Anyone watch the tv show Alone? [SPOILERS!]

[styx]

Jose's was.

It was nice to see 'em working on shelters

[JP]

It looked like Nicole had a sheet of corrugated steel. It could be debris from Japan.

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[TazzieRob]

It's pretty amazing what can wash up on the shore. David has started making a new Gill net, but I don't think he has finished and deployed it yet, but what a great idea.
Some more substantial shelters have been made, though not much has been shown other than Randy and Nicole. Justin's use of bull kelp is brilliant!
Only copy of episode 5 I could find was mirror image, maybe so History don't get it taken down, I don't know. Still, it was watchable

[Syph007]

I thought it was great the smallest person caught the biggest fish. 

[TazzieRob]

I thought it was great the smallest person caught the biggest fish. 

Ha, yeah, that's pretty cool.

It's got me thinking if anyone has thoughts on longer term food options. I don't know what the seasonal gathering will be like, but if winter comes and it is too rough to fish then having some dried/smoked fish or something else to sustain has to be done. Interesting, Sam from season 1 said in a commentary vid that he still had a pound of pemmican when he left. I wonder how fast they are burning through their rations or if they are indeed saving them up for winter. Given the cold and damp drying is probably quite difficult.

Randy quite happy to eat every. single. bit of that mouse other than the guts, but he doesn't want to eat a slug? 

[Aloha]

It was good seeing the shelters getting built up more substantially.  I wonder with Nicoles plant knowledge if shes able to procure some roots?  I was so happy for her catching that huge fish. 

Randy seems to be doing pretty well fire wise.   Watching him eat the mouse yet ponder the slug was interesting. 

Justin is a hoot.  I had a good time watching him and his antics.  Love the indoor plumbing  .

Not sure why we aren't seeing Jose more  .

[styx]

Could it be that Jose is not as adept at filming and has a slower, more boring, style? Or it could be that he lasted really long while others haven't

[Aloha]

It did cross my mind that possibly Jose is getting along nicely so not much to see.  I also thought he may have filmed very little or mostly boring stuff. 

IIRC the producers and medical team visited the contestants periodically to make sure they were healthy.  I bet they also retrieved the memory cards to review what had been filmed.  At that point I'm sure they'd tell them to start filming more or encourage them to film other things.   

Just a guess. 

[Syph007]

Well so far the more someone is on camera the sooner they tap out.  So Jose is probably rocking it.

[styx]

considering Alan last season it could be a swerve as well. he wasn't on much in the beginning and he lasted long. 3rd longest

[TazzieRob]

To me, in the intro/outro there has been some clip of one of the contestants taking a plunge into the water from a raft or boat of some kind. I think that it's Jose channeling a bit of Lucas. If going out on the water you'd really want to make sure you had a fire going ready for if you ended up in the drink. Didn't see any of Mike this episode or Larry IIRC?
Larry has been doing commentary vids on each episode, and he mentioned something about Mary Kate. Despite her injury, she kept filming. She filmed everything up to the rescue, I don't think the camera stopped. That is commitment. Such a shame she isn't there anymore.

Justin must be getting enough food if he has built a Gym. Those that are going fine with food and everything will likely be personal reasons for tapping, once they reach the point that they have fulfilled all they wanted or for injury. I don't doubt that Lucas (and others) could have gone further in season 1 but the money wasn't the reason he needed to stay.

In season 1, even though Alan wasn't doing much at times to conserve energy, he got snippets here and there because of his monologues which were great to watch. I can only imagine how many hours of footage gets dumped in the editing process.

[styx]

ok so here is the calculation on the assumption that they filmed 24 hours a day.

Alan 56 days - 1344 hours
Sam 55 days - 1320 hours
Mitch 43 days - 1032 hours
Lucas 39 days - 936 hours
Dustin 8 days - 192 hours
Brant 6 days - 144 hours
Wayne 4 days - 96 hours
Joe 4 days - 96 hours
Chris 2 days - 48 hours
Josh 1 day - 24 hours

that brings us to a total of 5232 hours. an episode is 45 minutes long and there are 10 episodes a show which make the total run time 7.5 hours. so 5 224 hours and 30 minutes of footage goes unseen by the public with this calculation

[Aloha]

Easy enough to understand lots of filming not making the cut. 

Speaking of Sam    I wonder how that guy is doing?  I liked that young man and his wife should have had their baby by now. 

   

[TazzieRob]

ok so here is the calculation on the assumption that they filmed 24 hours a day.

Alan 56 days - 1344 hours
Sam 55 days - 1320 hours
Mitch 43 days - 1032 hours
Lucas 39 days - 936 hours
Dustin 8 days - 192 hours
Brant 6 days - 144 hours
Wayne 4 days - 96 hours
Joe 4 days - 96 hours
Chris 2 days - 48 hours
Josh 1 day - 24 hours

that brings us to a total of 5232 hours. an episode is 45 minutes long and there are 10 episodes a show which make the total run time 7.5 hours. so 5 224 hours and 30 minutes of footage goes unseen by the public with this calculation

Ah, but there is more than one camera for each person, and they have fixed cameras around their camp, so it could well be much more than that. Not that it really matters to us. One of the reasons I don't own a video camera is I'm too lazy to sit down and edit the footage!

[TazzieRob]

Easy enough to understand lots of filming not making the cut. 

Speaking of Sam    I wonder how that guy is doing?  I liked that young man and his wife should have had their baby by now. 

 

He's on YT. I'd say he looks more well fed now than when he left the show. I've only watched one or two of his Alone commentary vids but that's all

[JP]

Do you think all of the footage gets reviewed or do the contestants log events to help out  ie Day 3 6am, caught a fish.

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[styx]

ok so here is the calculation on the assumption that they filmed 24 hours a day.

Alan 56 days - 1344 hours
Sam 55 days - 1320 hours
Mitch 43 days - 1032 hours
Lucas 39 days - 936 hours
Dustin 8 days - 192 hours
Brant 6 days - 144 hours
Wayne 4 days - 96 hours
Joe 4 days - 96 hours
Chris 2 days - 48 hours
Josh 1 day - 24 hours

that brings us to a total of 5232 hours. an episode is 45 minutes long and there are 10 episodes a show which make the total run time 7.5 hours. so 5 224 hours and 30 minutes of footage goes unseen by the public with this calculation

Ah, but there is more than one camera for each person, and they have fixed cameras around their camp, so it could well be much more than that. Not that it really matters to us. One of the reasons I don't own a video camera is I'm too lazy to sit down and edit the footage!

true but also taking into account that they don't film themselves sleeping, and doing some other things, it evens things out

Do you think all of the footage gets reviewed or do the contestants log events to help out  ie Day 3 6am, caught a fish.

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if they don't have a watch, it would be hard to tell the time

[JP]

True that but I was thinking that the camera gear would have a running clock.

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[Gerhard Gerber]

Just a silly question, something that didn't bother me until I watched a YT video about the chosen gear etc, and the guy couldn't really pronounce "biltong".

Since I live in the land of biltong, it never bothered me when I heard it mentioned..........are they trying to be exotic by calling it biltong instead of jerky? 

[JP]

I haven't heard of biltong. Dried and seasoned meat is Jerky here.

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[TazzieRob]

I love Biltong, I prefer it to jerky. Usually the jerky I've had is thinner and drier than Biltong. If I were to go on Alone, I'd want mine very dry so I could take more protein per weight, even though I like a softer Biltong.

[Gerhard Gerber]

I haven't heard of biltong. Dried and seasoned meat is Jerky here.

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Exactly, and you're from the host country of the show.

Biltong=jerky more or less 

[Gerhard Gerber]

I love Biltong, I prefer it to jerky. Usually the jerky I've had is thinner and drier than Biltong. If I were to go on Alone, I'd want mine very dry so I could take more protein per weight, even though I like a softer Biltong.

How can you not? 

Making biltong has been refined to an art here, be it the perfect wet beef biltong with 50/50 fat, or game biltong that crumbles when you break it.......whole, sliced or powdered.
In recent years the variety has just exploded, chilly bites being a huge hit, and the newest one for me is "geslaande biltong", which as far as I can figure out are whole pieces of biltong that are mechanically crushed but still intact.

Clarkson, Hammond, May and the crew of The Grand Tour seem to have developed a taste for chilly bites while filming here 

[JP]

Maybe it gives the show street cred? I am roughly 5500 highway km away from where they are filming. I have driven it but stopped when the road ended in Tofino.

Maybe the recipe for jerky and biltong are different? vs Pemican? This sounds like s query for Google!

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[JP]

The way I read it biltong and jerky are the same thing to me. Spiced and dehydrated meats.

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[shark_za]

Craziest thing in the title sequence is the wolf chasing something/someone.

Biltong is just jerky done right.

[Gerhard Gerber]

Craziest thing in the title sequence is the wolf chasing something/someone.

Biltong is just jerky done right.

I think that's what we're all waiting for 

[styx]

would be crazy not to wait for that

[Aloha]

Craziest thing in the title sequence is the wolf chasing something/someone.

Biltong is just jerky done right.

I think that's what we're all waiting for 

They certainly got my attention with that. 

We've got a lot of Coyotes in my area.  Not long ago one as crossing the street within 15 feet of me.  I was taking my dog out and saw it out of my peripheral vision.  I sure wouldn't want one or a wolf heading in my direction. 

[styx]

so 2 people who had an amazing shelter set up tap out, one is itching for a fight with a bear, one is climbing deathwish mountain and one is still smurfing about the situation but remarkably hanging in and not a peep from anyone here?