What is it with all this Charley and Ewan bashing? At the risk of repeating myself (I posted on the OTHER Charley and Ewan thread) has everybody missed the point?

I watched the last 3 episodes back to back last night because I thought I'd been watching some other series. So much criticism from so many - why did you take the time & effort to watch the series (and in some cases take the time to download it) in the first place? Are you not rational enough to realise this is a show, featuring showmen, produced by a production company for the masses? Do you believe everything the papers and politicians tell you as well? Where is this programme advertised as a show exclusively for adventure motorcyclists and who are we to define what makes an adventure motorcyclist?

I find it interesting that the general theme that runs through this thread is about Charley's antics. Almost 200 posts and only half a dozen vague references to the charity work they did.

Not one mention of:

• the terminally ill children and their families at the Hospice in Scotland;
• the mass murder of 5,000 people in one day at the church in Rwanda - killed by machete's, hammers, guns and burnt alive - all the skulls (one with a spear still embedded and others smashed in) and bloodied clothes of those victims still there - a stark contrast to the Church of Bones;
• the children kidnapped from their families at an early age, some as young as 3, and forced to fight against and beat to death their fellow villagers if they didn't conform - children killing children;
• the boys who are circumcised without anaesthetic and being forbidden to display any sort of emotion or pain for fear of bringing shame upon their family;
• the mass murder at the school of all those tiny innocent children and the horrific wounds from bullets and machetes of the surviving children;
• the orphans who have lost their parents to HIV and Aids;
• the medics they had with them who tended the woman who had given birth the day before, or the guy with severe diarrhoea who had collapsed.

Was Charley's fart-lighting and wheelie-pulling that much more memorable!!!!!!!!!!!! There's more whinging on this thread than the entire series of LWR, RTD or LWD.

Personally I was disappointed with the first episode and yes, at the end of the series, Charley was the apparent cause of Claudio's accident. We all make mistakes. I'm not sure about Eve joining them. My riding partner is my husband so I can understand Ewan and Eve wanting to be together, but at the same time, Charley must have been gutted. It added a different dimension to the episode.

The series for me wasn't just about how they got from A to B or how they did it, it was also about the work they do with the charities and seeing the countries they visited along the way. They are famous, they are showman and they are utilising their status to bring awareness to the rest of the world the plight of some of these nations. Who knew Rwanda had a tourist industry - I didn't.

You may not like Charley and Ewan, for whatever reason, and sadly perhaps much of that is based upon how they come across thanks to the media and not because they are known on a personal level. Have some humanity and please, before your next criticism of them, or your insults at the people who don't agree with your views, can you put your hand on your heart and say that you have raised over £500k (and still rising) for charity for 3 months work? I would think that UNICEF, as well as the Children’s Hospice Association of Scotland and Riders For Health are pretty appreciative of what they've done both in terms of money raised and the heightened awareness to their causes. Who cares how they did it - they did it.