I thinks we digress
Going back to the OP.
To make a series that people, anyone not just overlanders or adventure riders or motorcyclists, (after all there are other people out there, lest we forget) will watch, it has to be appealing to the masses.
I don't think they did a bad job of making the LWD and LWR entertaining, even if you don't like the characters. I mean strictly speaking it wasn't a documentary and it wasn't a TV Soap so it's at best a bit of a hack.
Let me put it another way, if you were creating a TV Series would you bogg it down with heavy facts about where and when to get visas, who can ship parts to Usbekistan or Mongolia within 2days or other diplomatic/administrative headaches?? Well if you did then you wouldn't keep your audience for very long.
LWD & LWR are what they are, that is to say it's not real life. It's what a producer and his buddies wanted people to see and a lot of people have watched them dispite their obvious flaws and illusions. The simple fact is that they succeeded (with a full camera crew and 5 tonnes of parts they never used), the proof is that people are still talking (read posting) about them!!!
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