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Offline Elfie

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« on: July 22, 2007, 03:36:06 PM »
Maybe, according to this link he sometimes spends the nights in hotels and doesn't always build the things they show him building, like that raft with the palm leaf sail.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2116195.ece
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2007, 03:45:55 PM »
He isn't alone either...

There's a camera crew with him, and they need to fly equipment in and out every once in a while...

Horrors!  I'm shocked! Shocked that TV would take liberties with the truth!
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Offline Elfie

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« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2007, 03:50:19 PM »
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There's a camera crew with him,


He says he will have a camera crew with him at the beginning of every show, so that's no surprise.

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Horrors! I'm shocked! Shocked that TV would take liberties with the truth!


Whodathunkit? :O
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Offline AquaShrimp

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« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2007, 03:55:17 PM »
He says at the beginning of the show that while he does have a camera crew, they are not allowed to help or interact with him in any way, unless he is dying or about to die.  I can tell some of his shots are staged, along with some being overly dramatic.
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Offline john9001

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« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2007, 05:13:40 PM »
it's a TV show.
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Offline TalonX

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« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2007, 05:43:36 PM »
LOL...of course he sleeps in hotels....the entire show is filmed by a film crew....he is never alone.   It is a show about how to survive....each show runs a credit of the survival consultant for the show.  If anyone thinks he does all that stuff from his experience, you must think McGiver is real.

Anyway, it's not a bad show.   Might actually learn something.

I think SurvivorMan is slightly more about being alone, for real.

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Offline john9001

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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2007, 06:00:48 PM »
why does almost everyone on my telly have a english accent, even the commercials?  "i haave to find waahta"
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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2007, 06:10:32 PM »
i like survivor man.  

watched man v. wild earlier today for the first time and thought that it was probably half staged.
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Offline Octavius

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« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2007, 06:22:35 PM »
Survivorman is his own camera crew.  I dig the Canuck instead.

Man v. Wild is a hack.  One show Bear was in some deep woods area in the northwest.  He came to a river and wanted to float in the current for faster travel.  He went on for a few minutes of how dangerous this stunt was... then out of nowhere he says, "I just happened to find this big black garbage bag which I will now use as a flotation device!"  -  The very next shot has him going over some pussy rapids with a life preserver clearly under his jacket.  

Ever notice he always seems to be out of breath?  wtf?!
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Offline JB88

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« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2007, 06:48:42 PM »
it was the fake black bear scratches on a tree in the everglades that did it for me.

it looked like it had been cut out with an exacto knife.  

perhaps they had just deepened a real set of scratches, but it was obviously either made from scratch or extremely enhanced.

then he goes and jumps chest deep in a mud pit to demonstrate how to get out...uh huh.

but all in all, okay...if it teaches skills...im okay with that.

(the blood spattered shirt, post-turtle slaughter, was a nice dramatic touch.)
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Offline Mark Luper

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« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2007, 08:11:23 PM »
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(the blood spattered shirt, post-turtle slaughter, was a nice dramatic touch.)


Now JB, are you talkin bout a post turtle or after the turtle was slaughtered of was it after a post turtle was slaughtered...???

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« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2007, 09:46:47 PM »
ok i still watch , but I lost respect for him when he drank his own pee in Australia .. and then we find out its the rainy season and if he had waited a couple of hours he could have had all the rainwater he wanted!!!

of course it probably really wasn't pee but still...
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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2007, 10:59:28 PM »
Ahh too bad to see that...I've enjoyed the handful of episodes I have been able to catch.

More and more of these Reality Shows are turning out to be not-so-real.
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Offline Elfie

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« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2007, 01:28:08 AM »
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of course it probably really wasn't pee but still...


It was probably Gatorade the film crew gave him. :lol
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Offline gpwurzel

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« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2007, 01:47:50 AM »
Wait, McGyver isnt real, Dammit, I've always wanted to try escaping from a refrigerator using nothing but a light bulb, a length of twine and the cooling properties........sheesh....(I'm always getting locked in fridges obviously)........

The worst bit on that man vs wild show was when he was walking across somewhere in Kenya, and drank the fluid from an elephant poo......lol.......



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