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Old 11-08-2011, 06:05 PM   #8
Marin
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Bruce/Claw

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Delfin wrote:
Finally, I think we should organize an intervention for Eric.
*As a longtime producer of films and videos I think an even better (and more profitable) idea is to create a reality show about Eric's adventures in anchoring.* Sort of like Ice Road Truckers, where we have Eric, our intrepid anchorer faced every week by a new anchoring challenge and trying to get one of his many anchor types and rode lengths and configurations to work*

The conflict--- you have to have conflict in these shows or nobody will watch--- can be between Eric and the local commercial fishermen who constantly mock him for his little toy anchors and torment him with suggestions to be a real man and get anchors like they have.*

Then there can be conflict between industry experts who travel to Alaska and attempt to make Eric see the error in his theories. And we can have a recurring character who is the exact opposite of Eric in every way, who shows up to berate Eric's ideas and brag about his own exploits.* This character would be Peter Smith who designed the Rocna.

We can also have a recurring character from Bugel, who comes down on the side of rollbar anchors but in a reasoned, non-aggressive way to contrast him with Smith.* And the Bugel rep will speak in a heavy German accent--- it's always good to have someone like this on a show because gullible*American's always give instant credibility and respect to anyone with a European accent even if they're total as*holes.

Of course the drama each week will come from Eric actually trying to anchor his boat with that week's featured*anchor/rode configuration. As the wind starts to blow and the waves build, we'll have dramatic music heigtening the tension as underwater cameras watch the anchor being pulled slowly out of the botttom by Eric's too-short rode.*

The endgame each week will be the ultimate failure of the setup and Eric will barely get the engine started and the anchor up before Nomad Willy's blown onto the rocks.* Then the whole incident will be analyzed in turn by Peter Smith, the Bugel rep, the rep from whatever anchor Eric used that week,*and perhaps a guest expert like one of the Dashews.

I think the show would be a big success.

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-- Edited by Marin on Tuesday 8th of November 2011 08:08:17 PM
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