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I watched True Adventures of the Ultimate Spider Hunter and found it relying too heavily on Spiderman and Stan Lee. It was a Nature (PBS) show, but lacked some credibility with it's overuse of Stan Lee. The spider hunter himself was much like Steve Irwin. Oh, there's a spider ... let's touch it, hold it, see if we can get it to attack this stick! Oh, look how aggressive it's getting! Wow!

It really peeves me to see someone intentially toying with an animal and trying to provoke it into attacking to "scientically" show wondrous it is and how the laypersons of the world should hold a healthy respect for these creatures. Hey! Why don't the hosts practice what they preach and be less hypocritical and just observe and do some minor voice overs rather than jumping in and shouting hysterically about how neat it is that the creature is now defensive. Really! Go figure! There's a human a hundred or more times heavier and larger than they are.

Lame!

Using the ultimate in fast forwarding, I was able to see some pretty spectacular shots and spiders, but as a whole -- the plunky duck adventurer could have been changed.