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by unsupp0rted 1243 days ago
I got really into it for a while but decided it was too fake.

There was one fellow in an early season who thrived so well that after setting up camp the first day and establishing his food and water sources for the season, out of boredom he started building tables and shelves.

Eventually he would have assembled a fusion reactor from tree bark but he tapped out after 21 days?

The show said he missed his wife.

I saw on Reddit someone mention the guy was never planning to be on the show more than 21 days and reluctantly got talked into appearing in the first place. The wife excuse was just something the producers made up.

That ruined the magic for me.

The guy was days away from raising a wolf army and conquering Victoria, BC with hand-made trebuchets. He had no reason to tap out.

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Sadly, there's likely too few Wolves left on the island to form an army.

I highly recommend island of the sea wolf (Netflix documentary) if you haven't seen it!