Bear just looks for different ways to drink his pee. That's just not interesting to me. Les actually does things a bit more practical.
This is a minor gripe, but here goes,....I have only seen maybe two episodes of Man vs. Wild. I was watching the episode where he is trying to get out of "grizzly" country and he is, in my mind, sliding, nearly, out of control down a slope and then, a minute later, he is jumping, without investigating, into a creek?? Now, this, in my mind, is a wonderful way to break a limb, and putting yourself into a real jam. I can see that it is only entertainment, but what about our testosterone filled teenagers? They go around thinking this is the way to "survive" in the wild.
Survivorman feeds the head above the shoulder, the other feeds the one below the belt...Just my humble opinion.....
Both these shows are great, and my wife and I love watching both of them. Yes, Bear is more entertaining with his shock value - he's a nut!! Also I learn a lot of things from him. Though common sense will tell you when not to do the things he does. Like tying yourself up with vines from a tree as a harness and repelling down a waterfall about 200 feet. Thats when its fun to watch.
I think Les is also fun to watch, way more real though. Also, hes just out there by himself.
Everytime you see Les climbing a huge mountain about 500 feet away, remember that he has to go back down that mountain, get the camera he used for filming himself, and then go back up the mountain. He is always backtracking for shots. Thats gotta be grueling!
One of my peeves with Bear is that he likes to chew large squishy bugs with his mouth open, upclose to the camera. ewww
I like Les, he's a real nice guy. On his old forums (a couple years ago), he used to log on and answer questions. (i.e. there was an episode where at the end he was hitchhiking, and a car pulled over. He told us it was his wife.)You could even talk to him right before/after he would film. He even would post job openings to be on his crew. Too bad I lived in GA.
I've read or heard somewhere that when he does those long shots sometimes he leaves cameras and his clean up crew comes behind him later to retrieve.Originally Posted by Incahiker
Another thing I've heard about both shows is their cleanup crews do a great job at restoring anything they've messed with.
[----- I hate that feeling when I've got a beer to my lips and I'm halfway through a swig and think, "Wait, is this mine?" -----]
Wow, if I was him I would MAKE my clean up crew get the camera. There was one shot where he walked completely around a lake. It looked like at least a 30-45 minute walk. The whole time I was like "Man, now hes gotta go back and get that camera."
Also, did you guys know that he makes all the music in the shows too. The opening theme music is him, and so is all the rest of the music in the shows. Les is the man.
Les did an interview with a Boston radio station a couple months ago...
http://wrko.everyzing.com/viewMedia....=none&filter=0
When the TV moguls let the contestants kill and eat the other contestants to see who survives.....................that is a show I'll watch. Put 3000 felons on a aircraft carrier without a motor anchored 150 miles out in the Gulf.......last one gets a pardon.
I think George Carlin had that idea years ago.
Les,nice but dumb
well i saw Les, cut himself , burn his wooden shelter down while sleeping in it,being next to water and starving,(he`s a vegetarian survivalist)...but what pissed me of the most was the episode in Alaska, when he had to walk 1 mile to get fresh water uphill, on rocks, and he finds a empty bottle on the shore of the lake , breaks it to show how to make a fishing hook from the shards... I mean DO-ooh just clean it and put water in it(don`t smash it). so Les is a nice guy but his a dumb a$$ survivalist.
you are what you eat: Fast! Cheap! and Easy!
Gaga, Les is not a vegetarian, saw him eat a rattlesnake and turtle down in the swamps of Ga. I like it when he gets depressed and plays music, while Bear is a cheerleader, always smiling when he sleeps under the skin of some dead animal in -40 below weather.
"I told my Ma's and Pa's I was coming to them mountains and they acted as if they was gutshot. Ma, I sez's, them mountains is the marrow of the world and by God, I was right". Del Gue
While we are on the subject of survival-I wonder just how many of the
regulars here have ever successfully made fire by friction.I would guess
that quite a few have.
But in any event I would be willing to wager that the anti-sheathknife
crowd would fare very well in a survival situation when the chips go down.
As for the survival shows,they are interesting but are more entertainment
than substance like most of the other reality programs.I dont have a preference
for either MvW or S-man.
Oldfivetango
Keep on keeping on.
NOw that was funny
Les is on right now, I'm watching him eat lizards on Discovery channel!!
I think that some one watching survivor man, if in a survival situation, would fair better than one who watched man vs wild. In his early shows les did make some mistakes, but he would say what the mistake was. I've watched man vs wild wondering how he is alive. I remember one episode he drank water in the amazon without any method of purification and the next day he was vomiting and all that stuff. He has also drank urine saying that it rehydrates you, which it does the opposite. In one episode he ate raw zebra meat that he found and said it was good because vultures were eating it, and they never eat bad meat. He certainly would do much worse than les in a survival situation.
Oh, one more thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke
Has anyone caught Les' special, "Off The Grid" on the Green Channel? The blurb from Les' site: "This new and captivating show will highlight Les' family's move to their 150 acre bush lot with solar power, rain harvesting systems, and many new technologies for living an energy-conscious and self-sustaining life. " It's really quite good. Kinda wish it was a weekly show and not just a one-off.
He was definitely the real deal. Some cool info on Proenneke in this thread:http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=33330
That's my dog, Echo. He's a fine young dog.
Unfortunately, the last one standing would be the one least deserving of that pardon.
The best example I've ever seen of this in action was one of Steve Irwin's episodes in Africa when he was bitten by the snake he was trying to catch. He caught the snake, it got him and he didn't know what kind it was.
With snake in hand he calmly walked over to the truck, got out his handy dandy African Snake ID guide and flipped pages comparing photos with the critter in his hand until he triumphantly declared, "Here it is!! Whew!! Not poisonous!!"
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