the island series two

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nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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Suggestion for next year's series. Four separate islands.

1) 14 regular men
2) 14 regular women
3) 6 squaddies without an NCO
4) 6 mixed men and women aged around 40-55 with a variety of backgrounds.

My money's on a close tie between 3 and 4 - the programmes have shown that the older people cope so much better, and have more practical skills.

croyde

22,702 posts

229 months

Wednesday 20th May 2015
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4 separate islands as above but they all have speedboats and only one island has food.

nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Wednesday 20th May 2015
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croyde said:
4 separate islands as above but they all have speedboats and only one island has food.
.......and there's an Uzi hidden on one island. Or you could always make a garotte from twisted coconut fibres.

Foliage

3,861 posts

121 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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I would do

14 regular people mixed guys and gals 18-39
14 wannabe/armchair survalists/preppers
14 older people 40-60

Munter

31,319 posts

240 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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I was thinking
One island of long term unemployed "but I really want to work"
Another of long term employed at manual bottom of the pile jobs
And another for managers/estate agents/freelance consulting yougurt weaving analysts

Dan_1981

17,352 posts

198 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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The guys seemed to have had it pretty nailed down.

Yeah they were hungry but that was likely to be always the case.

Decent rota's etc, a fire burning for over a month. Good water systems etc.

People wandered off into the jungle and they were concerned if they didn't return in a few hours.... not 3 days like the women.


It felt like the guys one was edited to make it a bit more interesting, and they might have had the odd problem, where as the womens felt edited to show that they weren't brought off early and had to be spoon fed most of the way through.

kev1974

4,029 posts

128 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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Munter said:
I was thinking
One island of long term unemployed "but I really want to work"
Another of long term employed at manual bottom of the pile jobs
And another for managers/estate agents/freelance consulting yougurt weaving analysts
Only a couple of steps of further development away from The Running Man! biggrin

I think whatever credibility the show and Bear "phoned my performance in" Gryls still had, evaporated with the endings of both the womens and the mens series. In both cases they'd spent several weeks showing what incompetent / lazy / fighty muppets they all were, only to completely turn it around in the last few minutes and show them all as best buddies / make out they were all super-successful. In both cases we had Bear "I put two whole days of work into this series" Gryls making out that they had proved they could survive bla bla etc. Er not really, only because you helped them out with miraculously repaired nets / cleaned jerry cans / fish deliveries / tranquilised pigs (men too).

WTF was the sissiness with the turtles about? They were DEAD ANYWAY. So eat them. (not that I'd expect there to be much meat on them since they only came out of their eggs hours before, but still!). Or leave them for a bird to eat. Bunch of jessies.

I think I would like to see a squaddie version, as mentioned in a post above. Trouble is it would probably be over in one episode, with a leader elected, beds made, toilets dug out, and a full stock of food collected before the second ad break. An SAS edition would probably not even make it to one ad break!


Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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Foliage said:
I would do

14 regular people mixed guys and gals 18-39
14 wannabe/armchair survalists/preppers SO...PHers, then?biggrin
14 older people 40-60
hehe

THey are taking candidates now. biggrin

lemmingjames

7,433 posts

203 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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Dan_1981 said:
It felt like the guys one was edited to make it a bit more interesting, and they might have had the odd problem, where as the womens felt edited to show that they weren't brought off early and had to be spoon fed most of the way through.
admittedly ive not followed it from the beginning but i didnt realise there was an old black bloke in it until the last episode. Id have been pissed off though if id had been forgotten about regarding the food

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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lemmingjames said:
admittedly ive not followed it from the beginning but i didnt realise there was an old black bloke in it until the last episode.
That's what the team said at dinner...

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Thursday 21st May 2015
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Halb said:
hehe

THey are taking candidates now. biggrin
I'd love a go, except that there is no way in hell I'd ever appear on any kind of reality TV show and there is no way I could take six weeks off work; people get twitchy if I'm on holiday for a few days without internet access.

croyde

22,702 posts

229 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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Swear I have just seen Beki on an old Wheeler Dealers. She buys the Mk1 GTi.

She's the tall slim camera operator although that episode of WD is pretty old so she must of been either an assistant or work experience back then.

I kmow, cool story bro' biggrin

benjj

6,787 posts

162 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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Sam Farmer was a cameraman filming the dumbass Todd Hoffman when he was mining in Guyana.

littleguy

190 posts

120 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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Has anyone seen the American one yet?

Same programme, same Bear type thing but 14 American men on what was the Women's island.

kev1974

4,029 posts

128 months

Sunday 31st May 2015
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littleguy said:
Has anyone seen the American one yet?

Same programme, same Bear type thing but 14 American men on what was the Women's island.
Don't tell me, they eat like kings after finding the 27 further pigs that were left for our women but which they failed to locate.

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Sunday 31st May 2015
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kev1974 said:
I think I would like to see a squaddie version, as mentioned in a post above. Trouble is it would probably be over in one episode, with a leader elected, beds made, toilets dug out, and a full stock of food collected before the second ad break. An SAS edition would probably not even make it to one ad break!
SAS edition shows them turning up back at the hotel under their own steam two days later.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Sunday 31st May 2015
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otolith said:
SAS edition shows them turning up back at the hotel under their own steam two days later.
To find that the SBS have already ordered their drinks for them? Virgin bloody marys all round.

lemmingjames

7,433 posts

203 months

Sunday 31st May 2015
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Anyone else applying?

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Sunday 31st May 2015
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I'd apply for an Arctic one. biggrin

I've applied for Ninja warrior. biggrin

littleguy

190 posts

120 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2015
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kev1974 said:
Don't tell me, they eat like kings after finding the 27 further pigs that were left for our women but which they failed to locate.
Not yet but maybe it was them who left behind the tins of beans! spin