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Comments
Upstairs Dweller (not verified)
Mon, 2010-03-08 08:02
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Survivorman
"TV abstracts the real ugliness of survival.... They make the wilderness look like it’s a romantic place"
Obviously people attacking the Survivorman show have not watched the show, or not very closely. Unless they define romantic as starving for a week, being stalked by a panther, eaten alive by mosquitoes, surrounded by swarming inscetcts, etc.
This article has skewed the facts in attempts to attack the show. Many people live off the adrenaline high of taking risks most other people consider crazy. This poor man who tragically died in the winderness appears to be one such person and would likely have faced death in the same or some other risky situation even if never having watched Survivorman.
David
Mon, 2010-03-08 19:28
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I'm not quite sure how much I
I'm not quite sure how much I agree.
Stroud, for example, hawks bidirectional GPS trackers in commercials and carries a satellite phone himself, but I think that this only got mentioned once in a single episode.
Survivorman is the most accurate portrayal among survival-themed shows that I've seen though, and I wouldn't apply the criticisms to his show in the same way as to other shows. Some like Survivor really have very little to do with survival - where you might get some of the romantic stuff from - and another Man vs. Wild has the host staying overnight in hotels and having a camera crew on scene.
BTW, do you still have my copy of Survivorman Season 2?