In the interest of full disclosure, I have to confess that I've only been able to sit through three episodes over the last two years. I gave it a chance, it was crap. I gave it a second chance and, yup, still crap. A friend told me to try again but it was crap. From five minutes in, you just want the remote in your hand to stifle the stupidity and boredom, interlaced with watching stupid people do stupid things.
A college professor once told me that being ignorant is worse than being stupid. If you're stupid you don't know, but if you're ignorant you must have "ignored" the lesson. That is, you could have learned but chose not to. These people are ignorant.
Activists have a valid place in our world, and I do not dispute the Sea Shepards' right to raise money, sail boats to frigid waters, and protest. I do not even dispute their right to protest with potentially life threatening tactics. There are consequences to such protests, which make the news from time to time but are best remembered as Rosa Parks (who got arrested for sitting on the bus). These people just don't seem to understand.
A bunch of idiots who have no idea how to navigate or maintain a complex system like a ship remind me of the Children's Crusade in history class. Idealism is great, but these people risk no only their own individual lives, but their co-volunteers, on a daily basis. Do none of them see that? None of the "officers" of these ships have a clue how to lead, how to delegate properly, or even how to operate the ship. Each episode seemed to be made on a "best guess" theory of operations with an "at least we're trying" denouement. The comedy is unintentional; however welcome it comes about, because they're ignorant. Do these people not train at all?
Even the drama is false. The Japanese ship uses an acoustic device to defeat the anti-whalers? How rude! Did they actually think that the whalers were going to help them? They can't possibly think that the whalers were not going to respond to their interventionist protest, yet that's what they certainly appear to believe. Idiots. Cutting together three elitists I watched, I might get 10 minutes of compelling and interesting video. Out of one season, you might get a good two hour documentary. But episodic bumbling is not entertainment.
A college professor once told me that being ignorant is worse than being stupid. If you're stupid you don't know, but if you're ignorant you must have "ignored" the lesson. That is, you could have learned but chose not to. These people are ignorant.
Activists have a valid place in our world, and I do not dispute the Sea Shepards' right to raise money, sail boats to frigid waters, and protest. I do not even dispute their right to protest with potentially life threatening tactics. There are consequences to such protests, which make the news from time to time but are best remembered as Rosa Parks (who got arrested for sitting on the bus). These people just don't seem to understand.
A bunch of idiots who have no idea how to navigate or maintain a complex system like a ship remind me of the Children's Crusade in history class. Idealism is great, but these people risk no only their own individual lives, but their co-volunteers, on a daily basis. Do none of them see that? None of the "officers" of these ships have a clue how to lead, how to delegate properly, or even how to operate the ship. Each episode seemed to be made on a "best guess" theory of operations with an "at least we're trying" denouement. The comedy is unintentional; however welcome it comes about, because they're ignorant. Do these people not train at all?
Even the drama is false. The Japanese ship uses an acoustic device to defeat the anti-whalers? How rude! Did they actually think that the whalers were going to help them? They can't possibly think that the whalers were not going to respond to their interventionist protest, yet that's what they certainly appear to believe. Idiots. Cutting together three elitists I watched, I might get 10 minutes of compelling and interesting video. Out of one season, you might get a good two hour documentary. But episodic bumbling is not entertainment.