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Message:: [QUOTE="ewomack, post: 2285649, member: 15588"]I sat through the first season (5 episodes) and, like many people here, thought that the entire series would probably make a great 2-hour documentary (just like the recent Hobbit movies would have made a great hour and a half movie). Though it's entertaining it really seems way too contrived for me to take too seriously. Plus, as someone said a while back in this thread, there is no such thing as "reality tv." This is all scripted and done with multiple takes, etc. A friend of my wife's was on a reality show (I don't remember the name but it was a well-known one on a major cable network) and we were invited to the big "reveal" finale. At the scene, the show's producer told all of us to cheer really loudly, but she also added, laughing, "because this is reality television we need to do four takes." They did four takes and the final show featured a very cut together and highly edited version of what I experienced (my wife made it onto the final cut, but I didn't). Of course, some raw footage does make it into the final show, but TV learned long ago that reality as-it-is is not entertaining (see the movie "Quiz Show" from the 1990s). I don't think I'll watch any more "Oak Island," but just wait to see what they find or don't find when the series ends.[/QUOTE]