Aug 31 2007
Ice Road Truckers
“Ice Road Truckers” is a guilty pleasure of mine that I probably wouldn’t mention at all if Greg Dean hadn’t applauded it in his semi-autobiographical comic. I read RealLifeComics pretty much every day (along with Wapsisquare, Shortpacked and GirlGenius), so it’s gratifying when Greg brings up something that I can identify with. “They’re truckers. On a road made of ice. ICE!” Greg is awesome.
Speaking of awesome, I’ve recorded every episode of “Ice Road Truckers“, but I haven’t watched the last episode yet. The Sword of Damocles on the ice road is that, eventually, the ice is gonna melt and someone is going in the drink. Every so often, someone dies out there. To emphasise this, they show a digital representation of a semi-truck falling through the ice every fifteen minutes of each episode.
So I’m almost certain that someone dies in the final episode, but they do their best to make you think that about every episode. I think that’s the draw of the show. I haven’t watched much of anything since BioShock started taking up the majority of my free time, but I do plan to watch the last episode of Ice Road Truckers soon.
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