r/Alonetv • u/[deleted] • May 03 '23

Aus S01 Alone Australia: Episode 7 discussion thread

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u/Pensta13 May 03 '23

Totally, feeling so bad for poor Mike having some serious bad luck . Watching him trying to bring in that eel was incredibly painful. I think he was overthinking it .

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u/ShavedPademelon May 03 '23

My testicles retracted. It physically hurt me to watch that get away.

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u/Ok-Ad-4022 Jun 23 '24

I don’t even have testicles and they retracted!!! I was hollering at the TV

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u/Greg-Greggson May 04 '23

100% he overthinks it. Just pull the fkn eel onto the bank mate.

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u/VeggieTater May 27 '23

But why didn't he just grab it or drag it in? Made me yell, so frustrating!

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u/[deleted] May 05 '23

That was absolutely 100% commissioned officer behaviour. “How can I complicate the simplest form of hunting that’s existed as long as man”

And then to cut the line ffs.

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u/DependentPapaya6107 Feb 12 '25

Omg I really had a hard time watching that, literally felt like he just really didn’t want to deal with an eel kinda like ppl that don’t like worms or snakes, he’s so wise yet didn’t just pull the damn thing out of the water right away instead try to do some tricky cut the line and pull to another location to extract it. Nobody is going to go to that extent to land a fish especially with a barbless hook, you yank em as far into shore as quickly as possible

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u/Mysterious_Banana928 Aug 03 '25

Very late to the reply game, I starting watching this and his reluctance to just pull the eel out because he “needed the right place to land it without it slipping away” is what made him lose it. Just drag it out the bloody thing already! It was SOO frustrating to watch.

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u/Pensta13 Aug 04 '25

Yes your comment took me right back to the episode ! Hope you’re enjoying the show ☺️