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Advicenators discussion: Steve Irwin
Mackenzie wrote Tuesday February 13 2007, 9:10 am:
You had to have known this thread would eventually appear.
What is your opinion of him?
I know not everyone in America liked him all too well. I've never known anybody to dislike him exactly, because there isn't much of a reason to take their negative passion that far. I suppose to us he is just foreign. That being said, naturally he may seem a bit 'different' than Americans, but I feel like people were always too hard on him. And for what? I had much respect for him, myself.
Is he a highly beloved character in Australia? When you think of him, does he seem 'weird' to you? Or is he just another one from the bunch, with an extraodrinary love for animals?
SilentOne wrote Thursday February 15 2007, 5:30 pm:
Stevo was a bit of a maniac, even by "Aussie" standards. He was funny as hell though. I liked him a lot better when he was still doing his own show when he'd just started out. I think he was more measured in his risks then. Like, he might get bitten, but he was always with somebody who could drive him to a hospital for antivenom. I think it was really REALLY dumb of him when he started to do things like take his baby into the aligator pit.
I think the views of him a sort of similar in Australia to those im America. Some think he was too foolish in the risks he took, and spit chips about how nobody should be crying because he's gone, because they think he deserved things catching up with him.
It seems like a very cruel co-incidence that a creature not usually venemous enough to kill should be the demise of the man who had most likely endured hundreds of bites from snakes and spiders undoubtedly more venemous.
If he hadn't pulled the barb out instincively, they might have been able to do surgery like they did on that other guy who got a barb in the same place a few weeks later. Just pulled it through, and sewed it up.
If you want to see him at his best, watch his original TV series.
-K
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