The shots Sue took looked real close to me, even when taken from above. It seems like a lot of editing goes on in these shows. I can't understand how anyone can live in a house the size of my bathroom, and have no social contact other than skinning a beaver in their living room. I don't care how much of an outdoorsman you are. No woman, is a non starter for me right there. No social life at all, just worrying about being eaten and chopping enough wood to not freeze, boy that's living, can't get enough of it, wouldn't live anywhere or any way other than that.
Ever think that most of these folks don't fit in with normal society? maybe they are a little off? A young man who never dates a girl, or drives a car, never has a jack daniels, No tv to pass what must be an eternity with little to do but survive, and worry about getting eaten. Especially when it gets dark for 6 months, no phone, or friends, no football. I can't wait to leave my beautiful beaches full of bikini laden ladies drinking margaritas, driving BMW's and go freeze my butt off in the middle of noware.I know someone is going to flame me but honestly prison looks more comfortable. It's interesting to watch on tv as I mentioned but I wonder how much is real and how much is put on. Does anyone ever show up at that hunting camp, 20 thousand gallons of Gasoline, that has to be in the 6 figure range just for the gas. How much do people pay to stay at the camp? The other supplies including operating costs, look like it's over a half million a year just to keep it open, how does that translate into business?
Maybe I just haven't been following the show enough, but it does seem like they are struggling just to stay alive to me, which is a heck of a way to live.
I get the outdoors thing, like a cabin in Montana, and the hunting, that would be great, but they all seem to be living in fear, or at least being portrayed to be. that is the way they represent it, and we know they are staging a good deal of it for the viewing public. And it's the same thing every episode, Sue and the bears, Eric and the pelts, Agnes and the Rifle. Sue and her Husband?, building some new Tom swift machine, now the new guy who in a few months has become Grizzley Adams, they have given them a specific role to play, we aren't really seeing the day to day lives, just the players in a play.
the kids look normal and dress normal, which leads me to believe that most of this is staged. Sooner or later the truth will come out as it always does, after all it's TV.
There is more than meets the eye here. Does anyone really want to live like that, if so I must have missed something, my Ac was up to 72 before and I was complaining.