I thought about adding to this thread that Mountain Monsters is not only more watchable than Finding Bigfoot cause it got so much heart, that they spin bs with ZERO shame but also cause of the ferocity with which they dish out one-liners and yells "hell yeah!" or "let's go get 'em!" in chorus (with poor jeff trying to keep up). But your post made many of my points. Also bigfoot "clans" in MM is actually just different names for the undiscovered and most likely non-existent or pre-existing but now extinct, large hominid in pop-culture known as bigfoot, but in different eras and socio-cultural contexts. Before MM, i thought that Raven Mocker was one of a few native american names for the bigfoot, grassman was the ohio term, etc, and that's by all accounts true. But even as an opened-minded sceptic rather than a hater (moneymaker and his ilk can almost make a person hate bigfoots cause of the people who want them to exist so badly they interpret any large, human-like or even just oblong print as bigfoot sign and get a hard on when something make noise in the forest) I LOVE IT, to Trapper and his team of dedicated hicks, a proverbial-like, randomly thought up hypothesis is the same as or BETTER than verifiable evidence, and its impossible to know if their method of approach is motivated by hate or love for the pseudo-animal species in question.
Its like that with all them guys, FB and MM, but in MM's case it's all delivered with great love, in FB the conflict and the dark core of the show is slow, nerdy and weak but still sadistic and determined psychological wearing-down and bullying of the only team member with actual insight to anything regarding consistency in animal behavior, biology and scientific theory. A basic rule when it comes to unproven, new phenomenon or species is that anything that CAN be something else, even though it can seem far-fetched, always counts as something else. The evidence for something new has to be outstanding and unpenetrable to be considered as proof. In MM's case thats not even discussed, Trapper actually think Jeff googling hearsay is "research" cause when Bill said he'd done some research, Trapper went on with "I didnt knew you could even turn on a computer", as if internet is the default source of even old and esoteric native american mythology and folklore. After their blatant disregard for everything concering knowledge except tracking and hunting (which they btw seem genuinely good at, Ive went on a few hunting trips a bit in my day & grew up in the sticks), they're sort of immune to criticism from that angle. Plus its scripted and well scripted, for drama at least, if not for narrative, and in comparison to other nature/adventure reality-docus, its #1, second only to Destination Truth which wasnt fake anywhere in this ballpark anw.
Mountain Monsters season 02 is still my favorite, there's not a crazy huge and exotic monster/dinosaur in the annals of folklore and fantasy that can't make a habitat in WV/OH/NC/PA/VA and "terrorize" the farmers of its backwoods!
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