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"Astonishment and joy" indeed. Yet, the egos to bring that down.

So many bad levels of bad cinematography' (if you can call it that) is beyond belief 'whoever' put it in production. Cartoons are even better. People actually get paid to do this?

I'm hooked on this, started last week or so and am up to season 9 so far (and racking up my internet bandwidth) I read the reviews below, one, Linda, I agree with you--- I don't like that people use traps, it's not humane, nor the fishing nets, or especially, the fishing wheels. Like how much fish do you need, and how much one alone is allowed to take out the waters? (I mean, one could then question commercial fishing, but this is not commercial type, right; they are there for substance per say, so a net or wheel for that doesn't make sense); again, trapping with those metal medieval things should be against the law. The one I DISKLIKE the most on the show: Erik Salitan. The only reason he was ever out there was as a trapper and profit to become a guide. I love Agnes and her husband Chip, and the whole family. Everything they do, the way they interact with each other and work together and the respect they have for everything. And I love the way Agnes talks; she is so sweet and calm, you could listen to her all day. Nevertheless, she is action. Oh, and the way she shoots that rifle, wow. When her husband fell through the ice when they were trying to pull in the snowmobile with that caribous, she flung into action like a thunderbolt; swept that rope over her head and flew over to grab Chip's arm and pull. The innovations they come up with to make things or fix them or pretty much all around life, is amazing. But it's not just the doing of things that is good to watch, but the whole interaction of Agnes and Chris with their family, their family with them, them and nature, them and life, them and learning things in life. Like I said, even if I never do anything like that, it is wonderful to see the things that can be done, or know how to in case I ever need to; or take tidbits from things learned and come up with my own ideas in my own situation at the time. That's what it teaches you as well. I just love Sue Aikens. She is so cool and tough and mellow at the same time; look, she even 'adopted' Foxie, the wild fox. And then a tractor. And all the sayings she comes up with just makes me laugh so good, I want to write down everything the way she says stuff. But she is holding the forth down and makes it work. She is a warrior for sure. The show wouldn't be the same without her, so I hope she stays on it for as long as she wants. Well, hopefully for a long time. And Glenn Villeneuve, I love his spirit, his enthusiasm. He lives the most nomadic life out there of them all, and he makes it work. I love the way he appreciates nature, and his awe at even the smallest thing moving around, be that an owl, a blueberry, a cloud upon the mountain tops, a tree he managed to get down, ...his view of life, and his optimism and positive attitude. He is totally awesome. He has an aura about him that would be hard for many to 'achieve', yet have. Andy Bassich--well, he is an innovative person and hard worker, but when I first saw him and his wife Kate, I always got this feeling that he is so rude to her; never said thank you, not sincerely anyway; he said thanks to his dogs more. Maybe he expected her to work as much as the dogs did and more. Maybe she didn't subscribe to that kind of wild life, but only to loving him and being there with him and helping with what she could; maybe he didn't understand that. Either way, all I saw was that he ordered her around and that she was almost afraid to do anything wrong, asking for re-assurance of 'do I stop here', 'do I move this, how much', etc etc or the heavens would come down on her or something. I remember a recent episode when he was now alone and his dogs took off and his sled broke. Just this thought crossed my mind--that if Kate was on that sled for some reason (regardless that the dogs took off or not), she would have never heard the end of it while he would be fixing the sled; and the day it happened, he probably would have been yelling at her to no end. At least that is my impression of him. However, when he is by himself, he seems to have a good nature and laugh.