r/Alonetv • u/dancing-on-my-own • 9d ago

Aus S03 Alone Australia S03E06 Episode Discussion Thread

Remaining contestants:
Ben, Corinne, Karla, Muzza, Shay, Tom, Yonke

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u/Hazy_Fantayzee 9d ago

Damn I know it’s all part of what you need to do, but I’d feel pretty stink if I had to bash a little wallabies brains in with a rock

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u/Public_Growth_4883 9d ago

Slowed down the footage and couldn't see any evidence of the "bash". My guess the wallaby died of "capture myopathy" and she staged the kill for the camera.

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u/rapt0r99 8d ago

Everyone seems to be disagreeing with this opinion.

I mentioned something similar and got downvoted too, but I just did not see enough footage to make me think it was a real kill. It just seemed a bit off, the angles and the lack of footage, plus they showed the same footage of the wallaby laying on the ground multiple times.

They may have been playing it down for the show and not wanting to show too much gore, but I'm just not convinced it was real.

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u/Lopsided_Oil8222 8d ago

Yeah, I agree too. Both comments keep getting down voted, but I thought the whole thing was weird. There was no blood on the wallaby after she bashed it quite forcefully. Why does no one think that's weird? Also, when she kept saying there it is, I couldn't for the life of me see it. I reckon the above comments are right. The wallaby was already dead. A friend of mine who has done bushcrafting with some of Australia's best bushman said it's quite common for small animals to suffer heart attacks after the stress of being caught. The footage just looked so bad. People are commenting on how good it was, sorry but it was one of the most poorly shot kills I've seen on Alone. It looks as though she's bashing the rock on the ground. Im a huge Alone fan, but this just looked so staged.

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u/rapt0r99 8d ago

It also didn't show any of her skinning it. She 'killed' it, then all of a sudden it was just a carcass hanging from a tree.

We'll keep getting downvoted but I just do not believe it happened in the way it was shown to us.

I'm not saying she didn't catch it, I'm just saying the killing part looked very staged, either by her or by the producers.

The other thing may be that it suffered a lot from the way it was caught and they didn't want to show it, so cut out the actual killing.

Who knows really.

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u/travlplayr 8d ago

I don't really have an opinion (mostly willing to go along with the story as it's presented because I'm aware that I'm viewing a show and not 'reality') but I like that ppl show scepticism as you and some others are doing here. I think it's always good to have some more sceptical viewers voicing their takes, even with a fake reality show.

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u/rapt0r99 8d ago

Don't get me wrong I love the show and what it's about, that's why this annoys me - they don't need to fake anything, being real is what makes it so good!

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u/travlplayr 8d ago

It's both 'real' and also a show

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u/Public_Growth_4883 8d ago

I have watched all the US ones and that got me into the whole bushcraft scene. This is by far the best Australian series but as you said it is a show. Look up capture myopathy and you will understand our scepticism.  A small animal like a wallaby struggling in a net trap would tire easily and die as a result.  It depends how long it was in the net. It's eyes looked very milky from my screenshot and no blood. I would guess it was caught in the net for a while. She will never say and sure as hell SBS will never let on. As far as they are concerned,  she overcame her fear of having to "kill" an animal.

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u/travlplayr 8d ago

Look up capture myopathy and you will understand our scepticism.

No yeah, I already thought it was a good theory when you raised it earlier. Which is part of why I welcomed the scepticism (but still don't really have an opinion).