>>557320>I'm almost convinced that these shows pay people off to have them cry and cause drama.They probably do. After a couple days they're all acting as if they'd been there for a month or more. If they were teenagers or women, it would make sense, but they're all full grown men who go out regularly.
Too many quit far too easily. $500,000 is a lot of money and for any normal person it would take more than loosing a ferro rod, a bad weather or feeling sick to give up that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get rich. Being afraid of bears (death and being eaten alive) I can understand, but no other reasons other than serious injury or sickness.
They're not supposed to know how the others are doing. How would you feel if you tapped out and then later learned that you were the second last left or that all the rest tapped out day after? 500 000 dollars!
I think everyone gets paid for a scripted role, just like in many other reality tv programs.
The winner has to be someone who fits the bill, someone who impresses the audience. If there's any real competition at all, it happens only after the scripted 'losers' have all quit.
>Ep5, Winds of Hell. Why not spend a day in a warm sleeping bag, under a water/windproof tarp instead of talking to the camera about how horrible the weather is (while the tarp on the background doesn't move an inch and a stock audio effect that sounds nothing like a tarp in the wind can be heard.) 