Vee: Jaime and I have been watching BBC Earth series, as narrated by a soothing British man.
It may as well be called "Everything Dies", though, because that's what happens. Every time.
We've started laying bets on how far into each episode we'll get before some animal is shown gasping out its last strangled breaths in graphic HD detail.
What I've learned from this is simple: if you go outside the city, you will DIE.
The weather, the terrain, the animals, the bugs, the air itself, is trying to KILL YOU ALL THE TIME.
And here I thought gun violence was a huge issue.
No way, man.
I'll take those shady gangs over dingos any day... LURKING AROUND, waiting for me to get tired or trip or go to sleep so they can start trying to eat me from the feet up.
At least thugs have the decency to come at you direct and shoot you in the neck.
Jaime: The thing that frustrates me about BBC Earth is how the show seems to focus on the stereotypically rare or exotic animals and locations, which have been documented and filmed so many times that they've become a cliche of nature shows.
I never need to see a shot of wildebeest being snatched from the riverbank by an alligator again, I've been watching that happen on television since I was a child.
Why not talk about urban animals? The role of algae? The history of cows! Just anything but sharks, lions, crocodiles and goddamn panda bears...
