Idea for a Survivorman episode.

Sufler

Sufler

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Les is boring the cr@p out of me with the new series. I stopped watching. Same ideas recycled. Maybe he came back for the money? No doubt they offered him more after caning Bear. Anyway... I have an idea for an episode - he ought to hike the Appalachian trail. That would be interesting to see.

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Sufler said:
Les is boring the cr@p out of me with the new series. I stopped watching. Same ideas recycled. Maybe he came back for the money? No doubt they offered him more after caning Bear. Anyway... I have an idea for an episode - he ought to hike the Appalachian trail. That would be interesting to see.

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Totally agree. Very boring and I quit watching too. I think he came back because his feelings were hurt because other guys were having success and nobody was talking about him anymore. Read his interviews and he mentions several times that he "created" the survival genre and nobody else is doing it right.

When you have to talk about yourself and put down Bear (like he did in the Norway episode) in the middle of an episode, I'd say his ego is involved .

I won't be watching him anymore. His personality really turns me off. That and that damn harmonica.
 
I personally think it's boring because it's more real than the others. He does everything on his own. Bear did extreme stuff for entertainment(and had a camera crew), Dave and Cody had a camera crew and had several conflicts which created drama. Man Woman Wild also had a camera crew and had a couple. Les tries to be more educational. At least in my opinion.

(Before someone says it, I know Les had a crew several miles away)
 
I agree that his shows are less exciting (due to them being realistic).

It is nice to have a realistic show.
 
They might be realistic, but the techniques are still recycled from previous shows. Same thing over and over just different "surroundings". I used to like Survivorman because he was realistic with new ideas.
 
He should do dancing on ice but in the arctic with celebrity guests surrounded by polarbears and walrus's.
Or he could survivorman in them sattelites in space, like the russian dude in armageddon, or similar to darren brown in a glass box.
 
2,184 miles.

I'm sure there's something extreme about that.
 
I would like to see Les do more goal oriented shows. Like you mentioned: hike a trail (Inca Trail!), summit a mountain and back, run a river. Do something instead of just hang out and survive.
 
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2,184 miles.

I'm sure there's something extreme about that.
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Let him do that in the congo

I think your right though, barely any docs on surviving do our hobby type stuff like the appalacian, its all drama and unlikely hood.
Itll be something for people to relate too, rather than just watch.
*Itll be called bear grylls backpacking lite for a few months*, though.
 
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Let him do that in the congo

I think your right though, barely any docs on surviving do our hobby type stuff like the appalacian, its all drama and unlikely hood.
Itll be something for people to relate too, rather than just watch.
*Itll be called bear grylls backpacking lite for a few months*, though.
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Does make me wonder how many more people end up requiring assistance on the App. trail vs. a BMW stuck in the snow in Norway. Thousands of people hike the trail every year. Doubt any of 'em hot air balloon into Africa. Btw, the story of a dude surviving on a 6-pack - the delivery of that sounded so fake, I think he just made that up on the spot.
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I think comoha has it. Goal oriented. Les, quite frankly, just counts the days.

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I read Bill Bryson's awesome book ' A walk in the woods ' about his experiences on the Appalachian trail and while it would likely be great fun to take some months off and do I think it would make for a pretty boring TV show. Bill Bryson said for most of the trail you are confined to trees either side of you so views are quite limited. You pass through so many little towns that your trail needs are quite civilised compared to hiking through Alaska for example.
I think Les should take some tips from Lars Monsen and do some similar trips to his !
 
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I think comoha has it. Goal oriented. Les, quite frankly, just counts the days.

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This. I think sometimes Les just "survives" for seven days. Sometimes I wonder if it should be called "Starver Man.". Not saying he's not a badass, because I think he is, but I wonder how he will make his show more interesting to watch. I agree, goal oriented would make better tv, but would it sacrifice authenticity?
 
I've hiked several sections of the AT and after those, i'd never watch a show on it. The "green tunnel" just goes on and on and on and..... you get the idea.

I did watch that show about the group of people who were trekking through Alaska (forgot the name), but it was pretty cool. They hiked/navigated from site to site where they found provisions or shelter, etc. Les could something like that and teach a segment at each site on different aspects like food gathering, fire (and fire prep), shelters (if a particular segment didn't have one), etc.....
 
I would the to know the name of that show if anyone knows. Thanks. Perhaps he could mix in historical education stuff...hike the Malayan civilization areas and survive as they would have. Both in attire and tools. I would eat that up! Les meets apocolypto!
 
I agree that an educational program on how to survive in different environments using the techniques of different cultures would be interesting. I don't see many episodes of survival shows on TV, but I did see Ray Mears' "Survival in Samoa" on the Internet. That was of great interest to me, because I lived in Western Samoa as a Peace Corps volunteer and visited the area where that segment was filmed. I can state that the techniques shown on the segment are used by Samoans who don't "survive" in their environment but who live in it.
Faiaoga ("schoolteacher" in Samoan):cool:
 
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I would the to know the name of that show if anyone knows. Thanks. Perhaps he could mix in historical education stuff...hike the Malayan civilization areas and survive as they would have. Both in attire and tools. I would eat that up! Les meets apocolypto!
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Google!! I saw the "Season 2: Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment" - there were some *really* interesting personalities in the show, but all-in-all very interesting for a "reality" show.
 
I think they are all recycled at this point, I would to see a show no matter what person/team that they were completely prepared. Don't get me wrong it is very interesting to see them scrounge but what if they had the gear the always preach you should carry?
Their own choice of items, knives, fire starters, tarps etc. After all isn't this supposed to be educational and teach you to be prepared ? One show would not be over boring I'm kind of tired of all these so called experts being caught with their pants down when they should be as prepared as possible.
 
I think an AT show would be pretty boring. It would be out of character for Les S. In character would be to wave down a car at the first paved road he crosses and say.... wheww... time for a steak, mission accomplished.

I would much rather he be in some remote exotic place like the Amazon, Africa, a volcano in Indonesia, or somewhere close to one of the big undeveloped park such as Wrangell-St Elias in Alaska.
 
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