re: Alone - Season 12 - South Africa - Thursday, June 12th - South Africa

This has to be the weakest cast of characters yet. They have food everywhere and we've somehow lost 4 people in the first 6 days?

Hopefully this season picks up, but this has easily been the least interested i've been for this show after 4 episodes.
Bunch of sissies tapping out, outside of the 1 guy shitting blood.


I just don't like the idea of this place and the water issues. Even if you build somethign to store water in, you likely can't seal it well so you'll have bugs and other shite in it in no time, so you can't really save that much water. What good does it do you to kill some big game if you have to process and smoke it basically that day or it's going to go bad. And this is a place that it seems like hanging up a bunch of dried meat is going to get eaten by something, especially considering none of them have any type of shelter.
SPeaking of shelters, can't wait to watch the moron float away b/c she decided to build camp in a dry river bed. When she said "dry river bed" my first thought was, dry river beds can become wet river beds real quick, seems like a really stupid place to set up camp. One of the things i most like about the show is how and why they bulid the shelters they build. I think one guy has built a shelter thus far, and it's just a few sticks and a tarp.

it's just been a boring 4 epidsodes so far from a survival perspective. Seems like the entire survival aspect is dealing with purifying enough water to keep you from dehydrating each day, and they are all dehydrated. I did really like seeing the guy make the water container out of that root ball. That was cool

These people have so much food around them and build the shittiest shelter so far. At least in the preview for episode 6 it looks like one guy is going to really get serious on a shelter. The lake is full of so much catfish, someone needs to build a good smoker and then put out 10 handlines and for God's sakes bleed the catfish first.

I watch this with my 72 year old mother and she has displayed more knowledge than some of these contestants. The whole no water bottle for most of them and that woman setting up in the dry river bed made me question their abilities

I have this belief that when they're casting this show they purposely select players they feel will tap early. This is still a TV show. They don't want 10 "Rolands" that would still be out there if he wanted. They need the attrition and don't want 90- day runs anyomre.

This season plays into my belief as this appears to be a less adept group than in the past. The lack of Shleter building has been the bigger tells IMO.

Well it’s not that cold and it’s not supposed to rain, so they don’t really need a shelter.
I still would think you would want to occupy your time making a “home”. I like the shelter the one guy is making with rocks and sand. That’s going to be really cool.

But agree they can’t get 10 Roland’s out there.

The editing is so irritating. I’d bet money some of these guys have caught over a dozen fish each, yet they might show someone catch 1 or 2 fish over 2 weeks. They are all eating stuff they are foraging for, yet we hardly see any of that. One guy made a water storage. What the hell are the rest of them doing? You’d think you would want to spend the evening boiling water and storing enough for the next day, and letting it cool over night so you have cold water in the morning and throughout the day.



And one of these idiots took a bar of soap with him out there as his 10 items. I think when someone selects something that stupid they should be automatically eliminated and someone else is selected to go.

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The editing is so irritating.

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I don't get people not making sure they have some kindling tucked away and dry when they saw the weather coming

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I've been suspicious of the editing/presentation since atleast season 6. They would just show scenes that seemed to me to contradict how they were presenting the competitors' actual condition. Even my young daughter pointed out one of these anomalies. I guess they do what they think they have to do for entertainment. But I now suspect that a lot of the ones that actually make it past the first 30 days are far more prepared and competent than what's shown.

I've started watching Alone Austrailia S3 and it's a far better group survivalist and the location (Tasmania) is much better than the desert. We're seeing a lot more emphasis on various survial skills and not as much personal stories (although there is a few).

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And one of these idiots took a bar of soap with him out there as his 10 items. I think when someone selects something that stupid they should be automatically eliminated and someone else is selected to go.

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Yea, we laughed at that too.

These reality shows jump the shark for me when the sob stories come out. I used to love shark tank and hearing the business back and forth. Then comes the sad music and cancer story or some single mom's story of divorce and getting back up on her feet