Day 34 - 2:10pm, 3 February 2019
It is the penultimate programme in the SAS:Who Dares Wins series and the staff are doing their best to break the recruits, mentally and physically, while at the same time saying, "Harness that fear and use it to your advantage." Walking over a canyon on a ladder and swimming under the ice are just two of the challenges. (You wouldn't catch me doing either - there are some things worth fearing.)
The biggest challenge, however, appears to be fighting their own demons. Every recruit has a different story to tell, a reason to invoke the "if you have been affected by any of the issues" message as the credits roll. From having suffered a broken neck to being bullied at school, having mental health issues, nearly drowning as a child, losing a spouse. But I guess that's what TV is all about. It isn't going to be great programming if the contestants all had perfect childhoods and unremarkable adulthoods. These are all driven people with something to prove to themselves and to others too.
We watch the show after the kids go to bed and when it finishes, there is a programme on about Odysseus, which retraces his journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. I half watch until I catch the narrator saying to find out who he is, Odysseus must first be broken. So, it appears there is nothing new under the sun. Instead of the ten weeks the journey should take, it takes him ten years to complete his quest to get home to his wife and son. That is an awful lot of breaking - think how long a series of SAS: Who Dares Wins would need to be to cover all that.
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