Eden

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Starts tomorrow - anyone planning to watch?

It looks like a new version of Castaway without the heavy-handed interference of the TV crew and without the cosy huts provided.

There should be a 24 hrs feed like BB used to have!

Oh god.

I wish I'd listened to the advice to turn to channel 5 for Big Brother. Left TV on channel 4, checked Facebook on phone - and looked up to see a flashing array of penises because there's a naked dating show on channel 4 straight after Eden.

In fairness, for a 41 year old, Anton is incredibly immature.

Not sure I'm going to bother watching this anymore. I also think Anton disappeared to the pub, he certainly looked merry when he returned.

Anton is definitely a bit of an attention seeker. But then I guess people who apply for these things generally are.

The trailer for the next episode looked interesting.

The narrator is Paul McGann.

Well, I really enjoyed it once again. Interesting to see the characters develop through the shared situation. And Tara!

I naively thought that this programme would be a bit more serious compared to something like the island which seemed to largely consist of handpicked no skilled alpha male types who thought deciding who was leader was more important then avoiding starvation. It would seem Eden is going down the same character driven selection process as well, I.e. Drama queens, selfish and lazy folk, wannabe self appointed leaders and wet blankets

Also don't think these pp are very representative of the normal population TBH. Adventurers, hunters etc? A bunch of normal pp who just watch TV and go down the pub would have been more interesting! ( they prob wouldn't survive tho... )

Destiny the one I know on there is a normal person who goes down the pub and watches tv. He also has the qualifications that make him perfect for this programme (he hasn't been featured yet though, just seen glimpses of him). The nearest shop is 10 miles away and that's a gift shop. There is a huge fence around the whole site so no-one can get in or out, except by sea. There is no nearby pub.

www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-07-18/where-in-the-scottish-highlands-is-channel-4s-eden

Not too far from reality really - less than 5 miles and a 6ft garden fence.

The owner of the property says "the land is not very fertile for growing crops."

Could anyone tell who was going all macho on next week's trailer?

If you make one more tear fall from her eyes.... something like that...

The young laydees are all coming over a bit genteel and 'look after me, I'm only a girleee' apart from Tara - who seems like she might be an adult.

Tara, who seems to be refusing to do any work except massaging people in her new makeshift massage parlour??

Tara who had a massive strop because she was asked to do some work after repeatedly avoiding any of her chores.

I couldn't see who was doing the shouting but it looked like the recipient was the chef Stephen, who I think has to be the gentlest most sweet-natured person there from what I've seen so far. Obviously something to do with his yoga teacher girlfriend.

Tara did seem to be shirking off and not doing anything but I have to say that if that Tom guy shouted at me like he did to her he'd get a fucking flea in his ear!

I like Tara because she refused to take crap from self-appointed chief twats, Tom and Lloyd.

I don't know how useful a masseuse is in Eden but probably just as useful as a fisherman who only caught one fish in 6 weeks - and just as useful as someone who seems to have instigated the major row in the group so far and chuffs about in his wraparound specs like some jumped-up, juvenile jobsworth Duke of Edinburgh award winner.

And if either of them acted like that with me (and that army reject too) they'd be unwrapping their boss specs from somewhere painful.

It's just middle class people on a gap year really

Next week they will build a waitrose for their quinoa

Yes, the fisherman bit puzzled me. I was a bit surprised to see him use a fishing rod rather than a net, but perhaps fishing rods are more efficient than I thought?

And my 4 year old has caught more crabs than that in about an hours worth of crabbing on holiday in Scotland.

Maybe it was just taking the fisherman a long time to figure out where to look? He wouldn't have forgotten about bait, surely?

Yep, when the fisherman Lloyd was in full-on whine mode at Tara (ably assisted by former gap year army officer) and decided he needed his own hut to fish from - I thought - why not build him a raft to fish from - not a bleedin' hut!

Then it turns out they've had a ruddy boat the whole time!

Huh!!!!

Lloyd'll be like the 'fishermen' in 10,000 Years BC and in Bear Gryll's Island - useless lumps of weekend riverbank sitters who just like being on their own and passing the time - they can't actually really fish - and catch food to order like real fishermen - of course, I understand real fishermen have all the right gear: crab pots, nets and rods, even boats... oh yeah, just like Lloyd.

I remember a BBC programme in the 70's where whole families went to live in a large roundhouse together. They made their own soap and allsorts of things. No idea what it was.

This lot look like wimps. Can't believe the fishing . But they are fun to watch

Am I being daft or are the women not really being featured much? Barring doing ditzy things like squealing over chocolate, shirking off and massaging people.

To be fair, the men are a bit ditzy too.

The women aren't covering themselves with glory - except the one that's responsible for the planting and having sleepless nights about it. Although I do think Tara giving massages makes more sense than sending the yoga teacher foraging for chocolate
Tom is a bit of a petulant arse isn't he? When Anton wanted a plan last week Tom shot it down. Now this week Tom suddenly decides they should have a plan and work groups (I am going to use up my supply of eye-rolling smileys on this programme and have to fashion them from potatoes)
I like the army boy purely for eye candy purposes

Watching this now which one is the one who said :

a) he needed to put Tara on a leash

b) He'd never seen anything like 'these girls needing chocolate'

WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE TWAT

None of the women are covering themselves in glory but I think they've picked a certain "type" - who think doing light gardening is getting your hands dirty.

I'm really enjoying this. I like the vet, plumber and fisherman guys so far. I can't really differentiate between the girls yet except for Tara who is a bit of a twit really isn't she?

Tom seems terribly petty to me and I have some sympathy with Anton tbh. I couldn't stand to sleep in that tent with everyone, I would need the time out too.