Zoo new TV show

[gothprincesskiara]

Hey what do you think of this show I got mixed feelings about it, but mostly I got a bad feeling about it, I want to see what its like but I think it will show a bad example when it comes to respecting Wildlife, I need some opinion before I start watching it this Tuesday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(TV_series)

[Milla]

I never heard of this TV show or story, but to know if it is being good or bad to wildlife you will have read the story. I'd like to watch it too, but sadly I have no English channels. I think you should read about the story and the reviews before watching the series. I hope I helped you!

[gothprincesskiara]

I read it but it still doesnt answer my questions as to getting a message across to people about are we humans the killers or are the Animals the killers in real life, cause to this show os saying oh look Animals kill humans for sport, that means they are bad and should be wiped off the face of the planet. thats my worry

[Carl]

That's not what the article said. It said:

[quote]Violent animal attacks upon humans are occurring all over the world. Jackson Oz, an American zoologist who offers safaris in Africa, begins to notice the animals' strange behavior and takes it upon himself to solve the reason why before these attacks become more coordinated and ferocious.[/quote]

It sounds like this Jackson Oz fellow understands that animals don't usually attack people like this (it also doesn't say anything about people being killed, it's possible to survive animal attacks) and is trying to figure out the reason behind it and stop it. It refers to the attacks as "strange behavior" which means they are acknowledging that animals don't usually act that way. This doesn't sound like it's trying to paint animals as vicious killers, and it doesn't say anything about them killing humans for sport.

It sounds like something is causing the behavior and this scientist is trying to fix it to stop it from getting worse. Sounds like he's trying to save humans and the animals.

[Milla]

ATTENTION!!!!

I read something important here about Zoo: http://bit.ly/1CKwwaH

In the show they use real wild animals, they forced a Lion cub to do a scene even though he was tired and sleepy
I will not support a show that uses real wild animals.
I don't know if you still want to watch it, but I will not. I want to see wild animals in the wild not in cages and surrounded by people and cameras.
They should make the wild animals with really good and realistic CGI animation, not actual ones.

[TheLionPrince]

SPOILERS BELOW! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

I first heard about the show during the commercial breaks of The Price is Right, and it caught my interest. About four episodes in, Zoo is garnering a mixed positive reaction from me since the episode keeps getting ridiculous episode after episode. Based on the book by James Patterson, the show is about Jackson Oz and his safari tour guide friend, Abraham, who notices strange behaviors from the African lions and it leads up to discovering his late father's research on animal behavior that ridiculed him years ago. Meanwhile, an ambitious, former news reporter named Jaime Campbell teams up with scientist Mitch Morgan to discover the roots of the strange animal behavior, as she wants to tie the behavior with the evil corporation using pesticides to feed the cows, which are fed to the lions in the zoo.

What's wrong is that some of the animal attacks are ridiculous. In the pilot episode, lions climb in a tree to attract Oz and the others to Abraham's locations. It's implied the lions used his cellphone, and some of the lions were in the trees. No way can a tree maintain a lion's weight. In episode 3, a pack of wolves attack prison guards, correctional officers, and prison inmates. First off, some of those wolves shouldn't have been able to penetrate the prison since outdoor police guards have guns to protect themselves. In episode 4, bats are targeting a solar-powered base in Antarctica to pressure the two women to release their birds, and knock out their power. Bats are unable to survive the cold climate in Antarctica let alone travel there, and the solar panels should have powered the base for a number of days regardless. Maybe, that's the premise of the show that the animals are acting outside of their natural ways.

The few good things about it is that they are using real animals instead of computer-generated ones, much of it has been protested by animal right groups. The actors are okay with their roles, but the clunky, unrealistic stories does them no favors.

To be continued...

[FireAndSun]

The premise alone sounds ridiculous. Apparently both the show and the novel it's based off of both got mixed reviews. That doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

[gothprincesskiara]

yeah you know I keep watching it and yet I totally agree with you on this LionPrince, and yet Im just not as hooked on it as I thought I would be, I am just so hesitant to continue watching it, especially for someone like me who knows alot about animals and have been taking Biology and want to go into animal conservation, I cant follow my conscious on this one. im just not entertained by all the nonsense in it.