I've watched every season religiously.
I think it's the greatest show out there.
It inspires me, teaches me, and gives me a longing to get outside.
I kearn new things every time I watch it.
I love seeing parts of northern Canada and other wilderness areas. Their location selection is amazing. I started watching originally just because where season 6 was.
Season 5 was rough because the poor people didn't have any food. Slim pickings in Mongolia. I think the winner was barely at 50 days and all he ate were leaches and mice.
Word to the producers (who will never read this) learn from past company, business, and television mistakes.
"Don't fix what isn't broken".
You are going to have a vocal minority of your viewership complain about it getting boring. Seeing similar things each season.
I promise you, don't change a thing and 80% of your viewership that is silent and doesn't get in in the chat waves will faithfully watch each season, every year, for the rest of time.
Obviously the small twists are awesome. Season 4 with the teams was fun. Season 9 making them fly fish because "regulations". Those are fun.
What I mean, is don't change what the show is, thinking that we're going to get tired of watching people simply survive. Hunt. Eat. Build. Forage. Etc.
Season 9, I don't know what producers encourage applicants to talk about or film before they get dropped out there, But the editing and direction definitely seemed to be "hey let's emphasize mental health and 'overcoming your past'". Which are very real things, but when manufactured, you get a victim culture like Jacques who uses the word "Traumatic " to describe an otherwise moderately challenging childhood.
His father was struggled with alcohol. Not uncommon.
Parents get a divorce. Not uncommon.
Difficult yes. Added adversity to overcome. Yes.
Traumatic? We're your parents murdered in front of you? That's trauma.
Up until the 1930s, children worked in factories, often times dieing very young from malnutrition and diseases. Usually missing parents. Terrible conditions to grow up in. They never used the word Traumatic.
Your audience are people that take interest in survival. Mental/physical fortitude. Ingenuity. Personal growth.
Please don't become a show pandering to new age vocal outliers. Culture fluxes and flows.
The things being demonstrated on this show are timeless and more resilient than my current weaker generation.
I'm not a back in my day boomer. I'm 31. I'm a millennial.
Don't let my generation ruin this show with cultural pressure to be constantly introspectively pandering to self absorbed ideology.
They have every other show coming out currently to pander to them. Keep this show our one haven to escape the nonsense of our worldly bickering.
Let contestants just muse to the camera without direction.
Don't let your editors hone in exclusively on the this is how my childhood made me feel moments.
Alone works because you just put a camera on nature and click play.
The more you try to bend that to your direction, the less it will be what it was.
And you will lose interest from your audience.
We want reality.
Not "reality".
I think it's the greatest show out there.
It inspires me, teaches me, and gives me a longing to get outside.
I kearn new things every time I watch it.
I love seeing parts of northern Canada and other wilderness areas. Their location selection is amazing. I started watching originally just because where season 6 was.
Season 5 was rough because the poor people didn't have any food. Slim pickings in Mongolia. I think the winner was barely at 50 days and all he ate were leaches and mice.
Word to the producers (who will never read this) learn from past company, business, and television mistakes.
"Don't fix what isn't broken".
You are going to have a vocal minority of your viewership complain about it getting boring. Seeing similar things each season.
I promise you, don't change a thing and 80% of your viewership that is silent and doesn't get in in the chat waves will faithfully watch each season, every year, for the rest of time.
Obviously the small twists are awesome. Season 4 with the teams was fun. Season 9 making them fly fish because "regulations". Those are fun.
What I mean, is don't change what the show is, thinking that we're going to get tired of watching people simply survive. Hunt. Eat. Build. Forage. Etc.
Season 9, I don't know what producers encourage applicants to talk about or film before they get dropped out there, But the editing and direction definitely seemed to be "hey let's emphasize mental health and 'overcoming your past'". Which are very real things, but when manufactured, you get a victim culture like Jacques who uses the word "Traumatic " to describe an otherwise moderately challenging childhood.
His father was struggled with alcohol. Not uncommon.
Parents get a divorce. Not uncommon.
Difficult yes. Added adversity to overcome. Yes.
Traumatic? We're your parents murdered in front of you? That's trauma.
Up until the 1930s, children worked in factories, often times dieing very young from malnutrition and diseases. Usually missing parents. Terrible conditions to grow up in. They never used the word Traumatic.
Your audience are people that take interest in survival. Mental/physical fortitude. Ingenuity. Personal growth.
Please don't become a show pandering to new age vocal outliers. Culture fluxes and flows.
The things being demonstrated on this show are timeless and more resilient than my current weaker generation.
I'm not a back in my day boomer. I'm 31. I'm a millennial.
Don't let my generation ruin this show with cultural pressure to be constantly introspectively pandering to self absorbed ideology.
They have every other show coming out currently to pander to them. Keep this show our one haven to escape the nonsense of our worldly bickering.
Let contestants just muse to the camera without direction.
Don't let your editors hone in exclusively on the this is how my childhood made me feel moments.
Alone works because you just put a camera on nature and click play.
The more you try to bend that to your direction, the less it will be what it was.
And you will lose interest from your audience.
We want reality.
Not "reality".