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Man & Beast with Martin Clunes (2015)
Offensive Rationalization
This is a strange look at how man uses animals seen through the lens of his own excuses. While Martin Clunes proposes to love animals, he gives an extended rationalization for his own raising of sheep and beef for money, followed by lots of footage of butchered animal parts. He claims that his animals have an agreement with him; he will take care of them, then kill them, so it's OK. I wonder how many of his animals have read that contract. It seems to make the actor feel good, but it does not fly.
This film is simply about man's excuses to exploit and use animals, but it's odd, given that the section about the Hindus and their cows clearly shows another way to symbiotically relate to our fellow-creatures.
Mr.Clunes seems to see no contradiction between presenting circus animals,monkeys tied to ropes for gathering coconuts, elephants at the service to handlers, and beef cattle and sheep on their way to slaughter, while at the same time talking about the beauty of such animals and how much.he loves them.
I don't understand this hypocrisy, and have lost respect for Mr.Clunes, for Mr. Clunes doesn't have a clue.
Doc Martin: The Admirer (2007)
Terrible; gross and cruel.
This episode killed the series for me. The entire tone was out of joint with the characters developed earlier. Besides the gross old woman/grandson-aged sex thing (and I'm seventy-one), there was the utter cruelty of Doc accidentally killing the dog and carrying its poor newspaper wrapped body around a party, then verbally accosting its shocked and stricken owner, telling her she had to pay to bury it.
Previousy,the only salvation for Doc's character was the viewer's belief that, despite his rude and obnoxious behavior,deep down,Doc cares about Life. Louisa was cast as a bodavista who shows and teaches him compassion.
Not so. Doc is almost sadistic, and the expected compassion one expects from Louisa is absent; she's just glad to get her man back,the hell with the dog and her rival, the grieving woman who loved it.
This episode reveals the true coldness of the two main characters and thus destroys the premise of the series; it must have been written by someone who never bothered to familiarize himself with the program. I will find some show that bothers to be consistent.