The thing that makes me laugh is the fact that no one posted the obvious: That they are mining Discovery Channel for gold. Does everyone think that the camneras are just there documenting this “great adventure”? Whether they actually find gold (and I have feeling they’ll hit a “planted” pocket of gold in some dramatic fashion right before they starve and die the night before the first snow falls and they can’t work again until next season), is immaterial, this is fiction....fantasy.
Yes, I get your point. It shows me that you can always sell a dream, even in a bad economy, perhaps especially in a bad economy.
“...they’ll hit a “planted” pocket of gold...”
You nailed it!