Alone in the Wild

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http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/alone-in-the-wild

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/alone-in-the-wild

Anyone see this last night? It was on Channel 4. Thought it was very interesting. One thing I don't understand though is where he gets all the batteries for his equipment!

LaLucy

It drove me mad it was so ridiculous. Why go into the wild alone? It is a total rip off of the movie into the wild so check that out, it has a lot more substance and there is an actual conclusion. With this programme, i think they have just run out of ideas for tv! The guy is so annoying, even in the adverts when he was crying wondering what he had got himself into, i was thinking exactly dude! What a total sham basically it sucks and tried to add depth with finger plucking style guitar music because it lacked so much meaning!

lostexpectation

twas silly

SoupyNorman

It's been done, and done better by Les Stroud.

TarfHead

It's already been well aired how this ends.

If you don't already know, and want to, search for 'Alone in the Wild' in Google News.

Much as you might have expected.

L31mr0d

I liked it tbh. Probably more so because I've been camping in the Canadian wilderness.

It isn't an educational show, which is why comparisons to Les Stroud are not appropriate. It also isn't a drama with actors which is why comparisons to "Into the wild" are equally as false.

It's about one mans dreams of isolating himself in the wilderness, with little to no experience and a video log of how he got on. It's more fly-on-the-wall than anything. People who are saying "why do it?"... well why not?

People will watch shows about others struggling to climb Everest, or a video log of someone hiking to the poles, this is no different. This mans dream was clearly to reconnect with nature, and get back to his primal roots. What I find interesting is that even though he prepared himself physically for the challenge, he clearly has not prepared himself mentally.

I know myself when I was camping in bear/cougar country that the slightest twig breaking would wake me up and instantly pump adrenaline into my blood. Sleeping soundly was never an option, and this was with a group of other guys in the tents with sawn off shotguns. I can't even imagine what sleeping there, alone, would of done to my ability to get rest at night.

Hrududu

He made sure to have the camera trained on himself for way too much of this. Instead of seeing a bear in the distance we'd get a shot of him looking terrified saying "there's a bear in the distance."

seanybiker

I enjoyed it kinda. Mainly when he started crying.

lostexpectation

L31mr0d wrote: »

I liked it tbh. Probably more so because I've been camping in the Canadian wilderness.

It isn't an educational show, which is why comparisons to Les Stroud are not appropriate. It also isn't a drama with actors which is why comparisons to "Into the wild" are equally as false.

It's about one mans dreams of isolating himself in the wilderness, with little to no experience and a video log of how he got on. It's more fly-on-the-wall than anything. People who are saying "why do it?"... well why not?

People will watch shows about others struggling to climb Everest, or a video log of someone hiking to the poles, this is no different. This mans dream was clearly to reconnect with nature, and get back to his primal roots. What I find interesting is that even though he prepared himself physically for the challenge, he clearly has not prepared himself mentally.

I know myself when I was camping in bear/cougar country that the slightest twig breaking would wake me up and instantly pump adrenaline into my blood. Sleeping soundly was never an option, and this was with a group of other guys in the tents with sawn off shotguns. I can't even imagine what sleeping there, alone, would of done to my ability to get rest at night.

the guy couldn't get enough food to feed himself what more do we need to know

SoupyNorman

L31mr0d wrote: »

I liked it tbh. Probably more so because I've been camping in the Canadian wilderness.

It isn't an educational show, which is why comparisons to Les Stroud are not appropriate. It also isn't a drama with actors which is why comparisons to "Into the wild" are equally as false.

It's about one mans dreams of isolating himself in the wilderness, with little to no experience and a video log of how he got on. It's more fly-on-the-wall than anything. People who are saying "why do it?"... well why not?

People will watch shows about others struggling to climb Everest, or a video log of someone hiking to the poles, this is no different. This mans dream was clearly to reconnect with nature, and get back to his primal roots. What I find interesting is that even though he prepared himself physically for the challenge, he clearly has not prepared himself mentally.

I know myself when I was camping in bear/cougar country that the slightest twig breaking would wake me up and instantly pump adrenaline into my blood. Sleeping soundly was never an option, and this was with a group of other guys in the tents with sawn off shotguns. I can't even imagine what sleeping there, alone, would of done to my ability to get rest at night.

I can take your point about it being a re-connection with nature, I too would love to head out into the Canadian wilderness, however he set a trap which impressed me...then what does he do only take his gun and shoot a Porcupine at point blank range up a tree.


The whole concept just seems pointless to me, I dont want to come across too harshly as the guy did a very brave thing!!

L31mr0d

SoupyNorman wrote: »

I can take your point about it being a re-connection with nature, I too would love to head out into the Canadian wilderness, however he set a trap which impressed me...then what does he do only take his gun and shoot a Porcupine at point blank range up a tree.

This is the thing. He's not putting on an act for the audience. When he says he sees a bear he's not thinking to turn the camera where he is looking. He does kill the porcupine out of desperation and hunger. It feels more human.

I know when we where out hunting, and when he hadn't found any Deer or Elk for a few days we just stood under a tree with some wild grouse in it and just shot them with a .22

We where hungry, and the feeling of not having caught anything was demoralizing. The grouse was not only a welcome break from the usual bland camp food, but was a bit of a morale boost as well. It was not what we wanted to catch, but at least we had caught something.

I've set up the DVR to record the rest of this series anyway. Camping, relatively untethered to society is always something I've wanted to experience. Although I'd say from watching this that it's really solidified my opinion that I'd never do it alone.

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Hrududu wrote: »

He made sure to have the camera trained on himself for way too much of this. Instead of seeing a bear in the distance we'd get a shot of him looking terrified saying "there's a bear in the distance."

What was he supposed to do? Say to the bear: "now don't attack me, just stay there so I can get a good shot of you with my camera.." :rolleyes:

He was saying "there's a bear in the distance" and saying to himself over and over "Don't run, Don't run...." he was clearly sh**ting himself and trying his best to stay calm, so as not to attract the attention of the bear.

That is, of course, assuming that there even was a bear, his mind could have been playing tricks on him. Even so, he was still terrified!

lostexpectation

he could turned the camera round it was his very profession to do so.

LaLucy

L31mr0d wrote: »

I liked it tbh. Probably more so because I've been camping in the Canadian wilderness.

It isn't an educational show, which is why comparisons to Les Stroud are not appropriate. It also isn't a drama with actors which is why comparisons to "Into the wild" are equally as false.

It's about one mans dreams of isolating himself in the wilderness, with little to no experience and a video log of how he got on. It's more fly-on-the-wall than anything. People who are saying "why do it?"... well why not?

People will watch shows about others struggling to climb Everest, or a video log of someone hiking to the poles, this is no different. This mans dream was clearly to reconnect with nature, and get back to his primal roots. What I find interesting is that even though he prepared himself physically for the challenge, he clearly has not prepared himself mentally.

I know myself when I was camping in bear/cougar country that the slightest twig breaking would wake me up and instantly pump adrenaline into my blood. Sleeping soundly was never an option, and this was with a group of other guys in the tents with sawn off shotguns. I can't even imagine what sleeping there, alone, would of done to my ability to get rest at night.

The movie into the wild is based on a true story about a young newly graduated guy wanting to leave society and isolate himself from humans and make it on his own. We follow the actor on the journey the real person made and discover with him that his idea of wanting to isolate himself left him traumatised, lonely and reflective. You have said this tv programme is not educational, it is to show us how he deals with being in the wild. I just find the concept so boring and predictable. He was born in a hospital and brought up in civilisation, how can he expect to go into nature and tap into his inner caveman? I can't learn anything from his experience. What is the point of making a tv programme if you are not going to try and teach something to viewers? Well in regards to a documentary anyway.

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He doesn't make it seem as easy as Bear Grylls. I think Ed puts more into it than him tbh

Stroud is still better though