I still don't understand. Joe is on record saying he won't give up the zoo. I don't think Baskin had legal recourse to force him. It was a copyright lawsuit, he just couldn't use the branding anymore. Unless Baskin was specifically given that choice? I didn't watch the show, I'm familiar with the case from other sources, but perhaps I'm missing something.
Returning large animals to the wild after a lifetime of captivity at best extremely difficult and at worst impossible. They do not know how to hunt. They do not know the territory. They do not know the dangers other animals (Including other tigers) can present.
You can't just let a domesticated animal out into the wild and call it a day. It won't know how to survive and it will die. If you let your house-raised dog of 5-10 years loose it's not going to be hangin' and huntin' with a wolf pack come next weekend.
It's one legal case versus all the money and activism put elsewhere. You don't know the legal mechanisms involved, maybe it was the most effective way to bankrupt the zoo or easier to enforce or bring about the desired outcome. It came across to me that she was more about putting the strain on them. You don't know all the details that you could say this millionaire was just after a comparably small amount of money each month.
They frame it as both Carole and Joe doing some bad shit. She went after his elderly parents that he exploited. And the end of that story in the episode is someone saying to the camera that Joe fucked his parents with what he did to them. Neither came out good there with how they framed it.
anyone that claims she's just as bad as Joe better have some conclusive evidence that she did in fact murder her husband. She sucks shit, but she ain't Joe Exotic.
And to be honest, I quit after episode 4. I told my wife I didn't have a care to see what shitty things happened to a piece of shit (Joe). It's just not interesting to me, and I honestly don't understand the hype of the show.
Mrmmm....I mean.....Just as much as I can't condemn her for things we don't know for certain, I also can't call her probably-dead husband a criminal slumlord, and then take it a step further and even call his secretary a criminal associate in a way that everything she says I should toss away. The animal abusers talking about her killing her husband is not what made that story interesting or believable.
Yeah there was a big vodka bottle in the background of every one of his interviews. He was waaaasted for some of them. That dude seems like he got some pain
Just a note: Domesticated animals are different from wild animals that are raised or even bred in captivity. Domesticated animals are bred for usefulness to people over many, many, many generations.
Joe was the most entertaining guy in a series about scummy people.
Hell even without the exotic animal breeding and selling, the dude constantly bought ammo and explosives to shoot and obliterate effigies of Carol. Like how the hell do you get charmed by that?
The animals at big Cat Rescue benefit from this as they arent abused nor breed for sale. Carole aint perfect hell she probably sucks but shes a hell of alot better as a person and a big cat owner than the other abusive fucks in this series. Almost every other wild life conservationist out there agrees with what Carole is doing and defends Big Cat Rescue. And for this gross documentary to end on that note when they barely covered the actual animal abuse that occurred and instead glorified Joe and his stupid vendetta against Carole is the cherry on the cake. Most of the viewers dont care about the animals at all as evidenced by the poll on this thread. Joe is a monster Carole atleast helped the animals. They are not the same.
it does. it shows they get sold or killed after they age out and creates a cycle of constant breeding
I guess so. It's astounding that could be like water off a duck's back for so many people. I really don't want to meet the type of person who delighted in those parts of the doc or that dumbass Carol-focused music video. That vitriol-soaked obsession was nothing but outputting to me.
