Firstly I am not trying to open up an old wound here. We know that both these guys produce TV programmes for differing audiences.
However....
I have just watched, and rewatched, their DVDs back to back (and again
) with my son this weekend. If you strip away Bear's sky diving antics and Ray's cookery prep, there are just so many similar subjects covered albeit in different styles. I don't just mean shelter and firelighting, things like eating ant larvae, drinking fresh blood and gobbling up a liver before the rest of the beast. OK, I appreciate these might be important but it just struck me that they should both include this (anjd other similarities) in their DVDs when there is a whole wealth of information that could be shared.
From my point of view: One of them does come across as entirely more convincing, from a knowledge standpoint, whereas the other is a talentless git who seems to have just been told a fact before representing it as his own for the benefit of the camera...
However....
I have just watched, and rewatched, their DVDs back to back (and again
) with my son this weekend. If you strip away Bear's sky diving antics and Ray's cookery prep, there are just so many similar subjects covered albeit in different styles. I don't just mean shelter and firelighting, things like eating ant larvae, drinking fresh blood and gobbling up a liver before the rest of the beast. OK, I appreciate these might be important but it just struck me that they should both include this (anjd other similarities) in their DVDs when there is a whole wealth of information that could be shared. From my point of view: One of them does come across as entirely more convincing, from a knowledge standpoint, whereas the other is a talentless git who seems to have just been told a fact before representing it as his own for the benefit of the camera...
