"You shouldn't be in my life"

drystyx

This is supposed to be some news exposes of survival against the elements and the wild.

What we get, though, are narratives that leave one thinking a narrator is pulling on a con job.

We get "morons" who maybe shouldn't be alive, because of their brazen ignorance, but that's a bit harsh. Honestly, though, the show should be called "I Shouldn't be in your life", because these are poor stewards of what they have, and are very destructive. They're the sort of people who dig holes deeper and deeper for their acquaintances, and bury anyone who depends on them. There wouldn't even be a survival story if they weren't punks to begin with.

One case is a jerk who goes to the Amazon, with no preparation, just because he is a rich kid, and he brings his dog with him. "Thanks a lot, pal". He lets two guides he can barely understand take him into a camp of cutthroats. He abandons his guides that night, which may be the only sensible thing he does in this entire mess, and takes his dog down river in a craft, with no idea where he is going.

He wrecks and saves only a few items. Loses his dog, but we know the dog will turn up later. He worries about Malaria, but has not a bit of mosquito repellent or citronella. He complains about hunger, even though he has insects, an Amazon basin which probably has worms in every inch of ground, a river of fish, and plenty of vegetation to at least make soup out of. He does have fire, so this would just be a case of "roughing it" to most people. He nearly dies. When his dog returns to him after a week, he doesn't even go see what his dog has been feeding on, or use the dog's hunting capability. He just tries to be as poor a steward as he can.

All this is his narrative. A viewer gets the feeling that what really happened is SPOILER-his guides and the cutthroats beat him up and ate his dog, and he was too humiliated to tell the truth.

These are people you wouldn't even want to make a single decision for you. Whether they be morons or self destructive punks, the bottom line is that you don't want them around you.

score 2/10

drystyx 27 November 2010

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