[url= http://www.channel4.com/programmes/eden-paradise-lost/on-demand/63315-006 ]It's been really interesting[/url]. A bit different from most 'reality' telly, as it seems to have become an actual study in human behaviour
It makes for far from comfortable viewing as it seems to have descended into 'Lord of the Flies' territory very quickly. Most worrying is the behaviour of the blokes. They've quickly formed a clique of the very worst sort of boorish masculinity, which has then become horribly bullying and horrendously sexist and misogynistic.
Watching last nights episode Mrs Binners observed that she'd have left by now (as a lot of the women have) as she wouldn't feel safe. They look like they're only one cup of moonshine away from it all getting a bit rapey.
We concluded that rather than saying something deeply unpleasant things about modern man, it's probably just a comment on the kind of alpha male wannabe bell-end that applies to go on a programme like this. Watching it you can probably say 'yeah, I've worked with a **** like that'.
It's telling that the two blokes who've been ostracised from the group are not only the ones who refuse to act like dicks towards the women but also look like the only ones capable of actually doing anything useful, rather than just gobbing off about how manly they are. The two things don't appear unconnected
Anyone else been watching it then? It's definitely worth catching up with if you've not. Genuinely fascinating insightful viewing
Is this the same one that started a year (or more) ago?
I gave up very quickly when it seemed like everyone was just trying to live out some sort of 'The Beach' fantasy (living in the woods, visiting the camp at night to pinch stuff) or just confusing it with Love Island (threatening to punch one another's teeth out over the pretty blonde one...).
Wish I could view it as scientifically as you can, I just saw a bunch of t*ssers 🙁
I think channel 4 sort of gave up on it in its original format but kept filming. Then a few months in it started to get interesting. Watching a year compressed into a week, and how peoples behaviour develops is actually really interesting. But yeah, you're right... most of them are absolute strokers
it's probably just a comment on the kind of alpha male wannabe bell-end
This I suspect. A few normal people in there and it would soon be sorted out in the traditional manner.
I almost felt a little bit sorry for the 'hunter' when it turned out his qualification for that role seems to have been nothing more than a sense that deep down inside him he felt like he was a hunter, and a firearms certificate.
I started watching it last year. Started well, but you could see it progressively becoming more chaotic until it got axed. I wish they kept it going. I would have watched it.
I need to pickup on what they're showing now. I'm not at all surprised by what you've described Binners. It already started going that way near the end of the episodes last year.
What really got me was the lack of forward planning. As Monk says, they just kicked back on the beach, made a 'massage tent' and rode the high life on rations.
most of them are absolute strokers
The first, and possibly second series of Big Brother were interesting, mainly because no one was doing it to be famous. It actually felt like some sort of social experiment.
Now, pretty much any 'reality TV' is populated entirely by cockwombles looking for their fifteen minutes of fame.
Incidentally, I met the winner of one of the first BB series on a ski lift once. Craig someone or other. Lovely chap.
It is interesting. Some of the people have done themselves no favours what so ever. Some have acted like cocks, but have admitted it in the post filming interviews, others have tried to justify how they acted. That ex army guy truly is a deluded ****.
Watched a few minutes here and there- what cfh said,
the usual preening narcissists looking for reality TV to launch their careers, only turns out without a luxury villa and input from the production team they just whine & bully each other.
Not really a surprise
idiots in a wood
There was a good article in the last Delayed Gratification issue(Very good publication BTW). Some examples from American reality shows were nuts and the guy that set up a Hunger Games style pitch to studios in Russia. 😯
I've enjoyed it this week, but got really angry with ho the majority of the men are behaving, absolute arseholes. now those two have left I fear for the worst tonight...