Ugh, I still HATE the Muppets. I haven't seen them in ages, but I think the hatred spawns from being forced to sit through Muppets Treasure Island EVERY time there was an indoor recess in grade school </3 Probably why I also dislike Aladdin
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I watched a few BBC documentaries yesterday.
Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die - 9/10
Loved it, but I can see why it was controversial. I actually watched this and another assisted suicide documentary, but the name of the other one escapes me. Anyone who can watch either one of these and still be against assisted suicide is an actual knob. Seeing someone in their last few days of life, coming to terms with the situation and eventually actually dying on camera is really powerful stuff, as well as seeing the close family members have to cope with what is going on. It was mostly about Dignitas in Zurich, and the stories of a few people as well as how they select and reject applicants. Anyway yeah, I definitely recommend it especially if you're interested in the whole assisted suicide debate like I am.
Pompeii- The Last Day- 8/10
I think I've seen it before, or one of the countless other documentaries about it, but this one was probably the best. It focused on a few specific stories during the eruption of Pompeii as well as the devastation it caused to the area as a whole. It didn't overly dramatize things and I thought it was pretty informational despite the fact I already know a lot about it because of what I'm taking in school. I like how they showed Pompeii today as well, with all the ruins and the body casts which I'd love to see in person one day. Overall, I definitely recommend it if you like history!
Child of Rage - 7/10
Not a BBC documentary and I felt like it sort of prematurely ended, but it was still good while it lasted. It was about a girl who got abused as an infant and had some sort of attachment disorder where she didn't have feelings towards anything, thus causing her to always try to kill her sibling and adoptive parents, as well as harming and killing animals without remorse. She was also obsessed with masterbating and molesting because of the abuse she went through. It showed a lot of the real psychiatrist visits and documented her progress when she was sent away to live with people who specialized in "fixing" these sort of children. I wish they would have showed more of her progress but she seemed to be a bit better at the end of the show, crying when she discussed her old behaviour, etc. So it was a happy ending.
The Science of Killing- 8/10
Another one watched because of my fascination with death and the death penalty. It was about a guy who was extensively researching execution methods to try and find the perfect and humane way to kill a criminal, as well as seeking new methods that he thought they should implement in prisons across America. He ruled out the lethal injection because it requires medical expertise that is not always available thus resulting in painful death, hanging because it is not always guaranteed even though it is instant when done right, the electric chair because it is essentially a form of torture, and the gas chamber because it requires prisoner cooperation otherwise it can be extremely painful. I like that he often put himself in situations that gave him an idea of what dying in these manners was like, especially the gas chamber. He eventually determined that hypoxia induced by G forces was a good way to die, but impractical, so he was put in a hyperbaric chamber to experience hypoxia in that way, finding it to be extremely euphoric as he was drifting out of consciousness; however, having hyperbaric chambers in prisons was also impractical, so he found a scientist that was able to recreate those conditions using argon and nitrogen, thus the perfect way to die. Then of course there were the debates about how the perfect way to kill a criminal should not be humane, etc.. Overall, very interesting!
