Storybook progression

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Confirmed: Storybook progression.

Real-life survival scenarios are anything but neat and tidy. Yet, Bear always has solutions, always gets away in the end, and so on. Real life doesn't work that way without a carefully scripted "scenario". And, as we know, the show operates with a script.

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Support: The chance of a sailboat finding a raft less than a day out from a deserted island seems unlikely. Finding a service road, as in the Sierra Nevada episode, isn't necessarily the end of an adventure...depending on the site, civilization might be hours away. Many of the civilization outposts aren't given any credibility. The Costa Rica episode has just a light, which may have just been the production team. The Alps featured far-off skiers, which again may have just been members of the production team. I don't think any episode ending actually features a civilian face...

Support: Let's see if we can identify the Show Formula.

1. Bear is helicoptered in to the location and either: a) parachutes down, b) abseils down, c) tucks & rolls out, or d) just jumps out

2. Bear does unprotected 5th class climbing and endorses viewers to do the same.

3. Bear finds the largest, coldest body of water and soaks himself in it. Extra credit if he jumps a distance into it, or even better, if he climbs UP it.

4. As he's now soaking wet, he must remove as many articles of clothing as possible within the first half hour of the show.

5. Bear quickly and easily starts a fire that invariably goes up in a big fa-WHOOMP.

6. Bear says, "REALLY, THE ONLY CHOICE I HAVE HERE IS TO . . . " and then does some outrageous STUNT that's not at all practical and mostly dangerous, but great for ratings. There's always a clearly safer but less dramatic way of doing things.

7. Bear kills and eats a small, usually defenseless creature that desperately tries to wriggle out of his mouth.

Support: In the Mexican Episode when Bear spots a clearing in the rocks that helps him go in the right direction again, there appear to be rocks with red markings. It could be possible that Bear is following a predefined path created by the writers. It's also more likely that the path Bear has to follow is known to him in advance and the route is carefully planned beforehand.