the island series two

[jkh112]

So they have been given a purified can now after being given the surprisingly tame wild pigs.
Edit: and now given fish.
Does not seem very even treatment between the 2 islands.

Edited by jkh112 on Wednesday 6th May 22:00

[ezi]

Apparently next week on the women's island a McDonald's franchise is opening.

[kev1974]

And now they have dial-a-fish delivery service! Why not go the whole way and just deliver hot pizza to them!

I still want to know how they get fully charged batteries for the cameras and radios, there's clearly deliveries of those every few days! And surely after 5 weeks you'd think some of them would be a bit hairy by now?

[ch108]

Was the last mens episode the one with Vic crashing the fishing raft? Don't know why, when i tuned in tonight i expected to see the mens island not the womens. Just wondered if I had missed an episode.

[lemmingjames]

Think i need to rewatch it but where did they find the tubular plants and lots of that stuff?

[bazza white]

ch108 said:

Was the last mens episode the one with Vic crashing the fishing raft? Don't know why, when i tuned in tonight i expected to see the mens island not the womens. Just wondered if I had missed an episode.

Due to election no men's this week, why they opted for women's a day early I don't know maybe they were pulled and shorter series on the women's side.

[ch108]

bazza white said:

ch108 said:

Was the last mens episode the one with Vic crashing the fishing raft? Don't know why, when i tuned in tonight i expected to see the mens island not the womens. Just wondered if I had missed an episode.

Due to election no men's this week, why they opted for women's a day early I don't know maybe they were pulled and shorter series on the women's side.

Thanks for the info. Womens episode was pretty poor tonight I thought. Don't know whats worse, cluelessness leading to dehydration or all the annoying whooping and shouting amongst themselves when they were well again!

[stanwan]

Anyone notice one of the girls had a short cut scene onc the jerry can was found? Her water was completely crystal clear.......

[slipstream 1985]

They are fking useless. No forward planning at all.

[wilwak]

They seem to be getting lots of sneaky help.

Tame pigs, tins of baked beans and a clean Jerry can.

Last night a local fisherman delivered them a fish. Did he not wonder why there were 10 women appearing stranded on a uninhabitated Island?

He must have thought it was Christmas! ;-)

[croyde]

Never mind all that, when's the Lesbo action gonna start

[Quickmoose]

Accepting they're genuinely losing lots of weight, dehydrated, bitten to death, parasites, the runs etc, they are clearly VERY uncomfortable..... but fk me are they daft.
35 days in and they still appear to be focused on sunbathing and not on making a bed thats off the ground?!
...and halving their water production?! jesus wept...

[bakerstreet]

kev1974 said:

And now they have dial-a-fish delivery service! Why not go the whole way and just deliver hot pizza to them!

I still want to know how they get fully charged batteries for the cameras and radios, there's clearly deliveries of those every few days! And surely after 5 weeks you'd think some of them would be a bit hairy by now?

Cameras probably go through at least 3 or four batteries a day and I am guessing they are dumped in a suitable place and collected by the crew. You can use double batteries on the bigger 2/3in camera, but it starts to get very heavy and cumbersome at that point. All the cameras will be solid state (SDHC/SXS/P2), so they could go through 12 cards a day if they film everything over a 24hr period. They would have to be given to someone or put in a safe place until the end of the show. Radio Mics probably run on AA,s but maybe converted to run on something larger, so they last longer.

The Camera ops still probably have to do a lot of work to keep the kit running along with delivering footage. Solid state can take a bit more punishment than older tape cameras, but sand and sea can still be a nightmare.

Like others, I am getting frustrated by the woman's island. They seem completely clueless and have no real plan to get food and spend an awful lot of time tidying! However, I think a few of them are quite fit, so I keep watching it

[croyde]

As a cameraman myself and knowing one of the guys in the first series, I'll echo the above and confirm that the day's cards and batteries are left in a secure box somewhere out of site and are collected with fresh gear left behind by a crew on a neighbouring island.

[schmalex]

croyde said:

As a cameraman myself and knowing one of the guys in the first series, I'll echo the above and confirm that the day's cards and batteries are left in a secure box somewhere out of site and are collected with fresh gear left behind by a crew on a neighbouring island.

I see absolutely no problem with that in the context of the making of a TV program, as long as the islanders have no contact with the crew.

Equally, I have no real issue with the subtle augmentation of food and drinking water on the islands, which the contestants have to collect, kill, sterilise and cook themselves.

Where I think the ladies' island is really letting itself down is the blatant supplementation of food & water. So far, in the last three screenings, we have seen:

• Very tame piglets
• A, quite obviously, sedated mummy piggy
• Tins of baked beans
• The mysterious sterilisation of a jerry can, having been full of putrid pork meat only days before
• Someone drinking what looked like crystal clear Evian
• The fortuitous appearance of fishermen who kindly donated a freshly caught barracuda

Clearly from a H&S point of view, the contestants can't be completely abandoned on an island and be left to live or die, but there is a fine line between subtle augmentation that still requires survival skills to gain the benefit from and blatant assistance that, in my opinion, has been well and truly crossed on the ladies' island.

These women are an embarrassment. So far, in 35 days, they have not managed to:

• Create an environment that allows them to rest and manage their situation
• Source, filter and sterilise sufficient water to sustain the group
• Source a sufficient supply of food
• Create any sort of leadership within the community (other than, perhaps Lauren)
• Create a rota to evenly distribute and rotate tasks

All they seem to be interested in is crying and sunbathing.

All, apart from Lauren (is she the girl who killed the pigs?), should hang their heads in shame.

[Foliage]

I think your being a bit harsh, what you've said is true but its a TV program and most people will watch it for the drama, its difficult to make a survival program without being criticized, but the last thing they want is for someone to go home with permanent damage.

Its also worth remembering that these people have been picked because they lack any survival knowledge/skills, they will make mistakes, getting it wrong is the best way to learn.

Anyone who knows about Bear Grylls programs knows that they "cheat" a little to make good TV, but with each program that uses his name they get clearer and clearer on what help they have given the contestants.

[Ayahuasca]

There are lots of fishermen around those islands so one turning up with a fish is actually very realistic.

[croyde]

Islands are in the Pacific so they say, yet Bear says that they are 5000 miles from the UK???

[jkh112]

The boat which came to the rescue of the women in one of the early episodes had the name of a dive school on it. I googled it at the time and found it is based in islands just off the West coast of Panama ( or in that region at least - it was a few weeks ago!)
Edit: UK to Panama is around 5,000 miles.

Edited by jkh112 on Thursday 7th May 17:37

[prand]

jkh112 said:

The boat which came to the rescue of the women in one of the early episodes had the name of a dive school on it. I googled it at the time and found it is based in islands just off the east coast of Panama ( or in that region at least - it was a few weeks ago!)

Lady last night was trying to converse in Spanish, so I thought possibly Phillipines, but I read the croc the men killed was an endangered "American Crocodile", so I assumed somewhere in central America.