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I think this will be the last season

posted 10 years ago by imgja
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Once they start on the road, and all the contruction starts - their "isolated" way of life will be over & the show will lose it's appeal (I hope they tucked their TV money away!)
Whether you believe it's a canned show or not, it'll be hard to maintain the "isolated & living on their wits & skills" concept. It appears that most of the town is filled with Alaskan natives (& men married to natives) - unless things have changed, Alaska provides $$ to all natives from the oil money annually. They have money if they pay $7 a gallon for gas & have all that heavy equipment to haul things around. Enjoy the show folks, but be smart & think some of the things through. All the tourists, money, construction jobs & women will flood into town. Those who want to keep living off the land & away from civilization will have to move. It will just become another "Alaska, the Last Frontier" with the phony, actually rich family pretending to depend on that moose to feed the family or they'll starve.

[–] kbarada 10 years ago

Good observation imgja. You may be right, but I hope you are wrong. Here's what I think.

Let's look at the history of Tanana. Other than the gold rush period of the early 1900s, Tanana is just a small, isolated village of mainly native Americans. Current population is around 300. When the gold played out, the reason for outsiders to want to be there played out too.

I don't think there will be a rush to inundate Tanana just because a connecting road to Fairbanks is being built. There is hardly anything there that would attract anyone to visit or sightsee. Sure, there may be a few extra hunters coming in during hunting season, but that hardly has an impact on the vast areas around Tanana.

That the road is the "beginning of the end of life as we once knew it" is just a bunch of hype to create drama for the Yukon Men program. If anything, the road will improve the hard lives the villagers have. They will continue to be isolated, but will have improved access to health care and goods that are so expensive to fly in. The road will not result in a new "rush" to Tanana.

I may be wrong, but I hope I'm right about the future of Tanana. As I will never visit or live in Tanana, I wish the residents there well and that the road is a blessing for them.

[–] scwalker-1 10 years ago

There is a whole story arc just waiting to be told with the playboy centerfold gal

[–] Isee-stupid-people 10 years ago

"but be smart & think some of the things through. All the tourists, money, construction jobs & women will flood into town"

this is the essence of stupidity...wow. Not the "women"...dude what century do you think we are in?

[–] jpm4444 7 years ago

Facebook site says they will be back in 2017; no other info

[–] temp-31465 7 years ago

Yeah its renewed. Thread author was wrong, wrong, wrong.