As a New Zealander, I don’t see any offence here by Lee. I know he was very disappointed (hurt?) that a fair swag of his effort was left on the cutting floor for the final instalment of the trilogy due to time constraints but this is not even suggested as a reason.
> As a New Zealander, I don’t see any offence here by Lee. I know he was very disappointed (hurt?) that a fair swag of his effort was left on the cutting floor for the final instalment of the trilogy due to time constraints but this is not even suggested as a reason.
Now that I have heard the audio, I don’t see any offense here either. Absent the audio, the text comes across as “not interested” — which is quite a bit different to saying “can’t, due to old age”.
I get really fed up with people who take the best of what NZ has to offer, and then bugger off, bad-mouthing the place into the bargain. Or worse yet stay and whinge all the time. It’s just plain rude.
That was one reason why I took a very, very long time about deciding whether NZ was going to be home. It was a decision I took very carefully and very deliberately.