>the one expert, who'd been on dozens of trips to see orcas in
>the wild, said he was always stunned by their presence. he was
>also fearful of them. he admired whales but knew to keep his
>distance.

That moment was buried in a sea of stories of trainers who felt relationships with whales and who felt bad that SeaWorld was fucking them up, but I remember it now.

Still, I don't think we disagree on much here, other than the relative success the filmmaker achieves through sculpting her narrative, and even then, I was pretty riveted. A doc could do far worse than get me to ask questions about its central thesis afterward.