The BBC’s “Planet Earth”, now showing on Discovery Channel, is lush and beautiful… and ugly.
Harsh realities of life and death are facts of existence, but that doesn’t mean that I want to watch them in high definition. Footage of cubs being hunted and killed by wolves, seals snatched and devoured by sharks… I am skipping swathes of this show with the remote. And just now, my heart was broken by footage of a baby elephant, separated from its mother and trying to follow her path… but going in the wrong direction.
There is absolutely no way I am going to make it through multiple hours of this.
