The Island -Bear Grylls

[Ayahuasca]

JMGS4 said:

Oakey said:

I'm more curious as to whether crocs like that are native to pacific islands. I know larger Australian crocs can travel great distances over the sea, but small ones like that?

Caimann are native to soth america, so I'm thinking these islands are off Panama or the north coast of south america, which technically is the Pacific. The central and west pacific also does not have the death apple, thats south american too....

Not sure where this is filmed, but here in Panama there are most certainly crocodiles on some of the Pacific islands. Not just small caiman either but proper full-on 20 foot plus crocs. However they are not as aggressive as their Aussie cousins.

[Slyjoe]

Joshsl said:

I wonder if the sound guy Is the same sound guy who was in the top gear vs Germany special

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5xd97HeY70

Can't be too many one armed men called Kiff.
Quote the funniest line ever said on TV "Jeremy, my arms' come off"

[blindswelledrat]

Slyjoe said:

Quote the funniest line ever said on TV "Jeremy, my arms' come off"

I'm guessing you don't have your own tv?

[ibisti]

So far I'm quite enjoying the show. Is it just me or do you get the feeling the 3 trained camera men are not all thet seem? When the kid took off on his own it was 2 of them that went off to find him and none of the others. When they found him the guy who consoled him had a way about him of a trained medic, and the other guy who was pissed off had the demeanor of a trained millitary man. I guess they are there as a safety net incase of something serious.

[Slyjoe]

blindswelledrat said:

I'm guessing you don't have your own tv?

in context, at the time I laughed like a drain - to be honest though there is very little worth watching.

[The Don of Croy]

I'm sure they interviewed the hairdresser chappie outside Man Utd last night as a vox pop on the new manager...

Also, when 'building the tension' last night ref weightloss they show the thinnest bloke - the same coiffeuse - but later we see the 'leak engineer' ?? of Welsh extraction who looks like he could last at least eight weeks without a morsel. How big was he when he started?

Agree that the ex-copper is odd - too much hugging when clearly not impressed.

Perhaps next week they'll complete the casino, airport and hotel complex and move on to the marina.

[Halb]

ibisti said:

So far I'm quite enjoying the show. Is it just me or do you get the feeling the 3 trained camera men are not all thet seem? When the kid took off on his own it was 2 of them that went off to find him and none of the others. When they found him the guy who consoled him had a way about him of a trained medic, and the other guy who was pissed off had the demeanor of a trained millitary man. I guess they are there as a safety net incase of something serious.

They are certainly less knobheadish than the rest.
The best one is the silver haired fella who acts like a counsellor. Very good.

[andy_s]

Halb said:

They are certainly less knobheadish than the rest.
The best one is the silver haired fella who acts like a counsellor. Very good.

Yeah - I would have hit the Ryan with a bit of 4x2 and eaten him over the next few days, however thought the approach by some of them worked a treat in getting his arse into gear, credit to them both, although to be safe I would have hit and eaten him anyway...

[lemmingjames]

ibisti said:

So far I'm quite enjoying the show. Is it just me or do you get the feeling the 3 trained camera men are not all thet seem? When the kid took off on his own it was 2 of them that went off to find him and none of the others. When they found him the guy who consoled him had a way about him of a trained medic, and the other guy who was pissed off had the demeanor of a trained millitary man. I guess they are there as a safety net incase of something serious.

What you mean like how the camera dude just happened to be there for the croc capture and the finding of Ryan. Co-incidence maybe strong here

[croyde]

Part of the gang are a professional TV crew. 2 cam ops, a sound engineer and a producer/director. They have to survive like all the others but also have to do their job.

I worked with the soundman the other day and apart from working on things like the Top Gear Specials and Bear Gryll's other TV programmes they have had no particular extra training.

Admittedly they are all used to roughing it unlike us light entertainment and sports types who complain about the temperature of the water in our hotel bathrooms

[GarageQueen]

there almost certainly seems like there's a director / producer 'setting up' scenarios to camera, not much of it seems candid

[croyde]

Just looked on the Channel4 website and it has all the guys on there and tells you what they all do for a living. 4 of them are the TV crew. They all appear to have war zone experience as well.

My idea of a working in a war zone is Reading Festival

[Xaero]

The sound engineer with the hook impressed me the most. Clearly annoyed at Ryan for not pulling his weight, but still managed to think around the problem and come up with the solution of getting him involved in a relatively easy yet productive task. I'm surprised Ryan was there at the end of the episode, I thought he was going after all the dramatics.

[Halb]

I think he shares a trait of many, blowing something up out of proportion and saying stuff he doesn't really mean. I can see the horrible conditions that they are existing under exacerbating that trait.

I can also see that Ryan was the whipping boy for this episode. Looks like fatty might be next week.
Bet he is all soft and marbled like kobe beef.

[blindswelledrat]

What I cant understand is how they are all crying and moaning about the hardships and how they are starving and dramatically losing weight etc as though their life is an a knife edge after months of relentless hardship, and then the programme reminds you that they are only on the island for 2 weeks in total and we are about half way through it.
Its so melodramatic.

[durbster]

blindswelledrat said:

...they are only on the island for 2 weeks in total and we are about half way through it.
Its so melodramatic.

Err, they're intending to be there for a month. Or do you know something we don't...?

[blindswelledrat]

durbster said:

Err, they're intending to be there for a month. Or do you know something we don't...?

No, maybe I misheard.
Perhaps, they were saying that they had been there for 2 weeks out of the month and I misheard it.

[croyde]

Imagine being in that heat with no water for the first day or so and no food for what seemed like a number of days.

I've done 14/16 hour days when we have not stopped for food and I had one glass of water. Boy are the crew a little testy at the end of the day

[Halb]

I can imagine that. No thanks!
Some lads there haven't had a bowel movement for 9 days...fk that. No reason to put my body through that.

[croyde]

I dream of not having a bowel movement for 9 days