OK -- Rant ON. So, I'm watching the Mutant Planet show about the Australian animals -- marsupials specifically. Now, I am well aware that Mother Nature is a very mean entity and kills stuff off at a prodigious rate. But WHY do the TV Twits feel it is necessary to follow a mama 'roo and her joey around during the drought and then give us close ups of that poor little thing succumbing to the lack of water and laying down to die?? I have NO PROBLEM with showing us the body once it has gone to the other side, no problem with the huge lizard who is out searching for the dead little joey. I DO have a HUGE problem with having to see the poor little creature lay down to die! They could have stopped with the shot of the mom & joey looking all emaciated and weak and then just TOLD us the joey didn't make it and then showing us the mom bouncing off into the sunset on her further search for water! But NO WAY, they had to spend the whole damned show following the mom & joey all over the outback looking and looking for water, telling us how wonderful the survival strategies were for living with the lack of water, etc. THEN they show us the poor little creature lay down and die!!!! What stupid people! I won't watch the show again if that's the way they are going to present stuff! I KNOW all about animals dying, I have no problem with educating children about what happens to wild animals and domestic ones too. But I draw the line at having to watch some poor creature lay down to die! I have to sit with my own babies when they make that last journey to the Rainbow Bridge -- I certainly don't want to spend my free time watching wild animals do it! STUPID, stupid telly people IMNSHO!!! Rant Off
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