SassyCat

Well, speculation yes. I do try to comment on what is being shown, and try not to formulate conclusions from not shown, unknown events. They have not shown footage of big strifes between Kate, Jeff and Patrick. So, thats how I base my impressions of her. Over the years and episodes she has been in, she has not played well with others and seems, to me, stubborn and unwilling to adjust her personality to be more compatible with her Co-Nakies while out there in survival land. A place where it is better to at least try to be cooperative with other people the same naked boat. I stick by my impression of her and unrelenting stubbornness to place herself in others shoes. She only sees Kates world and the ways and how she would desire it to be, while unwilling to accept a different perspective, herself…. From what I have been shown of her. She had no reason to take the hide Jeff alone WON and LENT her, other than to be petty and wanting it for her own homes livingroom decor. Souvenirs. Narcissists come in all shapes and sizes.

Just got through watching the first 2 episodes. My wifi has been wonky for weeks now, but has been fixed. For some reason, Jeff isn’t annoying me as much as he usually does. I know that will be temporary though. Maybe it’s because he isn’t nonstop screaming at the top of his lungs this time. So far. It’s a sure sign he isn’t feeling as sure of himself and winning it, this time around. The way things are going for him as of yet. Patrick is annoying me more, personality wise. That Kate is a piece of work, huh? That was wildly wrong of her to take the hide after Jeff got it down and kindly let her use it. Plus taking the knife too! I guess having souvenirs of her few days was more important to her than leaving behind a good impression with the world of viewers watching. What a Rat Fink! I bet they had a robe for her in the truck she left in. She was even more annoying than Jeff who volunteered to walk all the way back for her rope she left behind that they needed, and having the nerve to keep saying “Hurry up” to him. She should have gone back to get her own damn rope. At least she left her rope behind and left Jeff a replacement for his stolen one. All she has done was reinforce to Jeffs way of thinking, that it does not pay off to be nice to others. It was an opportunity to teach him something with positive reinforcement, and she showed her true colors. I bet he was stopped by production from outright stealing the bow Gary just dropped down onto Lindsey. It was not something left unattended as the rules specified. The first Last Man Standing was a trial show, which now production can see where they made their mistakes in not being more thorough in the rules which back then, the players made flexible for their own benefits. I am glad they are being more specific with the rules, this time. I am glad they all got some food to eat and that Patrick and Jeff felt they got over on Dani the rope stealer, by scarfing up the baobab flowers to eat that vegetarian Dani seems to have overlooked laying right in front of her. I just love those cool looking Baobab trees. I wish I could grown one in my yard. Trish’s weaving skills finally came in very handy with her net idea. That was a lot of fine sized fish it scooped up!

Yes. There was a definite change in the way she spoke from one moment to the next depending on what she was talking about. She had a Normal speech pattern when talking about regular everyday life she lived, which changed to a typical speech pattern people playing Indians in movies sound like. Like… “Me redfoot, you whitefoot. Smokem peace pipe. Wind fly smoke spirit to sun, stars.” Lol, thats the best way I can describe the total change of her speech pattern from one moment to the next. It is very hard to do a Native American type of speech pattern when you are used to just speaking like a regular American.. or Canadian, who sound much like americans in many of their province areas. Like she did when just normal talking. I have tried and it is not an easy way to talk like that. It has to be practiced. Alot. Its very clipped and minimal with words.

Yeah, Michaela was irritating to me in the way she talked like a regular normal person when she wasn’t in one of her “indigenous modes” where her style of speaking changed to someone who was a wise old Indian woman speaking in few words with a cadence that was entirely different from her natural way of just “talking”. It was so unnatual and phony to me. More like she just wanted to sound native american, rather than just naturally being a person who is native american… without the forced cadence of the wisdom of a wise woman. Like her body was suddenly taken over by an old Indian spirit who was speaking through her. It was too practiced.

Oh wow.. thanks for clarifying that it was NOT Sam, but Jessie who ate the inner bark to get things moving. I thought it was a strange way to try and unblock yourself by eating wood fiber which seems pretty hard to digest and more of a blocking type of material to be using. I really do think I recall Sam also experiencing no bm’s for quite a while where he was worried he would have to tap, and then one day he was all smiles saying he finally did what a bear usually does in the woods. Then he went on to win. I think it happened on his second attempt on the show.

I remember when a previous winner, Sam, was having the same problem. I think he also was up to 10 days, maybe more… could have been a day or so less. I can’t remember how many days it was, but it was very concerning. He scraped the inner layer off the bark of pine trees which he had heard did the trick of moving things along. I don’t remember if he made a tea out of it, or if he just ate the fibrous scrapings, but after 2 or 3 days of using this method, he finally got things moving along down there. I do think he just ate the stuff after boiling it a bit. He did the show twice. I can’t remember if it was his first go-round this happened, or the second time, where he ended up winning the 500k.

I agree on all you said. I think Michelle’s name is Michela. Yeah she is annoying me too, with her oh so spiritual lifestyle performance, using the viewing audience as her student hostages, and her, the Teacher, whether you like it or not. I’d rather watch her put that energy into actual work needed to feed, build a strong shelter, and protect herself from bears and wolves. I hope her sacred rock in the middle of a bunch of grass keeps her alive and kicking, and safe. Poor Cubby. What a freak accident that was, is right! He is so lucky he didn’t cut that carotid artery. He was well set in those extra pounds needed to be able to burn off a lot of them. He might have put them on for the show, and now they have all gone to waist. Yes. Pun intended. I too thought Isaiah would be the first to leave. It certainly looks like he was ready to hightail it out of there shortly after arriving. The profuse nosebleed out of nowhere was kind of scary too. I certainly wouldn’t want to be out there in bear world, smelling like fresh blood. I think Michael from Labrador is going to win this if he doesn’t have to medically tap. Labrador is a brutal climate to live in, and him living off grid there, says a lot for his ability in super harsh conditions. It must have been pretty embarrassing for him to lose that huge Pike after bragging about being such a master fisherman. I like his attitude though. The other woman, Sarah… though well versed in harsh cold environments, living in Alaska… I think she’s too thin starting out. She mentioned something about the bleakness of the landscape and atmosphere of northern wintertime. Its all grey on white. No color, white ground and sky that feels like nothing is alive. I have experienced that while visiting friends on the norther border in the middle of winter. My friend puts out many strings of colorful lights all around her property so she can see them through the windows at night. She knows how important to a healthy mental state it is up there to provide some winter color, and stimulate a joyful alive feeling from them instead of the constant heaviness of the dead, sleeping landscape. Including all the birds and squirrels. Nothing moves, but the wind in the trees. It’s a heavy, still and forlorn feeling that permeates the air and is downright depressing. I can see where that alone, will send ya packing.

Yeah Baybay! I consider this the only remaining real “Reality” show out there now. Always was, hope it always will be. My interest in TV has sharply declined in the past few months to practically zilch, …but I was looking forward to this. This one looks like it’s going to be a good one and it looks like they have a great group of serious survivors.

A she shed.

There are people out there in the world who really love the idea of primitive survival and pushing themselves to limits physically, so I guess the combo of those two characteristics is what brings us these N&A contestants. I don’t know if they receive any money for the regular series episodes, but I imagine they must be being paid something for doing it while being filmed. Some do it to make a name for themselves to try and make a career out of teaching wild crafts and survival methods. Some just want their 15 minutes of fame. There are also armed sentry guards just out of camera range who are ready to intervene if any wild animal decides to go on a hunt for humans. I do not know how they keep the piranhas away from them. There must be some kind of pre checking the water crossing areas for alligators, etc before they plunge themselves into any given water hole, lake or river. They all must be signing contracts which do not hold the production of this show responsible for any harm they might encounter above and beyond the precautions the producers take while filming. The fainters are probably one of the biggest unknown, unforeseen problems they have because who knows when or where it will happen or where their heads or backs or any body part will land. Hopefully not on a jagged rock. I have noticed signs that trails taken, look a bit pre-trodden sometimes, so I would not be surprised if a heavy booted armed sentry pre walked the paths ahead of them to check for poisonous snakes, lions, etc, before the naked duo goes forward on it. Nobody wants anyone to get hurt or die and every precaution must be being taken to prevent any harm to the people, but the unknown possible accidents are most likely stated in the clauses signed beforehand as being the responsibility of the naked participant. I don’t know if any of what I just said is true… but it is what I think must be going on in this show.

That one sentence from Rob was the most entertaining line of the whole season. 🤣

So Crystal loses her spot because she doesn’t muster up some false drama “storyline” passed off as reality, on a reality show. I really hate the word “storyline” and what it denotes. Look what insanity the term inspires so many of these women to act like. Looking at you Rinna, Annemarie, Kyle. (And not looking at Erica..ewww… her reality is down right disturbing). Dorit with her fake accent lessons to be presented as her real reality to try and appear more Lovey Howell-like to fit in with the real moneyed peers she wants to rub elbows with. What do these producers expect from people just trying to live a normal happy life in their beautiful homes with large bank accounts at the ready to cater to their material needs and desires? It’s always the actress wanna bees 🐝 who come up with something negative, magnified to “entertain” us plebeians with. Spotlight hogs mud mucking. Gotta throw in some broken glass held up to the neck of a coworker, or the constant tear down of another one who isn’t the glass shard wielding type. Such entertaining fun from the upper echelons of society living Riley lives. 🙄 No normalcy or content happy family daily lifestyles desired in their bizarro backwards definition of a Reality show. Go Fly Crystal! Fly free and joyfully! Less stress is a good thing!

Last nights show was actually good, and watchable again!

I again, had it on in the background. Then the background noise became annoying with the podcaster doing a self promotion hour, like Amber, but even more annoyingly so. So I changed channels. I remember when they only talked directly at the camera men on occasion, when prompted. But now… it has turned into people trying to be a one man show and being the star in it. Not entertaining when you want to see true survivalism. It’s Just obnoxious.

Oh I am not saying that Denise is not happy or has regrets concerning her special needs daughter… just that it is sad. Sad that the child will never have a normal life.. (whatever that is). Looking around the internet, I see that Denise adopted her as an infant and did not get a diagnosis until Eloise was about 5 or 6 after showing many developmental delays. She does look like an angel and obviously is much loved by her family.