Aussie Gold Hunters

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

Despite some overly dramatic scenes here and there, I really love this show and ALL the characters in it. Even makes me want to buy a detector and a lease. Just FYI, there's no WAY I'm gonna be straying on to Vern's lease!!!!!

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.

As each new season comes out, I'm finding it less enjoyable and it's a shame. It's more about the "drama" then actually finding gold now. That drama is so manufactured that you can't help but laugh. What happened?? Were audiences asked what they most wanted to see and Drama was number one??

Last season was stretched out to 20 episodes but half the time nothing happened except for lots of talking, lots of repetitive narration (same with Opal Hunters. YES, we know what black opal is!!!!) and fake drama. What about that theft from the dust devils where the car "broke" into their property? Damn, they got away!? Uh oh, you can see the 4WD's number plate...we'll just need to blur it out in post production ok!

Season 6 has just started and the Dust Devils, who did pretty damn well last season are already talking about going bankrupt in Episode 1 because they had a smashed excavator windscreen and a blown truck tyre. Guess how much gold digging they did in the episode? None.

I'll just watch the highlights on youtube this season thanks.

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.