Just another cheaply produced piece of crap, scripted, staged "Reality" show that incorporates the word "Alaska" in it's title....
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I'm just surprised it's not on the Sh!tstory channel.
shareJust another cheaply produced piece of crap, scripted, staged "Reality" show that incorporates the word "Alaska" in it's title....
The latest promo for this steaming POS shows the heroes hunting Moose... "If we miss, we may go without meat all winter".... BULLSPIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OOOOOOOPPPSSS !!!!! Sorry about that... it was another cheaply produced POS, staged, scripted, canned hunt, garbage Reality show, with the word Alaska in the title... ALASKA-THE LAST FRONTIER
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I will give any reality show points if they don't infuse the drama of everyone "fighting". More often than not, reality shows are like an episode of Jerry Springer with a backdrop of whatever they happen to be doing besides fighting like 8 year old girls.
So FAR, i haven't seen the forced fighting, so it's at least 'stomachable'.
We shall see how long that remains the case...
This is kinda why I'm not really enjoying this season nearly as much as the first. In the first season, there were no set teams. The only "rule" really was the time limit. Sure it still felt fairly fake/scripted/whatever but it was fun and the scenery was just beautiful.
However, with this season, they apparently felt the need to turn it into just another competition "survival show." The dynamic relationships from the first season are basically gone because you're stuck with the same group every single time. And while the relationships in the first season may or may not have been 100% real, it was at least entertaining to watch different teams work together. The only thing keeping my attention now is the scenery. :/
There was a show a couple years ago that was very similar that I quite enjoyed (more so than this). I believe it was called something like Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment. If anyone is enjoying this then I highly suggest checking it out. I think its available on Netflix. Unfortunately it changed in its second season also and wasn't nearly as good. I think it was situated in Venezuela instead of Alaska.
Well I feel like an idiot now since I didn't notice the halibut was dead and thought it part of Marty's quirkiness that he would shoot a hole in the boat. I did think it extremely weird that the mountaineers overtook team endurance considering they spent 12 hours looking for Tyler and I was wondering what the endurance team had been doing for those 12 hours that they would lose a race they seemed to have tied up. Now, after reading the comments I realise how silly I've been thinking it was for real.
Anyway, I liked season 1 better also and for the reasons you mentioned. I liked the dynamics of the different characters and how we got to know them better.
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Yep, it's sad to see there's no channel that has integrity anymore. I always expected more from Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Oh well.
I could barely get through the episode I watched. Pretending there was a bear in a gave and firing a shot. Pretending to catch a halibut but it was dead when he pulled it in. The going as far as shooting a hole in the boat to pretend to kill the halibut. Fake falling into icy cold water so they have to quickly build a fire, etc. The entire episode was fake.
The truth is, people would happily watch groups race in the wilderness even if there isn't drama. I used to love watching the eco-challenges (I think that's what they were called). I cannot find them anymore.
I think people would even watch a real survival show without drama. I loved Survivor Man (I think that was the name with Les Stroud?). I love the documentary Alone in the Wilderness that PBS produced. The real thing is enjoyable enough.
I love documentaries but loathe reality tv. It's hard to find a legitimate documentary style program anymore no matter the subject matter.
People love their fake trash though. Just look at the pathetic and fake Duck Dynasty program. People eat that up. There are countless reality tv shows that are fake that have the title "_____ wars". Storage wars, parking wars, pawn wars, baggage wars, toilet wars, wars wars, reading wars, you name it.
This "race" is so scripted it's insulting to the viewer. That bit with the halibut was just ridiculous, the guy was trying to flap the tail around himself. And then to shoot it when it was obviously dead? Give me a break, more like a bad comedy routine is what that was.
Or the obvious difference in lighting for the cave bear between when they came down to when they showed the bear. You could easily tell that shot of the bear was captured at another time.
Or how the other two groups managed to catch squirrels in what seemed like less of an hour of setting their traps. Not to mention how the one in the snare had clearly been dead long enough to go flat and stiff. All the other survival shows, even the heavily scripted and edited ones, shows how difficult it is for them to catch food...often taking days. But EVERY SINGLE TEAM managed to find a meal within an hour of trying.
Just absolute crap, one episode was enough for me to stop watching. This is a low in television if you ask me. Luckily the new season of Survivorman is coming this January, Les Stroud is the only real survivalist.
This "race" is so scripted it's insulting to the viewer. That bit with the halibut was just ridiculous, the guy was trying to flap the tail around himself. And then to shoot it when it was obviously dead? Give me a break, more like a bad comedy routine is what that was.
Something seem so off about Marty and that fish he shot which put a hole in the boat. lol Fish planted? We only see it putting up a fight when the camera view is from far and low. But the close, in-boat views show a motionless fish as Marty is struggling.
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The unfortunate thing is that this could be a really cool show without it being scripted. Show the true race. The show is a great concept without dumbing it down. So frustrating.
I was watching the last episode and where certain teams are during the "competition" makes no sense. Marty's team supposedly stays at the lake to fish but in no time is passing the Military team when the military team member climbs a rock wall for no reason and then jumps because he has no time to climb back down. Beyond dumb. Or they show the Endurance team being passed in the canoe by Marty's team but if you watch closely the Endurance team is sitting almost completely still and not paddling so Marty's team can pass them.
Or how about when they show Marty's team weathering the storm on a little tiny rock Island. Why didn't they canoe to shore???
Or how about the last episode where two teams mysteriously find boats? Come on really???
I could go on and on about how scripted this is. What a waste because I love the concept and there would be PLENTY of drama if this was a real race.
The unfortunate thing is that this could be a really cool show without it being scripted. Show the true race. The show is a great concept without dumbing it down. So frustrating.
The unfortunate thing is that this could be a really cool show without it being scripted. Show the true race. The show is a great concept without dumbing it down. So frustrating.
Late to the game here. I watch this with a 92 year old man I care for. He loves Alaska. We enjoy this show. After reading all the posts about the BS, I feel like SUCH an idiot. Everything written about the falseness of this show is so evident now. I hate that I'm such a sucker. Oh well, he hasn't called BS as we watch and it's mildly entertaining. I laugh now.
shareDon't let others ruin your fun. If you and/or whoever you watch it with enjoy it then that's really all that matters. :)
shareHow the f@#k can the mountaineers be 10 miles behind and still come back and win?
It all seems a bit suspect to me, especially if, or is it when? the endurance team wins the next 2 legs to leave it tied 3 ways and with it all to play for on the last leg.
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The last episode was one of the absolute worst in terms of being scripted and fake. The whole Tyler thing was unbelievably stupid. The river was not that powerful that it swept him downriver for miles. And they suddenly found him curled up in some logs five feet offshore? HUH??? Why the hell would be stay curled up there and not walk to shore? Makes absolute no sense. And the military team going to the top of a mountain to start a fire. Just unbelievably dumb.
And like you said, suddenly the mountaineers made up enough time by simply crossing the swamp when it would save at most an hour of walking and they beat the endurance team. Give me a break, you are telling me the endurance team, who was supposedly well ahead when they started climbing the rock wall didn't see the mountaineers coming from behind? And how did the military team finish third when they supposedly hiked without sleeping to make up time but the mountaineers who camped caught them?
Wow they really must think viewers are dumb. I can't believe I keep watching it.
WOW, the endurance won the next leg, leaving it still wide open, what a surprise, NOT!!
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