UKH

Time for my weekly thread on this

one of the tasks was a bridge lower- to test trust. Work in pairs, number 1 drops off, number 2 at bottom of canyon pulls break rope to stop fall

except one of the pairs didn’t do it right, and number 1 hit the rocks at the bottom. Number 2 was blamed, and shamed, for dropping his partner

but; surely that’s a training issue? The instructors needed to make sure he could do it before putting him in that position 

and, number 1 was on a top rope back up. To me it looked like the instructors dropped him too, but they didn’t say much about that in the aftermath...

It's TV. No drama = no viewers. Nobody got hurt so all's well that ends well.

Yep, the DS f*cked up.

It should have been prevented by one of the following:

- a free abseil,

- a shorter safety rope,

- closer DS supervision at the base, or,

- more practice for the recruits.

Yes, what I thought

and given the person who dropped his partner has issues with having been bullied at school that clearly still affected him, running an exercise where he was singled out as untrustworthy by his fellow  competitors, then aggressively blaming him for their own errors looked unpleasantly like the DS repeating the role of bully. Not the series’ finest moment.

All that was provided. I’m aware there was a very experienced MIC behind the development and training of the SAS lads. 

It’s Sunday night TV, something needs to happen and “spice” it up a little for viewers. 

Will be interesting to watch it back in slow motion with the sound off.

You suggesting it was staged?

maybe; but if so, the margin between dramatic viewing and a serious incident looked pretty slim...

edit- and even if so, that remains a pretty unpleasant position to put the person held responsible for the cameras in (unless his backstory was a fake too and he was in on it- but he’s a good actor if that’s the case)

Not sure. Only watched a bit of it. Can’t really get into it. Just a lot of shouting. Scenery is lovely though. 

shock, horror , TV turns out to be a bit shit.

Accept the fact Sunday night will never be last of the summer wine and lovejoy ever again

All creatures great and small. 

Surely Lovejoy was too racy for Sunday night, I remember it as Friday night viewing, I digress

<smiles wistfully>

its ok though, there’s still countryfile and the antiques roadshow...