History YMMV / WalkingWithMonsters

* MemeticMutation: The "Tribute to Anomalocaris" video, which featured several stills of the titular creature from the first episode, became a meme owing to its perfect encapsulation of 2008 [=YouTube=], comprising entirely of a slideshow of random Anomalocaris images taken from Google to [[SoundtrackDissonance Wake Me Up Inside by Evanescence]].

* DesignatedVillain: The arthropods. Whereas predators in other instalments are portrayed as {{Non Malicious Monster}}s who are only villains because we see things from the perspective of their prey (or aren't villains at all, in some cases), the narrator in ''Monsters'' paints the predators of human ancestors as though they're [[PrehistoricMonster vicious, evil, malevolent brutes who are waging some kind of "war on vertebrates".]] This is even though, like the "villains" of ''Dinosaurs'' and ''Beasts'', the arthropods are just regular animals doing what they have to do to survive.

* NightmareFuel: The series as a whole can strike this chord for some; it's noticeably DarkerAndEdgier compared with ''Beasts'' and ''Dinosaurs'' and makes free use of AnyoneCanDie. That combined with the surreal nature of most of the animals involved can make the series feel almost like an elongated nightmare.
* {{Sequelitis}}: This installment is less well-regarded compared to ''Dinosaurs'' and ''Beasts'' due to the looser accuracy, more sensationalist tone, and being much shorter (having only three episodes instead of six), meaning the narratives of each segment are much more poorly developed.

** Several of the arthropod characters are assigned more mammalian sound effects to accentuate their monstrousness to the audience; most notably, ''Brontoscorpio'', in its introductory scene, is heard faintly growling and snapping similarly to a rabid dog.

** Ironically, the villain of the third sequence, the giant ''Hyneria'', was actually part of our ancestry. Not all human ancestors were weak.

** The sensationalist narration in the first two episodes continuously presenting vertebrates (typically described as "our ancestors") and arthropods as two rival factions warring for "dominance" of the earth for hundreds of millions of years is pretty cheesy, as is the rather "X-treme" introduction and data cards at the start of each segment, giving the series a decidedly pulpier tone than its predecessors. The shot of the Mesothelae spider practically ''[[EvilIsHammy cackling in malicious glee'']]'' as she creeps up on a nest of hatchling ''Petrolacosaurus'' and dramatically raises her fangs over them may well be the cherry on top, made even better by the accompaniment of Branagh's LargeHam narration proclaiming that "[[MundaneMadeAwesome THE ARTHROPODS ARE BACK!]]". As well, many comparisons are made to modern objects like cars and trucks, which were far less common in the two preceding series.

** The sensationalist narration in the first two episodes continuously presenting vertebrates (typically described as "our ancestors") and arthropods as two rival factions warring for "dominance" of the earth for hundreds of millions of years is pretty cheesy, as is the rather "X-treme" introduction and data cards at the start of each segment, giving the series a decidedly pulpier tone than its predecessors. The shot of the Mesothelae spider practically [[EvilIsHammy ''cackling in malicious glee'']] as she creeps up on a nest of hatchling ''Petrolacosaurus'' and dramatically raises her fangs over them may well be the cherry on top, made even better by the accompaniment of Branagh's LargeHam narration proclaiming that "[[MundaneMadeAwesome THE ARTHROPODS ARE BACK!]]". As well, many comparisons are made to modern objects like cars and trucks, which were far less common in the two preceding series.

** The sensationalist narration in the first two episodes continuously presenting vertebrates (typically described as "our ancestors") and arthropods as two rival factions warring for "dominance" of the earth for hundreds of millions of years is pretty cheesy, as is the rather "X-treme" introduction and data cards at the start of each segment, giving the series a decidedly pulpier tone than its predecessors. The shot of the Mesothelae spider practically ''cackling in malicious glee'' as she creeps up on a nest of hatchling ''Petrolacosaurus'' and dramatically raises her fangs over them may well be the cherry on top, made even better by the accompaniment of Branagh's LargeHam narration proclaiming that "[[MundaneMadeAwesome THE ARTHROPODS ARE BACK!]]". As well, many comparisons are made to modern objects like cars and trucks, which were far less common in the two preceding series.

** The sensationalist narration in the first two episodes continuously presenting vertebrates (typically described as "our ancestors") and arthropods as two factions warring for "dominance" of the earth for hundreds of millions of years is pretty cheesy, as is the rather "X-treme" introduction and data cards at the start of each segment, giving the series a decidedly pulpier tone than its predecessors. The shot of the Mesothelae spider practically ''cackling in malicious glee'' as she creeps up on a nest of hatchling ''Petrolacosaurus'' and dramatically raises her fangs over them may well be the cherry on top, made even better by the accompaniment of Branagh's LargeHam narration proclaiming that "[[MundaneMadeAwesome THE ARTHROPODS ARE BACK!]]". As well, many comparisons are made to modern objects like cars and trucks, which were far less common in the two preceding series.

** The sensationalist narration making it seem like we are at war with other creatures is pretty cheesy, as is the rather "X-treme" introduction and data cards at the start of each segement. The shot of the Mesothelae spider practically ''cackling in malicious glee'' as she creeps up on a nest of hatchling ''Petrolacosaurus'' may well be the cherry on top, made even better by the accompaniment of Branagh's LargeHam narration proclaiming that "[[MundaneMadeAwesome THE ARTHROPODS ARE BACK!]]". As well, many comparisons are made to modern objects like cars and trucks, which were far less common in the two preceding series.

** The sensationalist narration making it seem like we are at war with other creatures is pretty cheesy, as is the rather "X-treme" introduction and data cards at the start of each segement. The shot of the Mesothelae spider practically ''cackling in malicious glee'' as it creeps up on a nest of hatchling ''Petrolacosaurus'' may well be the cherry on top, made even better by the accompaniment of Branagh's LargeHam narration proclaiming that "[[MundaneMadeAwesome THE ARTHROPODS ARE BACK!]]". As well, many comparisons are made to modern objects like cars and trucks, which were far less common in the two preceding series.

* ContestedSequel: While it still has its fans, ''Monsters'' likely has the most polarizing reception of any entry in the ''Walking with...'' quadrilogy - largely owing to its less naturalistic and more heavily sensationalized portrayal of its subjects.

* ContestedSequel: While it still has its fans, ''Monsters'' likely has the most polarizing reception of any entry in the ''Walking with...'' quadrilogy due to its less naturalistic and more heavily sensationalized portrayal of its subjects.