On Discovery.

The premise: Crazy thirtysomething Brit guy named Bear gets dropped in the middle of somewhere dangerous with only a water bottle, a knife, and a flint.

My dad loves this show, so today we watched some of them together. So far I have seen him in the French Alps, the Mojave, and the Everglades.

I find myself waiting for some kind of tragedy.

Apparently he has drunk water extracted from elephant poo.

burun wrote:
I find myself waiting for some kind of tragedy.

Me too. Alas, man always wins.
I can't figure out how this shit is being filmed- is the cameraman on some
lift drinking a beer through all this shit? Or is the Navy Seal dude that much more of a badass for setting up the camera himself.. like on the
side of a cliff?
Great show, though.
NC

Not only did he drink water gotten from elephant shit, he pissed on his shirt and then proceeded to use wrap it around his head and mouth to stay cool.

This dude is tough as nails. NOT CRAP.

You beat me too this one. Not Crap.

The real question is:

"Man vs Wild" V. "Survivorman"

Survivorman is more compelling as there is no camera man. He literally does some things twice just to get a shot of himself doing it.

I saw this show first so was disappointed in the SAS dude when I found out he wasn't alone.
Surviving is hard, but probably way harder when you can't be like "seriously dude, I broke my ankle can you just help me up?"

Not crap.

Did anyone see the one in Iceland??! That was by far the craziest shit Bear's ever done.

Jumping into a freezing glacier river in below zero temperatures only to climb the fifty foot wall at the other side of the river and run to boiling volcanic mud a good 500 ft away all the while coming with in a minute or so of hypothermia. He really earned the name 'Bear.'

He drank his own pee in the outback. Far worse than Iceland.

Crap...

For a show that is allegedly trying to inform the viewer how he might get himself out of a tricky situation in the wilderness, he seems to do and or advocate some pretty risky things. I guess he has that luxury given that unlike Les' "Survivorman" he has a film crew with him every step of the way.

WF= 6 mostly becasue like five minutes after he pisses on his shirt and wraps it around his face in the Utah desert, he recklessly scurries up a crease in a slot canyon (very dangerous...) and like a fiend grabs an egg from a nest he found and cracks it open right on his teeth and sucks up its protien -laden goodness.

Bonus Crap Factor= the name. I just have a problem with the whole Calvanist/ Biblical "Man Vs Wild" thing.

DD

sandinojones wrote:Crap...

For a show that is allegedly trying to inform the viewer how he might get himself out of a tricky situation in the wilderness, he seems to do and or advocate some pretty risky things.

DD

In his defense i've heard him say many times at the beginning of the show that the things he does are sort of "if all else fails"
he normally recommends finding shelter and waiting for help to arrive.

sandinojones wrote:Crap...

For a show that is allegedly trying to inform the viewer how he might get himself out of a tricky situation in the wilderness, he seems to do and or advocate some pretty risky things. I guess he has that luxury given that unlike Les' "Survivorman" he has a film crew with him every step of the way.

WF= 6 mostly becasue like five minutes after he pisses on his shirt and wraps it around his face in the Utah desert, he recklessly scurries up a crease in a slot canyon (very dangerous...) and like a fiend grabs an egg from a nest he found and cracks it open right on his teeth and sucks up its protien -laden goodness.

Bonus Crap Factor= the name. I just have a problem with the whole Calvanist/ Biblical "Man Vs Wild" thing.

DD

How many people actually expect to be stranded in the middle of the Australian outback or the Icelandic wilderness? The show's main goal isn't to educate people on how to survive in the "wild", it's about entertainment, the shock value...so we can sit around and talk about all the crazy shit Bear Grylls (wow. just wow. With a name like that, it's like this guy was destined to drink his own urine) does. Stuff usually reserved for lame ass shows like Fear Factor. Like when he plucked that nasty spider from its web and...ug...I can't even say it. I hate spiders. I dunno...so what if he performs dangerous stunts. I don't plan on scaling any cliffsides, like, ever. TV shows are made to entertain me. Watching Man vs. Wild, I am entertained. Therefore, not crap.