- #1
zoobyshoe
- 6,510
- 1,290
Obsessed but dignified British gent travels the world pulling oversized, dangerous fish out of remote rivers, gawks at their sharp! pointy! teeth!, then releases them.
These fish are huge and they're killers and maimers of people. (In some school of psychology, bodies of water, symbolically, are alleged to represent a person's sexuality. That would render the whole series to be a kind of subliminal warning against the dangers of STD's. That comes to mind because, indeed, some of the fish he deals with actually literally attack people's genitals.)
I find myself watching episodes of this odd show over and over (they're repeated often on Animal Planet). After a while I figured out the appeal is not the grotesque fish we are introduced to, but the interesting demeanor of the show's host, Jeremy Wade. He is a kinder, gentler Ahab: determined to catch the monster, but equally afraid of stressing it out too much before he let's it go. Unlike, say, crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, Jeremy Wade is understated, shy, and speaks in a hypnotically soothing tone about this weeks target monster. Whenever the camera does a close up of his face we notice he, himself, has a rather scary set of teeth, which makes me wonder if he's actually fishing for monsters or rousting out reclusive relatives.
On a side note, I noticed that one week he caught a Tiger Fish in the Congo, in another episode he caught a huge Cat Fish in India, and yet another week he caught a Wolf Fish in South America. That lead me to the observation that fish, more than any other creature, seem to suffer from being named after other animals.
These fish are huge and they're killers and maimers of people. (In some school of psychology, bodies of water, symbolically, are alleged to represent a person's sexuality. That would render the whole series to be a kind of subliminal warning against the dangers of STD's. That comes to mind because, indeed, some of the fish he deals with actually literally attack people's genitals.)
I find myself watching episodes of this odd show over and over (they're repeated often on Animal Planet). After a while I figured out the appeal is not the grotesque fish we are introduced to, but the interesting demeanor of the show's host, Jeremy Wade. He is a kinder, gentler Ahab: determined to catch the monster, but equally afraid of stressing it out too much before he let's it go. Unlike, say, crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, Jeremy Wade is understated, shy, and speaks in a hypnotically soothing tone about this weeks target monster. Whenever the camera does a close up of his face we notice he, himself, has a rather scary set of teeth, which makes me wonder if he's actually fishing for monsters or rousting out reclusive relatives.
On a side note, I noticed that one week he caught a Tiger Fish in the Congo, in another episode he caught a huge Cat Fish in India, and yet another week he caught a Wolf Fish in South America. That lead me to the observation that fish, more than any other creature, seem to suffer from being named after other animals.