Life After People: The Series--The Complete Season One
by David de Vries
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Director: David de VriesBrand: A and E Home Video
Performer: Struan Rodger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 470 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
Product features:
- LIFE AFTER PEOPLE: SEASON 1 (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of Life After People: The Series--The Complete Season One
DVD Review: Educational and entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
After enjoying the first show of Life after People as well as National Geographic's 'Aftermath: population Zero') I was naturally excited about this DVD. If you enjoyed the previous releases of LAP or APZ, then this DVD collection should be great for you. I already have the DVDs to APZ and the original LAP.
Each episode in this series has a different theme, but sometimes the episodes deviate from these themes to concentrate on other things, which disappointed me because the original subject was then given scanty detail. For example, the episode 'Heavy Metal' told us what happened to the gold bars in the Reserve vault belowground... BUT what about the gold in Fort Knox, the gold on the surface remaining as jewelry and ingots, the gold used in paint and decorations, and what of silver, platinum, mercury, lead, etc? It would have been much better if each episode stuck entirely to what it was supposed to be about instead of wandering off into another subject and putting in more collapsing buildings (after a while, it does get old). Some episodes were more faithful to this concept than others.
001 - The Bodies Left Behind - about man's pursuit of immortality and what happens to our attempts at it (frozen sperm and ova along with embryos and cryogenically frozen bodies) as well as some of mankind's treasures. Cons - not enough about the frozen tissue samples (what happens to the vaults and vats that guard these specimen? The failure of the containers is something I wanted to see along with the failure of electricity to keep things cold) and what happens to people who died within a week before LAP and are now laying in funeral homes? I was disappointed they didn't touch on that. How long would an embalmed body last vs an unembalmed one? Or bodies and medical waste in hospitals as well as cadavers?
002 - Outbreak - A very disappointing one for me. Barely anything is said about all the animals left behind despite the title. The Queen of England's corgis were the spotlight. I have nothing against corgis, but as this episode was SUPPOSED to be about animals breaking out, why not show the struggles of household, zoo, and laboratory animals alike, instead of just the Queen's cute dogs?
003 - Capital Threat - About what happens to our nation's treasures like the Constitution and the Memorials in DC.
004 - Heavy Metal - See my complaints above. Aside gold, all metal mentioned here was for architecture like iron and steel.
005 - Invaders - Overall a highly enjoyable episode about non-native species and the havoc they would wreak without humans to keep their populations under control, along with two cities struggling against the elements that slowly invade them.
006 - Bound and Buried - Not a bad episode, but not one of the best ones either. Various treasures like the Declaration of Independence and the Mona Lisa.
007 - Sin City Meltdown - What happens to Las Vegas and Atlantic City due to sand, wind, and water. Overall a fun episode, though I have one nitpick. In the original 90-min LAP, it was said that Las Vegas would be powered for about a year due to the hydroelectric power from the Hoover Dam, bur in this episode, Las Vegas loses power within a week.
008 - Armed and Defenseless - Another very disappointing episode. It didn't even really focus on weapons that much. There was a whole bunch of stuff about dairy cows (Cows are discussed a couple of times in other episodes, making this unnecessary) and weapons really weren't discussed that much. We got two ships (both long decommissioned), some nuclear missiles, retired planes and not much else. Nothing was discussed of smaller-range weapons like handheld guns or rifles, regular bombs, or the buildings concerned with the safety of our country (Pentagon, for example). Other things that could have been discussed were tanks and planes still on active duty (with no white coat to protect them), aircraft carriers, machine guns, West Point Academy, the badges and decorations to be found on military uniforms and so on and so forth. Overall a useless episode, much like Outbreak.
009 - Road to Nowhere - overall a good episode with a fitting title for its subject matter (cars and roads). Detroit (rather appropriately) is discussed here.
010 - Waters of Death - Damaging effects of water, New Orleans and Seattle are discussed here as well as Dubai (but not much) This episode would have benefited from discussion of other water-cities like Venice and Amsterdam.
As you can see, some episodes were better than others. I was terribly disappointed in Outbreak and Armed. Others, like 'Waters of Death' were more focused on the subject at hand and therefore more enjoyable. This episode was especially poignant for me because I have been to the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans in 2001 and since I love water and aquariums, this place was heaven to me. This episode discussed what would happen to the aquarium after people - and the fact that it already happened (in 2005, after Katrina) Thinking about the deaths of all these critters I saw there due to Katrina was very painful.
Having loved the original LAP as well as APZ, I found this documentary to be thrilling but repetitive in certain parts. In each episode, you have more and more collapsing buildings, which get old after a while, especially when most of them seem to collapse in just about the same way. This season would have been perfect if the theme of each episode was more closely adhered to, with more variety in subject and less collapsing buildings - we get the idea. Rust, water, wind, plants, vermin, etc will make the buildings collapse and so on and so forth. A wider range of research and more focus on smaller artifacts would have benefited this film greatly. I'd have liked to see what happened to smaller items like computers, cellphones, TVs, toys, clothing (hopefully these will be explored more in Season 2). Still, this is an entertaining series, and deserves a solid 4/5 stars.
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