First off, it took me awhile but I finally figured it out. The chief instructor, 'ant' is channeling randall from time bandits. Watch it and compare yourself.
I made a mistake because I watched season 4 before the other seasons and so I found it more laughable than realistic and I thought if these guys were really in the sas and proud of their service why would they sell out their reputation. Can't find another job, what? It's not because season 4 included women but that the scenes were so obviously contrived and staged. I mean, women or not, do they really allow painted fingernails and earrings in the sas? I reached my limit when they got to 'search and evade' and we see these men and women with headlamps and flashlights. C'mon, really? I know it's too dangerous to wander around in the andes in the dark but are we expected to believe that no one can find these bozos with all these lights? And then at one point this woman says "I think we should stay away from those lights" referring to the helicopter search beams. Yeah, that's special forces material. Keen sense of the obvious. BTW, it's interesting to note that they did this on the chilean side of the andes and not in argentinia.
But then, I watched the earlier seasons and staged, contrived or not, my hats off to the participants because there's no way I'd risk my health and safety for a reality show. There's no way I'd hang my asterisk out in such a public way just for good tv. Is it real? Parts of it look real, but what do I know. After watching season 1, I thought the most believable instructor turned out to be a possible 'walter mitty'. Google it yourself. There's some controversy on the web about him exaggerating his service record (in a book) which has offended former sas so much, they've asked the govt to rebut his story officially, so who knows what is real or not.
I made a mistake because I watched season 4 before the other seasons and so I found it more laughable than realistic and I thought if these guys were really in the sas and proud of their service why would they sell out their reputation. Can't find another job, what? It's not because season 4 included women but that the scenes were so obviously contrived and staged. I mean, women or not, do they really allow painted fingernails and earrings in the sas? I reached my limit when they got to 'search and evade' and we see these men and women with headlamps and flashlights. C'mon, really? I know it's too dangerous to wander around in the andes in the dark but are we expected to believe that no one can find these bozos with all these lights? And then at one point this woman says "I think we should stay away from those lights" referring to the helicopter search beams. Yeah, that's special forces material. Keen sense of the obvious. BTW, it's interesting to note that they did this on the chilean side of the andes and not in argentinia.
But then, I watched the earlier seasons and staged, contrived or not, my hats off to the participants because there's no way I'd risk my health and safety for a reality show. There's no way I'd hang my asterisk out in such a public way just for good tv. Is it real? Parts of it look real, but what do I know. After watching season 1, I thought the most believable instructor turned out to be a possible 'walter mitty'. Google it yourself. There's some controversy on the web about him exaggerating his service record (in a book) which has offended former sas so much, they've asked the govt to rebut his story officially, so who knows what is real or not.