Surviorman, Season 2, Ep 6: Cook Islands

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This is my new fave ep of Season 2! He really hearkens back to S1 in terms of doing more than just enduring, but, like the other S2 shows, he had A LOT of gear...
 
This has been great so far. He actually killed something when he went hunting and he had some good advice about using a knife (news that is not new to posters on this forum, but still useful knowledge.) I hope he sets some traps/snares to catch some of the rodents.

I know a lot of us had a problem with him lashing his rambo knife to a stick to make a spear. While we didn't have anything to do with him changing his ways, he did apparently learn his lesson and he sacrificed his harmonica in order to make a fishing gig/spear. He hasn't used it yet, but it looks very functional if he can find some flounder or something to gig. He also used the boat propeller to form a make-shift axe.
 
I've been gigging for flounder off the Texas coast and while I don't know that they move because they become aware that people are a threat, I can vouch for the fact that a certain area can be wall-to-wall with flounders one night and not have any the next day.
 
MG_Saldivar said:
AND he wasn't full of angst about it! :D
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Is it just me, or have their been a lot less apologies for killing things this season? Maybe it is because he hasn't ate much in the previous episodes, but in the first season it seems that he was apologizing for killing everything and it doesn't seem that way this year.
 
Well, if he ate like that in every episode he'd have to go on a diet.

He was more full of angst about killing the harmonica than any critter, which was good to see.
 
Pretty good episode. He bashed the helpless Booby with a stick right on camera, and (mostly) showed the gutting. He had nowhere to go, too, so he stayed put, and actually ate well. Dig the coconut cookware. Trés civilized. The night fishing seemed like a stretch, though. He was probably just bored. ;)
 
1. I like that wolf tattoo he was sporting.

2. The Gilligan's Island-style buffet at the end of the ep was great. :p

3. WTF with the rats? I would've strung some up as warning to the others... hehehe...
 
boing said:
Pretty good episode. He bashed the helpless Booby with a stick right on camera, and (mostly) showed the gutting. He had nowhere to go, too, so he stayed put, and actually ate well. Dig the coconut cookware. Trés civilized. The night fishing seemed like a stretch, though. He was probably just bored. ;)
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Your right, he had to be bored. Anyone would be bored if they had to sit inside the hull of a wooden boat for 24 hours waiting for the rain to stop. The night fishing would have been much easier if he didn't have to film it, since he really needed three hands to hold the camera, torch and spear. Even though he didn't gig any flounder, I really like the spear he made and he had the right idea in catching them. I think his diving float trotline thing would have worked eventually, but who knows.
 
My favorite episode this year, but Les is a piss poor fisherman, I really want to try one of those solid coconuts. :D Chris
 
It wasn't a "starvingman" episode, that's for sure.

I had to see his tat in the lowlight to figure out what it was. For a while, I was thinking it was a Godzilla-sized onion on a mountainside!
 
ironraven said:
It wasn't a "starvingman" episode, that's for sure.

I had to see his tat in the lowlight to figure out what it was. For a while, I was thinking it was a Godzilla-sized onion on a mountainside!
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I thought it was a head of garlic, I actually had to pause it to take a good look.:D
 
MG_Saldivar said:
3. WTF with the rats? I would've strung some up as warning to the others... hehehe...
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Isn't rat a delacacy in parts of Asia? :confused:;)

There were a couple buckets on the boat (although a bit small). A bucket trap and a rat dinner might have made for some real interesting TV.
 
I liked that new tatto of the seal and the wolf? Ive always longed to taste boobie breasts!:p
 
Does anyone know what kind of a knife he was using? It looked like the tip was broken off, or are diving knives designed that way intentionally? It definitely wasn't the 119 he has been using and wasn't the rambo knife he used in the African Planes episode.
 
AustinTXShooter said:
Does anyone know what kind of a knife he was using? It looked like the tip was broken off, or are diving knives designed that way intentionally? It definitely wasn't the 119 he has been using and wasn't the rambo knife he used in the African Planes episode.
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Dive knives usually have a blunt tip on 'em. I can't ID the knife he used but it was definately a dive knife.
 
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