[Closed] The island with bear grylls

I watched it on catch up last night, I couldn't help but get wound up at the fact they neglected to sort fire and drinking water straight away. Like you say, it has potential to be either a really good watch, or absolute dross. Either way, it's on series link 🙂

It's big brother on an island really. Quite disappointing but will be good to see how the characters change.

Might skip episodes 2/3 and catch up with them later in the series.

I thought it was ok. there was a lot of repetition - must start fire, must get water, must start fire, must get water, must start fire, etc.
hopefully there's enough content for a series so they don't have to draw things out to banal levels.

All very contrived so gave up on it.

I gave it a watch when I was waiting for some stuff to download. Boring and staged/scripted like every other "reality" show, I won't bother again!

Wasn't sure how faked it was. Putting Bear as the front man didn't help as he has form. There was a U.S. series where they took people with reasonable survival skills and they still really struggled. Can't see this bunch managing without a lot if help.

Well, to be fair, I don't think this one is scripted (but I'm only going on what we're being told) and it is the guys themselves doing the filming, whereas I'd previously assumed there'd be a camera crew following them. I found the first episode a bit hard going, trying not to take an immediate dislike to everyone on it. 😀 As brakes said, they laboured over a few key things for an hour of TV. Which was a bit boring. I'll give it a few more watches - factions will happen won't they? It'll be interesting to see how hunger and thirst affect their behaviour individually and in a group. I fear any high hopes I have will be dashed, but hey, if they all immediately arrived and got on it sorting food, water and broadband within a few days it wouldn't make much for a TV show would it?

I want to see how much weight they loose 😆

I want to see how much weight they [u]loose[/u]

Diarrhoea?

I can't be arsed, it's got Bear Bloody Grylls in it. 🙄
Everything with him is fighting against nature, instead of living with it.
Personally I'd want to kill him, and cut him up for bait.

Personally I'd want to kill him, and cut him up for bait.

Bear grills?

Having just been told Scrapheap Challenge is staged (the contraptions are built to H&S standards by expert mechanics off camera) I'm not going to waste my time watching any more of these reality challenges.

Having just been told Scrapheap Challenge is staged

They should have had Ross Kemp involved 😀

I'll tune in when theres only one bloke left in a mad rage with phsycotic eyes brandashing a lion cloth and bunny ears..

Tosh.

Anybody see the video of those Boko Haram guys boasting about the 200 schoolgirls? Those nutters are already on the island...

Scrapheap challenge is rigged, there's a firm in Hereford (HMS Engineering) who consulted on it, and essentially used to build most of the stuff from what I can tell, they were also behind most of the contraptions on anther similar series on C5.

I thought the first episode was a bit lame but will probably stick with it, if only to see who cracks first. 😈

I quite enjoyed it but was suspicious at the flotsam that was washed up seemingly being perfect to help them survive (water containers, tins to cook in, string to make nets with etc).

Surely if that was real flotsam, there would be a bottle amongst it and it could have been used as a makeshift magnifying glass to start a fire - I was making fires like that in 5 minutes in my back garden as a kid.

suspicious at the flotsam that was washed up seemingly being perfect to help them survive

yeah, i thought that, 4 or 5 identical tins, for boiling water in?

there would be a bottle amongst it and it could have been used as a makeshift magnifying glass to start a fire - I was making fires like that in 5 minutes in my back garden as a kid.

there were at least 3 lads wearing glasses 😀

Hah yes, good point.

I thought the same, glasses were ideal!

I watched it and I enjoyed it. "Single File" Tony got on my tit-end a bit and then got his arse out!

The cynic inside me suspects that 50 metres from basecamp is a lodge full of camera batteries, antivenin, fresh water, food and medical supplies etc.

I'll stick with it though.

I certainly couldn't hack it. I'd be a shivering mess in a day.

Anybody who wears glasses will know that they are not a convex lens that focuses sunlight. Jeeze.

Nice one globalti.

In summer, spectacles wearers would be filling A&E with corneal burns 😯

If you are out in the woods without a working match, lighter, or flint and steel, you may still be able to start a fire quickly and easily. If you are lucky, you or someone with you wears glasses. If it’s sunny out, you can use eyeglasses just like a magnifying glass to focus the energy of the sun and create flame.

To make a fire using a pair of glasses, take your glasses off and hold them up so that they catch the sunlight. You should see a beam of sunlight shining through the glasses. Move the glasses around, aiming the beam so that it lands on your pile of tinder. The smaller the beam of light, the more focused the energy from the sun is and the hotter the tinder will get. Experiment by moving your glasses around until you’ve found the best possible angle, and then wait until the tinder starts to smolder. Gently blow on the burning tinder to create flame.

http://www.cascadegear.com/7-different-ways-to-start-a-fire/

And also, back onto flotsam, how many lighters get washed up on beaches (even ones that are empty will have the flint still in them).

RobwithaB says.

yes i wondered about the glasses thing as i noticed quite a few had glasses on i would of given it a go rather than go down route of bow etc iam hoping for a they go mad in a "lord of the flies" style

Okay, [b]reading[/b] glasses might work as they are for magnification.

How many people in their fifties are there on that island?

One is 70.

Just watched it there the now(my skiving, knows no bounds! 😆 ), I think it's alright actually, will watch the next one anyhow.

But does it answer the question?
you know, the question.

How many bears could bear grylls grill if bear grylls could grill bears?

Missed the first one, will catch up. But why only blokes?

[Having just been told Scrapheap Challenge is staged (the contraptions are built to H&S standards by expert mechanics off camera) I'm not going to waste my time watching any more of these reality challenges.

Not when I worked on it many moons ago.

But do remember, telly is all smoke and mirrors.

Like all the stuff he does it'll be contrived, scripted nonsense. The best I've seen was an episode in frozen Russia where he "came across a dead dear", still steaming and obviously just shot from the helicopter that was filming.

If lost in the wilderness with Ray Mears I'd stick with him and expect to survive thanks to his skills. With Bear I'd kill him and eat him before he got hungry and killed me.

Ray Mears is the man!

And he contains a lot more calories if it came to it.

Okay, reading glasses might work as they are for magnification.

I think it's long-sighted vs short-sighted that makes the difference. I'm long-sighted and my glasses were often used for incerating things in my younger days. Piggy in Lord of the Flies was supposedly short-sighted - so his glasses wouldn't have started fires - a plot error than anoyed me greatly when doing my GCSEs.

It's not great is it? 😐

The camera work is brilliant for amateurs...

The camera men are professionals. That was about as far through the program as I listened.

my mistake, I thought they were filming it all themselves....

I reckon they should cook Ryan. 😀

The cameramen are professionals but they're also stuck on the island I think?