I think I felt similar to Stephan watching it, a lot of old pains came back. It was like reading Carlos Serra's book all over again, and it was good seeing Carlos speak for himself. The producers has managed to corner a good batch of the right people to speak out about this. And the missing elephant in the living room, I honestly believe he has said enough here.
It was a brilliant move to couple Tanya's 160 with Audrey's 172, so people could compare the safety measures directly, and I think it's quite obvious which approach is preferred after watching this.
For some odd reason, I was reminded of all the fishermen I've met full of one fanciful story after another. Here it seems like a guy was caught up in his own BS and got more and more desperate to live up to it, without accepting physical reality. Afterwards, I had the notion of a guy stupid enough to think he could actually enact a hero's scenario under extremely dangerous circumstances, expecting the water to adapt to his bidding, not vice versa. (That's one version of it, anyway.) It's really telling, that the man's own ghost writer goes on record saying that she didn't believe anything he was telling her.
I actually find it hard to find precedence for similar irresponsible behavior in sports. Maybe there is something to find in the history of motor sports, or stunt flying, or the Bradford football stadium fire in '85, but even those can be attributed to part bad luck. Here, I can't see any redemption, 'cause it seems that it only happened because of stupid, disproportionate ego. It was as unavoidable as can possibly be, and I'm actually embarrassed that it's my game who spawned the perhaps most unforgiveable fatality in the history of sports. (Whatever, maybe it's relative and I'm biased.)
Francisco, sé honesto acerca de todo esto, esa es la única posibilidad de redención que usted conseguirá. Sé un hombre de verdad.
