Pcj wrote: To be fair though "Bazza" it was nice to see the sleeping pods underwater,wake with fish looking through the window. I suspect the Skippers would of actually stayed onboard just werent shown. "Travel guides Australia" enjoyable series gave some ideas when lockdown is over what is on offer outside the big cities. |
Alan L wrote: Bazza, I get it - what is portrayed on TV. But generally that is a million miles from reality - even with reality TV. I won't go in to the programmes I have watched (naked people surviving on locusts in jungles) but then you have to think, how is the camera man managing. Is he naked and eating locusts too, and carrying a camera thru the snake infested swampy bogs while looking for a tree branch or another locust. I suspect so much is staged. Yes - bad PR, but when the punters get there (if they do in the covid world) I am guessing they will endure a bunch of restraints and do's and dont's. Look at White Is. Keep safe in covid world. My wife is eating my oysters - but there may be more crays coming soon. Alan |
Schampy wrote: There was a time back in the day when the likes of the Discovery channel used to feature interesting documentaries about pretty much anything and everything that involved animals and nature. Now days its just hour after hour of absolute bullish-t reality tv rubbish. Take Naked and Afraid.... I mean WTF - what is that supposed to be? Whats the point of it? Alaskan Bush people... give me a break, they are all paid actors. Notice how all their boats have brand new Yammys on the back. None of them would last a week out there in Reality. The shows that feature Hillbillys hunting the likes of Bigfoot,or mythical dog like creatures, UFOs etc....my god, who dreams this sh-t up? As Smudge said Wicked Tuna is the only thing bearable due to the fact they are actually catching a fish. But the whole manufactured rivalry between them, weigh ins, etc is on par with the likes of Jordy Shore but without the slappers. |
Schampy wrote: Does anyone remember a Discovery channel feature called 'Eaten Alive' Where a man deliberately allows himself to be injested by an Anaconda? A couple of years back. A complete twat dressed like Ned Kelly in a carbon fibre suit claimed there was a 40 ft snake out there and wanted it to eat him in the name of seeing what it would be like to be consumed alive. Alas after 1.5 hrs of just complete and utter BS and no mega-snake that was willing to put this total retard in its mouth they had to settle for some poor un-supecting snake in a zoo. After being smeared in pigs blood Ned Kelly tapped out because the snake constricted him and started to swallow his head. The snake had no chance of physically consuming him -as it would of been killed eating such a foreign object (composite suit) The whole episode was a complete debacle and was 2 hrs of my life I will never get back. To hear that Animal welfare groups all over the world climbed into the Discovery Chanel for causing so much stress to the snake in an effort to create what was in effect nothing more than an ill conceived stunt was at least a small piece of justice for unleashing such a ridiculous 2 hr "reality" documentary on the world. |
Schampy wrote: There was a time back in the day when the likes of the Discovery channel used to feature interesting documentaries about pretty much anything and everything that involved animals and nature. Now days its just hour after hour of absolute bullish-t reality tv rubbish. Take Naked and Afraid.... I mean WTF - what is that supposed to be? Whats the point of it? Alaskan Bush people... give me a break, they are all paid actors. Notice how all their boats have brand new Yammys on the back. None of them would last a week out there in Reality. The shows that feature Hillbillys hunting the likes of Bigfoot,or mythical dog like creatures, UFOs etc....my god, who dreams this sh-t up? As Smudge said Wicked Tuna is the only thing bearable due to the fact they are actually catching a fish. But the whole manufactured rivalry between them, weigh ins, etc is on par with the likes of Jordy Shore but without the slappers. |
Kandrew wrote:
“Naked and Afraid.... I mean WTF - what is that supposed to be?” That’s a classic Haha - getting bitten on the end of the —— by a fire ant! Have you seen Naked Attraction - naked people stand in a booth with 3 doors and they open up the doors from the bottom. The contestants choose the person in the booth based on how their parts look before they see their face. Where is TV going to! |
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