We also cannot understand why the base camp people aren't all making the largest bonfires they can to send, like, smoke signals to partner. I know it's hard to find wood that burns, but come on. Am I missing something?
I just want to see a bunch of interesting people go out and do their wilderness things and narrate as they go, like an educational video. Dang it perhaps this exists on YouTube somewhere and I only need to look harder.
Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Sat Jul 08, 2017 2:11 am
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Anyway, I love this show so much and the people on it are all unique characters. I expect that's what makes them interested in and good at doing this, because they're unique sorts of people with different ways of thinking. It's fascinating to watch how they face their particular challenges, or how they go about doing things that all of them are doing (like fishing, building a shelter, etc.). One person might be successful while another one is not due to very subtle differences in how they go about it.
This season we also finally see people smoking fish, which is something I kind of expected from day one on season one, as soon as someone caught a fish, but I think those people in the first two seasons caught few enough fish that they just had to eat them whenever they had them. In season 2 the woman who had a surplus of fish also had a surplus of bears, so it probably wasn't feasible for her to set up a fish-smoking shop anywhere. In Season 3 they have pumas, in theory, but we're not seeing much of that, so the fish smoking can proceed.
Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:52 pm
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The scenery is outstanding and i have two favorites, M and F. Two of the guys are super annoying though!
Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Sat Dec 10, 2016 6:41 am
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Season 3 starts in about a month.
I just wait here patiently. Someday.
Statistics: Posted by Elle — Sun Nov 13, 2016 10:12 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Elle — Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:46 pm
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I find the survival aspect of the show fascinating because these are skills that I lack and would probably only understand a part of how to accomplish. So in that way I feel like I learned a lot just from watching the show. And it tells me what things I would like to learn that I don't presently know. However the emotional aspect of the show is far more fascinating to me because I find it mysterious to watch the various current surface in these folks and make it impossible for them to endure the challenges they're facing and the solitude. At one point when I was about 19 i spent 2 weeks with almost no contact with other humans whatsoever and no way of gaining such contact without taking a very long walk. I found this experience extremely instructive because you really do get to know yourself in a way that you have never been able to before. There were other periods when I spent a longer time mostly alone but it was punctuated by sporadic contact with other humans and it would have been extremely easy for me to hang out with people if I had wanted to, so that was a rather different sort of experience. A number of religious traditions make some provision for the deeper kind of solitude experience and I think there's a good reason for that. It's something that everyone should be able to do at least for a short period. The idea of combining this experience with the tremendous stress the person is placed under while trying to survive on their own in an extremely challenging environment is especially interesting.
Statistics: Posted by Elle — Mon May 23, 2016 10:49 am
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