I just watched a few episodes of "Whale Wars" today for the first time. I've seen it advertised and I've seen random snippets while passing through the TV room in the past. But that's it.
Today I sat down and was watching some of it and it was fairly interesting. I had no idea there was a real antagonist in the Japanese, with their "RESEARCH" boats, and all that.
I was surprised to see this jazzed up boat that looked like the Batmobile on water, the Ady Gil. I called my wife in to see it, but of course she watches all the shows on Animal Planet so she'd already seen it many times. I was just getting into it and its capabilities when it was completely destroyed, just like that. So I discovered it for the first time and saw it for the last time within the space of about two hours.
They made a big deal out of it, whether the Japanese boat deliberately rammed it or whether the Ady Gil was simply too close, which looked more likely to me. It seemed very ridiculous, that the crew of the Ady Gil was lounging around on the outside of their boat when this big enemy boat was coming right up next to it. I know they were low on fuel, but, please, you can't move the thing back 20 or 30 feet?
The situation just before that was ridiculous too. The Ady Gil was out, keeping track of the Japanese boat. Then when they were about out of fuel, the guys in the Whale Wars boats were going to leave them behind for three entire days (!), just to drift around. That's how pressed for time they were! I'm thinking, Three days?!
But they barely bobbed around for 10 minutes (on the show) before they were totally destroyed. Which meant the Whale Wars boat had to come back for them anyway, which could've been avoided all together if they'd just taken them away the first time. So I wasn't too impressed.
I was complaining to my wife that nothing much seemed to be happening in regards to protecting whales. It was all ship malfunctions, boats being destroyed, running out of fuel, a guy ruining a motor in the rocks, people complaining, etc., the helicopter being grounded, the oil being low, one thing after another, the Ady Gil captain trying to arrest the Japanese captain, then turning back after he was next to their ship, etc. My wife tends to stick up for all this stuff rather than being critical, which she did in this case too.
