Alone Season 2 is off to a bang.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Larry complains more than any person I have ever seen, but he seems to have stood his ground when the bears started raising a ruckus near his camp. I guess we'll see how he feels about it in the morning.

Mary Kate maybe got her shit together a little bit and made a decent shelter? She's having a real hard time with that ax, though. They are not going to convince me she's a trained survivalist, and is she building a fire shelter with a plastic tarp on top?

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Oh, it's gonna be ol' Mike. He knows his edible plants, and is not overly concerned about finding fresh bear scat, and has already set up a net for fish.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Bare feet!? Randy, you are not thinking this through. They let you have sturdy shoes, what are you doing? I mean, he's starving, so he won't be there long enough for a bacterial infection to get him, but, why extend the invitation?

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Randy dumped his ferro rod into the fire. He's going home. He was always going home. No reason to wait around, go on home and be comfortable and close to medical attention for the foot injuries you sustain while walking around barefoot in inappropriate places.

Yep, Mary Kate is out. And, it was the ax that did the job. The editors knew they needed to show her struggling with it. We all saw how she handled that ax. Chekhov's ax.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

We got a project guy! Jose has so many projects he wants to work on. But, he seems to know what he's doing in the woods, and his first project is not a boat.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Tracy cooked at her shelter. Do you want bears? Because that's how you get bears.

Yep. Now you got bears.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Leading causes of failure on Alone:

1. Cooking and eating at home.
2. Losing fire starter.
3. Projects.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Projects!

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Projects! Justin cannot stop doing projects. He built a gym.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Mike, I believed in you. Projects get them every time.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Jose has reached the boat stage of doing projects. It was always going to end this way.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

If there's one thing about men, they're gonna return to the sea.

Where are you going to go in your boat, Jose? What do you think spending days building a remarkably complicated boat is going to do for your survival odds?

Starving? Why not try a hobby? What about woodworking?

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Projects! Everybody is doing projects, but Justin is going for the title of most projects.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Randy's project is a sweat lodge. I am genuinely surprised he's still here. I thought the fire starter loss would be the end, but he powered through and figured out how to start a fire without it. And, now he's using fire to have a schvitz to find some clarity about whether to stay or go (he's gonna go).