Urm, alright, I'm watching it now. I can tell you right now that the narration is a problematic translation (from the original Japanese?), and often out of synch with the images. Guess the translators didn't get the different ways "ika" can be modified...
Holy cow...amazing footage of sperm whales eating giant squid at the surface...I've been waiting for that stuff for years, too
What? Man in boat attacked by huge squid? No ID, no information or translation of what the man says? Did they only have a Japanese translator? (The fellow looks Northern European)
What?! That's got to be a Mesonychoteuthis club Steve pulls out of the bottle...no clue about it in the narrator's voice-over...
Ah, there you are, Steve...Did you appear in the Japanese version? If so, what did the Japanese translator do to
you?
WHAT?! That's got to be animation from the elusive "Animal Face-Off" showing a colossal squid fighting back against a sperm whale...hence the photophoric strobing...again, no word in the narration about it being a totally different kind of squid...
And those had to have been Messie beaks they were sorting in a tray...wait, that wasn't Kat, was it? No, not the beaks, I just caught a glimpse of a young woman with an American accent and hair that wasn't black and pointy...
Oh, here we go...here comes the severed tentacle (called "part of an arm," eh)...Wow. Wow. Video of moving, gripping Architeuthis tentacle, that's a remarkable sight. Thank goodness they had a camcorder on the boat, at least...
Damn, the full sequence of still photos is stunning, absolutely stunning...squid really stretches his arms out wide, and if those were the eyes they were opened very wide, too.
Steve, did you cut your hair with a weed-whacker again?
More Messie CGI. Why does it sound like a dog's squeak toy?
Like what you have to say at the end, there, Steve. Such good-will between scientists is nice to see.
If the aim of this program was to get Japanese folks revved up about the potential for further exploration and research (and kick in some cash), then it must have done rather well, but the English narration isn't very good and is sometimes almost perversely uninformative. TONMO folks who've been following this story will get more out of it than most, I think, but the footage is fantastic and should spark some general interest, here, too.
Oh, and were those Messie's beak-marks in that whales snoot?
Clem