The lodge is immaterial. Some small psychological comfort maybe. or envy.
But the whole thing starts to look utterly false though. For example on the web clips he's weeping because a plane flies over and doesn't tip its wings and it breaks his heart. He "feels so isolated" but the lodge flies people in and out and has boats on the lake.
He's not isolated and the pretense they set up suggests he is.
All your survival shows have people near at hand and the contracts call for it.
But this one makes a BIG deal about how he is completely alone and no one is near, etc. etc. He has a satellite phone or some such to contact people if he's in trouble because he's supposedly so isolated!
Now we know, in fact, if he wanted to he could yell real loud or walk a mile or two and find help. He could wave to the guys in Bermuda shorts fishing from the boats just off shore (and conveniently off camera)!
Now it's clear the situation that's been sold to us isn't the situation that existed at all. And it makes his psychological struggles with all this seem more loopy than they were before.
You can be in deep doo doo a few hundred yards from a camp/road and it makes little difference if you are alone.
No disagreement there. You can be in deep doo doo in your own house too.
But "Alone in Hyde Park" isn't the thrust of the show -- they're selling an illusion that this guy is genuinely isolated when he was not.
It appears the only REAL test this guy faced was resisting the urge to amble over to the lodge for a meal and a chat. That's not exactly the promise of the show, is it?
In other words, what we're really watching is someone having an extreme dieting experience in the woods.
I was troubled before that the producers put his life at risk because he was so manifestly unfit for the task -- and the task itself was manifestly dangerous for anyone no matter what the skill set.
Now I'm troubled that the producers are promoting something that is mostly a fiction.
