Man vs Wild

Cool. In which hotel did Bear Grylls sleep in?

Haha, damn I didn't know there was a season premiere. Gonna have to look out for the rerun on Discover!

Love this show too.

Survivorman would unleash his Canuck fury on Grylls and fuck his shit up. Though, Bear can be entertaining.

Meh, Survivorman is canceled and gone. And he often brought a lot of shit with him. Maybe he'll go back to directing music videos in Canada and living in the national park with his girlfriend.

I love me some Bear. He endangers himself plenty for the show, and has done more climbing, paragliding, skydiving, you name it than one can imagine. Best show moment though was him pole-vaulting down that steep slope with a tree he cut down...Siberia, maybe?

And tonight is Alabama, woohoo!

Word.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

"Fuck the haters. I loves me some Bear Grylls,"


i could not have said it better myself.


my god, i love this show. when i first discovered it, it was one of the most wonderful happenstance moments of my life. bear grylls is truely a man. not some emo guy with duct tape and clothes pins all over his clothing (like so many guys my age). i'd do anything to be mrs grylls. youngest british man to climb everest. paraglided over everest. kills animals for food. so many cool things about this guy

he is so bad ass, yet so friendly , warm and knowledgable. i love the respect he has for nature and native peoples. the show is called man vs wild, but to him, clearly its about man respecting nature and doing the best he can to survive in an often harsh world. he never "Beats" nature, he just through skill and luck manages to live in nature for a time untill he is rescued.


i've got a bunch of M vs W episodes on my ipod. they are perfect chill out viewing. you feel like youre going on a guided hike with mr grylls. not only that, there is danger often, excitement, and yes... he often takes his clothes off. (he has like, a daniel craig level body. its jaw dropping)


is the show ever coming out in blu ray? do you guys know if it was filmed in HD?

is there ever going to be an uncencored version without the blurry box they use for when he takes his clothes off?

Dammit, I keep forgetting to check Discover channel for this.

I love when they do marathons (usually around the Christmas Holidays), you can easily waste an entire day in front of the tv... especially where I usually spend christmas, in my small hometown cut off from 99% of my friends and the internet.

Haha, there are times when I'd beg to differ with this... especially when he's owning the hell out of some creature in the wild and eating it 10 seconds later!

survivor man was a wimp. bear is for me. a knife, a flint, and a water bottle. thats all a REAL man should need (you hear that, survivor man!?)

also, how lame do you have to be to CALL YOURSELF survivor man? bear knows he is bad ass (and that his regular normal name is bad ass ) enough to just let his name be his name. HE makes the name bear grylls cool, the name doesnt make HIM cool.

haha true true. however, i view it more as he is just doing whatever it is that is within his power (yes, he may "beat" a fish with his bow and arrow, but he is not beating nature... you cant win against nature, you just keep the war going through small victories --the fish-- so YOU DONT LOSE ) to keep surviving. its not like he could kill one animal and nature gives up and all of a sudden its easy for him to survive out there

The fact that he's insanely hot doesn't hurt the show either.

no, i am certain it helps the show actually.

He was doing naked push ups last night..

I don't dislike Survivorman (didn't realise you're only allowed to love one or the other) but I seriously love the shit out of Bear.

People love to give him shit but they sort of miss the point that his show is more about showing the audience what they should do if they're lost in the wild and yet he still manages to place himself in some pretty fucked up situations as it is (and eat some wonderfully fucked up shit to boot). I mean the guy broke his back in a fall from a helicopter while in the english paratroopers (basically the pommy special forces), spent a year in traction learning to walk again and went on to be the (then) youngest brit to climb Mount Everest. The guys the real fucking deal.

Can't wait to see Season 3.

For all you Bear fans I also recommend his other series' Escape To The Legion where he goes with a bunch of UK civilians and spends a couple of months in a shortened version of the Foreign Legions training program and Bears Mission Everest where he attempts to fly in a paraglider above Mount Everest.

He straight up murked that wild pig... Jack Bauer style. All we needed was Grylls whispering "don't fight it" in the pig's ear.

And yet he has pee-pee breath.

he hasnt approved your facebook request because he doesnt get dropped into the amazon with " my knife, a flint, a waterbottle...and my iphone "

I have learned so much from bear , he is a great educator

Its really hard to compare Bear and Les since they both seem to have different goals more often than not. Les tends to pick a place, make a camp, and generally kind of try and wait out for a potential rescue while Bear seems to advocate doing what you can to get out on your own. I guess given that Les has to film himself it's a lot easier to just sit tight than to lug all that gear and keep setting it up. They had a behind the scenes episode of Survivorman once showing him setting up a camera, walking back the way he came a mile or so and turning around just so he could film himself walking past the camera for a ten second time lapse. I was exhausted just watching so I dont know how he managed it.

Id say the biggest thing in Bear's favor is that he tends to go hungry a lot less often. Lately they have been giving him things to kill but he's also managed to catch fish or snakes on his own which Les seems to have a rough time doing. Plus Bear single handedly killed a good sized alligator once, that's gotta take some doing.

Isn't it unrealistic if Les has to do the camera stuff himself? That would seem to be a lot of energy/calories expended on something that someone stuck in that situation wouldn't be doing.

i like the idea that bear fans and "survivor man" fans are enemies adn not allowed to enjoy the other show lol

Man Vs Wild is such a great show, I got hooked on it while I was staying in Oregon for a few weeks and the only channel that didn't seem to consist of Family Matters reruns was Discovery.

Thanks to Bear Grylls I now know what to do in almost any survival situation. I'll still die within a day but at least I'll know exactly how and why I managed to fuck it all up.

well, i like to think i've learned things from him that might help me survie one day, or at least last a few more rounds than i otherwise would have in the battle of kate VS wild. i mean, i do not have the upper body strength or some of his climbing skills, but i have a good memory and remember lots of his tips for building shelters, starting fires, adn finding food. you cant say that knowlege wouldnt help.

I like both shows and Bear is entertaining as fuck, but if I don't think he really gives any valuable survivor skills, unless you are fuckin Tarzan. On one of his long climbs I could swear I noticed a safety rope.

And the backflip off the waterfall was pretty neat. I've never heard a man's junk referred to as a John Thomas before. I love the British!

I watched a few minutes of this thing a few weeks ago thinking it was a nature program because Bear was harassing a snake and talking about how beautiful and dangerous it was. I assumed he was some Steve Erwin knockoff until he proceeded to beat the fuck out of it with a stick and cut off its head. He might have pretended to eat it but I stopped watching.

So when does this show stop being about survival and start being about some douche running around the woods killing shit? Or is that all of it?

Couldn't he just eat McDonalds or whatever with his camera crew?

What a great show this is. I think what makes it so awesome is how down to earth Bear is. You expect a show like this to feature an alpha male douchebag but instead you get a funny, humble. and easily excitable overgrown boy scout. I'm thinking of when he was going after some wild honey or the prospect of building a raft to take out to sea, Just a cool show.

[QUOTE=Zweit;2683219]I watched a few minutes of this thing a few weeks ago thinking it was a nature program because Bear was harassing a snake and talking about how beautiful and dangerous it was. I assumed he was some Steve Erwin knockoff until he proceeded to beat the fuck out of it with a stick and cut off its head. He might have pretended to eat it but I stopped watching. QUOTE]

He doesnt pretend He ate the snake and squeezed out its blood into his mouth.