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HUNTED > New Manhunt Reality Show - Can you evade capture in today's digital world (1 Viewer)

Walking Boot said:
Absolutely a real thing. Many cop cars just photograph and store every plate they pass on the road. Driving or parked, they just scan & save in a big database somewhere. Then, say, six months later, the cops are wondering if some guy with a plate 123GAT was on the road back in October? They just search the database and pull up every time that plate was seen on the roads, ever.
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:scared:

 
Need to change vehicles often. If not maybe take the tags off. Make a sign that says lost tags. 

Seems like there is always a team close anytime a team uses an atm. Wonder how many hunter teams there are. I also don't see why anyone is talking to the hunters and letting them search their house. Crazy. 

 
Walking Boot said:
Absolutely a real thing. Many cop cars just photograph and store every plate they pass on the road. Driving or parked, they just scan & save in a big database somewhere. Then, say, six months later, the cops are wondering if some guy with a plate 123GAT was on the road back in October? They just search the database and pull up every time that plate was seen on the roads, ever.
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I know it's a real thing...but no way in hell they have the authority.

I guess they just mimic whatever is available to authorities in general.

I didn't see...how did they know what license plate to search for?

 
Walking Boot said:
CBS is refusing media requests for the rules to the show, however, it's being said that each team must move at least 5 miles every 2 days. 

Also, they must use the atm at least twice. 
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So rigged.  Glad I bailed on this one.  Hope some other network does it right sometime.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Busted to grab some ####in Taco Bell?  

:lmao:
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She was only halfway through her celebratory 14 day chalupa and they were banging down the car door.

Why do they have to get in the car with the hunters after being captured?  They had to leave all their food in the Yukon with the big green sticker on the back window!

CBS should be embarrassed by this.  They had me tricked for an episode too!  (Because really, how dumb do you have to be to use the bus station ATM and then get on a bus?  They should have been captured quick.)

 
Dinsy Ejotuz said:
So rigged.  Glad I bailed on this one.  Hope some other network does it right sometime.
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Its rigged because there are rules? Im sure the contestants knew the rules and agreed to them ahead of time. If there were no rules, everyone would sit in the woods for 30 days. Not much of a show there.

 
E-Z Glider said:
Its rigged because there are rules? Im sure the contestants knew the rules and agreed to them ahead of time. If there were no rules, everyone would sit in the woods for 30 days. Not much of a show there.
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Rules are fine....although I haven't seen them.

I think it's fairly obvious important information is flowing from the cameraman to production.

 
I hope to see one of their crews out someday, unlikely unless there is a second season since I don't live in that region.  If I did I think I would rob their camera crew and their searchers of a camera or some other valuable piece of equipment.  I would leave a mocking note and I would post video and a challenge on the internet that they capture me within 30 days.  I would leave my name and particulars so they had all of my information, and then I would record the events of the next 30 days while they had no hope of finding me.  When the time was up I would return their item.  I might even show them video of them attempting to hunt me down and missing the fact that I was filming them during their failure.

 
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Bobcat10 said:
Rules are fine....although I haven't seen them.

I think it's fairly obvious important information is flowing from the cameraman to production.
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You really think they're outright cheating? I'm sure there are a lot of rules that aren't common knowledge that stack the odds in their favor, but a major network isnt going to blatantly cheat people out of money for a TV show. 

 
Giving the hunters advantages they wouldn't have in the real world sort of defeats the entire premise IMO.

Was hoping for the TV version of this:

www.wired.com/2009/11/ff_vanish2/

 
Raging weasel said:
Got it from a gas station camera when they filled up.
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For real?

So...they saw their faces on a gas camera...had it view the plates and then fed that plate into the plate reading cameras that are everywhere?

How is that even remotely like real life?

They don't have real-time ability to view gas camera's...they'd need cooperation or a warrant...and that would be well after the fact.

By the time they got that plate...they'd be done with their 30 days...

 
E-Z Glider said:
You really think they're outright cheating? I'm sure there are a lot of rules that aren't common knowledge that stack the odds in their favor, but a major network isnt going to blatantly cheat people out of money for a TV show. 
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Basically, yes.  And they'll let one or two groups win.  How many episodes are left?  

Just in the last episode.... we hear the runners were "totally off the grid", then the next thing you know, they get some real time "tip" or "clue" (the tranny license plate, the bank transaction).  Walah, within minutes the hunters are in the correct mall parking lot because it's "lunch time".  Walah, they are in the exact camping section they need to be in even though they say it's a massive area of undeveloped land.  Those dudes are done in the first segment next week.  It's not like 5 or 6 days passed after they got their info.  They're always right where they need to be. 

There have been 2 British versions of this show.  The first season, 2 teams out of 6 evaded capture.  The next season, 1 team out of 5 evaded.  From the wiki:

Each Fugitive was filmed by a dedicated camera person who followed the Fugitives wherever they went. While filming, the production team were split so that the team working with the Hunters were separate from the team working with the Fugitives to prevent information passing between the groups and to provide a more realistic experience. During production there were over 800 Freedom of Information requests submitted to find the location of state owned CCTV cameras positioned throughout the UK mainland. When real footage couldn’t be obtained, Channel 4 owned cameras captured footage which would have been available to the state and it was stored on a central database for the Hunters to access if they wished. However, they had to "officially" request the information as if it was a real fugitive hunt.[19] The Hunters were overseen by an independent adjudicator, former Head of Covert Operations for the Metropolitan Police, Kevin O’Leary, whose job was to make sure that the information requested and gathered by the Hunters reflected the information that would be available to them in real life and within the appropriate time frame. He was the only person who had the power to release information to the Hunters and would only do so when he considered that the Hunters had done sufficient detective work to justify the access to the information.[20]
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The capture of the two college kids using the Tinder reward was stupid.  Maybe they went on a boat.  Let's fly a drone over there.  Complete bull####.

 
Because they are supercops.  They know everything.  They know what you are going to do before you do.  

What I can't figure out is the point of this show.  It's obviously a big setup.  They have cameramen with them.  So what did they just decided who gets to win?  Doesn't pass the sniff test at all.  Totally rigged.  

Is the point to scare people into thinking big brother can track you with drones?  Or your ATM in real time?  

Why would the friends not just shut the door on them.  I mean, they are not obligated to answer ####.  Just tell them get off my property.  My friends wouldn't sell me out to a camera crew, I can tell you that much.  They must be compelled to tell them the truth.  Game rule I would guess.  

 
So ####### dumb. The last day they have to give the hunters yet another ping to their location my withdrawing $ from a bank, then RUN to a damn plane with $250k strapped to themselves? :lmao:

 
KarmaPolice said:
So ####### dumb. The last day they have to give the hunters yet another ping to their location my withdrawing $ from a bank, then RUN to a damn plane with $250k strapped to themselves? :lmao:
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Agreed, but this turned out to be irrelevant. All done just to get "one final chase" so the show would have an exciting ending. 

People have to remember, even though all the points you make are valid, the goal is to make an engaging TV show. Hyper-realism would satisfy the Internet sleuths among us, but it would likely make for excruciatingly boring TV. As someone mentioned earlier, having footage of 12 groups of people all camped out in the woods for a month would be pretty tedious. 

"Well, it's day 19. Ummm, just took another dump. Guess I'll go try to catch some fish."

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Agreed, but this turned out to be irrelevant. All done just to get "one final chase" so the show would have an exciting ending. 

People have to remember, even though all the points you make are valid, the goal is to make an engaging TV show. Hyper-realism would satisfy the Internet sleuths among us, but it would likely make for excruciatingly boring TV. As someone mentioned earlier, having footage of 12 groups of people all camped out in the woods for a month would be pretty tedious. 

"Well, it's day 19. Ummm, just took another dump. Guess I'll go try to catch some fish."
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I get it, and I did write that as it was happening.  Good thing it didn't effect the outcome and was just another thing to boost the tension for the last episode, but still just one more silly thing. 

 
Bobcat10 said:
Basically, yes.  And they'll let one or two groups win.  How many episodes are left?  

Just in the last episode.... we hear the runners were "totally off the grid", then the next thing you know, they get some real time "tip" or "clue" (the tranny license plate, the bank transaction).  Walah, within minutes the hunters are in the correct mall parking lot because it's "lunch time".  Walah, they are in the exact camping section they need to be in even though they say it's a massive area of undeveloped land.  Those dudes are done in the first segment next week.  It's not like 5 or 6 days passed after they got their info.  They're always right where they need to be. 

There have been 2 British versions of this show.  The first season, 2 teams out of 6 evaded capture.  The next season, 1 team out of 5 evaded.  From the wiki:
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Psst.  It's "voila", not "walah".

 
Walking Boot said:
Nothing more inconspicuous than two sweaty folks running alongside a country highway on foot carrying clear plastic bags stuffed with bundles of cash between their teeth.
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I found myself kind of hoping that someone not affiliated with the show was going to mug them at that point, and get away with the money despite the camera crew being there. Would have made for a much more interesting ending to the show at least.

I was mildly entertained by the show. Probably wouldn't watch another season, but I've watched worse things before.

 
GregR said:
I was mildly entertained by the show. Probably wouldn't watch another season, but I've watched worse things before.
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I agree with this.  Reading about changing rules and not publishing the rules is leaving me out for this in the future.

 
The finale was underwhelming to say the least. It was an interesting idea but took a complete suspension of reality to find that show credible. 

I still believe it was all one long pilot and we will be seeing all the Hunted people on their own weekly show like CSI or such. 

 
It was a bit of an annoyance that they never told us the rules of the hunt and the rules of the chase other than the boundaries that were in effect and the $100 max draw from the ATM at one shot.

The last second bank appearance and subsequent run to their escape plane was a total joke way to end this. I understand that they were trying to manufacture some fake drama and make it close, but it is such a stacking of the deck against the runners to be considered just not fair.

 
The producers definitely need to give more views of investigating dead ends to build up some credibility.  Seeing them waste time flying around drones when they'd do no good or more of telling you "Team Charlie spent the entire day canvassing downtown businesses with no results" would help.

There are also probably some viewer complaints about what might really be valid compromises in the rules. Like for example, I read if someone helped a fugitive they had to agree (not sure exact details) to help the hunters too if they came calling. Which explains why we saw so many people bizarrely giving up info.

Is that a legitimate rule? If the game is to simulate fugitives from justice, would helping them if it were real life be aiding and abetting? If so, the potential of helpers being prosecuted, plus how long they could be held and questioned, would be major advantages in extracting information. So would requiring some level of cooperation be a compromise to simulate how much info might realistically be extracted if accomplices were also facing real consequences? I can see it being a valid option at the least.

Overall though, yeah, it's on the show to make us comfortable it's not rigged. And they did a poor job of that. Not transparent enough.

 
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