Surviorman, Season 2, Ep 6: Cook Islands

Gerberblades said:
Who are you watching? Just finished a few hours of yard work myself and getting ready to watch USC slap Nebraska around the field.

GB
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I just got done watching my Texas Longhorns underacheive once again and sneak out a win against Central Florida. Texas has some of the best talent in the country, but the coaching staff does a remarkable job of holding the talent back. I can't wait for the USC/NU game. As a fan of the Big 12 I want the Huskers to win, but I don't see that happening.
 
i read some where that pointed dive knives are outlawed due to folks chopping up coral reef.been wrong lots of time though.maybe some divers can dive in here to bring some light to this.
 
AustinTXShooter said:
I just got done watching my Texas Longhorns underacheive once again and sneak out a win against Central Florida. Texas has some of the best talent in the country, but the coaching staff does a remarkable job of holding the talent back. I can't wait for the USC/NU game. As a fan of the Big 12 I want the Huskers to win, but I don't see that happening.
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I don't know, Nebraska is looking pretty good right now...

GB
 
AustinTXShooter said:
I just got done watching my Texas Longhorns underacheive once again and sneak out a win against Central Florida. Texas has some of the best talent in the country, but the coaching staff does a remarkable job of holding the talent back. I can't wait for the USC/NU game. As a fan of the Big 12 I want the Huskers to win, but I don't see that happening.
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I think you called it right. They're getting back what they gave to Nevada a couple weeks ago.

GB
 
Nebraska has definitely improved their talent level since Calahan took over, but they still have an amazing ability to choke away victories in big games. While USC straight blew them out tonight, NU choked away a sure victory against Texas last season.

To keep this related to Survivorman, I have a few more thoughts about last nights episode.

- I would have liked to see him try and make some snares or traps to catch the rats, although if I was him I would rather have had seafood as well. Hard to blame him.

- Seeing the four stages of the coconuts was really cool.

- Sleeping in the boat didn't bother me at all. The premise was that he was a diver whose boat either ran around or hit coral and was therefore unsailable (is that a word). All the gear he had, minus the ukelele, was gear that a diver would have with them so using the boat as a survival shelter is not out of the question and is really quite smart.

- I'm kind of surprised he didn't have a machete of some sort, but I guess that is keeping with the idea that he was a stranded diver.

- A final thing that made this the best episode of the season is we didn't get a ton of "Blair Witch Project Moments" where we get to see him on the green night vision camera tell us how scared he is every single night before he goes to bed.
 
I agree. I think that thumping a few rats would have made for better reviews than whacking the booby but it did look tasty. And efficient. Not much difference between a rat and a squirrel once they're skinned.

GB
 
Fish, deer, cops, parking places- when you don't want one, they are everywhere. When you want one, you can't find them for love or money. *shrugs*

And I don't think I'd have eaten the rats. Not enough meat on them to be worth the effort unless you set up a lot of traps. Which means a lot of bait.
 
One of the better ep's this season. All the water and food he could want for a week.

I expected to see:
Les make a protected fire in the boat.
Les make a comfy bed in the boat out of leaves.
Les catch a fish. Any fish. Just catch a freaking fish will ya.

I laughed after Les talked about saving the knife's edge, then proceed to chop on the wood like it was a hatchet.
 
AustinTXShooter said:
- Seeing the four stages of the coconuts was really cool.
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I wish he had explained it some more.
Was the solid inner from a sprouted coconut?
My understanding is that immature ones are good for water and "jelly" and the mature ones are good for the inner lining that we are all familiar with as coconut meat. But I am not familiar with the solid inside.

All in all I love the show; I wish it was a little more original form S1 (this was a little like lost at sea and Costa Rica) but it is still my favorite show.
Bill
 
AustinTXShooter said:
- Sleeping in the boat didn't bother me at all. The premise was that he was a diver whose boat either ran around or hit coral and was therefore unsailable (is that a word). All the gear he had, minus the ukelele, was gear that a diver would have with them so using the boat as a survival shelter is not out of the question and is really quite smart.
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wasnt the premise that he had been left by a dive boat that forgot about him?
 
btuner said:
wasnt the premise that he had been left by a dive boat that forgot about him?
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He said that getting left by a dive boat was one way you could get stranded on the island. I don't think he ever said exactly how he was supposed to have gotten in the situation, I just kind of assumed that since there was a boat there that he was pretending his boat had been damaged and run aground.
 
I didn't see the first couple of minutes, so I don't know if I have the setup right. Was Les supposedly out diving by himself and crashed his boat on the island, or was he abandoned and found his way to an island that already had a wrecked boat?

If the former, I think they should have sacrificed a seaworthy boat. If the latter, a lot of stuff theat Les used wouldn't have been along. I mean, Your dive bag, Leatherman, harmonica, mask case, SHIRT, and such would still be on the dive boat, not with the diver in the water.

At first, I liked that Les was taking a bit more gear with him this season, but now I'm starting to think that it is getting in the way. I like that they describe a scenario that places him in the situation, along with pieces of gear or supplies that fit in that scenario. C'mon, though. How likely is it that there would have been a pry bar on that wreck? Also, I'll admit that it has been a few years since I've been diving, but I've never heard of any diver carrying a waterproof capusle with pen flares and such.

-- FLIX
 
FLIX said:
I didn't see the first couple of minutes, so I don't know if I have the setup right. Was Les supposedly out diving by himself and crashed his boat on the island, or was he abandoned and found his way to an island that already had a wrecked boat?

If the former, I think they should have sacrificed a seaworthy boat. If the latter, a lot of stuff theat Les used wouldn't have been along. I mean, Your dive bag, Leatherman, harmonica, mask case, SHIRT, and such would still be on the dive boat, not with the diver in the water.

At first, I liked that Les was taking a bit more gear with him this season, but now I'm starting to think that it is getting in the way. I like that they describe a scenario that places him in the situation, along with pieces of gear or supplies that fit in that scenario. C'mon, though. How likely is it that there would have been a pry bar on that wreck? Also, I'll admit that it has been a few years since I've been diving, but I've never heard of any diver carrying a waterproof capusle with pen flares and such.

-- FLIX
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Flix,
I have been driving myself crazy searching the web for any type of "rescue tube" like he had. No luck at all; does not exist IMO.

The set up was he was diving and then swam to an island where the production crew had dumped the boat.
It was never explained as either he washed ashore and found a boat or his boat ran aground; kind of a mixture of both scenarios.
Bill
 
It looks like the last episode of the season may have been tonight. While watching the Behind-the-Scenes episode tonight he said that he wanted to go to a nice location to finish off the season so he went to the Cook Islands, a tropical island paradise. It sucks that there were only six or seven episodes this year. Maybe they will show some more in the Spring, but a season shouldn't be this short. There are no additional episodes listed on Wikipedia, TVGuide.com or the official Survivorman sight, so it looks like this year is done.
 
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