Bear Grylls urban survival

Liam Ryan

Liam Ryan

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I watched the first bit an he was doing parkour on rooftops, laughed and switched the channel. Flipped back and he's showing how to descend an elevator shaft. WTF?:eek::p

He must get viewers that just want to see what crazy stuff he will do next!
 
Bear likes getting paid. He does the stupid geek stunts that the directors tell him to do.

Reality t.v. afterall has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with reality.
 
that rat area was so painfully set up with all those pipes just randomly falling perfectly intoplace,

but even with the set up stuff he is still doing some crazy stuff, and you certainly wouldnt see me doing any of it, set up or not.
i still enjoy watching him.
 
So we're labeling this type of thing as adventertainment. I like it, beats mockumentary.
 
G'day Wildmike

wildmike said:
Bear likes getting paid. He does the stupid geek stunts that the directors tell him to do.

Reality t.v. afterall has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with reality.
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Now you've gone & done it :(

You have shattered all my delusions :thumbdn:

You mean to tell me, that after all these years of believing what I see on TV, that it's not real ?

The next thing your going to tell me is that not everyone on the internet is talking from real first hand experience?

What ever am I going to do?



One disallusioned
Mick :thumbdn:
 
He was doing some CRAZY stuff in this one. Crawling all in a vent shaft with a rooftar torch burning? Dude is a lunatic, I love watching his adventuretainment!
 
GrinderMcgee said:
He was doing some CRAZY stuff in this one. Crawling all in a vent shaft with a rooftar torch burning? Dude is a lunatic, I love watching his adventuretainment!
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I sure get the impression that this stuff is pretty well scripted and controlled. Not so much a lunatic as a stuntman with good TV personality (debatable for sure).
 
I watch it sometimes hoping to see stuff go wrong and then see how he would deal with it.

Survivor Man is much more useful and real. I watched one the other day where he was in the desert, he tried several ways to get water but just couldn't get enough and admitted after only two days instead of his usual seven that he couldn't go on and had to bail.

I laughed when he polished the bottom of a pop can with chocolate and sand to make a magnifier and use the sun to start a fire, didn't think it would work but damned if it did.

Anybody watch Larry Dahlberg's Hunt for Big Fish? The guy has always been an amazing fisherman but man if he isn't a tough little SOB. I saw an episode the other day where he had like a 30 lb wolf fish on in the jungles of Suranam and was trying to unhook it with short pliers and got a hook stuck in his finger while the fish was still hooked "cringe" he ended up having to rip the hook free and then taped it and kept fishing. I had the same thing happen with a 3 lb pickeral and a much smaller hook and I can't imagine how that felt with fish ten times bigger and a much bigger hook.
 
It's like Mythbusters without the brains.

Or, rather, the children's cartoon script instead of the "explore this idea" script.

I'm nto phrasing this well. It's fun, and fun to figure out the stunts, but not "reality" tv
 
akthor said:
I watch it sometimes hoping to see stuff go wrong and then see how he would deal with it.

Survivor Man is much more useful and real. I watched one the other day where he was in the desert, he tried several ways to get water but just couldn't get enough and admitted after only two days instead of his usual seven that he couldn't go on and had to bail.

I laughed when he polished the bottom of a pop can with chocolate and sand to make a magnifier and use the sun to start a fire, didn't think it would work but damned if it did.
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This guy made snow shoes out of car seats and walked out (15-25 miles?) to recreate a couple's struggle to stay alive and what they could have done better. Les Stroud is very entertaining and I always end up learning something too.
 
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