If Whale Wars is in the middle of its final season, as Paul Watson predicted , it will go out as one of the best reality TV shows ever. The series continues to edit the real-life actions of the Sea Shepherds into consistently compelling and intense television, as next week’s resolution to last week’s cliffhanger will undoubtedly illustrate. (Because of the holiday weekend, there’s no new episode tonight, but Animal Planet will repeat this entire season so far starting at 7 p.m. ET, so catch up if you’ve missed it.) That cliffhanger was intense—actually, intense doesn’t really begin to describe last week’s episode—and also controversial, generating discussion among fans of the show, and below, executive producer Liz Bronstein explains her choices to me. But first, a brief recap: Anyone who continues to insist that the show is propoganda for Sea Shepherd has never actually watched the show. This season, the Sea Shepherd’s newest boat managed to successfully prop foul a boat—itself! Rea...