David Attenborough brings this rather mundane offering to life with his boyish curiousity over even the most plain looking rocks. For those of us who are curious about the origins of life on planet Earth this documentary is greatly educational, but it also lacks a real spark of drama that makes it seem more fitted to a school classroom than on any other screen. I appreciate the different direction Attenborough took in creating this, as it serves as a good entry point into learning about the first planetary species and how they evolved and coped with the world at that point in time. It's not the most vsiaully exciting material, but it is well made and backed by lots of research and of course the Attenborough Effect, which is the phenomen I describe as being enchanted by everything David Attenborough describes.
