TV - wild horses of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Dave's Mam said:
Red appeared to be bay to me, but now I'm seeing a very strong dorsal stripe. Is he dun?
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Yeah, I'd call that red dun. Might be ND1 like my mare, but the dorsal stripe would be fuzzier on ND1. Looked pretty solid on the shots I saw.

I liked it, but I was hoping it would be more concentrated on the horses, rather than Gordon's feelings and his personal journey. It wasn't nearly as good as a doc about mustangs in Utah or Western CO or somewhere like that, which completely focuses on the horses and their little Eastender social lives rather than the filmmaker herself. She followed one horse for years, from foal to band stallion, and the focus of her film is the horses and their drama and their interactions. She positions herself as just the narrator, and the woman with the camera, but the story isn't about her experience; it's theirs.

Highlining is common for horse camping in the US and Canada, and I am 98.999% sure that he wasn't completely alone, camping in grizzly/wolf country with only the horse for company. Because you'd be an idiot to do that, and for a BBC thing, I doubt anyone would be allowed to be that much of an idiot.
 
Caol Ila said:
Yeah, I'd call that red dun. Might be ND1 like my mare, but the dorsal stripe would be fuzzier on ND1. Looked pretty solid on the shots I saw.

I liked it, but I was hoping it would be more concentrated on the horses, rather than Gordon's feelings and his personal journey. It wasn't nearly as good as a doc about mustangs in Utah or Western CO or somewhere like that, which completely focuses on the horses and their little Eastender social lives rather than the filmmaker herself. She followed one horse for years, from foal to band stallion, and the focus of her film is the horses and their drama and their interactions. She positions herself as just the narrator, and the woman with the camera, but the story isn't about her experience; it's theirs.

Highlining is common for horse camping in the US and Canada, and I am 98.999% sure that he wasn't completely alone, camping in grizzly/wolf country with only the horse for company. Because you'd be an idiot to do that, and for a BBC thing, I doubt anyone would be allowed to be that much of an idiot.
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How could I find the doc you said was better, sounds like it would be very interesting
 
Caol Ila said:
I liked it, but I was hoping it would be more concentrated on the horses, rather than Gordon's feelings and his personal journey.
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He's done a whole series of "....and me", including one on tribal peoples and how they deal with fauna that wants to kill them. I like his personal slant, though perhaps this equine one was the most personal/autobiographical so far. I think it's just different to a regular nature documentary, but completely see why you might want more focus on the horses ☺️
 
sbloom said:
I think it's just different to a regular nature documentary
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Exactly, he comes across as being a very genuine person so I enjoyed the show for what it was. Equally, if he ever went back he could probably get a whole feature length documentary out of that wider herd and the landscape they live in - I'd watch that too!
 
sbloom said:
He's done a whole series of "....and me", including one on tribal peoples and how they deal with fauna that wants to kill them. I like his personal slant, though perhaps this equine one was the most personal/autobiographical so far. I think it's just different to a regular nature documentary, but completely see why you might want more focus on the horses ☺️
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Yeah. I don’t know him from a hole in the ground (I don’t watch enough TV), so was a bit like, “okay, you patted a wild foal. Good on you. Cool?”

I definitely prefer docs that are more about the critters being filmed than the presenter’s personal journey of enlightenment.
 
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