Fail Wars: Viking Shores

Wow! Where to start? I guess from what the premise of the show is. The liberal sea hippie terrorists known as the Sea Shepherds are going to try and halt a thousand year tradition in the Faroe Islands. The islands are a small chain in the North Atlantic.

They harvest pilot whales each year for food. One twenty foot whale can feed a hundred people according to the debut show. The show starts with a little background on the tradition and the ever alert looking Paul Watson. He ventured to the islands in 1986 and they attempted to arrest him for interfering with the harvest. He is just now returning and I suspect that it mostly has to do with the show and the need for TV dollars or he wouldn't be there, he'd be sticking to the Japanese hunt on the other end of the globe. The show introduces the two ships, the Steve Irwin and the formerly named Gojira, the Brigitte Bardot. No mention of the Bob Barker joining the other two ships. The people of the Faroe Islands are preparing for the arrival of Watson and his merry band of terrorists by welcoming them into port after clearing their passports.

Meanwhile Watson and the Steve Irwin are being detained in Scotland and have their ship impounded. They have to clear bond or risk forfeiting their ship, which I would find hilarious. However that would also end the show fairly quickly so we can't have that. So everyone knows they post bond and get out of port and continue to the Faroe Islands.

 The Brigitte Bardot docks in port and are immediately set upon my customs agents and police who are expecting their arrival. They are friendly and ask the crew questions to which the hippie terrorists resort to lies almost immediately by saying they are there for research. Everyone knows their real purpose there, in fact part of their plan is to have sonar beacons secretly brought to the island by a "covert operative" also known as an illegal smuggler. The beacons are integral to the Shepherd's plan this year to herd the whales away from the coastline and the illegal van is stopped as soon as it hits the Islands and the beacons taken thus ending the well thought out plan. In typical liberal fashion they can never be straight up honest with anything they do. I wouldn't have a problem with Watson if he was as forceful as his rhetoric.
If he wants to save the whales, dump his crew, take his ship, ram and sink the whaling ship and go down with both ships. Be a man about it. End whaling and be a martyr for the cause. But no, he won't do that instead relying on sabotage and subterfuge to carry out his mission of cutting off the supply of food to actual human beings.

One particularly poignant scene from the show is when the foreman of the harvest comes to the docked Brigitte Bardot to explain their heritage and tradition in peace and understanding. He's very pleasant and trying to relay his message to the flippant Shepherds as best as he can but they refuse to listen with an open mind and reason, also a typical liberal trait. The foreman, Marnar Andreasan, hands the Shepherds a book entitled Two Minutes which refers how long the harvest lasts from start to finish. It's a coffee table book full of graphic pictures of a harvest. Mr. Andreasan tries to explain it's not as barbaric as it seems while the smirking captain Fraser Hall. He refuses to listen and continues to openly point out his mission which is in direct contradiction to what he told customs earlier in the show.

Mr. Andreasan leaves his encounter and welcoming mission with the Shepherds as a very frustrated man, his point of view falling on very deaf ears. Later the Shepherds leave the dock and port only to continue to goad the citizens of the Islands by docking in yet another port. The very same place where perpetual second banana Peter Hammarstedt visited a year prior on a scouting mission for Watson. He has to be pretty upset by now at his lack of promotion to a higher rank by Watson as he continues to be the second mate on nearly every ship he is on while others are given the captain-ships.

Regardless they dock once again in less friendly territory to incite the population, there really isn't a better explanation than that, they want an incident to happen. They have no other reason to be there. The show ends when the people gathering on the dock start to challenge the crew of the Brigitte Bardot thus ending Fail Wars until next week.

 I really don't have any words for these idiots, they probably enjoy a strong support base from Obama true believers and that's shrinking by the day. They have the typical liberal philosophy that they are open to any lifestyle or way of life as long as they approve it, otherwise they will do what they can to end your way of life. They are militant in their views and don't mind hurting people in the process. If Watson was as dedicated to his cause as he claims he would do things differently as I said and man up about it. I'm not sure I'd slow down if Paul Watson was in a crosswalk but that is never likely to happen.