whale wars

[bkfount]

Anyone happen to browse to this while skimming channels?

this show is intended to be an eco-terrorist sympathy campaign, but it turns out to be pure comedy. They virtually suck *** at everything they attempt. They even staged an antrax scare to build some street cred.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I like it the show. Interesting to see them at work even if they do suck. Paul is the main problem really.

I really wouldn't call them eco-terrorist. They could very easily just blow the ships up instead of just using their chemicals and trying to disable them with ropes.

I really can't say I'm against whaling because it's no worse then fishing or any other animal hunting, but the fact that I know they are doing it for food when it is illegal and the Japanese say it's for "research" makes me root for the Sea Shepards.

[superjames1992]

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I really wouldn't call them eco-terrorist.

According to the FBI, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an eco-terrorist organization.

They could very easily just blow the ships up instead of just using their chemicals and trying to disable them with ropes.

They could do that, but then they'd have to face the wrath of the military and would either be killed or arrested and thrown in jail.

The show sounds interesting and I'll have to try to catch it on Animal Planet sometime.

[ImTellinTim]

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I don't plan on watching this show. From what I've gathered from these first couple of posts and the trailers, what they are trying to do seems to me like PETA, which I despise (not so much their message, but some of their ridiculous methods and stunts). They use over-the-top antics in order to push their views. That just turns me off from their message, which I probably would (mostly) agree with.

[bkfount]

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I really can't say I'm against whaling because it's no worse then fishing or any other animal hunting, but the fact that I know they are doing it for food when it is illegal and the Japanese say it's for "research" makes me root for the Sea Shepards.

well the Japanese are targeting a specific type of whale in Antarctica, one with numbers estimated at least around 500,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Minke_Whale

The 900 whale quota won't put a dent in the overall numbers. Even hundreds of years of whaling at that rate would never wipe out the species. Whaling isn't even a the highest percentage of non natural whale deaths. The WWF says that belongs to shipping vessels striking whales in the open ocean.

Their cause has little impact on overall whale population, but you'd at least expect them to be good at what they do. Their blunders and epic failures in the episodes I've seen make their organization an unorganized joke. It's funny to watch how these kind of groups operate.

[trobinson97]

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Yes, comedy is a good way to describe this show.

[ImTellinTim]

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Yes, comedy is a good way to describe this show.

Hm, maybe I will give it a chance then. Nothing is funnier to me than unintentional comedy.

[bkfount]

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Hm, maybe I will give it a chance then. Nothing is funnier to me than unintentional comedy.

well the last episode they were hyping up some secret technology. It was supposed to be a stronger than steel rope that tangles up around the propellers of the whaling ship and seized the engines, stranding them in the middle of the antarctic ocean. They even decided to make "Tora Tora Tora", from Pearl Harbor fame, the secret code for launching this devious plan.

I was like, alright, this is a nice little plan here. The amount of fail they displayed executing it makes me wonder why they even show stuff like this. They've even almost killed some of their crew while deploying their little ships while moving at full speed. It certainly doesn't make them look good at all, and it's actually funny to watch this show just for their failures.

[snepp]

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I miss the "first mate" that left the ship. What a load of epic fail he was.

How can you be piloting a ship through icebergs (or anywhere for that matter) and not know compass headings?

That was golden, and painful to watch at the same time.

They can't do anything right.

[ImTellinTim]

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I just watched a clip where they threw down something that was supposed to foul up the props. The whaling ship just stops and goes "yoink, that's ours" and takes it out of the water with a hook.

Is that what you were referring to, bk?

[p_rushing]

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I was hoping this was a show about which whales would win in a fight. Like the show where they had different animals fight using computer generated graphics.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I just watched a clip where they threw down something that was supposed to foul up the props. The whaling ship just stops and goes "yoink, that's ours" and takes it out of the water with a hook.

Is that what you were referring to, bk?

Yes, it was the most epic of fails.

First, they release it was to soon and the big boat just turned and avoided it. Then they successfully deployed it, but the boats prop just tore it in half. That is when the japanese boat stopped and picked it up.

I am betting there won't be another season. The Japanese now have LRADs, they have nets around their boat, and the dutch government has banned the sea shepard from throwing stuff from the actual ship. They have to use smaller deployed boats.

[BengalTiger]

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i watched this show for the first time last night. What a joke these fools are.

So let me see if i got this right. The Japanese fleet is legally killing whales for "research" and these bozo's are using illegal methods to try to stop them, so Animal Planet feels the need to produce a show glorifying the illegal activities of the Eco Terrorists? So they drive around throwing stink bombs and trying to disable the Japanese boats, but then the Japanese use their LRAD and these losers are like "Hey, that's not fair!" lol nice double standard. Here's a tip for the Japanese. EMP Electromagnetic Pulse. Fry all their electronic gear, game over.

Lol good job APL, way to have your priorities straight. I hunt and fish, so animal death doesn't bother me, as long as a species isn't hunted or fished to the point of extinction. But I dislike groups that put animal life in front of human life. What do these idiots eat? Are they all Vegans or something?

[Cebby]

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Lol good job APL, way to have your priorities straight. I hunt and fish, so animal death doesn't bother me, as long as a species isn't hunted or fished to the point of extinction. But I dislike groups that put animal life in front of human life. What do these idiots eat? Are they all Vegans or something?

Who knows?

I hate when vegetarians neglect to look at the feelings of the plants.

Apparently they have never heard the cries of the carrots.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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It's getting pretty pathetic now. I too only watch for the comedy factor.

They get so pissed when the japanese retaliast in any way shape or form. Next year they need prop fowlers made out of steel cable not crappy rope.