His unspoken message has always been, “Don’t do this at home, kids, but you can trust me. Wrestle a 12-foot predator with jaws that could crush a refrigerator? No, thanks.īut there’s Khaki Steve, doing it for us. Irwin’s whole “Crocodile Hunter” persona, of course, was built on the doing things the rest of us would consider insane. Still, we know as we watch Irwin scoop up a deadly stonefish that no matter what level of rapport he achieved with his aquatic soul mates, one of them stuck a barb through his heart.Įven beyond the tragedy of his death, that tends to drain most of the fun out of the show. With this kind of tone, it’s appropriate that the producers deal with Irwin’s death separately, in a 30-minute tribute show that follows the special. Phillippe Cousteau, grandson of Jacques and narrator of “Ocean’s Deadliest,” watches Irwin swim up to a sea snake and marvels, “I’ve never seen such rapport between a sea creature and a human.” On the contrary, the show goes out of its way to stress how skilled the “Crocodile Hunter” was at his chosen work and how responsibly he approached it. It doesn’t even mention the fact Irwin was killed in September by a relatively benign fish, a stingray. Watching Steve Irwin’s last excellent adventure is, to be honest, more than a little creepy.Īnd no, that doesn’t mean this well-produced special on dangerous ocean critters contains any ominous footage.
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