The Great Sperm Race

[Don]

The Great Sperm Race.

Watched this on Anytime TV last night.

It was st.

It had one good idea - to show the scale of sperm to female reproductive organs and the the egg at human size. Which it then proceeded to do for about 80% of the show (I won't call it a documentary).

Documentaries these days are often so st. They spend the first five minutes summarising everything they will tell you before dumbing down the whole thing for the next fifty five. Mostly you only need to see the first five minutes and then you might as well turn over.

This was the case with the above piece of dross.

Do not watch it - if you value your life.

[Don]

escargot said:

I thought it was ok actually. It really did give a sense of scale and how difficult a task it is for the little soldiers.

Yes. But it did that in the first few minutes. Then it kept on going for the best part of an hour until I switched it off aghast.

CGI'd vistas of the Canadian Rockies (or some such location) with people in white overalls running around. FFS.

Did you watch the end? Did they actually describe meiosis and mitosis properly? I got terminally bored at the "Sperm Heaven" stage...

[Don]

escargot said:

Yep I saw the end, it was a bit of an anti-climax. Which interestingly, is precisely what the missus usually says.

[Don]

Hyperion said:

It did raise some questions...
How long do those Sperm who are on standby live for?
Does the body flush them out every so often or do they just live forever until 'released'?

If sperm remain unreleased overlong blokes normal expel them in their sleep. Which is fecking inconvenient. Which is how come...