Along with most other viewers I was taking the view that I shouldn't be critical of the women/men because I would be crap too in their situation - I would be worse than crap - but in fact, I think that's totally wrong.
The reality is nearly 80,000 people applied for this show and out of all of those 80,000 the producers chose people that have a veneer of capability (perhaps big ego or arrogance, general bossiness), not huge amounts of empathy or real interest in others, and probably despite what they themselves might have thought, very little in the way of self-sufficiency or survivial skills.
And they were all chosen deliberately because these qualities make them telegenic - we want to see them fail because they all have at least one unappealing aspect to their characters we want to see tested.
So in reality, many other people, and probably many of the other 80,000 who applied, would do much better than these women and that's exactly why they weren't chosen.
So I'm not going to feel guilty about criticising or mocking them anymore - they are crap - but they are very watchable crap!
And that's what the show is about - nothing else.
It's meaningless, pulling the legs off spiders, torment porn (does that exist?)
It's not meant to be uplifting or edifying in any way - bring it on!
And again, they are crap and deserve to be called crap because they were chosen because they were crap.
The whole trick hinges on whether the women can manipulate the viewers into feeling sorry for them rather than laughing at them - I've given up feeling sorry for them - I'll just laugh from now on.