I spent 54 years as a journeyman truck-and heavy-equipment mechanic, often working through the night by myself a long way away from any help. It's still there, right where you missed it. This time instead of motorcycles we have gold pans. Instead we have yet another badly written, poorly acted, soap opera. This show, had it been base on any sort of earthly reality, would have attracted people that had been bitten by the gold bug. They presume their audience is as ignorant as they are. It's unlikely any of them have ever seen a gold pan let alone a real gold mine. This is the core of what's wrong with this show. This fate awaits the writers of this show. The stupid ones end up blowing them selves up or falling down a mine shaft. I think this show is offensive to any one with common sense. Maybe I'm just biased because I've been prospecting and mining gold in the Mojave Desert since the 1970's. For the amount of material they supposedly moved and the pitiful amount of gold recovered they have picked the worst spot on earth, maybe the entire solar system. Nobody, except maybe a Hollywood writer, is that stupid. Never once have they checked to see if they are actually getting any gold. We're down to the wire out of money and have been (supposedly) running for months. The writers have gone out of their way to create fake drama in this show. A ready to run truck mounted wash plant Was Listed for $60,000 including the heavy equipment needed to run it. OK I checked the classifieds in the California Mining Journal. Seriously these idiots supposedly spent Nearly $250 to get their home made wash plant built and running on their leased claim in Alaska. Showing more of what actually happens including the boring stuff, and scrap the forced drama would have made the show better. One annoying fake element of this show is the drama build-ups and the speaker voice - "If they can't manage to. Parker is developing a A-class asshole attitude, if some of this is real it is interesting to ponder why - ambition, expectations, camera fever, narcissism or something else? What makes me believe in the show is that too much operation, equipment and costs are involved for it all to be fake. From the first season the Hoffman crew has been running on too small budgets and knowledge, I don't know if effort, luck or help from the TV- production has made them still succeed sometimes. How much is real and how much is played or scripted, I don't know, but seems real enough for me to not turn the program off. Not much new in the 5th season, but still like the elements of people struggling, being assholes, taking senseless stupid chances and so on. Feeling slightly stupid to be a sucker for this show.
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