ugh.. Discovery Channel Alaskan Bush People hype / BS

[Citydude]

Tony's making too much money off Parker to do that! lol

Good point!

 

[AaronS]

I couldn't agree more. My family and I do like watching Alaska: The Last Frontier, but the rest are garbage. All about DRAMA. I watched a couple of episodes of "Edge Of Alaska" last night and couldn't quit rolling my eyes. It reminded me of professional wrestling. So much drama and I'm sure they actors who hated each other for the show were whooping it up and sharing a beer together after filming was done.

 

[TripleR]

I couldn't agree more. My family and I do like watching Alaska: The Last Frontier, but the rest are garbage. All about DRAMA. I watched a couple of episodes of "Edge Of Alaska" last night and couldn't quit rolling my eyes. It reminded me of professional wrestling. So much drama and I'm sure they actors who hated each other for the show were whooping it up and sharing a beer together after filming was done.

I watched "The Edge of Alaska" and out of curiosity checked on the town, the show and reality don't seem to match up, just one site on the "isolated" town: McCarthy Lodge & The Ma Johnson's Hotel

 

[SirReal63]

I can stomach a few shows on Discovery, but if you want to wretch, look at the lineup for TLC. This used to stand for The Learning Channel, there is zero learning going on for anyone who watches that channel, the only thing that happens is a massive loss of brain cells.

 

[EddieWalker]

I watched about ten minutes of that show when it came on last year and couldn't take it. I'm embarrassed to admit I watched it that long!!!!

It's getting harder and harder to find something worth watching. Oak Island was pretty good, but now it seems to be dragging on with nothing happening.

The tree house guy does some nice work and I like how creative he is, I just wish he would stop the bad acting.

Eddie

 

[s219]

I kind of miss Gold Rush since we moved into the sticks and no longer have Cable TV, mainly because it was a brainless way to wind down on a Friday evening with a few beers, watching something remotely manly and interesting, with a few colorful characters mixed in among the duds (same with Deadliest Catch).

What surprised me most about Gold Rush is that, even being someone who now has a desk job, I probably could have done better work than most of those hacks just based on what I learned growing up as a kid in my dad's carpentry/construction business, and then what I have learned as an adult doing work in engineering, surveying, and geology fields. Not to mention the basics of hiking, backcountry camping, etc that I have picked up as hobbies.

For me to think that as a desk jockey is telling. Most of those guys had no business being out there in the wilderness operating heavy machinery and doing mining work, and I'm amazed they didn't get eaten by a brown bear after sinking a dozer in the mud. I suspect the general public, which has been so dumbed down by reality TV, has no idea. But I bet real miners, geologists, and heavy machinery operators must not even be able to watch without getting annoyed.

Really, we're talking about experience, common sense, real world knowledge, and skills that are common among TBN members here, yet these clowns on TV have very little of that, with a few exceptions. Scary to think this is what's being delivered to the general public by the "Discovery" Channel. It's not a discovery, it's weakly scripted entertainment for viewers who don't know any better.

I used to like watching some of the logging shows, but they quickly deteriorated from showing actual logging/lumberjack stuff to just a bunch of hysterical dopes yarding and winching logs and dropping them on top of machinery or breaking machinery. There were a couple interesting characters (that guy from Louisiana who pulled logs out of the swamps) but it was mostly lumberjack rejects screwing things up.

 

[Gem99ultra]

The thing that I laugh about on all of those Alaska shows is that they claim they're just out there with their freedom and 'doing it' alone. Yeah right! It seems they all have a few hundred thousands of dollars worth of equipment to fall back on, and no limit on supplies to get the job done.

Either they went up there as millionaires or there's a lot of background supplying going on Either way, there's no reality to those reality shows.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

It seems to me that TLC, the History Channel, A&E and their ilk started out with good programming. A lot of the good stuff, like the WWII series on "Aces" and the biography series were moved to other channels like the Military channel, and in order to see this stuff now, you have to subscribe to these new channels. The stuff that is left is gradually deteriorating to the point that is has no substance. If it wasn't for NCIS and the Mentalist, I would probably spend ALL of my time on the computer.

 

[Shift4200]

The thing that I laugh about on all of those Alaska shows is that they claim they're just out there with their freedom and 'doing it' alone. Yeah right! It seems they all have a few hundred thousands of dollars worth of equipment to fall back on, and no limit on supplies to get the job done.

Either they went up there as millionaires or there's a lot of background supplying going on Either way, there's no reality to those reality shows.

I had wondered the same thing about Alaska: The Last Frontier... until i found out that the singer "Jewel" was the daughter of the range rider Otz. I'm sure her career has bolstered their collection of heavy equipment rather nicely.

-J

 

[TripleR]

I had wondered the same thing about Alaska: The Last Frontier... until i found out that the singer "Jewel" was the daughter of the range rider Otz. I'm sure her career has bolstered their collection of heavy equipment rather nicely.

-J

Atz is also a singer and musician as is one of his sons I think. Jewell and her dad wrote and sing the song that starts the show.