>>196484>Out of the wildThis was very interesting to see people coping.
>Lars MonsenYES! The Norwegian approach needs more exposure.
>Ed StaffordThis was more educational from the point of psychological breakdown. A supposed hardened guy is reduced to a blubbering mess from the mental strain of being alone more than the survival situation.
>Les StroudLes is slow going and pretty much every episode uneventful. Which to my mind mirrors the reality of the situation closely. Boredom and coping mentally are hugely underplayed aspects of surviving.
I have to recommend the "Survivorman 10 Days" where he is in Norway though. There is a point where he makes a series of mistakes - not huge ones, but enough to put him in a situation where he is exhausted, wet and with night coming in winter. And you actually get to see a glimmer of self-realization in his eyes as the thought of dying crosses his mind. "Am I filming myself creating the situation where I die? Am I going to snuff it over a fucking TV show?" That situation was more enlightening than anything else he's done.
> Ray MearsRay is like the chubby boy scout going /out/. So probably representative of most people here. It's not as much survival as bushcraft.
> Ed WardleThis is like the Ed Stafford experiment; a showcase of the mental strain of trying to survive. But where Stafford had nothing to survive with, Wardle has supplies and even gets emergency supplies when he can't feed himself. I think the solitude of the wild was what broke him. He couldn't adapt to the right outlook even with supplies.
In many ways I find the showcases of survival or outdoors life breaking down more illustrative than the demonstrative series. You get to reach your own conclusions about what went wrong.
To that end, shows like I Shouldn't Be Alive, while hyperbolic nonsense at times, are very useful to show how people fuck themselves over in emergencies. The consequences of mindset, of cumulative small mistakes..
