The Island - Bear Grylls Series 3 tonight Ch4 @ 9pm

[dub16v]

nicanary said:

The first net the girls made would have been pretty useless - the mesh squares were way too big at about 4 inches square. A whole day wasted.

They're very weak now - surely their energy would have been better used on making a raft for fishing?

I think it was five days!

[SHutchinson]

When I saw that big blue rope my first thought was that it would burn really well. It would have been far more useful than the eventual outcome.

At least the 5 days of knitting gave them something to do, keep the brain active and all that.

Also, I know we only see edited highlights so I guess they are doing it but that net should only come out of the water to be emptied. From the clip of next week it looks like they've not caught much else.

[smifffymoto]

Tis a bit of a con,when matey boy was washed up in the cove it was made out as if it was the end,man against the sea.In one shot he had a distress beacon on his wrist,it was not in any other shots in the whole episode.

How much is shot for tv and how much is real?

[ezi]

The distress beacons were on their wrists before entering the water.

[dai1983]

Makes me itch just looking at their mozzie bitten skin and their camp is still in a st place with a two hour epic over st rocks for water. I also laughed my arse off when the young bloke in Deidrie Barlow's glasses got brushed off by the female version of Lord Percy.

[CoolHands]

I quite enjoyed that episode.

Things I don't like: their scabby camp. They're all laying about and sleeping in sandy stty clothes with still no (as far as I can see) bed. WTF. What happened to the beds or have I missed that bit. Clean up the area make some decent beds off the ground, with fronds on top for comfort.

The first net they lost duh. Why would you even allow that to be possible surely you'd tether it properly.

Anyway, on the subject of nets and fish which I know nothing about - why is the net not catching fish? They were obviously lucky with one shark. Is it the location? Should it be curved in some way or made a V shape? I'm thinking by tethering in some way to make it a shape.

I am jealous of their diet - us porkers on easy street could do with losing a few pounds and it looks like the starvation diet works! IMO without gayness all the blokes look quite good now - more like us humans are meant to be.

[Lucas Ayde]

CoolHands said:

I quite enjoyed that episode.

Things I don't like: their scabby camp. They're all laying about and sleeping in sandy stty clothes with still no (as far as I can see) bed. WTF. What happened to the beds or have I missed that bit. Clean up the area make some decent beds off the ground, with fronds on top for comfort.

The first net they lost duh. Why would you even allow that to be possible surely you'd tether it properly.

Anyway, on the subject of nets and fish which I know nothing about - why is the net not catching fish? They were obviously lucky with one shark. Is it the location? Should it be curved in some way or made a V shape? I'm thinking by tethering in some way to make it a shape.

Well, the first net was pretty rubbish anyway - lots of smaller fish would have slipped through. Still, to spend so long wasting time making it and then to lose it straight away takes Olympic level incompetence.

As for the second net which was obviously left there by the production team so the cretins would at least have a plausible way to catch fish, seemed extremely 'fishy' that they immediately caught a small/baby shark which was just enough to give everyone a hearty meal just as they were on the point of despair due to lack of food. Especially since the large net seemed to have caught absolutely no other fish whatsoever (they must have placed it in a bad area for fishing).

Basically, apart from a few people this lot are so lazy/ incompetent/ dysfunctional that the producers are being forced to resort to obvious means to keep them alive after only 10 days. At least last year it was much further in to the challenge before they had to fake the castaways finding a (drugged up) pig.

Quite surprised that the wussy Muslim bloke copped out so quickly - he seemed like a prime candidate for redemption later in the plot errr 'challenge' by doing something useful/heroic near the end of proceedings like that guy last year who was a complete waste of space until he miraculously found a hive of honey near the end, thus completing his personal journey to being useful. (uh-huh)

I guess this time around that character role will be fulfilled by the lazy live-at-home girl (who is already the lucky karma beneficiary of 'finding' the net that the production team planted).

[nicanary]

I laughed at the opening credits - one of the girls was sniffing knickers! That's what it looked like, although I suspect she was wearing them as a face mask.

The editing is up the creek - the disabled girl left 2 weeks ago, yet her prosthetic foot was hanging in a tree.

Grylls - "One of the island's wild turkeys has wandered into the camp". Yeh, OK, if you say so. This show is pointless if it's continually "set up" - I know they can't allow participants to starve to death, but in that case just don't do the show. It's becoming a bit " was that set up or real?".

Edited by nicanary on Monday 18th April 21:53

[Athlon]

So after starving they have caught a turkey, first thing they have eaten for days yet they show them chopping up a coconut...

[mknjn]

I don't think the lad falling off the cliff was set up.

[nicanary]

mknjn said:

I don't think the lad falling off the cliff was set up.

No. That looks really bad. Hope he's OK but at least they know people will tune in next week. There I go again - sarcasm is cheap and nasty.

[Halb]

The fella who kept telling people to hurry up on the rocks, what a colossal turd.

Unfortunately my skybox missed the last lil bit and the fall.

And oooo, felt for Paddy...ooooo

[otolith]

Given how popular it is as a pastime, it's amazing that they never have anyone who knows how to fish. Doesn't occur to them to use set lines or to make traps. I'd make gorges to get round the shortage of fish hooks, staked out at low tide. I'd use the handy gill net that always turns up as a seine net. I'd build tidal fish traps. I can only assume that they're deliberately excluding anyone possessed of a clue.

[dub16v]

otolith said:

Given how popular it is as a pastime, it's amazing that they never have anyone who knows how to fish. Doesn't occur to them to use set lines or to make traps. I'd make gorges to get round the shortage of fish hooks, staked out at low tide. I'd use the handy gill net that always turns up as a seine net. I'd build tidal fish traps. I can only assume that they're deliberately excluding anyone possessed of a clue.

Forgive me, but you'd be very boring to watch. Frustration at the incompetence of some people on telly gets people talking about the programme.

It doesn't stop me wanting to poke them all in the eyes though.

[otolith]

Yes, I suspect that's why they are excluding anyone with any idea of how to exploit the most obvious food source on their doorstep.

Personally, I think they should have picked somewhere with more non-lethal annoyances, for the amusement value.

[nicanary]

Halb said:

The fella who kept telling people to hurry up on the rocks, what a colossal turd.

Unfortunately my skybox missed the last lil bit and the fall.

And oooo, felt for Paddy...ooooo

The whole point of the mini-expedition was to locate possible food sources in the minimum of time - they only had the water they were carrying, and no fire or camping equipment that I could see. I think he got frustrated because he could see that the whole plan was falling to pieces. Some of them were clearly out of their depth with any sort of rock traversing.

I've noticed that the gobby phone salesman has lost a lot of weight, and has quietened no end. Maybe the experience has been an eye-opener for him, he seems a lot more reasonable now.

[anonymous-user]

nicanary said:

I've noticed that the gobby phone salesman has lost a lot of weight, and has quietened no end. Maybe the experience has been an eye-opener for him, he seems a lot more reasonable now.

Did you miss his little comment at the end of their group meeting?

They all finished and he pipes up "Well done Erika for making it through a whole meeting without walking off"

Mouthy prick

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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I thought that was quite funny to be fair.

[briangriffin]

bmw535i said:

I thought that was quite funny to be fair.

And me, didn't pick up on the false leg still being there too despite the woman having left. The editing can be very dodgy it seems.

I still can't grasp there being no signs of any animal traps, further island exploring and traversing the shallows for stingrays being done.

[anonymous-user]

It might be my utter dislike for him clouding my judgement then, just struck me as an attmept to be funny/get things to kick off again