Aussie Gold Hunters

Really enjoyed the early series but after a while the phony scripted talking and fake finds began to grate. See them driving along talking in the radio, we need to find gold. Really? And it is always near the end of the season, The hunters play to the camera and so much of the scenes arranged But the worst part is the continual use of the word Taaarget. It is non stop. Who the F cares about the taarget, we just want to watch the hunt. Sod the Taarget taarget taarget.

I was told this would be addressed in the new series but if anything it is worse.

I get the impression the editors are desperate to create the story than just record the story as it was meant to be. Some later events seem fabricated. People are often repeating themselves too. I appreciate that filming people just wandering about silently listening to weird noises from a machine that tells them where a "target" might be located may appear boring, but clearly this is the job. It's what prospectors largely do. The editors need to scrap a lot of the dross in their episodes and pare them back to the interesting normal events, not make things up or force things to happen. HOWEVER, I learned a lot about prospecting by watching these Series and find the characters very interesting and likeable. It just needs more judicious editing.

I believe that if you want to build a following, you have to be on some sort of a regular schedule so the viewer can have a reasonable expectation of viewing a new episode on a certain day. Lately, this show and Outback Opal Hunters have have several episodes in a row, with a story line and then....nothing. Just a bunch of scammers using the titles to get clicks. No information available about seasons, episodes, hiatuses, nada.

I am at the point where I will stop looking. Is that what they want?

The early seasons depicted actual gold hunters wandering about the outback looking for gold. It showcased the challenges associated with trying to find gold with metal detectors and small operation mining equipment.

Unfortunately, the producers became bored with reality and felt the need to introduce "tension" into the show. Now we are treated to desperately untalented actors repeating every two minutes how if they don't find gold they won't have gold. As if this were some deep revelation worthy of repetition because we could never figure that out for ourselves. It's insulting. Minor, routine situations - a split hose, a fly bite, rain, summer heat - are treated as though they are life and death situations. They aren't, and no amount of "if we don't fix this our season is over" can transform a flat tire into something exciting. It's all moronically simpleminded. Worse, it isn't interesting or compelling or worthy of our time.

Early seasons were an 8, later seasons a 2.

What is it with the background music? Overpowering and distracting from programme content. No need for it. You just lost one viewer.***************************************