"I Shouldn't Be Alive" A Father's Deadly Dilemma (TV Episode 2011) Poster

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Survival episode where the issue is that the adult can't walk
JurijFedorov21 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
It's a dad and daughter who crash on a snowmobile and he loses the ability to walk. They stay there for 2 days.

The main issue with this episode is that they use bone cracking sounds to depict an injury. Kinda gets on your nerves as they repeat points and sounds over and over again because the survival story itself is so bareboned. Plus they both suffered very serious injuries which is a minus as this is a little girl suffering.

Now, the episode itself is weird. They are actually very close to houses and towns and are placed on a small road. She even walked to some houses and seemingly they could still hear each other at that point even though he never moved. So there are houses just hundreds of meters away at most. In the acted scenes she never told him about these houses and he never asks about what she saw nearby. She also finds a hut even closer nearby the next day probably just 50-100 meters away then? But she never tells her dad about it. The same day she walks into a town. So basically if the dad had told his daughter to just follow a path in one direction she likely would have walked out alive the first day. It would also have helped if they didn't burn their map to try to make a fire, unsuccessfully. And if she had told her dad that she broke through the ice with her leg when he sent her out to get extra clothes from the snowmobile that was lying in a stream, unsuccessfully. It's weird that they basically didn't make any plans or communicate. I assume the dad was just in so much pain that he couldn't think? Why did the 11-year-old daughter not understand the danger of getting wet during winter time? These mistakes lost her part of her feet due to frostbite. Pain and shock? Why did the dad not send her out to just walk in one direction? Why did he call her back to him? Staying there with him during the night was a huge mistake.

If it was me I would have sent her out to walk in one direction until she got a phone signal or found people. Just walk, walk, walk. That way her feet would also stay warm enough. The first thing you lose are your hands and then feet. He could also have put her feet on his stomach during the night. She was his only means to contact people so keeping her safe is essential to get out of there. Yet he never once asked her about how she felt or if she had any issues. At least the acted out scenes never showed any planning or any questions being asked.

Lots of silly decisions. But I think that maybe in real life the dad was just in extreme pain? Not sure, they don't explain why they made these bad decisions. It just seems like the daughter really didn't want to get help by herself.
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