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You do realize that Alone has a lot of limitations, right? The show begins at the start of winter. Participants are geofenced, and hunting activities must abide by local laws. Not to mention, they don't even get to choose their sites, which is crucial in a real-life survival situation.

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The way they handle bears is very limited, for instance. Humanity's main defenses against bears have been 1) being in groups of more than one person and 2) sometimes you gotta kill a bear. In Alone you've got your airhorn and bear mace and that's it.

I will say I enjoyed the early episode of one of the seasons on Vancouver Island where a cop tapped out within a day or two because there were bears. He even said (I'm paraphrasing) that he's not used to not being able to shoot them or call for help on a radio.

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