yup, "unreal" all right. I was surfing the TV and saw a log house building show last night. They highlighted the crane operator at the site dropping a load of small logs bundled together with ratchet straps. Definitely staged. They got a closeup of the foreman on camera saying something like "don't stand under that load, I don't trust those straps". the crane operator lifted that load 40-50' in the air (why so high?) and then the strap "let go" and the logs tumbled into a pile. The clue was that no one jumped out of their skin when the load fell. A couple of guys just stood and watched it. The logs just happened to fall where the main guy said "hey at least it fell in a good place" (probably right where they wanted them). They also made a big deal out of a sensor that "broke" on the crane and they had to shut down the crane and go into town for a replacement part. Then there was the drama of fitting a log truss onto the walls. The end of the log dropped into a notch and you'd have thought they landed on the moon with the high fives and cheers. :roll: That's where I rolled my eyes and turned it off.
By and large the reality shows struggle to keep an audience interested in something that is normally mundane. That's why I liked the Dirty Jobs show. They condensed and showcased something into a single segment and moved onto something else the next week.
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