{"id":9544,"date":"2014-09-19T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:56:52","slug":"walking-with-dinosaurs-keeps-dinosaur-awe-alive-and-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/09\/19\/walking-with-dinosaurs-keeps-dinosaur-awe-alive-and-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with Dinosaurs<\/em> keeps dinosaur awe alive and well"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I would leave Walking with Dinosaurs<\/em>\u00a0having had some kind of epiphany, some Earth-shattering moment of clarity. And it was frustrating, because every time I would almost get there, the show’s narrator would make a bad joke and I’d be brought back to reality. But first, here’s what was amazing about the show: the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

Along with everyone else at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, I was transfixed when the dinosaurs were wandering around. The craftsmanship put into these were amazing. The skin… I wanted to touch the skin so bad. These things look incredible.<\/p>\n

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Walking with Dinosaurs<\/em> brings back everyone’s childhood awe at the magnificent creatures (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And the movements are even more amazing. This event is a pretty once-in-a-lifetime thing; how often do you get to see in person what a dinosaur may have actually looked like in motion? Phenomenal.<\/p>\n

What wasn’t phenomenal was the aforementioned narration. Now, call me a stick in the mud, but the breathtaking dinosaurs and the hugeness of what we were experiencing deserves more than eye-rolling jokes about hungry uncles and scaly politicians. This show would benefit way more from a serious tone and an upswing of drama. I only got goosebumps once (the entry of the t-rex is, in a word, awesome), and I wanted to be covered for the entire show.<\/p>\n

I had questions: The advertisements outside the arena showed a pterodactyl, which I anxiously awaited for; did he take a wrong turn at Ogden Point? Why would there be an 20-minute intermission in a show that is only approximately 80 minutes? Fine by me, but it seemed to really kill the momentum of the event, which was just starting to pick up.<\/p>\n

But, man, the dinosaurs. Despite its storytelling and delivery shortcomings, the behemoths we were all there to see delivered. And, mission accomplished: I found myself drifting off to sleep last night in complete awe of the fact that these things actually once walked the Earth. You get desensitized to it after a while, but a show like this helps keep their legacy, and our awe, alive. And somehow, as I was walking to work this morning, still thinking about what it would be like if a dinosaur just appeared from behind a house or around a corner, keeping that awe alive struck me as being of such extreme importance I could barely comprehend it. So, cheers to the crew of this show for doing just that.<\/p>\n

The event, which also runs at the arena this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 7 pm each night, is worth it to rekindle everyone’s sense of childlike wonder at such magnificent, beautiful, and awe-inspiring creatures.<\/p>\n

Plus, there’s a funny dino-poop bit that had everyone laughing out loud. Some humour always works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I would leave Walking with Dinosaurs\u00a0having had some kind of epiphany, some Earth-shattering moment of clarity. And it was frustrating, because every time I would almost get there, the show’s narrator would make a bad joke and I’d be brought back to reality. But first, here’s what was amazing about the show: the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t