I've decided to concede defeat while still clinging to my rage re: the overwhelmingly large and maddeningly self-congratulatory viewership of Planet Earth. This has come after 2 recent developments:
1. Oprah's Green Episode featured a woman who has begun living more eco-friendly because of Planet Earth. *Trite.* Apparently a polar bear resigned himself to death after being unable to swim the vast miles between the few icebergs that haven't melted due to global warming. Okay, that's sad. It makes me glad I don't watch that shit. I still have beef with nature shows for not letting their cameramen intervene when cute animals are dying. That's just unAmerican.
Said woman (who described herself as going "mint green," gag me) had no other reason for being a guest on the show. She wasn't a grocery bag craft expert or anything. She just came on a TV SHOW to relay a story she saw on ANOTHER TV SHOW. This is the power that Planet Earth wields. I'm surprised Gilmore Girls hasn't referenced it yet. Maybe they realize that Rory's intellectualism would suggest she's seen more than 1 nature program and would therefore be beyond the talons of the Planet Earth mania. I so respect that show more now.
2. Bush is actually introducing legislation to call greenhouse gases "pollutants" and limit their emissions. This unlikely embrace of *science* and reality is tantamount to his creation-addled brain suddenly accepting evolution as one of those fact thingees. It can't be the result of research and study and THINKING, therefore I can only attribute this shift to Planet Earth. You KNOW Bush watches that shit
As the 4th Law of the Infinite dictates, anything that Oprah and Bush agree on must be so, and consequently I will relent. Besides, an unexpected byproduct of both developments is that Planet Earth (the planet) may actually benefit.
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