@UltraTaco, I watched about two episodes... And she somehow was my favorite. It was like she had no filter on what was appropriate to say or not and she acted like she was Simon.
Not that anybody is ever going to read this, but research was actually done and with some slight tweaking and luck if those exact situations that were in the book were replicated he actually would have had a chance at survival with a tiger.
They actually used 5+ different tigers to film that movie