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What do you reckon? I was a tad disappointed last series that people were weak slaves to their phones
Maybe better this time around?
Aye, agreed. Really good though, I'd love a go!.
Man v drone...
Looks good this one. Can't believe the two miliatary blokes got an the blower then sat down for a curry. How naive.
Have you seen the state of that ex forces bloke crawling across a green field in a ghillie suit? I mean, WTF? He was as obvious as a boil on yer arse!
Why do they all keep going on phones?
I reckon if 100K was involved you wouldn't see/hear me for 28 days. How do I apply?
Why didn't the hunters get the two army blokes when they had them in the restaurant? What's that about?
I'd just hide under the bed......
Rather like the Apprentice, you get the impression that they just haven't seen the show before.
Why didn't the hunters get the two army blokes when they had them in the restaurant? What's that about?
s'wat i was thinking too.
Last time when someone had a boring but effective strategy (holing up in a caravan for the duration), they were conveniently found by the staggering coincidence of the search team turning up there for unrelated enquiries. 🙄
So I reckon me just bikepacking around the remoter parts of the Dales and Lakes would get me nicked pretty quick.
Why didn't the hunters get the two army blokes when they had them in the restaurant? What's that about?s'wat i was thinking too.
Me too. Not good telly was my conclusion. Let them 'escape' so we can catch up with them again. And repeat.
Edit: still entertaining though!
I reckon having the film crew following you is a hit of a give away. I bet they all have their phones on
Seems that the rules actually require the fugitives to move around regularly (ie no hiding in a bothy in Scotland for a month) and to use friends & family, much like an actual criminal might.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hunted/articles/all/series-2-guide/4836
And there seem to be measures in place to ensure that the camera crew can't give location info to the hunters.
That said, the girls' parents were spectacularly stupid, pretty much gave a full detailed inventory of their kit and plans.
It's telly isn't it?
Like on the last series when Dr Whatsit was in a 'remote' Scottish bothy that turned out to be Gleann Dubh which is about 2 miles from the A830 Ft William/Mallaig road. Hardly 'remote'!
They know exactly where you are every second of the day and night. They just need to harvest that info from another source before they can use it. Or just pick you up anyway, if you're boring.
EG being the lad who was in the N Yorks village - they flyposted that specific village with reward posters and the landlady dobbed him in. Same with the Dr in the Highlands.
I got bored after 20 minutes and turned it off
I'm going to apply for next year be a doddle I recon 😀
Losing faith in this program that there is an ounce of realism and that actually it's partly scripted.
"We have eyes on the targets".. But we'll stand outside the restaurant and peer in obviously for no reason as we can't have an early capture we need some drama first of an oh so close moment.
It's a frustrating program, why was the mum of one of those annoying girls giving so many clues about camping etc and then why the hell did the dad have a list of the truck stops in his pocket, keep it somewhere safe upstairs at all times, you don't need it on you. Or do you for the purposes of the script.
Why did the military guy on his apple Mac have a ridiculously easy password yet he seemed to be savvy that they'd try and hack into his online life.
Conspiracy theory.
+1 for what Larry says, & If you want 100K you go off somewhere & don't show your face, leave your phone at home, keep out of touch with family, take supplies & be prepared to go hungry.
I'd love that, 100K to lose 3 stones! Easy!
Surely you would just holeup in the equadorian embassy,
+1 for what Larry says, & If you want 100K you go off somewhere & don't show your face, leave your phone at home, keep out of touch with family, take supplies & be prepared to go hungry.
I'd love that, 100K to lose 3 stones! Easy!
Read the link crazy-legs posted to the rules.
They have to keep moving, and they have to stay in contact with friends and family. I agree it's a bit of a con in that respect, but the alternative is 4 weeks of who can most convincingly fake their own death.
Plenty of people could sit in a bothy for 4 weeks but that's now what you'd do if you had just robbed a bank is it?
I stopped watching when I saw the Spot tracker one of them was carrying in the last series.
Read the link crazy-legs posted to the rules.
What they need to do is actually detail the rules on the actual program as a voice over at the start. It's not clear at all when watching the program and so people will get frustrated with the "stupid" people not sitting in the middle of a forest in Scotland and cutting themselves off from the outside world for a month.
Most, like me didn't realise there was additional rules that needed to be adhered too over what is mentioned on the program.
Anyway that doesn't change the fact the program I felt is becoming scripted in some way to add drama rather than just recording what happened and make a program from that.
Anyway that doesn't change the fact the program I felt is becoming scripted in some way to add drama rather than just recording what happened and make a program from that.
I've not even seen it, but i'd have thought that would be clear without even knowing the plot...
What's the point in a prog where 10 people are not found and no-one has any video of where they are or what they're doing.
If the hunters are so good, they should be able to find them, especially with just 30 minutes lead.
I did wonder in the last series why someone didn't just go to a caravan park in Rhyll and assume a new identity as Barry the plasterer for the duration.
Wouldn't be difficult. It makes more* sense now.
I did wonder in the last series why someone didn't just go to a caravan park in Rhyll and assume a new identity as Barry the plasterer for the duration.
Someone did, in East Anglia I think - see my above post about how this conveniently played out for C4.
It just a program made by [i]the Man[/i] to scare us into thinking we're all findable and not to be naughty.
I watched a bit of the last series, got bored of the stupidity of the people and "coincidences" that led to people being caught.
With all the rules above definitely too contrived for me.
I reckon the cyclist is going to win it through sheer incompetence.
He'll fail to carry out every plan he tells anyone about and they'll always be waiting for him in the wrong place...
I quite enjoyed the first series although I guess it had fewer rules. This series probably needed more rules to stop people learning from the last series.
Although it did make it less exciting when they were all on their phones and being driven arround by friends the whole time.
Half the enjoyment of the first series was watching them have a mental breakdown due to the isolation and running out of plan but not really knowing if the old plan was working or if the hunters were just outside the door.
I reckon the cyclist is going to win it through sheer incompetence.
which ones the cyclist? is it the older of the ex-forces guys with the false leg? he's also an ex-cop (who booked me into the cells one night...) is the dad of a mate of mine and he's also a keen roadie, has worked in (possibly run?) bike shops and is a funny bloke.
won't be watching the episode til tonight.
on the show.. think of it as a LARP with the simulated powers of state being part of the game then its not so cringey
[i]which ones the cyclist?[/i]
errm, the one on the bike.
i did say i haven't seen it smarty pants!
Ahh soz, I hadn't read the rules about keeping in touch with family & friends. You could get round that by taking some homing pigeons & tying messages to their legs like they used to, except your family couldn't write back!
There's so many holes in the program but still find it entertaining and worth a watch. A lot of it is simulated like the ANPR and CCTV but I guess that's the only way they could do it.
Wouldn't mind giving it a go. Set up a random page visitor on loop and then leave the laptop for them to sift through with a million urls in the history. Think the most fun would be setting them off on wild goose chases.
It probably helps in the realism factor if your 'contestants' are not already established actors:
http://www.castingnow.co.uk/jez-scarratt
hah! good find
ninfan - Member
It probably helps in the realism factor if your 'contestants' are not already established actors:
Brilliant. 😆
That ending in the curry house is ridiculous. Why on earth would they let them go? Also, the incompetence of the military guys and their detailed digital trail is staggering.
I'd love to give it a go, I reckon with a healthy dose of paranoia and a bit of smart thinking I could make a decent go of it. I'd love to set up an elaborate series of bike changes to get out of the city.
So its a programme about evading capture but to meet the rules you are not allowed to hide and you have to tell the hunters where you are.
Just watched it.
Having been on tele a couple of times It is obvious to see the editing going on, and the following 'subtle' tv camera crew wil have massive big professional cameras , not GoPro's on selfie sticks.
Would be better if they had a jump off point and a destination and time frame to get there.
Be more realistic and due to the laws of divergance and confluence be more exciting if capture is evaded.
Why did these people not plan by watching the Bourne trilogy a few times ?
Why did these people not plan by watching the Bourne trilogy a few times ?
IIRC, the contestants (participants?) on the first show weren't actually told they'd been successful in the audition until about 2hrs before the hunters turned up at their door.
This format is slightly different, releasing them all together from a central location and they were allowed to plan their initial escape (have a car waiting etc) so they must have had some notice...
On C4 now.
They've just caught the two army guys.
I can't figure out the rules, if they have to stay in contact, surely the others must be on the phone as much as the army guys were?
There were elements of the first series that, although clearly stage managed, were fun and interesting. This series is just awful.
The only scripted bit seems to be the procrastination about catching them, im guessing the drones going to take up half the next eppisonde while they lose them in a field or something.
Does seem like the hunters have got it a bit too easy with the new rules.
Bobbins last episode.
"Oooo look at this boat loitering around 6 hours before the deadline".
The whole coastline of the uk is a possible exit, as are airfields and train stations and the bloke picks out a single RIB at the isle of sheppey.
19,500 miles of coast and they find the extraction vehicle. Tad unbelievable.
Last series was more believable because they failed more than they succeeded. This time around it's patently obvious they know exactly what the 'contestants' are doing and simply fabricate a back-story as to how they might pick them up at any convenient moment.
Gems this episode were the Ayo bloke conveniently getting picked up by his mate next to a non-existent CCTV camera so the hunters could narrow the search location to the north Kent coast, and the non-existent neighbour who dobbed in the girls so they could be tracked to Sedbergh, not to mention the lucky guess they were headed to Killington services and the drone which conveniently was deployed in exactly the right place to pick them up.
Some of the hunters seem to be overly angry types too.
I think my strategy would be to tell the cameraman I was off to X to meet Y, wait for him to feed that back to command, then do something completely different.
The whole series has been ludicrous, the last episode being the icing on the cake. It seems to merely serve as a scare tactic to put people off going on the run but the idea that the police have such incredible powers to check every single CCTV camera without having a clue where you are and, as mentioned above, narrow down exit points that include every single point of the UK is plainly absurd.
I think an STW team could win it easy,stealth bikepacking 😉
Who's applying for the next series then?
Who's applying for the next series then?
If everyone on here who reckons they can do it and the tens of thousands of Twitter commentators last night are anything are to go by, the application email address was probably swamped within about 10 minutes of the programme ending!
To be fair, Nick more than deserved that win - the bumbling fool bit started off as being quite annoying but everyone seemed to warm to him and it became a rather endearing trait.
Never really watched this but watched a few minutes last night.
So they find the girls using a drone on heat vision. OK.
Close in on them. Good.
Then where does the drone go to get right on top of them?
They get in an old dear's car with the line "we're on the run can we have a lift?"
"oooh yes girls, get in"
The hunters find the car and have the doors open "GET OUT THE CAR!"
A big hole in the footage and the car, driven by an old dear, is speeding off with the hunter cursing it.
Utter utter bobbins.
I think an STW team could win it easy,stealth bikepacking
Except it's quite hard to be stealthy if the hunters have pretended to hack something, picked up the CCTV from outside Wilfs in Staveley and are magically waiting for you at the end of exactly the right trail.
The bit with the old dear was either completely fake or totally out of order.
It's harder to be stealthy if you're being followed about by a bloke with a camera as well.
Yeah does kind of defeat the object of wearing a disguise
Did make me laugh when that bloke was creeping down the train platform trying not to be seen and there's a camera man stood right behind him filming it all.
It's harder to be stealthy if you're being followed about by a bloke with a camera as well.
This is the part that bugs me.
When those 2 girls were on the run being followed by Heat Seeker Drone of Death, there was no cameraperson with them. Very occasionally, when using "CCTV" you can see the cameraperson in shot, most of the time they're absent.
But more critically, is the cameraperson with the Fugitive 24/7, doing the same things (like cycling along canal towpaths, camping wild, stying in random strangers houses, hitching lifts...)? Or is it a case of them having a nice warm camper van / hotel room to disappear to each night [i]a la[/i] Bear Grylls.
And when Ayo and Madu split up, there was a cameraperson with each of them so was that a planned split, putting 2 camerapeople in there just in case? In which case it's considerably more difficult to be stealthy when you've got a group of 4.
Just watched the last one - I was impressed by the stupidity of "Hailey" and her boyfriend who did their best to show their weasel-like lack of scruples by dobbing in Ayo and demonstrate their untrustworthiness on national TV.
I was also impressed by Ayo's restraint when he realised what had happened, and he just went off instead of hoofing them in the nuts.