We watch it but I roll my eyes a lot by some of the stuff they do and say. I know it is illegal to fly and hunt the same day, as they showed on the goat hunt. You don't shoot at a bison with a .22. You don't hike 2 hours for water when you have snow right out side your door and on and on. To me it is a comedy. While I know I would have no problem doing it myself,since I grew up there and hunted and fished most of my life and spent a lot of time in remote areas. I can see where it would be a huge challenge for city slickers It's just entertainment!
I still think it's scripted to a great degree. It's funny how guns have been introduced just when the participants weight loss/body fat was too great. They even had to be taught to shoot!
I don't know why one couple burnt energy looking for a creek under snow cover (melt snow at the cabin) and to track a wolf. It seemed like they were tracking a perceived threat instead of providing themselves with protein but maybe I missed something.
It would be interesting to see how the producers recruited these people because some don't seem to have a clue--even to a point of being anti-gun prior to their intense need for protein.
I watched the first night, and that irritated me so bad I haven't watched since. An experience I would kill for, and I assume these people were screened for (I don't think they were kidnapped off the street and hauled to Alaska), some of these people were whining the first day. Where did they think they were going? the Anchorage Hyatt?
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Marathon of the episodes that have been aired already is scheduled on Discovery Channel tonight, in case anyone wants to watch it. I didn't see episode 1 listed ( surely they'll air the 1st episode ), but 2 through 5 are on the Discovery Channel's tv grid for tonight.
On Tuesday's episode I could not believe the two guys and gal left their cabin to go to Hawkins Glacier. Oh my goodness! They were so lucky they didn't twist an ankle or worse climbing those rocks It would not be fun to be hurt and far away from help.
lazyboy wrote: We watch it but I roll my eyes a lot by some of the stuff they do and say. I know it is illegal to fly and hunt the same day, as they showed on the goat hunt. You don't shoot at a bison with a .22. You don't hike 2 hours for water when you have snow right out side your door and on and on. To me it is a comedy. While I know I would have no problem doing it myself,since I grew up there and hunted and fished most of my life and spent a lot of time in remote areas. I can see where it would be a huge challenge for city slickers It's just entertainment!
I managed to sit through one episode of this show...and it was hard not to throw the remote at the TV. In my view, it actually does a disservice to any number of people who actually do live "in the woods" in Alaska where they have to depend upon themselves or their nearest neighbors...who are probably at least 50 miles away.
I agree that it is a comedy at best.
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surely they'll air the 1st episode 
It would not be fun to be hurt and far away from help.
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