from the BBC's 1990 series The Trials of Life.

Aerial shots had the same problem.

And if they tried to zoom in, those bumps just got magnified.

Producers could achieve cinematic motion with cranes, dollies, and sliders where it was

practical to do so.

But for decades almost all the shots that weren't underwater involved a camera on

a tripod — panning, tilting and zooming to follow the action.

There's definitely no shortage of incredible animal behavior to film that way.

But it all changed around 2002. That's when BBC switched

from film to digital HD cameras for the Planet Earth series.

That switch gave them access to a tool called the Cineflex heligimbal, a stabilization system

for a helicopter-mounted camera.

The heligimbal delivered the smooth sweeping scenic shots that defined the epic look of that series.

But it also let them film individual animals from a kilometer up in the sky, and zoom way

in to follow them without the noise of the chopper scaring them off.

And that changed the way they could capture behaviors like hunting.

GUNTON: If you look at how people shot and edited hunting sequences, because of the nature

of where you had to put the camera, you could never get long continuous shots because you

would you get a shot on a tripod, the wolf would run off, you had to jump up and get

in the land rover, run across, put the tripod down and get another shot.

So it always had to be quite edited and quite constructed.

Compare that to the wolf hunt in Planet Earth.

GUNTON: Once that wolf started hunting you could just fly along, keep your distance and

in one shot, you just see how that drama played out.

And you just do not know what's gonna happen: is it gonna stumble, is gonna catch it, is

the little caribou gonna run away, is it gonna stumble?

It was so gripping because it was unmediated.

The Cineflex system required digital cameras because it separates the lens from the camera's

data storage, which at the time was digital video cassette tape.

You just can't do that with film.

The 400mm zoom lens is mounted inside a series of rings called a gimbal, that isolate it

from the movement of the helicopter, with the help of small sensors called gyroscopes.

Those sensors detect changes in orientation so that motors can correct for those movements

almost immediately.

So the camera operator can control the lens with a joystick inside the helicopter

and zoom in without losing any stability.

Ten years later, that stabilization technology comes in smaller, much more affordable forms.

It's embedded in drones, and built into rigs that you can hold in your hands.

And that technological change aligned perfectly with what the BBC wanted to do with Planet Earth 2.

GUNTON: We wanted to push the proximity, getting close to the animals because we wanted to see

the world's landscapes, our planet, through the animals' eyes.

Gyro-stabilized drones provided more intimate aerials,

and handheld shots showed what it feels like to really move through these habitats.

WHITE: I think we've gone for a much more emotional narrative in these.

It's much more trying to put you in their world and what would that animal be feeling.

Trying not to be anthropomorphic about it, but just sort of taking the viewer on a journey

where they can start to relate to how that animal might work in that world.

It's a slightly warmer, closer take on Planet Earth.

Hollywood filmmakers have been able to get stabilized walking shots for decades using

a Steadicam.

That's a bigger, more complicated rig that stabilizes the camera with balanced weights

and a spring-loaded arm attached to a vest that the operator wears.

Those long walk-and-talk shots that ER and The West Wing made famous,

those are all Steadicam shots.

The producers of Planet Earth 2 used Steadicams for a few sequences, like this footage of

a serval cat hunting in South Africa.

But it most cases Steadicams have been too cumbersome, expensive, or inflexible for shooting

in the wild.

Instead, the Planet Earth 2 team relied heavily on smaller handheld stabilizers.

Like the heligimbal, these rigs have gyroscopes that measure orientation along 3 axes and

motors that counteract those movements.

These rigs are so small and versatile they can often replace several other tools like

sliders and cranes.

WHITE: On some of the trips, like the trip to film the penguins, we took a crane with

us, we talked about taking sliders.

The reality is it didn't come out of the box.

Everything was done with a cameraman holding a camera on a gimbal.

In an environment like that, just to be able to move around quite freely, have a camera

that you can put down at penguin level but be able to pick up and get above the penguins

was just so useful.

Handheld stabilizers are most effective when you can get close to the animal, and a lot

of animals don't like that, so they'll never replace tripods.

Rather they add to the rapidly growing arsenal of tools becoming available not just to pros,

but to everyone, to be able to get shots that look like hollywood blockbusters.

But ultimately, what makes a movie great isn't just the pictures, it's the story.

The Natural History Unit's style has shifted over time from more educational to more cinematic,

but they haven't forgotten that.

GUNTON: The imagery of course is that first thing that catches the eye, catches the attention

but without the revelations the storytelling brings, in the end, it palls quite quickly.

So no technology will ever replace the ability to be able to tell a story that grips and

fascinates and emotionally connects with an audience.

Thank you for watching!

You can find Planet Earth 2 on BBC America.

It will be airing Saturdays through March 25th.

You can also find tons of clips from their archive on BBC Earth's mobile app.

It's called Story of Life and it's actually where I found a lot of the clips that I used

in this video.

And it's free!

So check it out.

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