Ithought it started off pretty good actually. I kinda tried to watch from a novice, non-snake person’s perspective and they had some very good infomation initially. Watching the park rangers work as they were tracking the snakes via transmitters was interesting to watch, as were the other snake trackers & hunters. I was very surprised they actually showed biologists running experiments where they exposed young Burms to various amounts of clean, brackish, and salt water and they showed that the snakes exposed to higher salt levels in their water died. I didn’t think they would show them actually killing a snake for scientific purposes but they did? Not that I am happy to see a snake die, but it is good to show people the reality of things.

What I did not like was the way they sensationalized things to scare the folks watching. They would portray the Burms as potentially spreading across Florida and the lower third of the US and into populated areas and they have to have a picture of a big snake crawling towards a house at night with the people inside. This was done only to scare people watching and was pathetic. I also didn’t appreciate that the didn’t take time to interview someone respectable in the trade like a Brian B. or Tom Crutchfield and show how a responsible operation is ran. They also didnt bother to interview any responsible snake owners. Instead they showed some goober who kept his 15’ Burm in a way too small wooden cage with a plexiglass front that was glued(yes glued)on with silicone!! What the Freak! Any ideas what happened next? You guessed it, the snake got out and almost killed his daughter…???

Yes, it is important to watch what propaganda the American public is taking in. It is also funnny, interesting and very nerve-wracking to watch at the same time. All in all the show was pretty much a snake hack job.

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• Python Wars on NATGEO - zefdin, Tue Feb 9 21:04:09 2010
• So.... - Bolitochrome, Wed Feb 10 10:57:02 2010
• RE: So.... - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Wed Feb 10 11:19:38 2010
• RE: So.... - zefdin, Wed Feb 10 12:01:46 2010
• VERY BAD SHOW FOR US! - CaliRepGuy, Wed Feb 10 13:59:14 2010
• eh, really its mostly true.... - JP, Wed Feb 10 19:32:59 2010
• RE: eh, really its mostly true.... - wlcmmtt, Wed Feb 10 19:58:54 2010
• RE: eh, really its mostly true.... - PBM, Thu Feb 11 23:10:44 2010